~Clearsight
It wasn't completely horrible that she was captured. Quite honestly, by now, some of her timelines fuzzed into blackness, which meant that she could be dead. The only thing Clearsight worried about was Darkstalker. This could either teach him patience or bring about his wrath.
She had tried, many times, to convince the queen to let her go. The answer was always obvious, and even though none of her timelines showed her escaping by herself she tried anyway. Besides, Darkstalker surpassed her studying, couldn't she do the same?
"I need a full report on how I can keep your boyfriend away." Vigilance said, standing in the doorway.
"You can't." Clearsight replied truthfully. "Darkstalker will never go away. He will never die by your talons, and he will never bow down to you again. You've made a mistake. I'm the only one who can stop him! You have to let me go."
"She's telling the truth." The mind reader in the room confirmed. Clearsight didn't bother hiding anything, speaking only the truth.
"Keep her here until I say so." The queen snarled. "Or I'll find a way to prove you're both lying." Then she turned around, and left.
Clearsight nor the mind reader said anything. Clearsight just continued doing what she has been—mapping out every single possible outcome on a single scroll for the queen. It required small writing, but Clearsight wished she had more paper or ink.
She looked outside the window. The bracelet Darkstalker had enchanted for her laid on the table beside the mind reader. She wished she could escape. Be free to do whatever she wished, even for a few moments. But with with mind reader seeing into her thoughts, she couldn't even tell Darkstalker that she was okay. Not like he believed her, in the futures where she did find a way to talk to him. At least he was free. Clearsight had been concerned that Vigilance would take Darkstalker instead, but she was glad that the queen wasn't that much of a fool.
…
The light was growing outside when the queen came again, a servant trailing behind her with another pot of ink and another scroll.
"I need the exact possibly that there will be an attack on the palace by the SandWings. I just received a letter saying that the queen of the SandWings isn't happy with the amount of gold she received." The queen demanded.
Clearsight closed her eyes briefly, searching. She opened them again. "There is only one, my queen. In another month, there will be a small group of SandWings who claim to be here to discuss a treaty, but will try to burn down the castle at night, followed by the library and school." She said.
The queen tilted her head, and the servant warily gave Clearsight the scroll and ink. Once done, he hurriedly walked out of the room and back to whatever he needed to do next.
"Write every the description of all of the SandWings on that scroll, along with any other details that will be important." Vigilance said. "And I also expect you to continue writing on that other scroll as well. You can sleep in another hour or when you have all of the SandWing appearances down, and I want you up before noon to continue. I'll be bringing another scroll at sundown for you do write down who will be queen in all of the tribes of Pyrrhia in the next hundred years, and if they'll be a threat to my kingdom"
"All of the queens of the tribes of Pyrrhia?" Clearsight echoed. "In the next hundred years?"
"Don't give me that face, I know you can do it." The queen snarled. "If you can't, then I'll snap your neck in front of everyone."
"You wouldn't." Clearsight said. "If I die—especially by your talons—there's no way of telling when Darkstalker will strike. He'll kill anyone mercilessly if I die. He won't stop until he's king after that, and ruled all of Pyrrhia! Don't you care?"
"I care about staying on the throne for as long as possible." The queen retorted. "But I'm happy to kill you if needed, and if your boyfriend stops me I'll just kill him, too. Not to mention I can also kill that pesky SeaWing prince—I would be doing Queen Pearl a favor." She flicked her tail and walked away.
Clearsight sighed. She didn't know what she expected—it was obvious that the queen didn't care about anything Clearsight said if it wasn't related to what she wanted. If anything, Vigilance believed that Clearsight and the mind reader only spoke lies to her. The only thing Vigilance believed was the writing on the scrolls. No spoken word from Clearsight's mouth got to her.
Maybe she could give the queen a message throw the scrolls?...No, she wouldn't notice it. Clearsight sighed again and started working on the scrolls.