Fantasy's Garden Part 3

"No, you chose not to belive in Clovis. You chose the warmest bed for the crown and if I hadn't been worried for Keen I would have taken your life long ago. By the laws of Forest Gate and the Frostlands what you did was unforgivable. A true mother fights for her children. I suggest you take your son's hand and go upstairs to your room till you calm down enough to look for a new place to live." Kyera replied done with this now. Feya growled at her and went to attack Kyera but two small hands grabbed her arm. They were too weak, and Keen was thrown to the ground as Feya wrenched her arm from his hands. Before she could even move past that point, a fist slammed into her face, knocking Feya to the ground. 

"I have had enough. Take her to the holding cells to cool down." Kyera ordered, shaking her hand from the hit. Raina however was preoccupied with helping Keen back to his feet. Rosie tried to help too but she was a little small. 

"Thank you Raina, Rosie." Keen's voice was soft and a bit broken. "I'm sorry." He whispered and Raina hugged him. 

"No need to be. We are still friends right?" Raina asked with a smile. She refused to let this bother them, whether they be brother and sister or cousins family matters. 

"Yes." He nodded his head resolutely as Kyera came to their side. 

"Rosie and Gale must be hungry and honestly, we need to go inside and get your mother fed. Come along." Clovis ushered all the children inside, Eve And Vivian assisted as Kyera got caught by all of them. It was time to get out of the public eye for a moment. Eve scooped little Gale out of Raina's arms and hugged him close. 

"Thank goodness he's alive, and your all fine. Everything will be okay now…" Eve whispered as she held him. Kyera watched her, feeling a touch of anxiety as the two older women fawned over their grandson. Kyera sat down at the table, in Fantasy's chair and Rosie came to stand by her. The little tiger girl lifted her hands feeling nervous around all these new people, a new place, sites and sounds she wasn't accustomed to at her young age. Tigers are territorial, and this large of a change was quite unnerving For her, but Kyera felt safe. 

Kyera lifted the toddler onto her knee as Raina sat down at her side. Servants brought out lunch and everyone served themselves, just as they had at the SnowDrop palace. Kyera tempted Rosie to eat, and devoured her own portion while Clovis sat down across from his Grandmother and Mother. 

"So what happened?" Eve asked sitting back as Vivian held Gale. The baby was patiently letting these women pass him around knowing he would eventually get back to Mommy. 

"Well, we won, granted I don't know if that's the right word. The city outside the palace gates was destroyed, the battle entered the palace and there were plenty dead there as well. Kyera… Kyera nearly died and if it had not been for Rosie's father, she would have and so would have Gale. It… It wasn't a good time for sure. Then we got to the palace and they had already began siege there. We beat them in the courtyard. Long story short." Clovis explained and both his elders stared at him. There was a sense of waiting on the air, a question begging to be asked. 

"What of Bastil?" Vivian asked her voice trembling slightly and Clovis sighed. 

"Bastil died. I am afraid it's his own doing. You see when he was persecuting the shifters, there was a young healer named Cora. Her elder brother was sent with Talis to get the royal family out. The boy… he killed Bastil so Bastil could not kill anyone else. Cian took revenge for his sister and will be tried by the Forest Gate Court in 4 weeks time. Honestly I don't think he should be punished. After what Bastil did, we would have had to put him down ourselves. At least this way it wasn't family that had to take his life and war." Clovis explained and Vivian's eyes welled up with tears as she looked down at Gale in her arms. She pressed trembling lips to his little forehead.