Volume II: Unforgiving Kingdom
Chapter II: Fameseeker
Location: 1st Floor, Goldenia.
One Week Later...
"Ugh... It is way too early...!"
Unlike the upper floors with their beautifully cities and scenery, the lower levels of Goldenia were in a poor state. There stood many destroyed homes, old buildings just waiting to crumble and fall down. And on top of it, the lower levels have been subjected to earthquakes every once in a while, in which the tremors have slowly began to increase in frequency. The lower levels of Goldenia was a place meant for the poor, the lowest of the low, and as well as for a certain someone.
Inside of an old, abandoned house slept Feena, the newly promoted Lieutenant in the Imperial Army of Goldenia. One week ago, the girl was nothing more than a simple private and subordinate to a former Lieutenant, Monika Weisswind. Following the events that happened one week ago, Monika Weisswind, and a demon by the name of Ragna had both been apprehended and were placed in custody in Goldenia's dungeon. Feena was once with the two, but betrayed them during their skirmish, aiding in their defeat. Because of this, Feena was spared from being apprehended, and was promoted to Monika's former position as a Lieutenant. Though she denied the request to receive anything other than that.
As for her current situation, the young girl was currently tossing and turning around in the remains of the bed she was sleeping in, the sun beaming down on her face from the openings in the roof. Eventually, Feena groaned and proceeded to get out of bed.
"Okay, I'm up! I'm up!" she exclaims. "Goddamn...! What's a girl gotta do to get some sleep down here?!"
The woman slowly pulled herself out of bed, stretching and yawning as she stood up. From there, she started walking into another part of the abandoned house, removing her night clothing as she did so. A few minutes later, Feena walked into another room, changed into her uniform. She grabbed her hat that was hanging above the opening as she walked in. She then looked around the room, as if she was searching for something.
"Alright, where'd you run off to this time...?"
Feena sighed with her arms folded and began walking all around the interior of the building.
"Goblin Mage? Goblin Mage?" She called out. "Where are you this time?"
Feena continued to walk around the house, in search of someone named Goblin Mage. Soon, she stopped as she came across a pile of rubble that seemed like it was moving. Upon closer inspection, she could see the end of a green dress, and that someone was digging inside the rubble.
"There you are." Feena said as she walked over to the person in the rubble. "You had me worried again."
Feena reached down and pulled out the person. The person inside the rubble was a little girl with gray hair and pointy ears. She wore a greenish dress, with a white interior that extended to the bottom, and wore boots that fit her feet. The girl blinked as Feena looked at her, then smiled slightly.
"Oh. Good morning Feena." She responded.
"Come on Goblin Mage, you gotta stop doing me like this." Feena sighed.
"Like what?"
"You gotta stop running off in the middle of the morning before I wake up. Next thing I know, I'm coming to get you, you're nowhere to be seen, and now I have to go all over the house."
"Oh. I'm sorry Feena. I just-"
"I know. I know." Feena pats Goblin Mage's head. "You found something shiny, right?"
Goblin Mage nodded.
"As usual."
Feena and Goblin Mage laughed for a moment at the young girl's obsession with shiny objects. Soon the two found themselves sitting in the remains of a living room. Feena laying down on a broken couch, and Goblin Mage playing with an bag full of shiny, polished coins.
"Hey, Feena?" Goblin Mage began to ask, not looking away from her coins.
"Yeah? What's up?" Feena asked.
"Have you... Ever considered leaving here one day?"
"Huh?" Feena sits up. "What do you mean?"
"As in, not staying down here forever. We should find somewhere nice for us to live in."
"Goblin Mage... You know that I want to. But you also know that if anyone sees you, especially on the upper floors, there's no telling what will happen to the two of us. I want to get us both out of here, but this is honestly the safest place for both of us."
"I know..." Goblin Mage slowly tossed one of her coins over to Feena, who caught it in her hat. "But still... maybe we don't need to stay here. Maybe we could go somewhere else that would be more... accepting of us in order to find any help."
"Goldenia's military is the largest military that the Man realm has ever seen, and it's always growing. Compared to other places, I don't know if I'd be able to obtain the help that I needed from there. I mean, look at me now. I'm already moving up on the rankings. I'm a lieutenant now!"
Feena paused for a moment as a flashback of how she got this promotion went through her mind. She looked down and shook her head, choosing to forget about it.
"Yeah. Lieutenant Feena. That's me."
"I still can't believe they promoted you so quickly!" Goblin Mage said. "That's still amazing! I think we should throw a celebration for it, don't you?"
"Yeah, that would be something." Feena closed her eyes and pulled her hat over her face. "But honestly, how would that work out? There's nothing down here."
"There doesn't have to be! It can be just you and me! We can even try to find Ms. Teena and her brother to come celebrate with us!"
"Feena snickered slightly. "Yeah right. Like we'd actually be able to find Teena and Lucius that easy. If that's how we're thinking then it might as well be just the two of us."
"That would be nice. The two of us could have so much fun together!"
"Oh really? How?"
"Like so!"
Feena looked up for a moment, and before she could react, Goblin Mage pounced on her and started to tickle her repeatedly, causing the Lieutenant to laugh loudly as she tried to stop the little goblin child.'
"Tickle fight!" Goblin Mage said cheerfully.
"Hey quit it!" Feena said while laughing. "That's not fair! You got me by surprise!"
Feena proceeded to then turn the tables on Goblin Mage and begun tickling her, causing her to laugh as with Feena. The two continued to playfully tickle each other for a while as they rolled around the room, eventually stopping to catch their breath as they laid on the ground and pieces of floor below them.
"See, Feena...?" Goblin Mage asked. "We can... have a ton of fun... with just us two...!"
"Yeah..." Feena responded, sitting up. "Guess you... have a point there..."
The sounds of Goblin Mage's stomach growling soon filled the area, the girl in question was now rolling around on the floor, having a hungered or exhausted look on her face.
"Feena..." Goblin Mage groaned. "I'm getting hungry."
"I know. I know." Feena said. "Don't worry. I'll get you something great to eat." Feena started fixing her hat as she stood up. "Any requests?"
"I want another one of those bread rolls! They tasted yummy!"
"Alright!" Feena smiles. "Coming right up! Now, while I'm gone-"
"Stay here and make sure nobody can see me." Goblin Mage interrupted. "And if someone comes down here, grab my staff and make sure to hide inside that hole under your bed."
"I'm glad to see you've gotten used to that by now."
"But do I have to, Feena? This place is super duper old! I don't think anyone else would ever come down here!"
"I know. And that's probably true. But you know I won't take any chances. I won't risk anything happening to you. You're someone who's important to me, Goblin Mage. Somebody I care about."
"Someone who's... a friend?"
"No, of course not! Friends wouldn't treat each other like the way we do!"
Goblin Mage sighed slightly, seeing that Feena still does not truly understand what a "friend" is.
"Now, I'm heading out." Feena starts walking towards the entryway of the abandoned house. "I'll be back soon, Goblin Mage."
"Right."
Goblin Mage nodded as she watched Feena walked outside, closing the broken door behind her. She then sighed once again and started walking around the house by herself.
"Feena..." She said to herself. "I need to find you some friends..."
As Feena closed the broken door, she then began to run off to one of the nearest lifts to the upper levels. As she was doing so, she stared down at the ground for a moment before looking back up.
"Don't worry Goblin Mage..." She said to herself. "Soon... It'll all be over soon..."
-x-
Location: 11th Floor, Goldenia
One Week Ago...
"Why...?" She asked. "Why do this?"
"Monika, I'm..." Feena started to say. "I'm sorry. I just... need to do what I think is best for me. And I think that right now, I'd rather have Goldenia as a friend and not an enemy."
"But you... didn't have to do this...!" Monika tried to push herself back up, to no success. "We would've... figured out something... We could've done this ourselves... You... me... Ragna... We... We could have-"
"You wouldn't understand..." Feena sighs. "I wouldn't expect you to understand."
"Let me TRY! Let me... try... dammit...!"
Monika slowly began to lose consciousness. One of the last things she saw was Alexiel walking in between herself and Feena. The Prime Minister took a knee and looked down at Monika.
"I'll see to it personally that you aren't sentenced to death of any kind." She told her. "Once this is all over, I may allow you to rejoin the Imperial Army, Weisswind."
Monika couldn't muster up a response, and soon fainted from the paralyzing shock.
"Until then, you'll be known as a traitor. I heard you were a good soldier. And it's a shame it has to be this way."
Feena stood there silently and hung her head down as she reflected on what she just did. In the back area of the eleventh floor, there lies an injured Ragna, who had lost his fight against Prime Minister Alexiel. Away from him, Monika was lying on the ground, unconscious, and riddled with two arrows, shot into her by her former ally, Feena. As Alexiel stood over the girl, soon Freesia, who had the arrow in her shoulder removed, had arrived, with her injured arm bandaged up, and her elite soldiers all by her side.
"Seems as if this battle has come to a close, has it not?" She asked Alexiel.
"It would seem that way..." Alexiel said, picking Monika up into her arms and walking over to the soldiers. "Decide on which one of you is going to carry this one. Afterwards, I want three of you to take care of the demon. Escort them both to Imperial Dungeon on the seventeenth floor, right away."
"Yes Prime Minister!"
The soldiers all saluted in unison at Alexiel's orders as one of them took Monika from the Prime Minister's arms, while three others went over and picked up Ragna. Immediately those four headed off for a nearby lift to the seventeenth floor. Alexiel then turned towards Feena after all was said and done.
"As for you..." She said.
"Prime Minister..." Feena began. "I-"
"Just this once."
"E-Excuse me?"
"I'm relieving of you of any possible crimes. Just this once, for making things easier."
"I'd have to agree with you for once." Freesia also said. "Couple arrows like those and you probably could've shocked Alexiel into submission."
". . . . Yeah... I-I could've..." Feena said quietly. "But I didn't... I couldn't..."
"I want to talk to you later on." Alexiel spake up.
"Huh? W-Why me?"
"There's some things that I want to ask you about regarding this recent skirmish. I heard from Weisswind and the Demon, but I never heard from you."
"U-Um... Sure."
"Good. Then tomorrow morning. Meet me at the Regal Cafe on the twelfth floor. We'll talk then" Alexiel began to walking off, looking back at Freesia as she did so. "She's yours until then, Foxblood."
Freesia nodded, as she and Feena watched Alexiel walk off, until she was out of sight. Once she was gone, Freesia turned to face Feena, and smiled.
"You took my advice, didn't you?" She asked.
Feena remained silent, holding a hand to her chest.
"If you're having regrets don't. You did what you had to do because you needed true strength. And Alexiel, though I hate to admit it, is perhaps your best option in terms of strength."
"Right... strength." Feena said in response.
"Well then. I'll be off." Freesia began leaving, but not before pulling an arrow out of her coat and handing it to Feena. "This is yours, I believe."
Feena took the arrow and watched as Freesia walked off as well, her royal guards following right behind her as she did so. She stared off into the direction she left in for a moment, but suddenly shook her head.
"No I... I have to know that this is the best choice. I didn't need people I cared about. I needed friends. And that's what they were. Friends. Now... I've made new ones. This will make it easier to finish what I started... to protect her... and for me to finally leave this place."
Feena attempted to muster up a smile, as she walked off as well.
"This was the right decision..."
-x-
Present Day
Location: Western Lift, 1st Floor
"...I know it in my heart."
Feena, having been lost in thought for a moment, looked up to see that she had arrived at the lift in the west.
"Oh, wow! I made it here much faster than I thought!" Immediately Feena ran over to the lift and hopped on. "Alright now! Let's get going!"
Soon the lift started heading up to one of the higher floors.
Location: Audience Chamber, Castle Vallera
Meanwhile, with the Prime Ministers, sometime after Freesia's recovery, the four had gathered in the audience chamber, as a heated discussion had occurred over the future of the kingdom of Goldenia. Without their King, it was up to the Prime Ministers to decide who would rule.
"How could we have let something like this happen..." Vira said to herself. "To think... Somebody would go and murder him in such cold blood..." She wipes her tears from her eyes.
"Whoever this person was, knows more about this Kingdom than we think." Alexiel stated. "It's been established that it's not one of our guards or any of the palace guardsmen. Whatever struck down His Highness that day... it's unknown to me as well."
"How can we be so sure you were the one who actually committed this crime, Alexiel?" Aglovale asked. "You were one of the people present on the floor during this incident."
"I hate having to vouch for her, but you cannot fault Alexiel for this one." Freesia spoke up. "By the time any of this had happened, she and our guards had already left the throne room. There wasn't a single soul in sight. And we all know that she is nowhere near sneaky enough for a surprise attack."
"I take offense to that, Foxblood." Alexiel said. She deadpanned as Freesia smirked.
"What in the hell are we going to do now?" Vira suddenly asked. "Not knowing who the murderer is aside, how are we going to announce this? His Highness is dead now, and he wasn't married so there was no one to bear him a heir."
"Not to mention that this is he end of the royal family's lineage." Aglovale brought up. "His Highness was the last member of the royal family, and with him gone, it's no longer clear who will be the next up for the throne. And that is something we need to decide fast. This kingdom needs a ruler."
"The only logical solution is that it must be one of us." Freesia responded, "Next to the King or Queen of Goldenia, there is us, the Prime Ministers. Their second in command. Without a member of royal descent to take the throne again, it must be one of us that shall take on the role as leader of Goldenia."
"That just leads to another question." Alexiel stated. "Who? Which one of you will take this responsibility?"
"I would have to volunteer you, Alexiel." Vira said.
"Excuse me?"
"You're the head of the Prime Ministers after all. It would only make sense for you to-"
"No."
Everyone blinked in surprise at Alexiel's answer.
"Pardon?" Aglovale asked.
"You heard me. No. I'm not going to become Goldenia's Queen. A leadership position isn't made for someone like me."
"Why would you say that?" Freesia asked.
"You're the leader over us aren't you?" Vira questioned.
"As if!" Alexiel responded. "Just because I'm the head Prime Minister doesn't mean shit at all. You can't really say I'm a leader over any of you. I'm more fit for the battlefield on the front lines than here, commanding a kingdom."
"I don't think that she'll change her mind on this situation..."
"It looks like it's between the three of us then." Aglovale added.
"If I may." Freesia started to say. "I believe that this position should go to me. Next to Alexiel, I'm the secondary head of the Prime Ministers, and the head Prime Minister whenever she's away correct? If that is the case, then it would only make sense that if Alexiel refuses to become the next ruler of Goldenia, that I should step up, and take this responsibility."
"The Foxblood does have a point." Alexiel added on. "While I for one am not fond with the idea of bowing down to her of all people, her reasons make sense. She should receive this position."
"I would have to agree as well." Vira said. "While Freesia may not be much of a fighter like the rest of us, diplomacy and law have always been her strong points. Having her as the Queen of Goldenia could be a good thing."
"Well then." Aglovale also started to say. "It seems that all of us are in agreement. All in favor of electing Prime Minister Freesia von Bismarck, as the new Queen of Goldenia."
Vira raises her hand first, followed by Aglovale. Freesia raises her hand next, with Alexiel being the last one to raise her hand.
"Four to Zero." Alexiel said. "It's decided."
"I suppose that from this point onward I shall be Queen." Freesia stated. "All that's left for today is to decide when to hold the ceremony and announce this to the entire Kingdom."
"It would be best to wait till at least tomorrow, Your Highness."
"Indeed." Vira said. "That should give all of us plenty of time to prepare."
"Very well." Freesia said in agreement. "That is fine by me. Until then, I don't see anymore reason to remain here. Dismissed."
The three Prime Ministers nodded as they all prepared to take their leave. Alexiel slowly glanced back at Freesia, who continued to sit down for a moment, before turning and continuing to leave. As they all left, Freesia slowly looked down before standing up herself and heading for the room's exit, hiding a smile on her face as she did so.
Location: 12th Floor, Goldenia
Soon the lift that Feena had boarded arrived on the twelfth floor, in which Feena proceeded to get off of it then. The woman stretched for a moment as she stepped off of the lift.
"Man, that ride felt longer than I thought it was." She said to herself. "It must've taken a good ten minutes for me to get up here. I'd better book it. No need to keep her waiting much longer."
After she finished stretching, Feena soon took off running through the floor, nearly bumping into several people in the process. In about five minutes, she managed to cover a good distance, and soon arrived near a small bakery in the middle of the town. She came to a stop upon reaching the bakery, and looked up at it.
"Alright! I made it before the lines got too long."
Feena began walking towards the bakery. However, she soon stopped as she looked at the building beside of it. On the outside of the building, there hanged a sign that read "Cafe Regal". Feena stopped whatever she was doing for a moment and looked at the cafe for a moment, memories flashing through her head.
"Huh... that's odd." She said. "How did I never notice that the bakery was right next to..."
-x-
Location: Cafe Regal, 12th Floor
One Week Ago. . .
Feena leans against the wall outside of the cafe, standing quietly as she looked up into the sky above her. The girl yawned as she continued to stand there and wait for the Prime Minister.
"This is where she said to meet right?" She asked herself. "Not unless there's some other place on this floor that's named 'Regal Cafe' and not 'Cafe Regal'. Oh man, I really hope I haven't been standing here in front of the wrong building this whole time..." Feena stopped leaning against the wall and was prepared to walk off. "Maybe I should go look around and make sure..."
"Make sure of what?"
Feena looked behind her to see who she was waiting for walking up to her. Although upon reaching her, Feena did seem a little surprised at Alexiel's attire. Instead of her normal outfit she wore yesterday, the Prime Minister was wearing a dark red shirt with a white jacket over it, and wore a red and white skirt that came down just past her knees, and instead of boots she wore high heels. Even her hairstyle was different. As it was normally long and flowing, she had tied it into a braided horsetail style as it was merely short on one end and extended past her shoulder on the other.
"What's the matter?" Alexiel asked. "This is where I said for us to meet."
"Prime Minister?" Feena started to say. "You... Look different."
"I don't journey down to the lower floors often. But when I do, I draw a lot of unnecessary attention. So I changed my look up a bit, and it seems to work, for the most part. Not many people seem to notice me." Alexiel put her hands in her jacket's pockets. "But enough about that. Come on. Let's go inside."
Alexiel starts walking inside as Feena nodded, then followed her. Soon the two found themselves seated across from each other at a booth, Feena sitting there with her hands in her lap as she looked around, while Alexiel had her arms folded.
"You seem... nervous." Alexiel said, getting Feena's attention.
"Well..." She started to respond. "I've never really had the chance to actually properly meet a Prime Minister, yet alone sit down at a cafe with one of them." Feena scratches the side of her face. "I'm just trying to avoid making a complete fool out of myself."
"Then just relax. We're on the same side here, aren't we?"
"Yeah. Of course we are."
"Then there's no need for you to be nervous. Just relax."
"Well... I can try... By the way, didn't you say you wanted to speak to me about something? Isn't that why you said to meet you here?"
"Yes, there are. It's regarding yesterday's incident on the eleventh floor. I wanted to see how you were feeling first of all."
"What do you mean?"
"You did the right thing, that we cannot deny. But at the cost you betrayed your former commanding officer to do so. Not many people would let that sit right with them so quickly."
"Ah, don't worry about that."
"Huh?"
"Monika was... well exactly what you said. Just my commanding officer at the time. And, you're... kind of the commanding officer of my commanding officer, so that makes you my superior. It would make sense that I listen to you."
"Very well. I guess that's fair."
Soon a waitress brought over two cups of coffee for the two of them, both girls thanking the waitress as she walked away. Feena sat there as she waited for hers to cool down, while Alexiel didn't hesitate and went on to take a sip from her cup. Seeing as how Feena was still sitting there, she decided to continue their conversation.
"So..." Alexiel began to say. "Why'd you do it?"
"Huh?" Feena questioned.
"It doesn't matter which commanding officer is the highest or anything like that. I know that there's another reason why you would turn against Weisswind so easily. Why'd you do it? Did Von Bismarck have a play in this? Has she promised you some kind of reward for doing that? I know how a person's mind works. I know that there had to have been some alternative motive for you to be willing to shoot the lieutenant from behind. What is it?"
Feena looked down for a moment to avoid making any eye contact with the Prime Minister, then looked up as she proceeded to answer in a hesitant tone.
"I'm. . . not one who can talk about her past just like that. But, I guess I can try to say some things..."
"Very well. I'm listening."
Feena sighed as she blew on her cup of coffee before taking a small ship. Afterwards, she began to explain her actions.
"I'm pretty sure you've heard things like this before... but let's just say that I've been through a lot of major shit in my life at a young age. Things that, well, make me value strength over a lot of things, including relations with others I was a mercenary before I came here, and well, that's kinda where I get it from. I usually work alone. I don't get involved with others, unless I actually see them as someone who's strong and can... help me out with some... personal problems."
"What do you mean by personal?"
"It's... It's more along the lines of revenge purposes. That's really all that I'd wanna say. But that's why I did what I had to. I thought at first that Monika and Ragna would be the strength I needed, but... after that fight, I saw I was wrong. They weren't enough. So, I figured that staying with Goldenia is my best bet."
"I see..." Alexiel closed her eyes and took another sip of her coffee. "That's been what's guided you this entire time, huh."
"Sorry if it seems super selfish. Even though it really is."
"I see no problems with them. I can understand the concept of wanting revenge after all."
"Huh? Is there something you wanted vengeance over too?"
"A lot of things. But that's my business, and mine alone."
Feena didn't say anything else on the topic and took another sip of her coffee.
-x-
Present Day
Location: 12th Floor, Goldenia
Feena tapped her chin repeatedly.
"I didn't think I'd have something in common with a Prime Minister" she said to herself. "Who would've-Ah crap!"
Feena glanced over to see a line having formed already at the bakery while she was standing there.
"Alright, bakery first. Daydreaming second." Feena quickly hopped in line. "Aw man I am so behind schedule!"
Several minutes had passed as Feena continued to wait impatiently for the line to move up so that she could proceed on with her day, and the girl was growing even more impatient as time went on. Soon, Feena finally found herself at the front of the line, where she proceeded to waste no time with her order, obtaining the bread rolls, and leaving out as fast as she could to get back home.
"Finally..." She sighed to herself as she walked. "I can't believe I spaced out like that. Any longer and that line would've been way longer..."
Feena looked back to see that she was right. The line was currently outside the door, and still going.
"Well it could be worse. I could've been stuck back there." Feena sighed. "Ah well. There's no use in worrying about this now. I'd better just hurry on home."
Feena started speed walking back towards the lift she came off from. Soon the woman managed to arrive at the lift, which she found was empty.
"Looks like I'm the only one heading down this time." She said as she hopped on. "That's just great!"
As Feena boarded the lift she activated it, and soon was on her way downward to the first floor once again.
"But still..." She thought to herself. "Where was I...?"
-x-
Location: Cafe Regal, 12th Floor
One Week Ago. . .
"Still though.." Alexiel continued to say. "I can respect that. Your devotion to vengeance, and your use for strength."
"I... Thanks." Feena responded.
"Now then, there is something else that I wanted to address to you."
"What is it?"
"I wanted to offer you the chance to take Weisswind's old position."
". . . Excuse me?"
"I'm making you a Lieutenant. Consider it my way of saying thanks for the help."
"You're promoting me? Like that?"
"There's no need to overreact. You already know that Lieutenant isn't that big of a position in the Imperial Army. Weisswind was a Lieutenant, and did it really seem like a big position to her?"
"Well, I guess not. I was literally the only person under her. As far as I'm concerned, I mean."
"Precisely. But, I still believe you do deserve some type of promotion. And I think that this is good one."
"You sure I couldn't have anything higher than that?"
"Don't push it."
Feena stops talking.
"Besides. " Alexiel continued. "I'd be a shitty Prime Minister if I went around giving people General positions all willy-nilly, now wouldn't I?"
Alexiel and Feena both laughed a bit.
"You know, Prime Minister..." Feena started to say. "I misjudged you. A lot of people say you're super cold, mean, and outright rude and stuck up. But now that I've actually sat down to talk to you, you seem like a real nice person when I get to know you. Friendly, but fair."
Alexiel smiled. "I suppose the same can be said about you. When I heard about you, I had assumed you might have been a childish young woman who thinks too highly of herself just because she has a weapon. But hearing your reasoning, I can understand why. It's that childish personality that helps keep you calm and sane after everything that you've been through."
Alexiel held out her hand towards Feena, expecting a handshake. Feena proceeded to do the same. Some time later after their conversation, the two found themselves exiting the cafe.
"Well. Looks like I have enough information." Alexiel said.
"This surprisingly went better than I expected." Feena replied. "It was nice to officially meet you."
"The same goes for me."
Alexiel started walking off to head back to the higher floors. Suddenly Feena called out to her before she could fully leave.
"Hey! Wait a minute! I had something else to ask!"
"What?" Alexiel turned around. "What is it?"
"What's... Going to happen to them...?" Alexiel blinked at Feena's question. "To Monika and Ragna, I mean. What's gonna happen to them?"
". . . . . . Their fates are not something I can discuss. Not yet at least."
"I. . . I see."
"Is that all?"
"Yes, Prime Minister."
"Alright." Alexiel starts walking away again. "Be seeing you."
"Right." Feena saluted.
-x-
Present Day
Location: Lift somewhere between the 1st and 12th Floors of Goldenia
Feena stood there with her head down as the lift continued to head downwards towards the first floor.
"What could they do to those two...? She pondered to herself quietly. "I don't see her killing the two of them, or not right away at least. But if not that, then what could she be planning? What's going to happen to them...?" Feena sighed, seeing as she was almost to the first floor. "Ah well. I don't need to worry about that anyway... They're not my problem anymore."
The lift soon reached the first floor. Feena immediately hopped off and jogged over to her abandoned house.
"Hope I didn't keep her waiting too long." She sighed. "Man, I am so gonna be off schedule today."