The soul stone became warm in his hands. A flicker of light pulsated in it and in a second blasted out. As it blasted, the soul stone became hot in his fist almost as if searing his skin. He dropped it to the ground. It bounced on the floor and rolled for a few times before settling. The light slowly diminished and extinguished.
Menkar picked up the stone and a wicked smile crossed his lips. "This is going to make you remember my existence that you have so conveniently forgotten, Lusitania," he said. "Did you take my silence for granted?" He glared at the soul stone as if he would crush it in his hands, but he wouldn't. He would if he had to. "I worked so hard with Sirrah to keep your mother, Kinshra, at bay, and now you are posing a problem?" He let out an evil laugh. "You wish!"
As Menkar walked out after three hours to sit in his carriage, he couldn't help recalling how Queen Sirrah had approached him to take help to oust Kinshra. That half fae had turned out to be her husband's mate. It jeopardized all her plans.
Sirrah had met Menkar to find a solution to the problem. The main problem was that she couldn't do anything to Kinshra because the fae was too powerful. Moreover, she was always in Biham's company and that made it difficult for her to sabotage Kinshra's ascension as the queen of Pegasii. The subjects of the kingdom were also in her favor. Sirrah had to find a way to kick her out of the kingdom.
In their first meeting, it was clear to Menkar that Kinshra was so powerful that it would help him build up on his plan. She was pregnant when he started to use his dark magic on her, but he was cautious enough to use it when Kinshra wasn't aware of his presence. For that Sirrah would distract her. Kinshra had seen him a few times, but after the spells of black magic on her, she would take time to recover rather than dwell as to who was present around her. Slowly, after too many spells of dark magic on her, she started showing signs of blankness.
It was not until he had heard of the prophecy about King Eltanin that he sent Tania to him as his scribe. Things started falling in place. She had translated Yunabi for Eltanin and he had claimed her. This was the time when Menkar was going to roll the next part of his plan, when all his potion went missing. His plan was in doldrums.
Another jolt occurred when all of a sudden, Eltanin announced Lusitania as the queen of Draka. He wasn't expecting that at all. And the reason was simple: Eltanin knew very well that Menkar held a piece of her soul.
Earlier, everything was being done under shadow, but after he declared her the queen of Draka, it was all out in the open. Did he think that Menkar would back out? Menkar scoffed. "Not really, Eltanin. I have only just started. I will control your beast and your queen and then not only I will rule the lands of Araniea, I will conquer the Jade Sea!"
He heard the crack of the whip and a loud 'hiya' of the coachman. His carriage moved out of the Cetus Monastery. It was followed by a wagon that carried his bathtub. While the servants rode beside his carriage and in the front, the spy rode behind them.
Menkar was going to visit his brother in the Kingdom of Murel. He would make his people stay back in the Bikr Harbor and travel alone.
All at once, pain blasted in his lungs.
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