To Lead the Court

Lucious was still sleeping as amaris slowly approached him. She slowly caressed his hair and lucious slowly woke up from his sleep...

Lucious: Amaris... What are you doing here? Why aren't you with the emperor?

Amaris: Lucious... Why didn't you tell be you were stabbed? Did rahim do it?

Lucious: I am a Duke he is a prince. I am a Bastard he is a legal son. I am just your husband yet he is your brother. I don't dare say a word about anything.

Amaris: Stubborn...

Lucious: Amaris... Return back to the palace immediately. Prince rahim has already awakened. You must visit him... He's your brother.

Amaris: And that brother of mine stabbed my husband.

Lucious: Amaris he is your blood. No matter what he did you can't deny that he loves you and would never hurt you.

Amaris: I don't believe you. My brother was never like that before yes but he's different now... And there's only one reason why he's being like this.

Lucious: What is it?

Amaris: The crown...

Back with evander and armista...

Armista: Have you found out what was the cause of the fight?

Evander: No. No other person was in that room when the fight started. The servants weren't present either because everyone was busy preparing meals.

Armista: Whatever they fought about is very important son and only you can investigate about it... But be cautious. Prince rahim is already awake and I know for a fact he's allies are still around in the palace.

Evander: That son of a b*tch keeps causing trouble. He must've really gone mad for him to even hurt the crown prince.

Armista: He never ever even dared to cross the line when it came to his brother. Prince Damien was always the Physically stronger brother and it also helped that he had a very athletic build. He could throw punches that would make even a highly trained soldier topple over... To think that prince rahim was able to stab him is very terrifying. It could either mean prince Damien has gotten very very weak or that prince rahim has finally over powered the crown prince.

Evander: Either way were damned if rahim becomes emperor.

Armista: He'd wipe out our entire clan...

Evander: He won't... I know lucious will protect us... I trust him.

Armista: So do I son. So do I.

Evander: Not to mention his sister the current empress of the Gillian empire was just reinstated back into the imperial Palace of the gillian empire.

Armista: What?! When was this?

Evander: It was announced a few days ago father. An envoy announced it.

Armista: Well then it seems lucious will finally have someone to take care of him. Thats good so he came recover. But for us it's time to finally use our brains and make a move...

"She's been reinstated...? Good... Good... Soon enough I'll be able to get back at my feet and regain my power over that cocky emperor! He tore nyx away from me! He exiled her! And now I'm sure that nyx is already finding ways to contact me once again! "

Amaris decided to stay with lucious that night and help him with his wounds. She was very worried of him as she felt very guilty for not even asking him if he was okay. Lucious on the other hand felt guilty because of all the trouble he got amaris into. But as the sun rose and morning came nyx's letter reached amaris and lucious...

Lucious: This...! This! There's something going on in that empire! I need to get my sister out of there!

Amaris: Calm down lucious! Your wounds won't heal fast if you move around too much!

Lucious: Amaris... How could I calm down? Didn't you notice her messages in that letter?!

Amaris: Sit the hell down! Yes I can see it very clearly actually and it would rather help me if you could stay still while I change your bandages!

Lucious: Who are you to understand?! You'll never understand because your brothers are here... While my sister is married off to a far away empire. While you and your brothers could chat me and my sister need to wait days and even months for our letters to reach each other!

Amaris: Lucious listen... I understand your worry about your sister but we have to think of the future. What about you invite her and her husband here on Royal fathers birthday? Would that give you ease?

Lucious: No... I don't want to wait that long! My sister could be in danger amaris!

Amaris: Listen to me. Don't you trust your sister? Look at her now. She's one of the most beautiful empresses known Althrout the world and she has a standing in politics. She is both beautiful and intelligent. I've only met her once and I think from her personality she's a strong and independent woman lucious.

Lucious: Fine... We'll invite her. But I still hope that she can stay for a pretty long time here in Trystia unlike our wedding... Before we could actually spend time with her an incident happened so she had to go back to the gillian empire...

Amaris: Trust me my love...

And so lucious sent the invitation to his beloved sister hoping she could come again to Trystia even for a short time. He's afraid that his sister's life might be in immediate danger. The only move he was able to wake was this sadly. But he wanted to make sure that she was safe so in advance he ordered some of his bast men to be further trained to be his sisters personal guards once she arrived in Trystia. Many praised him for being a very loving brother and husband. And his actions did really prove it. But he still had more problems to face once he was once again ready to lead the court in place of his majesty the emperor. But now was the time to take charge...