When Kallian grabbed the pommel of the sword and was ready to strike, Loghain suddenly pulled away and Huna's voice came to her ears.
"Your grace! for…forgive me, my lord, I thought you have…I mean, I am here to clear the table…forgive me" Huna said with a shaking voice.
Kallian frowned and turned her head to look behind, where Huna was standing. The young woman was shaking, head tilted down and hands pressed together nervously.
This woman surely knew how to put on a good act! Kallian's eyebrows rose in surprise and amusement. She almost forgot about the state of fury she was on, seconds ago. Yes, Loghain, he was still standing in front of her, almost between her parted legs.
She turned her head slowly and glared at him, but he was now staring at her hand…the one that was squeezing the sword's pommel. And when their eyes met, he, instinctively stepped back and it didn't take long before his stunned expression left place to the usual cold one as he left the room without looking back.
Kallian closed her eyes and sighed. With a shaking hand, she touched the right side of her neck, where he was 'kissing'. Even when the skin was, unharmed, smooth and slightly wet, it didn't change the burning sensation she felt… like someone had poured acid there.
"Let us go upstairs, my lady" Huna whispered.
"You seem pensive, my lady. What's on your mind?"
"Laying with him… it seems impossible for me to do it, now that I had a taste of what it would be like. Killing him will be easier" Kallian confessed.
"You are feeling this way because it was too soon," Huna said with a reassuring smile.
"You think that, if I give myself some time, I would feel the desire to be touched by the man who slaughtered and sold the people I have grown up with? Are you stupid?"
The smile on Huna's face faded and for a second, Kallian was staring to the real Huna, the one that she probably never let appear to the surface.
"Maybe I misjudged you, you are after all a mere servant" Kallian added to provoke the young woman.
"How many history books did you read Hero of Ferelden? And how much do you know about the different countries and tribes of Thedas?"
"I can see no connection between the two points," Kallian said nonchalantly.
"Usually, when the victors are done with the vanquished, all the men who are able to fight are killed alongside with the elders and the infants, the non-warrior men are taken to serve while the women of childbearing age are taken as spoils of war, and de you know how many of them slit the throat of the man sleeping beside them and who wrecked their tribe or homeland? None." Huna explained calmly.
"I still don't see how this concerns what we were discussing"
"You are a spoil of war, a member of a vanquished race, nature made it this way as a survival tactic to trick women into loving the conquerors your loyalty goes to the strongest and the children you will bear him not to your people or tribe. And sooner or later you will end up like those women"
"I am a warrior and a warden, you insolent…" Kallian yelled.
"you are an elf and a woman, the moment that this 'awful, very bad' man will start treating you like his woman you will forget everything about your people and your revenge…you will be sitting with him, pouring him wine while elves are starving in their alienages."
"I know that you are saying this to upset me because I called you stupid," Kallian said realizing her foolishness…whoever this woman was, she was way scarier than she had thought.
"Not at all, my lady. You were doubting the plan I elaborated and I merely tried to explain it…"
Huna took a step forward.
"To put it simply, you are going to trick him into falling in love with you and by doing this you are going also to fool yourself. So don't worry, by the time he will take you to bed you will be willing and eager" Huna whispered in Kallian's ear.
Kallian listened, open-mouthed and shocked, to Huna's confession. She took a step back and stumbled into the bed. She would have sworn that she heard her laughing, mocking her and her stupidity but when she raised her head the young woman's expression was stoic.
"Please, tell me that this is a lie" Kallian was on the verge of tears.
"my lady, hearing about the details of the plan may take out the magic but believe me it is going to work…it had to because the other options are too dark to consider"
Whether it is Killing him, or running away, she would ultimately be the biggest loser.
"I am here to help you, you can count on me, always," Huna said holding a crying Kallian in her arms.
