Chapitre Twenty-four: The Others
Everything was going on well under her four daughters' care, and the country Yelen was ruling was holding against Debonair's attacks. Shiefa was still getting more information from her faithful spies, the repairs was still going on under Fanren's care and everything should be done by the end of the month, Feimei was sending small groups of their soldiers to attack Debonair's small villages and towns through the staircase under her orders and last of all, Fuutie had sent more soldiers to teach her civilians to protect themselves and also defend their country. All in all, Yelen was very proud of her children. As for her, she would have to plan out the plans with the help of her generals and also defend the country from Debonair's frequent use of magic in any forms with her sorcerers and magicians. Yes, everything was going well, but as for Debonair…she was mad.
Debonair could not believe that Queen Yelen had the guts to attack her country, through whatever means she had no idea at the moment, but the villages and towns at the borders of her country were starting to be conquered by Yelen. She would find out what they were doing soon, and when she did, she would attack them. She need not worry much, for she had many soldiers, sorcerers, and magicians and also civilians, who she would control and order them to fight the other countries with her magic that made them lose the movement of their bodies. If those with magic tried to resist her, she would send her mercenaries to either torture them until they submitted and if not, they would kill them. She had that many people under her control, after all.
However, she was also worried for her Nova, her precious Nova, who had gone missing after she had forbidden her to go in search of Nadeshiko, Sakura and the harp. Nova was her daughter after all, and she was the next in line to inherit the throne and if she was captured…she could be used to threaten her to give up her country. Even if Nadeshiko, Sakura and the harp were not with her anymore, she would make do with whatever she had. Nova was the one more important than the other things, though she would be very happy if Nova had come back with that Haku, Yubaba, Sakura, Nadeshiko and the harp. But still, she would not hope for too much. Even if her daughter could not capture or find anything, she still wanted her daughter to be all right.
As for Nadeshiko, she had thought that someone other than Eriol would come and aid them, but not him. It was wonderful to have such a powerful friend of Sakura's to help them. She would get more information out of him, and that was what she would do. She looked at Eriol as he came into the house quickly and quietly, in case Debonair's soldiers were patrolling that part of the city that they were at. When Eriol had safely entered the house and the door was closed securely, all of them sat down at the table while the general went to brew some tea.
"So, Eriol, how come you are here? I thought that you are wanted by Debonair?" Fujitaka finally asked in a whisper after the general had settled down on a seat after being insisted by Nadeshiko to sit down. (He was whispering for fear that soldiers would think that they were planning a revolt and order them to open the door and search the place, which they were, of course, the rebels, and though all manner of important things were hidden away, it was still possible that they would be found by someone.)
"Yes, I was still wanted by Debonair. I came here because Clow-sama sent me a vision and told me to come here. It seems that you all need my help after all. Now, what is the plan? I do need to know them. You all need not know what happened when I was coming here. I will tell you in the future, not now. Now would be a great time to talk about plans, right?" Eriol asked.
"Yes, you are right. But can you get them from our minds? We are planning for a very long time and it would be good for you to know them through our minds instead of us telling you. It is too complicated and it will take a very long time." The general asked.
Eriol shook his head. "I am sorry, but I can't do that. However, if you can let me into the room where all the plans are, and lock me inside it, I will read them and when I have finished them, I will give you the signal. That way, when soldiers come to search this place, I can hide all traces of the plans and all your auras, since I have found out that the magicians and sorcerers are not nearby and they are not as strong as I had thought."
"If that is what you want. Do you want food to be with you when you are reading them?" Nadeshiko asked.
"No, I will not need them, just water will do. If it is all right with you all, can I please be let into that room and let me start to read the plans? That way, I can tell you what things that can be improved on and also which things that I can help. When everything is done, I can discuss with everyone of you and from then on, we can discuss what were are to do so that time can be saved."
"All right, if that is what you wish to do." Touya said as he went to get some water and lead Eriol into the room…
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I hope that you have enjoyed this chapitre! I know that it is a bit chunky for each paragraph but I hope that you will not mind, for if I were to add in speech, who knows how long it will be? All right, don't set me talking about this, I can go on for quite some time…a new chapitre should be up in a week's time, if I have time to type. By the way, I will not be able to update as fast as I can from next year onwards, with all the homework that I am expecting to get, from what I have heard from my seniors. Well, then, sayonara for now!
