Chapter 82. The Prison and The Child

"You will not tell me - the King of Lower North Heaven - what to do," the King sneered. He gently touched his Queen's cheek. Her eyes were moist and red as she looked at him with fear and anger. He smiled with a satisfaction. "Forgive me, I should have not hit you," he said looking in his wife's terror-filled eyes and pulled her into his arms.

The woman could only shiver very subtly as she coaxed herself that her husband was a kind person and only lost his composure because he had come from an arduous journey and was exhausted. She fought the urge to let the water fall down from the edge of her eyes as she clutched her husband's cloth that was draping over his shoulder.

She leaned her head on her Husband's chest as the image of the child being dragged away somewhere came into her mind - making her heart thump. She could tell where they might have taken the child to.

'I cannot let you venture towards such an unethical path, Your Majesty.'