The Milestone

        "Where is she?"

     Ja Lia asked as he paced the room continuously. Twas a large one. Larger than that which he used to live in before the whole turns and twists. 

   Lailah was seating comfortably on one of the three chairs in the room. Aside the chair, the room was scanty. There wasn't anything of interest, except some medieval arts of witchery etched in the walls.

   Twas a sitting room. 

    "Come have a seat, I have a plan."

   She said, looking sternly at him. She seemed to had changed. That wasn't the Lailah he used to know. 

    She should had been doing something else or feeling herself. But she seemed rather calm, probably someone had thought her the lesson of her life. 

      Probably, she might be baiting him. She was sure a con artist. He wasn't going to keep quiet and watch her make a fool of him. 

    He had been fooled quite the numbers of time. Even before he drowned in the sea and was abducted by Poseidon. 

    He kept walking to and fro the sitting room. He didn't want to hold her in his gaze for long. 

   She had the ability of enchanting him. He had fallen for that trick once, but not again. 

     "I'm not interested in your plan. Where's is she?"

   He asked again. He wasn't ready to put up with her. 

   After he had met her at the back seat of the chariot, he couldn't make a scene. The captain of the Chariot and Mooris had walked up to them immediately. 

   But as soon as the Captain and Mooris got to them, Lailah had taken the form of the lady. Now you could see why hard twas for Ja to make a scene. 

    Enough was the fact that he was bothering the two. What then would they take if he had claimed that twasnt the lady that was with him anymore. 

   After the fellows had left and promised to come back for the two of them, that was when she had transformed back into her fiery self. 

    And ever since then had Ja Lia been asking her where the pregnant lady was. But she wasn't going to give a sensible answer. 

   He had given his words to that lady. He must see to the fact that she was fine. And he would do every possible thing to stop Lailah from hurting her. 

     "Why be obstinate, knowing you're clueless about the whole thing?"

    She dared. He stopped pacing the room. He walked to the back of the chair opposite the chair she was seated on. He leaned on it.

    Two chairs were placed side by side while the third was opposite the two. She was sitting on the isolated chair. 

     He wasn't afraid to look at her anymore. He remembered that he had been charged spiritually by Poseidon. He had what twould take him to resist her seduction. 

    She tossed her head up, winking at him. He pushed a loop of warm air through his nose and looked away. 

    He noticed a painting of a naked lady, probably goddess, sitting on several crowned heads. 

   He looked away. Twas not his cup of coffee.

     "You sound really sure, eh? Just go ahead and mess with her and see what I'm capable of."

    Ja Lia threatened. He wasn't really sure if he could own up to those words, but he was a man. Gone were the fidgeting days. 

     "Bluff. You think Poseidon is better than I am? You think he's holier and doesn't have hideous plans in stock for you? How can you be sure that he isn't baiting you, making a puppet of you."

     She twirled her words, weaving out an apt atmosphere for her spell. 

     "Worry about yourself, bitch! I'd better be a slave to Poseidon than consent to your will."

     Ja Lia shot back. He ate those words. He didn't mean it but he loathed the lady greatly. He hoped the words wouldn't stand against him sometimes in the future. 

    "Robust gut. Let's start with this."

    She stood up and walked through the back of the chair she was seating on. 

   Then she made a turn and began to walk towards him. 

   He didn't move. He knew what she would. Twas really his pleasure. 

    Get done with it and abscond with the pregnant lady. Even far from the reach of Poseidon.

      She got to him and cast half of her body on him, leaning such that her left shoulder through the left boob was buried in that part of his chest. 

     She pushed herself forward and squeezed that boob on his chest, rubbing it hardly on him. 

    He didn't move. His oesophagus was running up and down his throat. His erection was beginning to come alive. 

      She pulled her lips closer to his, and pushed his cheek. Their lips met and she sucked him angrily. 

   As she kissed him ruthlessly, she raised one of her legs, brushing that knee with his rising erection. 

    He was already being turned on. Then she stopped abruptly and walked away from him. 

    She returned to the seat and cleaned her mouth with the back of her left hand. Then she chuckled and said,

     "Isn't that what Poseidon sent you with?"

    A part of him thought she was guessing but he stood there stupefied. Trying to hop out of the mood she had just got him into, and at the same time process what she was saying. 

    How crazy she was. 

     "To have sex with me and destroy the strength in me? Take me to the sea and let him come and get me to marry her. Like he tried to before I escaped and was thrown out in the first place."

    She smiled and said again,

       "Isn't that?"

     Ja Lia looked away from her. He walked over to the front of one of the two chairs and sat. 

    He watched her lips dance to the rhythm of her heart. 

     "But you're so foolish that you didn't bother to ask what would happen to the child in me if the sex happen. None of my business."

     She looked towards the painting of the naked woman Ja had noticed earlier and pointed at it,

     "Give me sometime to hatch my new plot. Even I am done with men's indecision. The game has become boring. I have a new game in stock. Then after that, have your way."

   She stopped talking. 

    "Why should I believe you?"

   He quizzed. She chuckled. 

     "You have a choice to make."

   She stood up and walked over to the painting and began to trace her fingers cross it. 

     "The King of Kula has a game up his sleeves, but I want to teach him how to play. He had killed the prince of Havila and is plotting to kill several other princes because he has no prince. But he does have a daughter."

      She turned and put her back to the painting, wearing Ja Lia out with her seductive glare. Ja would looked away occasionally.

  "Your new lover's husband has taken the cloth of the dead prince and was mistaking in Ikpala as the prince of Havila. He was looking for me. Don't ask, I did have a one night stand with him."

    She chuckled and continued moving her eyes seductively,

     "He was a hell of a rider but his penis isn't as big as your brother's."

     Ja felt like running to her and strangling her but he could tame the rage. How daring she was. 

      "I would make the prince of Havila come back to life and kick off a state of confusion in Kula. Your lover's husband still would be in the Ikpala's kingdom but for another motive."

   She walked to the chair she was seating on before. She sat on the arm, crossing her curved legs,

    "I would be your new lover for the meantime. I know he had instructed you to come with her for sightseeing. I would go, not her. I would seduce the King and make him fall under my spell. I'll kill him afterwards and be the queen. Collateral damage."

   She paused for a while and continued,

    "Your new lover's husband would get married to the daughter of the Duke of Ikpala. He would quit the search for me. The Duke of Kula would wage war as soon as he hears that the ruler of Havilah is now a woman. I would seduce him and unite Kula and Havila. Then I'll kill him. Then you and your lover would rule the Kingdom of Kula. Then you can come for me and end me. But I'm sure that the husband of your new husband wouldn't let you as soon as he discovers that I'm the queen."

      Ja Lia felt flushed. He didn't know what to think. But he was sure that he didn't understand a thing. He sort a word,

    "I can't find the reincarnated prince in your master plan."

   He said. She stood up and walked towards the door.

      "Leave that to me."

     She opened the door and turned to him,

     "I'm sure you won't leave your new lover waiting outside."

     She said as soon as she closed the door. 

    Ja scrambled to the door immediately. What was she saying. 

     He opened the door and saw the lady standing at the door while Lailah was walking down the path that led to wherever.

     "I'll be waiting for you at the palace gate."

   He heard Lailah call. He hadn't been that confused. 

     "Are you fine?"

    Were the only words he could say to the lady who walked into the room. 

   He didn't know if he was sane anymore. Nothing seemed to make sense.

   Probably Lailah had cast a spell on the lady too.