Dark Elf - Chapter 12 - A Family

A week passed and came the day when I had to meet the king,the actual queen and my younger siblings.It was a Tuesday,just after lunch.I was guided through the castle by a butler and I arrived in front of a gigantic door:the entrance to the throne room.

I entered the room,and I began walking straight and after twenty-eight steps I kneeled down,just like I had been told.I kept my head down until I heard a voice,a familiar voice saying:

-Raise your head.

It was the same voice that gave me my name: the voice of the king,my father's voice.

When I looked at the royal family,I finally saw the head of the king as well as the heads of the other royals.The king then seemed surprised as I was raising my head and he said:

-Why are you wearing a mask?Answer me.

-I have always done so, your majesty.I said.

He then mumbled something in his black long beard.

He asked me the same questions as my uncle and I answered him telling the truth for everything except the parts about Senso Primis and the year I had passed as a slave.

Eventually,he told me to come to the dinner room for dinner and that I could live in the palace if I wished.He then lived through a back entrance followed by all the royals one by one.