Day 39

Evening

"I heard you went out with Kace today."

It was about 7 pm and I was taking a walk around the castles exterior.

"Rowan! You're back!" I turn around to see the prince who stood before me. He looked awfully tired. "What have you been doing the past month? It's been a while..."

"Missed me?" The prince smirked. "I would've been gone longer, but I had to come back after I found out one of the noble houses is planning a coup d'etat and will make their move anytime soon." He sighed.

"Which house?"

"Lunaria."

"Lunaria?! But why?"

"Personal grudges and what not. There are some info that cannot be disclosed."

"Ah..." We're having a proper conversation for once, would ya look at that. "So how do you plan to deal with it?"

"I'll let them attack. We'll deal with it here. Those in house Lunaria are well versed in combat but I still doubt they'll be able to overthrow the kingdom."

"Mhm!"

"When that happens..." The prince stops and awkwardly scratches his face. "You better hide somewhere safe and take care."

"Pfft of course." I roll my eyes. "What's with the soft attitude hm? I haven't seen that since you were drunk."

"I just don't want you to get caught up in the fight."

"I know, I know. Anyways I'm going to go back inside now."

Talking to him under such a cliché atmosphere while he speaks like a normal, not-jerk kind of way feels somewhat comforting. Honestly I'd stay and talk to him for hours if it was just like this, but I don't want to take up his time.

"Wait."

"Hmm?"

"That necklace. Did Kace buy that for you?"

"He did. It's really pretty isn't it?"

"Yeah, it is." He responded with a stiff smile, but his voice sounded somewhat saddened. What's up with him today?

The following morning, after my usual wake up routine, I exit my room to find the amount of guards on the job doubled.

"Riselle, goodmorning!" Adria greeted. She seemed to have been heading to my room before I left it "Kace said he'll come to your room in a bit to serve breakfast. The prince wants us to stay inside for safety."

"Extra cautious huh."

"Well you can never be to safe! House Lunaria is scary. I'll be heading back to my room now, bye bye!"

"Bye!" I head back inside my room and shut the door. So i'll have to stay like this until house Lunaria's coup d'etat is over?

I lay on the bed and stare absentmindedly at the ceiling. It hasn't even been five minutes and I'm already bored. For some reason, when I'm told to stay inside it just makes me feel bored, but I could stay inside like this for days and not feel bored if I did it out of my own accord.

The window suddenly shattered while I was clouded with my thoughts. A person dressed like a rogue swooped in. It all happened so fast that the next thing I know, he has me in a chokehold and the world fades to black.

Everything is black. But my body feels conscious, yet immobile.

Is this the afterlife? Man it sucks.

Wait I'm not ready to die!

No, no. Calm self! He probably hit one of my vitals!

"You're finally awake." I open my eyes to see the same person dressed like a rogue sitting a few feet away from me. He wore all black and covered about every inch of his body, only his eyes were visible. And they were black too.

I realize I was tied up on a chair in an unfamiliar and dimly lit room. "Was I... Kidnapped?"

"Is that really the first thing you should be asking?" The person responded, they had a very masculine voice but I'm not one to assume their gender or pronouns.

"Touché." Yeah the answer to that is pretty obvious. "Uhmm. Where am I?"

"House Lunaria. Lucky you, getting special treatment from the prince. But now." They took out a knife and pointed it at my neck. "You're going to be used to threaten him."

The good old 'do as I say or I'll kill the captive.' thing

I gulped in fear. For once in my life I felt like I was actually going to die. Like no jokes or overreacting, but this could possibly be the end of me.

"A-and who are you?" My next question. After knowing my life is on the line, I began trembling with fear. Doing my best to hide it.

Most people from the house of Nobles know who I am. Most especially after the prince made it known to the public he wanted me to the castle. On the other hand, Know most of the nobles except those in house Lunaria.

House Lunaria was always the one apart from the rest. Secretive, they have their own goals and agendas. All members have secret identities.

"Oh me? I guess you could say I'm one of the most skilled assassins of house Lunaria."

"Assassin. So you've killed people before?"

"Yes."

"Ah..." I didn't know what else to say. What am I supposed to say? I'm just going to end up another one of the many that has been killed by the bloody hands of this assassin.

"It's not that I wanted to. But it's my job." They continued.

"Are you really going to kill me?"

"If I have to."

Really blunt, huh?

"Kai, the prince." The door bursted open, and a lady in armor called out to the person with me. She had a very horrified look on her face.