Huna stood there under the scrutinizing stare of the ferocious guard waiting for her to let her into the room.
"I…I am sorry to bother you but my lady the Teyrna cannot skip a meal…it would put her in a ...terrible mood," Huna said.
After lifting the covers on each plate to check what was inside, the tall woman finally said;
"You can enter for a moment, but if you dawdle inside I will come to drag you out. Understood?"
Huna nodded firmly and looked at the woman knocking three times on the door before opening it without giving the Teyrna the time to answer it. It was a provocation, a manner to say that she didn't need Kallian's permission to open the door of the Teyrn's chamber.
Fortunately, Kallian was too absorbed by the book she was reading to even notice this blatant outrage. She barely glanced at Huna before returning her attention to her book.
Huna put the tray on the table and started arranging it for her mistress's comfort until she heard the door behind her shutting.
"My lady?" Huna looked at Kallian who was still ignoring her presence.
"I didn't expect to find this kind of book in his book collection" Kallian grinned lifting the book to show Huna the picture on the cover.
Huna glanced at the picture; a half-naked, muscular, blond man carrying a red-haired woman on his shoulder…Huna grimaced.
"If there are no pictures inside, the book doesn't belong to him," Huna said.
"Really?" Kallian was amused by Huna's serious tone.
"women are more sensitive to words, where man are subjugated by images, you know what they say, this is why men always lie and women cheat on their appearances" Huna explained, glancing at the unconscious man…Kallian repressed a laugh…Huna seemed worried. She probably had given him a double or triple dose of that trance-inducing drug and now she was wondering if it wasn't too much…Yet, something was quite odd, if she really wanted him dead, he would have been already dead and buried…but, it seemed that the servant wanted him just to be...sick...Huna will remain a mystery for Kallian.
It was mostly her curiosity that stopped her from finishing Loghain to regain her freedom…what would the plan, Huna was plotting, look like?…moreover, the young woman had made her a promise she couldn't get out of her head 'bring him to his knees without using a sword'…
"What caused this, in your opinion?" Kallian asked pointing her finger to the sick man.
"I must admit that I totally igno…"
"Before you answer me, you should perhaps know that I have already witnessed situations like this when the dalish took some herbs to enter a Trance-like state…in his case it seems like a more severe form of intoxication…"Kallian said.
"I don't understand…" Huna stared at Kallian…oh, boy, was she a good liar!
"Then, what if I call the physicians and the mages and tell them about my theory and let slip out the information that you come from an Avvar tribe that uses the same methods to communicate with the other world…" Kallian said.
Huna's expression didn't change, there was no fear, no surprise, no anger…nothings came to the surface.
"My lady, I am but your faithful maid…I fear that if you make such accusations towards me, the nobles would take advantage of this to neutralize a rising young elven Warden, for a servant always acts under the orders of her mistress" Huna explained calmly…
She was right, Kallian never thought about it, but if Loghain died the nobles would not miss the opportunity to take her down as well…it would be two birds with one stone…and Huna was for all of them nothing than a simple-minded servant as she let everybody think…
"Seems that we, also, are tied together for better or for worse…" Kallian shook her head…
"for better, my lady I assure you…I only want the best for you… the Teyrn sickness is a golden opportunity to show him how much of a loyal and tender wife you are, don't waste it, my Lady," the young servant hinted…Kallian chuckled. it was for this that she gave him the drug…so Kallian would appear as 'the devoted wife' and create a favorable climate for the blossoming of 'love', just like a scene coming directly out of one of those romance novels …it was a smart plan but was also showing that this woman would back down before nothing to achieve her goals…nothing.