A/N Ok, yet another chapter comes...dun dun dun... uh, yeah, if you're STILL wondering what the heck I was talking about with Sriosno, keep reading. It comes, really! Thanks Meghan(aka megolas) for giving me the idea ^_~ LOL yeah, well, like I said, keep reading...Muwhahahahahahahahahahaha!!! Feedback is more than welcome!

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Sriosno was led away into the castle, going through twists and turns, wondering why the heck they bothered to move his father this far! He might have DIED on the way, it was so damn long......... Finally he reached a secret door, through which the messenger led him. His father lay on the bed, pale and lifeless, his mother was nowhere to be seen, and Riania sat shakily on a chair. The room was empty except for that.

"I do believe your father is passing on, My Lord," the Elf messenger managed to utter, trembling on about the fact that his King may die in front of his very eyes.

"Leave us be," ordered Sriosno quietly, and the servant left, gently closing the door behind himself. Riania remained silent and unmoving, except for the tremors that ran through her body. Sriosno slowly approached his father's bedside.

"Father," he whispered. "What could ail an Elf like yourself? Were you shot......" He began to probe his father's body with his fingers for proof of such a wound, but his father held up his hand weakly.

"Stop, my son......" he rasped, his eyes seeming to sink into his skull. "It is not a flesh wound, but a soul's one. Your mother...... My wife...... Gone forever........" His Majesty trailed off, his breathing slowly. It then dawned on Sriosno that his father was to die of heartache. There was nothing one could do, with his father already faded this far. He would soon perish. He only nodded at the King's silent request to leave him, and went to Riania.

"Is he all right?" she asked in a hushed voice.

"He will be gone from us very soon, I'm afraid," Sriosno sighed, leaning his forehead against the wall. "There is nothing I can do." Mentally Riania wondered,

'He is to lose both Mother and Father in the same day, let alone the King and Queen!' Sriosno had seen this in his beloved's eyes.

"Yet the same happened to you, Melaminmy love," he murmured. "Do not mourn for me, but for them."

Riania thought this over, for she felt horrible now that he had seen what she was thinking, and it was not for the dying Royalty. 'Wait a moment!' she thought, now almost numb. 'If the King and Queen, Sriosno's mother and father, are dying, that means......' Her skin began to tingle nervously and her mind almost froze as all of this slowly sunk into her reality check. 'Then that means that Sriosno is to be King. And I as his Queen......'