Charlotte was dressed and ready to go. She was supposedly the one that Eva had commissioned to verify if Seth was still alive. Sasha, one of her best friends was watching her with attention.

"You may fool everyone but me." Sasha said with smugness.

"What do you mean?" Charlotte narrowed her eyes.

"About Eva saying that only you could verify that Seth was alive. Pure nonsense. That woman doesn't care if we know that or not. I also know you like the back of my hand. You've been lying so you can get out of the wall. You've spent all your life talking about how much you want to know other places and get away from this prison". Sasha was very clever, she walked until she was nose to nose with the other child. "You trying to fool me."

Charlotte pushed her friend and pursed her lips in frustration. Sasha was nothing but a little manipulator. "Well what do you want to keep your big mouth shut?"

"Easy. Take me to the royal city with you. We have spent all our lives behind these walls, and just like you I want to see more than this mountain."

"Okay, but I don't know how we are going to convince AJ to let us out." Charlotte complained.

"I'll think about that." Sasha grinned.

"And think about how to take me with you too." Becky was standing there for who knows how long. "We are the holy trinity of this mountain, I can't believe you were planning to go outside the wall without me."

"I was actually planning to go outside without the both of you." Charlotte admitted. "I am the oldest of the three so I am the most suited to leave the mountain."

Sasha laughed. "You're 14! Almost an adult."

Becky was laughing her ass off. "Anyways, I don't think AJ will let three children go outside the wall."

"Idiot, AJ is completely drunk at his home. If we ask right now, he will probably not notice anything. That's why I was getting ready now." Charlotte explained.

...

It had been more than a week since AJ knew that Seth had been taking as a prisoner. Last night he had a bad feeling about Seth and he didn't know why. He found all his bottles of liquor and drank his sorrows. At dawn his head hurt like hell but his bed felt warm. There was a someone under the sheets! AJ got scared and as he got rid of the sheets and found Dean there.

"Damn! tell me I didn't sleep with you." AJ complained.

"I think you didn't." Charlotte's voice was heard.

"How do you manage to be everywhere, brat?" Dean complained.

"And you say it, Mr. I get into bed with drunken men to see if any of them will fuck me." Charlotte scoffed. "You are a whore."

"And you're just a brat with too much free time." Dean pouted.

"Charlotte's fourteen, she's still a kid. You in the other hand, you're 19, Dean! And you behave like you are younger than her." AJ said seriously.

"You think I'd be lying in bed with you if I behave as if I was a kid?" Dean smiled, dimples in full display.

"I'm pretty sure nothing happened!" AJ narrowed his eyes at Dean.

"Of course nothing happened, AJ." Charlotte explained. "I saw this idiot sneaking here in the morning when you were still sleeping. You didn't touch a single hair of his."

"Damn Dean! You should stop doing this!" AJ complained.

"AJ, there are more important things to talk about now." Becky appeared outta nowhere. "Charlotte is going to see how Seth is and I want to go with her, you know, the more the better."

"Sure, you and Charlotte." AJ said ironically.

"And Sasha is going too." Becky mentioned.

"I don't doubt Sasha would want to go too. If you are the holy trinity of the mountain, you can't be separated." AJ continued talking ironically.

"You know. One for all." Becky played along to see where it ended.

"Sure and Dean will go too." AJ said.

"Yes Dean... wait! Hahaha yeah you're so funny AJ." Charlotte said. "I'm not kidding."

"Me neither." AJ said seriously. "Dean is an adult and he seems to have nothing better to do. Plus, I know Charlotte is the only one they will allow to visit Seth, since they think a little girl is harmless and send her alone would be irresponsible. And I know the other two parts of the trinity would find a way to follow her anyways." AJ gave Dean an evil look. "So you will take these brats to the royal city, and take good care of them. It's unnecessary to say that if something happens to them, I'll kill you."

The girls smiled and Dean rolled his eyes.

"I can't deny that the idea of seeing the royal city and being out of these walls is attractive to me... but not as a babysitter!" Dean complained pouting. "AJ please don't do that to me."

"AJ." Charlotte intervened. "Dean will abandon us to the first cock he finds. Are you forgetting how desperate he is for it?"

"Charlotte, you should speak as a child your age. That attitude of yours will get you into trouble." AJ said. "Well, it's that or nothing, you decide. I have no time for this, I must see how the mining is going and help people with the work."

Dean got out of bed. "AJ, I don't want to be the bearer of bad news but... I've heard people complaining that this is too much effort for just one person. I love Seth, he's my bestie but seems like people here is realizing they don't love Seth as much as they believed. People don't want to be impoverish for him."

"Dean is right. I have heard the villagers talking about that, too." Becky said.

AJ sighed. He knew this would happen, but he didn't imagine it would happen this soon.

"This afternoon I will have a meeting with the rest of the villagers and we will decide together. Also this is only temporary, until I find the way to rescue Seth. When you return, you have to tell even the smallest detail of everything around that place, so we can make make a rescue plan." AJ indicated.

...

"What's he doing here?" Sasha complained, seeing Dean.

"I love you too, brat." Dean replied wryly.

"AJ has this absurd belief that Dean, as an adult, will behave like you know... an adult. We have no option." Becky giggled.

"I don't really care who comes. All I want is to go to the royal city." Charlotte said. "Royalty and me are two things that belong together."

Dean and the other girls rolled their eyes.

"Such royalty who lived in this mountain just as poor as the rest of us." Dean mocked. "At least I hope to find a handsome and rich guy in the royal city. I'd wish to be as lucky as Seth. Being loved by a beautiful man like AJ that is sacrificing a lot of things for him."

"If you stop behaving like a whore, you would have a better chance of finding someone like AJ." Charlotte said.

"Says the poor girl who believes she's royalty." Dean scoffed.

Dean struck a nerve on the girl and she glared at him. "At least I look better than you. You dress like some homeless drunken man whose trying to steal money for his vices. Dressed like that you will never find someone who wants to give you what you're begging for."

Dean pouted again unable to refute Charlotte's statement. He decided to change the topic. "How can we go to the royal city? This mountain is far from any known civilization."

"We'll go on horseback." Becky grinned.

"Ehm, sorry Becks but the case is that we three are orphans, we have neither a chicken, much less a horse." Sasha admitted. "And Deans mare is tiny, we can't all ride it."

"We will go on Seth's horse." Becky said casually. "It's pretty big. Us three are children we will fit just fine. I don't see why we can't use it."

"I think being starved made you crazy, kid." Dean scoffed. "You're talking about Black, that beast that kicks and attacks everyone except AJ and Seth. Sure, and who's the one brave enough to tame it so you can ride it?"

"I already did that." Becky replied.

All of their jaws were almost on the floor. Shortly after Becky returned with the dreaded beast. The horse was beautiful: big, black fur and had a look that seemed to recreate the fires from hell. AJ had found the wild animal wounded near the river and had taken it to the mountain. He and Seth took care of the beast until it was fully recovered. Shortly after they realized that the beautiful horse was completely wild, but it let them ride it, so they kept it. But the neighbors used to fear the horse.

They gathered a few things to their travel and left the mountain.

...

They had to travel for several days, the mountain was far from the Royal City. The 4 guys arrived at dusk. They left Black and Dean's mare on the forest and entered the city on foot. For a group of kids who came from a village and had spent their entire life behind a wall, the royal city looked majestic. As output from fantasy tales that their parents used to read for them. The portal was beautiful, carved with irregular patterns that matched together. And a huge stone lion, in an attacking pose, was placed at the gate.

"Dean, what is that?" Becky asked, pointing the lion.

"You've never seen a lion?" Dean said in amazement.

"Dean, Becky is just 11 years old." Charlotte said.

A little further in a big obelisk, there was a portrait carved in marble. It was Eva.

"Eva Marie Queen of Parta." Dean couldn't believe it. "Charlotte, you said she was the King's whore. But she is actually the Queen."

"I just noticed." Charlotte said indignantly.

"She's still a whore." Sasha rolled her eyes.

"Shut the fuck up." Dean scolded Sasha. "No matter what, she's the Queen now. If someone loyal to the kingdom hears you, we will be beheaded."

"I'm just saying the truth." Sasha answered.

"Ok, ok. Well, Charlotte tell us where is Seth." Dean asked.

The three children looked rather pale. Dean narrowed his eyes, scared. "You don't know where he is... but you said Eva had asked you to visit Seth..."

"It was a lie. I invented that to get out of the mountain." Charlotte confessed.

"And these two brats seconded you, right?"

"Dean, you also came because you wanted to know the royal city." Becky said.

"Well then, lets go back." Dean started to walk to the entrance of the city.

"If you want to go back, do it. You know where your mare is. But remember what AJ told you, if you return without us, you dead." Charlotte said. "Or... you can help us look for clues on how to find Seth and we can all return quickly to the mountain."

Reluctantly Dean agree to go with the manipulative girls. Charlotte spotted someone at the distant and ran scared. she hid behind some baskets.

"What happens?" Sasha asked.

"That guy, the tallest, outside of the bar. He is one of the generals from the King's army, he was amongst the ones that captured Seth, and if he sees me, he will recognize me." Charlotte said, scared.

Dean saw the handsome man and smirked. Good looking, thick, he seemed powerful. "He's beautiful."

Facepalm. "You think this is the time for you to appreciate the enemy?" Becky complained.

"Don't be an idiot Becks. I'll help you all. I'm going to sacrifice myself approaching this guy and get information. You wait here until I return." Dean said this and didn't wait for an answer. He went in search of the handsome General.

Dean put his best naive face like a child lost in a big town. The man next to him gave him a long look. Then he looked around and realized they were alone, or at least he thought that since the three children were well hidden. Seeing that cute kid all alone and disoriented, Randy approached him.

"I haven't seen you here before." Randy was testing the waters.

"Ah, I came to visit relatives and got lost. But it's ok because this place doesn't look dangerous." Dean said with a flirtatious smile.

"Oh, but it is." Randy realized the flirtation and put his lips to Dean's ear. "A young man like you could be in danger."

"Are you going to protect me?" Dean said with his best mischievous and innocent smile.

"We can go to some place nicer." Randy suggested.

"Don't even know your name." Dean said.

"My name is Randy."

"Mine is Dean. It is a great pleasure to meet you."

Randy went with Dean, and then Becky looked out. "Dean is a lucky one, seems that that man believed him."

"Hopefully he can get some information." Sasha said.

"I think Dean's more interested in get another thing." Charlotte drowned a sigh. "Hopefully Dean would find information about Seth. We can't go back with no results, AJ would notice that I was lying."

...

Randy was kind of drunk so he took Dean to a room in a hostel near the bar. Dean was more than sure that place was used to bring prostitutes. Not that it mattered much to him. He really got what he wanted. And Randy couldn't be happier.

"You're so fucking good at sucking cock. And you walk around with that innocent face. Many must have fallen into your trap."

The young man sucked harder and when Randy was about to come, he stopped.

"Oh my God, what are you doing?" Randy complained.

"Just wait a moment."

Dean straddled the bigger man hips and moments later was riding him. It didn't take Randy long to reach the climax, Dean was so good at this. Then they lay together on the rickety bed.

"You're amazing. Tell me your price for having served me so well." Randy asked.

"I'm not a prostitute, I want nothing." It was Dean's answer.

"You slept with me without knowing more than my name." Randy quirked an eyebrow.

Dean had enjoyed the experience but not enough to endure Randy's smugness. Still, Dean needed to obtain information so he just ignored the awful comment.

"You could tell me more about you." The auburn-haired man grinned.

"It's almost unbelievable that you don't know me. I am one of the generals in command of the troops of the King."

"A General... that's so sexy. You are the one in charge of everyone?"

A flash of anger rushed in Randy's eyes. "Not really. That asshole Reigns is in charge. But that wont last a long time, babe."

"It seems that you hate him."

"I do. The arrogant bastard, looks at everyone from above, he believes he's the best at everything. And he is nothing bit a homophobic bastard."

"Those are the worst." Dean said. "If he knew how much a man can enjoy another man, he probably wouldn't be like that."

"Impossible. That square mind will never change. But it seems that he's receiving his karma. Reigns must now take care of the little fag who is the lover of one of the King's most hated enemies. A guy named AJ who lives on a mountain. Now this kid is living with Roman in his house on the outskirts of the Royal City."

"Great!" Dean couldn't hide his excitement of having obtained the information. Then he tried to pretend. "I think it's great that he's going through something like that. At least he shouldn't be having a good time. It's what he deserves for annoy someone like you."

And this made Randy smile. Dean has a way to lure people with words.

"I really like you, brat. I want to see you again. How can I get to see you again?."

Dean smirked. "Well, I'll find you. You're always right here?"

"Not always, but I think I will come around here more often now."

"I gotta go." Dean gave him a feline look to Randy. "I hope to see you soon. There are many things that a guy like me can learn from a general. "

"There are many things I have in mind for you." Randy was eating Dean with his gaze.

"Good then." Dean winked.

"Seriously, you don't want anything?"

"Just a kiss." Dean said as he dressed.

"Nothing more?" Randy hugged him from behind and put some gold coins on his pocket .

...

Sasha and Becky slept in a corner in the middle of several boxes and baskets. Charlotte was watching. Dean appeared from nowhere.

"Dean, for fuck's sake, you have a pubic hair on your lips." Charlotte said in disgust.

Dean took the hair with his fingers. He saw it while he licked his lips. "You can do all sorts of ugly gestures Charlotte. No matter what I've been doing, I got the information... and this..."

Charlotte woke the other two children and showed them the food Dean brought. They all ate and with that valuable information, went back to the forest to sleep. With the arrival of the morning they would ride around the royal city to find General Reigns's house.


Thanks a lot for your support. This was a light chapter, mostly a filler but it was necessary for the development of the story. The next chapter will be all about Roman and Seth and it's going to be very intense so be ready for that. Leave me a review if you want the next chapter before the end of the year.

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