Rest

"My Queen, my Queen, please wake up" said Nora as she lightly tapped Wura on her shoulder as Wura opened her eyes slowly and she yawned.

"My Queen, we have arrived back at the Castle" said Nora.

"We have?" asked Wura as she rubbed her eyes, she could not believe that she had slept through the entire life.

"Yes my Queen" said Nora as the carriage door opened.

"My Queen, we have arrived" said Zechariah as Wura stood up and Zechariah helped her down from the carriage as Wura looked up in the sky, she was sure that it was past midnight, she looked at the moon.

Nora came down from the carriage as Wura turned to look at Mero.

"Mero, we have to go and talk to Uncle Nigel now" said Wura as Mero looked at her, she was going to fast.

"My Queen, I do not think that is a good idea" said Mero as he replied gently.

"And why not?" asked Wura as she did not understand why Mero was always so against what she suggested, if she did not know any better, she would believe that he did not want them to find Liam at all.

"My Queen it is late, very late, I am sure that Royal Duke is asleep now" said Mero as he explained.

"And what if he is not?" asked Wura.

"My Queen, even if he is not, it is still late, he will be tired, or at least, his mind will not be rested enough to listen to what you have to say" said Mero as Wura scoffed, he was holding her back.

"My Queen, please listen to Mero, he is right" said Zuph as Wura looked at Zuph.

"Yes my Queen, Mero has a very good point, it is very late at this moment" said Zechariah as everyone else agreed with him as they tried to talk her out of going to see Nigel right this moment as Wura scoffed, it was unfair.

"Please my Queen, they all speak the truth, it is very late, and well, I am sure that you are tired" said Nora as Wura did not say anything at all, she did not like that they were all trying to change her mind when she had every right to make her own decision.

"Please my Queen, go in and rest, I am sure that tomorrow will come quickly and first thing tomorrow, you can go and talk to the Royal Duke, please my Queen" said Nora as she pleaded with Wura, she knew that she was eager to tell Nigel everything, but she had to take a pause.

Wura thought for a while as she sighed and she finally gave in, she knew that they were right, and she also knew that they would keep on pestering her till she agreed.

"Fine, we will speak to Uncle Nigel tomorrow, very early in the morning, and no time later" said Wura as she walked away into the Castle, she was so sick and tired of everything and everyone.

"I apologize on behalf of my Queen, she is under a lot of stress" said Nora as she bowed her head and she apologized.

"No need to apologize Nora, we understand" said Mero as he sighed.

"Thank you Sir Mero, Goodnight everyone" said Nora as she bowed, she did not want Wura to start looking for her.

"Goodnight" said Mero and everyone else as Nora quickly rushed after Wura as she entered into the Castle.

"What happened when you went to see the diviner?" asked Zuph as he looked at Mero, he had refused to tell them anything throughout their entire ride back here.

"Yes what happened? You have been very quiet about it" said Elihu as he looked at Mero and the others agreed with him.

"Well witchcraft is what happened" replied Mero as he scoffed.

"How do you mean?" asked Zechariah.

"The woman is a witch, a pure one, she used her magic, and she did not even bother to hide it" said Mero.

"She spoke in parables, and she behaved like she knew everything and anything" said Mero as he voiced out his irritation, he hated witches, and diviners and all like them, they were all liars, who only gave people what they wanted to hear as they twisted fate in their favour.

"What did she say?" asked Luc as he could sense Mero's irritation, they all knew just how much Mero hated diviners and all like them.

"Well she told us that Liam is not here" said Mero as he saddled his horse again.

"Where is he?" asked Zuph.

"In the Yonder Realm" replied Mero.

"The Yonder Realm?" asked Elihu in confusion as the others were confused as well.

"Yes, you heard me right, the Yonder Realm" replied Mero as he left his horse alone and he turned to look at all of them.

"How did he get there?" asked Elihu.

"Apparently he fell through a portal that transported him there, and that is why we have been unable to find him" said Mero as he explained.

"And you believe that?" asked Zechariah.

"At first I did not, but the diviner swore, she took a strand of her Majesty's hair, and she swore to help her Majesty to the best of her ability" said Mero.

"And after that, she even showed her Majesty a moving imagine of Liam, in what seemed to be like some sort of yellow mirror, but it was a yellow liquid" said Mero as he explained and he could tell that Elihu, Zechariah, Zuph and Luc were all confused as they did not believe his words at all.

"Believe me, I did not trust her at all, but her Majesty did, and she asked me to stay out of it, despite my several warnings, she did not listen to me at all" said Mero.

"So Liam is in the Yonder Realm?" asked Zuph.

"So we were told" said Mero.

"And if Liam is in the Yonder Realm, then how do we find him?" asked Elihu.

"Well the diviner gave her Majesty a map, she claimed that it would lead her to Liam once she stepped into the Yonder Realm" said Mero.

"That does not seem all that helpful, how exactly do we get to the Yonder Realm?" asked Zechariah as this made no sense to him at all, he knew about the Yonder Realm, but what he did not know was that someone could fall through a portal to get there.

"Well the diviner said that there was a gate, the only one of its kind in the Waterfalls that led to the Yonder Realm" said Mero as he explained.

"The Waterfalls? But there is no one or nothing there at all" said Elihu as he did not believe this at all.

"I thought so as well, but the diviner seemed to sure" said Mero.

"And what did the Queen say?" asked Zuph.

"Well she believed every single word that the diviner was telling her, and I did want to inform her that you could not trust the words of a diviner, but she did not listen to me" said Mero.

"So, what you are saying is that Liam is in the Yonder Realm, and in order to find him, we must go to the Yonder Realm as well?" aske Luc.

"Apparently so" said Mero.

"But what I do not understand is why Liam cannot find his way back here" said Zechariah.

"Well the diviner said that he was lost" said Mero as he sighed.

"I really doubt this" said Luc.

"I do too, but even so, it will not harm for us to try, even if we do not want to go, her Majesty will insist" said Mero.

"So what is the plan?" asked Elihu.

"I do not know, tomorrow morning when we speak to the Royal Duke, then her Majesty will tell us what she wans for us to do" said Mero.

"Because right now, it is clear that she is the one in charge, we cannot do anything without her consent and opinion, or else we will have a trouble on our hands" said Mero as he sighed.

"The Queen is very stubborn, even more stubborn than Liam" said Elihu as these past few days, he had seen a new side of Wura that he had never seen before, who knew that she could be so hard and stubborn and bent on what she wanted and nothing else.

"She is the Queen after all, she inevitably carries authority wherever she goes" said Zechariah.

"Well regardless, if not for Nora managing to convince her to go and rest, we would be speaking with Royal Duke Nigel right now" said Zuph.

"I agree, she is bent on finding answers and Liam, and she will not allow anyone to stand on her way" said Luc.

"She is the Queen, and we will respect her wishes no mater what" said Mero.

"You all go and rest, it is late" said Mero as he walked into the Castle.