The dark shadow turned into mist and disappeared before we could move. Dilan rushed to his mother who was lying on the ground, eyes closed. I could make out the light rise and fall of her chest.
She is alive. I sighed in relief
"Get some help." His voice was low and strained. I nodded and rushed out the door.
Not long after, a doctor was called and Dilan and I waited in a room connecting to the one the queen was in. The tension in the air tightened as we sat in the room. Dilan stood by a window away from me, staring blankly. His face was void of any emotion but I could tell he was worried from his clenched fists.
He hadn't said a word to me since we found his mother in that state and I couldn't blame him. The whole situation was frustrating. I couldn't see the face of dark presence standing over the queen, but I had an unsettling feeling that I knew what or rather, who it was.
What did he do to her?
I shuddered as I thought of what could have happened to the queen. She hadn't woken up since we found her and Dilan stood by her side, holding her hand in his till the doctor ushered us out.
I looked at him from across the room, fidgeting with my hands on my lap. His jaw twitched every once in a while as he stared out the window and If looks could kill, the window would have shattered.
The door then opened and Dilan and I looked up at once. The doctor was at the door. He nodded and motioned for is to go in.
"The queen is awake."
We entered the warm room quietly. It had a fireplace near the bed the queen's bed. We walked towards the bed and saw that the queen was on a couch next to the bed. She looked a little better but her skin was still pale and her eyes tired. She looked in my direction and smiled.
"I'm okay."
Dilan knelt down in front of his mother and held her hand.
"Who did this to you?" Dilan said quietly.
Queen Nevaeh looked at her son lovingly and put her free hand over his.
"I'm fine now. No need to worry."
She stood up shakily, and walked over to a makeshift kitchen at the other side of the room. She stopped at the stove.
"Would you like some tea?" She asked with a weak lopsided grin. She didn't wait for an answer and began busying her self with the tea making rituals.
"Mother. Who did it." Dilan sighed.
The queen ignored him and went on humming silently to herself. When she was done she placed it on a table in front of us. I took the kettle out of her hands and poured it into our cups along with the sugar and milk, asking how many cubes of sugar each person wanted. When I asked Dilan, he just sulked on the couch and ignored me.
If that's how you want it. I thought and left the black tea unsugared.
"Thank you dear." She said then placed some cookies on the table.
We took our seats on a set of couches around the table and drank our tea quietly, the queen and I, while Dilan bored holes into the ground with his hard stare.
"Aren't you going to have some tea, Dilan." The queen said sweetly while staring daggers at her son. It seemed the had that in common.
Dilan sat up. "Who was it?" The queen stared at him for a while then opened her mouth as if to say something, then turned her attention back to her tea like it was far more interesting.
Dilan's jaw twitched and I stifled a giggle. His head snapped towards me an annoyed look on his face and I looked down into my cup.
"Have some tea, then we can talk." The queen said wearily to her stubborn son.
Dilan smiled sourly and picked up his cup, grimacing as it came in contact with his lips. He looked down at the table where the sugar was previously, but it wasn't there anymore. She queen smiled innocently at him.
"Come on, all of it if you want to talk." I smirked as he took a sip once again, grimacing at the taste.
"How's the tea, darling?" The queen asked her son. I was holding back my laughter at the look on his face when his mother asked.
"Splendid." Not daring to insult her tea making skills, he smiled half heartedly.
"I didn't know you were a fan of plain black tea. I'll make sure to tell the kitchen staff how much you love it so you can have it every morning." The queen smiled.
My eyes widened and I put my head down laughing silently into my lap. I looked up at him and he was glaring at me. I smiled back. He finally finished his tea, painfully, then I reached for the tea kettle and smiled at him.
"Would you like some more?" My voice syrupy sweet. The sugar was still no where to be found.
He jumped from his seat. "No!" He practically screamed. "No." He said more quietly, then took another seat as far away from me as possible. I smirked to myself.
"Now, will you tell me mother?"
"I feel a little bit tired dear. Maybe later." Dilan frowned deepely.
"Could you get me a glass of water, Aria." I got the after and handed it to her. While she drank from the cup, an idea came to me. I got another glass.
"What exactly happened, your majesty?"
"He tried to drain my life energy. Don't worry,If you hadn't come sooner he would have done a lot worse." She said nonchalantly.
I frowned and dropped the glass in hand on the table. I lifted water so it floated above the cup, the concentred and it turned golden, like the blob in the garden.
Dilan looked curiously at me as I moved I moved with it towards the queen. I let it some rest on her head and some on her chest and closed my eyes. After a while, the queen gasped and I opened my eyes to see that her formerly tired eyes had brightened up.
She no longer looked withered or tired. She held my hand and smiled at me. "Thank you."
I smiled too, in relief that it had worked.
"Will you tell us who did it, mother?"
I looked at Dilan and he was smiling appreciatively at me.
She sighed. "Fine." She dropped her cup then looked at me. "I think Aria knows who."
The smile dropped from my face and a mountain of guilt found it's way into my throat. I looked at queen Nevaeh. Whatever was done to her was my fault. She should've been angry and blamed me for it, but she didn't look angry at all.
"Do you know?"
I nodded and looked away, tears threatening to spill from my eyes. "It was the darkness wasn't it? My father." Like Dilan, the queen didn't seem at all surprised. She just nodded and looked up at Dilan show as staring intensely at me, with a dark expression I couldn't read.
"There is your answer."
"You knew?" Dilan and I said at the same time, both to the queen.
"Yes. I knew the darkness was your father, long before you came here."
"Why didn't you tell me?" My head was thumping loudly behind my ears.
"At the time, you wouldn't have agreed to stop the darkness if you knew he was your father. Only if you saw that he was truly evil. Now you have." She placed a hand on my shoulder. "I'm sorry, Aria. That you had to find out this way."
I sat there in silence thinking over what she said. She was right, I wouldn't have accepted that he was evil if she had told me and I did see his evil today, in more ways that one.
"But, why would he attack you?"
"I suspect he was targeting Dilan, and when he saw he wasn't here, he went for me instead." Dilan's head snapped his head towards his mother, in question.
"Why was he looking for Dilan? " I said shakily.
"Your father wants you to join him in darkness because because he knows you have great power and he will do all he can do to get you, even if it means hurting the people you care about."
Why Dilan? He couldn't possibly think... No... Did I?...No.
"Now, I m curious to know how you know about Aria's father, Dilan." The queen enquired.
Dilan gave an awkward laugh and scratched the back of his head.
"You see, mother, I've been meaning to tell you something." He put his had down and sighed.
"I have visions." The queen looked taken aback. For the first time since I met her, she actually looked as surprised as I was.
"I didn't tell you because I didn't know what to think. I don't know what it means."
"When did they start?"
"Since I was twelve. They came rarely then and I thought they were just hallucinations. Now they appear a lot more."
She frowned and stood up.
"Get out."
"What?" Dilan gaped.
"Need to think now. Get out."
"Bu-" The queen twacked his head and shooed us out of the room and, I saw what look suspiciously like the sugar bowl where the queen just stood up from.
"We have a lot to talk about, you. Both of you." She said then slammed the door in our faces.
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