Chapter Eighty: The Ball & The Mistress (part two)

Song: Recommended: Never Tear Us Apart By Bishop Briggs

"When we tell you to always listen yet be able to pretend, we mean it. These kinds of advices are the very words that keep us running this kingdom smoothly. To be able to lie and not have your aura change. To be ruthless yet confuse them with gentle acts. It's always a gamble yet one that pays off, until you overdo it.

So everything that you have learned up to now, remember it yet forget it. You want them to underestimate you, that way when one of them slips, you will know not to trip. If they overpraise you, know that there's more to those kind words and those eyes. They are battling with themselves because they aren't on their tuff.

You have more power over them here but also be smart. You will need some of their help at times. So, you need to be able to know who's worth communicating with and who's not worth the effort. Reading everyone, while putting on a performance and trying not to slip up. It drains you quick.

Understand that my brother has a past and one that likes to cling to him as though he is God in his prime. As soon as you enter into that room, all eyes will flock to you and the aura will change immediately. Some will try to know you, others will offer you a way to return home and others will threaten you.

This is where everyone here gets to test your loyalty and gets to see if you are weak or not. I will not lie to you, if the kings or queens of other realms, especially the light or the earthly kingdom, offer you a way to return home, or a way to live your past life, they will make it an irrefutable offer.

Eight out of ten times, they are being serious. They will wipe everything and give you back life." He admitted and my eyes immediately rose at that revelation.

I could go home if I trusted one of them and return to when things were different. My entire slate wiped clean and my mom would be my mom and not someone I unintentionally hurt.

He wasn't wrong. It really is an irrefutable offer and who would easily turn that down? Especially if they missed home and knew that that deal wouldn't come twice in this kind of lifestyle.

"So be wise when you decide. To either take their offer and leave or to stay here and rule Oscuridad." And with that he left and closed the door. Leaving me alone with the high dresser and several maids. Yet it felt as though I was alone. I didn't want to admit it too loudly, cause I knew that they would be sneaky enough to read my mind.

I couldn't help but think about all of this. Ever since I had returned here, everything hadn't been easy. Witnessing the deaths and also being the cause of a few made me ill to my stomach. Silver and I always seemed to bump heads, unless we felt vulnerable enough to dance it out.

I could feel my feet beginning to slip but I wasn't ready to fall yet for the mighty King Silver. No… I need to see more but at the same time I didn't want to. I needed to figure out a way to deal with my own emotions. To cleanse my mind and heart.

Staying here was one thing but going home was another. And going home was a factor that I knew played a huge role in my life. I needed to fix things with my mother, I still wanted her in my future but living here meant it was completely over with.

Think Aria, think, what do you desire with your entire heart?

"It's always a tough decision to make." I heard, "huh," came my dumb response as I had been too deep in my mind to even remember where I was. "I said, it is always a tough decision to make. I have been here since I was 21 and that was over seven decades ago but I still look young.

This world has the ability to make everything bend to its desires and that's one of the reasons why I love it. I was brought here after I made a very horrible decision. One that affected my life and my son's. Ever since then I was always afraid to return but I suddenly got offered to return home.

The witch kingdom, they offered to give me back my life and all I had to do was leave. I wasn't the kings lover or mistress. No, I was just close to them and they didn't want that. I had a bad relationship with the king at that time so I took it." the high dresser confessed finished setting something on my hair.

"What was it like? Did you regret it?" I asked, feeling the need to know if she ever returned and had everything she desired. "They gave me my old life, the clate wiped clean as though nothing in the past had happened. That was until I realised that I was living my life making the same decisions of the past. Ones that I wished to never repeat.

It was as if I couldn't unmake them but this time instead of making a deal, I felt the pain and I died. I was chained in the darkness trail and the king was the one to find me that day. His eyes that day had softened and told me to not always listen to my emotions, bevause emotions are like flashy gifts.

They are so wonderful to chase and have but if you are not careful you might miss the fact that they are fake. So, they turn your neck green and make you sick. Then you end up wondering why you ever made this decision but it becomes way too late to take it." she whispered and held my face delicately in her hands.

"Be wise, dear child, be wise." She whispered.

Be a fool, Aria, be a fool…