PALACE’S WITCH.

On top of a mountain there were like twenty armies there standing at different angles with their swords in their hands, the different that was between them was up to ten cm so there was no way at all for any of them to comminute. Their legs or hands were not moving and it was the same post that they stayed that they remains, the armies were there to monitor all the actives going on in that place and protecting the place.

There were also few armies under the mountain and standing at the front of a big entrance gate, there were two armies at the left and right hand side of the gate and they were the one opening the gate for those that wanted to enter into the kingdom.

The mountain served as a border to enter into the third King's kingdom and that was why the name of the Kingdom was calling MOUNTAINLAND. It was under the mountain that the kingdom was built and covered with it. The armies were the one that always uses to be there and guarding the kingdom.

Five horses got to the entrance gate and all of them were armies as well, they stopped and waiting for the armies to open the gate. The young man at that leads the armies on the horse was the head of the armies so it was all the armies at the entrance that greeted him with honour and now opened the gate for them.

The man firstly ride his horse to the front, going inside the kingdom and others too followed him. The armies closed the gate, and the armies continued riding their horse into the kingdom. Everywhere was forest and from the border to the kingdom was still far, even it was not most the people in the Kingdom that know the border except from the travelers among them.

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Sound of the door opened and closed. A middle age woman entered into a room, wearing a very beautiful gown that was rolling on the floor with her and with a little crown on her head. She was waking very slow and taking her leg one after the other and looking with unsmiling face.

She was the Queen of Mountain land and a wife to the third King. It was only her and her husband that were living in the palace, they didn't have any child and she was the one that intentionally not to, but the King believe and thought that it was God that hasn't give them.

She entered into a room in the living room and which was the king's bedroom, standing a little far from the bed and looking at the man that was treating the King. The King had felt sick again and it was in two days now that he had felt sick and he had been treating by their local herbs doctor.

Queen was looking at him with her scaring cat eye ball and with her unsmooth face and also with a dark lipstick on her lips. She was looking at the man putting different leafs on the King and putting some herbs drugs on it, it was almost all the time that he uses to come to the palace to treat the king.

The man packed the leaves back inside a small box that he opened widely on the table, covered the herbs and returns them back inside the box. He closed the box, covered the king very well with blanket, and carried his box and about to be leaving the place.

"He should wake up soon my Queen" He said with low voice, but Queen was busy looking at the King.

"Okay!" She said with low voice, passed beside the man and going to where the king was.

"I will be in the other living room with Minister and others, my Queen"

The Queen said 'You can go' to him with her hand and keeps walking, the man bow a little for him even though that she didn't see him, he still bow as a sign of a respect and living the room.

The Queen sat down on the bed beside the king, looking at him and rubbing his front head and didn't say a word. Suddenly, her eye changed to red colour and the King woke up like a person under a spell and just looking at the Queen.

The Queen was a witch and she was the one that was under the King's sickness, she decided to be using that as a way of her own punishment on the King. Except from the power that all of them have as a strong woman even the power was by ranks and that was why it was the first Queen that was powerful must among them and the controller. However, she had the witch power and which she always use anyhow.

"Set me free" The King's sprit said, he always use to know everything when he was on sick bed but when he had woke up he wouldn't remember anything again.

"Shut up! I make you suffer, embarrass you with this sickness and before I send you to your gods" She said with low voice and frank her face.

"I will set you free for now, see your people and come back here. You will spend your life in pain, and die like no one" The King was just looking and didn't say anything.

"Lay down back and I will wake you up when I am ready" She pushed the King down on the bed with bad look and with anger. Sitting on the bed and looking at him annoying. She got up, makes the blanket on the King well and leaving the room.

The man entered the living room that the minister and other elders were, all of them got up and waiting for him to get closer to them. It was almost all of them that were concern about their King's suddenly sickness like two year ago and wanted a very fast treatment so that he could be active back.

"How is the King?" The Minister asked.

"He has been feeling fine and it's possible he wake up very soon"

"Okay! We are still waiting for the armies as well, we really wants our king back on his foot" The minister said and sat down on his chair back. He was the one that was next to the King.

"We are really tired of this sickness, need a real cure soon" Another man said among the elders.

"This suddenly sickness like two years ago really make me to fed-up" Another man was talking when the door opened and the Queen entered.

"We greet you our Queen" She didn't say anything just going to her seat, she sat down on the right hand chair beside the iron chair that was the King's own and looking at the chair empty.

"Once you are done with the king, you can go" Said with low voice and talking to the native doctor.

Sound of the door opened, the head of the armies entered and when other armies were standing outside.

He knelt down on the floor as he got to where they were and at the front of the Queen, the Queen was the next in command now when the King was not really active anymore again.

"I greet you my Queen, my Minister and others" He bow a little for the Queen.

"Where is the girl you went to bring to the palace" She asked and she had known that they wouldn't finds her again,

"We were unable to find her my Queen" He said with low voice and looking down.

"What do you mean by you couldn't find her? What kind of a story is that?" Minister said.

"We search everywhere in that jungle Sir, even saw an old house but nobody was there but there is an evidence that someone had live there before and that was the only house in that jungle. We stayed around the place maybe anybody will shows up but nobody did" Said with low voice.

"So with all the days you spent there, what you can come here to say is that you couldn't find her" The queen said. It was Thaniya that they sent them to go and look for.

"I am sorry my Queen" The man said with low voice.

"With all due respect my Queen. How do you want them to find her, it's like a year ago I have told you my Queen and everybody that the only person that can cure the King is that girl in the jungle, sent the armies there and let them bring her to the palace so that she can heal him but you keeps saying that you can't bring a stranger into the palace. So now see!" Queen had known that if they were able to bring Thaniya into the palace, the king will be fine and her secret will be exposed so that was why she didn't agree.

"You see now! That is what I keep fighting for, not like some days ago I now sent the armies there by force, now they couldn't find the girl" Minister said with loud voice and got up.

"Where can this girl be?, you have to know that" An elders asked the man.

"I don't know, it's jungle I know she is living but now that they said she is no longer there, I don't know" The man stopped talking.

"Without her nobody can heal the King permanently so keep finding her, I will take my leave now my Queen" The man said, bow for the Queen and going out.

"How are we sure we will find this girl or this how the King will be" A man said as the door closed and the herb doctor had gone.

"This is what I am talking about my Queen that let them go and bring her to the palace on time, now we can't find her" Minister said with low voice but the Queen didn't say anything.

"If we know her physically now, they can draw her and send it to the kingdoms as wanted so if they find her, they can send her to us" Another man said and all of them felt bad for the bad news.

"Who is even that girl that she is the only one that can heal our King, she is a magician or a healer?" Another man said.

"You can go head of the armies" Queen said with low voice, and look at all the elders.

"As you said my Queen" He got up from the floor, bow, turns back and leaving the living room. Minister was looking at the army still the door closed and faced the Queen.

"What are we going to do now, you don't bring any suggestion or tell the armies what to do just ordered him to go, and he did" He said with low voice.

"Let the King be!" She said with loud voice and got up, all of them got silent as she said so and watching her going out.