Yourself

"Do you understand now why I feel so guilty Nora?" asked Wura as she looked at Nora who frankly did not know what to say after all Wura had told her.

"My Queen… I do not know what to say" said Nora honestly.

"I know Nora, and if I was you, I would not have been able to believe it myself if not that Elvira told me the truth, and I believed her, because I doubt she would lie about this" said Wura.

"My Queen, I do believe everything you said, and I still do not know what to say, but one thing that I am sure of is that this is not in anyway your fault, you do not need to feel guilty for something that you did not do or cause" said Nora.

"But I caused it Nora, I did cause it, maybe if I had insisted and not married Liam, he would still be here today, he would not have had to pass through all of this pain and suffering" said Wura.

"If he had never met me, he would be fine, he would be ruling, he would be the King he is supposed to be over his people and not lost In a realm that is not his own" said Wura.

"I just… *sigh*, I wish that I never fell in love with him in the first place" said Wura.

"My Queen, you cannot say that, you cannot tell your heart who and who not to fall in love with, what happened with you and his Majesty just happened, you did not force it, you did not force yourself to fall in love with him, it happened out of both your accords" said Nora as Wura sighed.

"Nora, you do not understand, I love him so much that it pains me to see him in pain, to see him suffer because of a stupid curse placed on him, because of my refusal to stay put and listen to him, because of my refusal to let him go, all because of me" said Wura.

"I wish that I never met Liam in the first place" said Wura as she felt like crying, but she did not want to, she had already cried earlier and she was tired of crying.

"My Queen, you do not mean that" said Nora as Wura sighed.

"You are right Nora, I do not mean it" said Wura

"Because you love him my Queen" said Nora.

"Yes, I love him so much… I cannot imagine my life if I had not met him" said Wura.

"You see my Queen, you said it yourself, you cannot imagine your life without him, and I am sure that his Majesty feels the same" said Nora.

"But Nora…" said Wura as Nora cut her off.

"But nothing my Queen, I surely know that his Majesty would not allow you to blame yourself for something that is not your fault, and neither will I" said Nora.

"My Queen, if anything, the ones that are the victims here would be you and his Majesty who had no prior knowledge to this curse that was placed on him which affect your relationship" said Nora as Wura sighed.

"Tell me my Queen, do you love him?" asked Nora.

"Of course I love him Nora, that is not even a question, I fell in love with him slowly that I did not even realize it, I fell in love with his voice, his ideas, his behaviour, everything about him, I value the time we spent together, I am so deeply in love with him that I cannot forget him" said Wura as Nora smiled.

"You see my Queen, hold on to that love, because love is most important" said Nora as she smiled.

"But it is just so hard Nora" said Wura.

"My Queen, what does your heart tell you?" asked Nora.

"That me and Liam deserve to be together since we love each other" said Wura.

"Yes, and what else my Queen?" asked Nora as she smiled.

"I know that he will remember me, and he will come back to me, come back to Wyverdale his Kingdom" said Wura.

"And what else my Queen" said Nora.

"My heart is telling me to wait for him" said Wura as she could not help but smile.

"That is it my Queen, do just that and you will see that you will be fine, all the guilt that you feel will have no place to grow" said Nora as she smiled.

"Oh Nora, you always know just what to say to make me feel better" said Wura as she smiled and she hugged Nora.

"That is because I wish you nothing but happiness my Queen, and I know his Majesty would want you to be happy" said Nora as she smiled and Wura broke their hug.

"I know… but waiting for something to happen with no assurance is the worst feeling in the world" said Wura as she sighed and she smiled as Nora smiled at her.

"My Queen… what I am about to say, please promise me that it will not make you feel upset again" said Nora as Wura looked at her.

"What is it Nora? I promise not to be upset" said Wura.

"My Queen, as I was In the kitchen, I overheard some maids talking about his Majesty as if he was here, and when I enquired further, apparently it seemed that his Majesty is here, but I know that was not so since he is still in the Yonder Realm" said Nora.

"Oh that Nora, well it turns out that a little sprite escaped from the Yonder Realm during the barrier, his name is Lown, he was scared and he happened to see a portrait of Liam, he turned into him and was mistaken for him, and he could not tell everyone that he was not the true Liam, and so that is what happened" said Wura.

"Oh my, my Queen, that is a lot" said Nora as she shook her head.

"I agree with you Nora, but everything will be settled tomorrow, I just hope that Uncle Nigel will react well with this, I do not want him to feel bad or anything" said Wura.

"Yes my Queen" said Nora as she nodded her head.

"My Queen, it is late now, shall I go and get you your dinner?" asked Nora.

"No Nora, honestly, I am not hungry, I just want to go to sleep right now" said Wura as Nora nodded.

"Alright my Queen, have good rest and take care" said Nora as she stood up and she smiled.

"Thank you Nora, you should know that you are the best person I have in my life right now, you and the others, if you did not all support me, I do not know where I would have been" said Wura as she smiled.

"It is my pleasure my Queen, now get some rest and I will see you in the morning" said Nora as she smiled and Wura smiled at her.

"Goodnight Nora" said Wura as she smiled and Nora smiled as she left the room and Wura sighed.

…

"Honestly, it feels bad to be back" said Elihu as he and Zuph were sitting in front of a fire as it wad dark outside.

"And why do you say that Elihu?" asked Zuph as he looked at Elihu.

"The manner in which we left was too hasty, we did not even get to bid goodbye to Malcom Dothan, or even Darla, we just left just like that and we have no means to tell them what happened to us" said Elihu with a scoff, he was having a great time with Darla, when suddenly all this happened and he did not even have enough time to react.

"I did not know that you cared for pleasantries, since when did you care to stay and bid goodbye?" asked Zuph as he was honestly surprised.

"You see, the important word there would be pleasantries, and we are pleasant people, and not rude people who just take off just like that" said Elihu.

His time with Darla had been too short, they had only just agreed to have a relationship when suddenly disaster struck and he had to leave without even telling her goodbye.

"Mhmm right, I sense a deeper meaning to your words Elihu, do not tell me that there was some woman you were with before we left, because I though you had changed Elihu" said Zuph as he frankly did not get why Elihu seemed to bitter that they had left, instead of him to be happy that they were back and safe in their own realm.

"No, I would never, I have changed" said Elihu.

"Right, then why do you keep on speaking about leaving just like that?" asked Zuph.

"Do not tell me that you and Darla had something going on?" asked Zuph.

"Well we did actually, and I wanted to say goodbye to her, because I did not think that this would be so sudden" said Elihu as he heard Zuph let out a sigh of disbelief.

"Elihu" called Zuph as he sighed and he shook his head.

"I thought that you had changed, turned over a new leaf, but there you go again with your womanizing ways" said Zuph.

"No, no correction Zuph, I did nothing of that with Darla, I sincerely care about her and cherish her" said Elihu.

"Right" said Zuph.

"No Zuph, I am being serious, I never slept with her, because I respect her so much, Darla is different, she is special, and I never wanted to hurt her, and I know that my sudden departure would hurt her, because we did not even get to say goodbye" said Elihu with a sigh.

"So you really cared for her" said Zuph as Elihu nodded.

"Well take heart brother, I am sure that she will understand" said Zuph as Elihu nodded.

"I hope that she does" said Elihu.

"I am honestly worried for the Queen, she did not look too good when we found her in the temple, I wonder what happened" said Zuph.

"You should ask Mero, he should know what happened" said Elihu.

"You are right Elihu, well I am going to find Luc and Zechariah, are you coming?" asked Zuph as he stood up.

"I do not see why not, there is nothing else to do here anyway" said Elihu as he sighed and he stood up as he followed after Zuph.