Chapter 8 (Dinah's POV)

At noon, a portal opened and I was looking at it with great interest and a man came out. At first, I was quite scared because I didn't know who or what will come out of it. I don't know what's wrong with me, but looking at the man I felt like running over to him and hugging him. Damnit what's wrong with me. I was sure he didn't even notice me and Meg.

When the two rascals came in, he looked pretty close to them by their behavior. When he turned, it seemed he wanted to talk to Diana but froze when he saw me, and I thought I heard him whispered something like Kim or was it Kate....anyway that didn't matter because before he could say anything more, Diana introduced us.

"Dinah and Meg,this is Ben, the royal guard and the King of Matier's right hand man, also the most powerful mage after the king. Ben, this is Dinah and Meg, humans." She introduced.

"Hi." I stretched my hand for a hand shake and he accepted it almost immediately. He looked at me and smiled which made me feel safe.

After all that, Diana directed us to the study so we won't be distracted by Zach and Mia's constant quarrels. The study was big, yet very simple consisting of a reading table, fluffy couches arranged in a circular pattern and a coffee table inside, which I assume is for meetings and book rackson the wall. Diana led us to the couches and we all sat down to discuss the issue at hand. Diana explained to Ben how we met and wanted to hear his opinion.

"Okay so you guys just found yourself in the middle of the forest sleeping on the bed?" Ben asked to confirm looking just as confused as we were.

We nodded so hard that our heads could have came off. He looked so deep in thought that his brows were furrowed together, after a while he told us to come with him to his office. But it seemed that it didn't sit well with Diana because she wanted us to stay. I had to talk to her carefully about how much we needed to get back home before she finally gave in after giving both of us a big hug. I really didn't notice that she was this fond of us.

I actually thought we were going through the portal but was surprised when I saw a car uh a Porsche Cayenne exactly which made me question him.

Weren't we supposed to go through all portal?" But he just chuckled softly and answered patiently, "A portal isn't always needed when traveling, besides I thought you wouldn't want to travel through it so I got what you are used to."

On the other hand Meg was busy, drooling over herself when she saw the car. When I passed by her, I slapped her back and whispered fiercely "Would you stop drooling? Seriously! You can stay and drool all day if you want but I'm going in." That got her back.

On the way,I really thought that the houses would be different from ours back home but they all looked the same. When we reached,It was already night time. I was surprised to see a flower shop as his office as he introduced it quite fondly. There were many beautiful flowers that I've never seen before in my life but there was a particular group of flowers that got my attention. There were blue and they seemed to be glowing. I wanted to touch it but Ben got to me before I could and he looked anxious.

"Don't touch that." He half yelled at me.

"W-why?" I asked with confusion dancing in my eyes. He seemed to have realized what he did and composed himself again.

"Sorry for frightening you. It's just that I'm a little protective of the flowers because my wife was the one who casted on them." He said with a sigh.

Meg, the chatterbox widened her eyes and said excitedly,

"Your wife can perform magic? Can you please take me to her? I wanna learn too. Can you take me to her? Please, please, pleeeease?"

At the mention of his wife, his eyes dimmed.

"My wife.....is missing. It's been sixteen years now." Then he seemed to have remembered something and his eyes sparkled again. He turned to me and asked,

"Dinah, where is your mom?" I didn't know why he asked me that question but I still answered,

"She...died." I answered with much difficulty.