Chapter 12: An Unwelcome Suitor
Lily entered Violet's room as Gump left, a strained smile on her face. Violet greeted her and tried to talk to her sister, like they used to, but was interrupted.
"I've planned a party for you," Lily announced. The statement startled Violet into silence. "It will be tonight. I know its short notice and that's sure to affect the attendance but all the local nobles are invited."
After a moment Violet raised a brow, "You sound like Father." Her voice was calm but stoic…barely a trace of the agitation the girl felt towards her older sister.
Lily's brow furrowed, "What do you mean?"
"You're planning a party, inviting all the local princes and dukes and earls…specifically the single ones, right?" Violet turned away from her sister as she calmly went on, "Sounds like what father tried to do when he found out that you might be in love with a boy from the forest."
There was silence a moment and though Violet looked as calm and still as a porcelain figure, Lily was showing just how like her father she truly was. Her face grew red and anger filled her eyes. After a moment Lily stood, "There's a party tonight, I expect your attendance." She then swept out of the room and let the door slam shut behind her.
Violet stared at the small fire at the hearth and wondered how her beloved was fairing. It had only been a long night for her, alone in a small bed but she knew for him it was an eternity.
Darkness assembled his court after Violet left.
In his abyss he was able to create his kingdom as he saw fit. His throne room was not typical for monarchs but looked more like the bowels of a volcano. His throne was shimmering, polished black stone that shown the lava marbling in the walls in the floor and walls like a mirror. Here is where Darkness sat as his creatures of blackness and shadow approached.
Goblins and hags, dark creatures of forest and swamp, even the dark fey came forward at Darkness' call. They gathered in their perspective groups in the throne room and peered at each other in silence. Most expected Darkness to call them, to strategize his return to the world, his new attempt to destroy the Light.
Darkness watched the horde gather in silence. Once he felt the sufficient number was present he stood. Even in this massive room, he appeared monstrous and loomed over his minions. "I am sure many of you have guessed why I have called you today." He looked over them all, seeing that he had their attention. "My exile into this abyss is not a permanent one. Soon we shall return to the world and my reign there shall be renewed. Your places in the world will be retained. We will begin again."
There was a murmur of excited assent.
"Light did not, cannot defeat us without killing itself. In the beginning, we reigned, before Light came, and we shall reign again."
Darkness could see that his minions were eager and ready to hear his plan, a murmuring had started like a buzz of angry bees.
"I have found a Queen. She is human and she will be our gateway into the world. By taking her as mine I will have a foothold in her world. Our union will be the catalyst of our destruction of the light!"
The buzzing became an uproar, a war cry, an orgasmic wail.
Author's note: sorry its short, more to come soon. Hope you are enjoying the story thus far.