Sleepless Nights.

There was a boy with brunette short hair, he was up reading in his reading chair. He looked out at the window from his kingdom tower. He sighed and continued to read. His twenty sixth birthday is in five days. But he's been having trouble sleeping. 

It's common for him not to sleep at nights, usually he walks around to keep his balance up, but the recent events of his kingdom led him staying up awake. He heard a knock on his chamber doors and marked the chapter he was left at. "Come in." He gestures the person to enter as he puts the book away. 

It was a woman, a woman with a long darkened white dress on, her hair was up in a bun. She sighed. "Thaddeus, when will these late night charades stop?" His mother mentioned, as he sighed. "I don't know, and I don't want to think about it." Thaddeus adds. 

The woman sighed and placed a hand on her son's shoulder, looking worried at her. "Ever since the curse landed our kingdom, you've been non-stop up all night. I told you, the guards have everything under control." His mother replied. 

Thaddeus sighed, he heard the rain drop outside. He turned around and looked at the window, it was still dark. Trees' leaves were swinging left to right as the wind spread past them. Thaddeus looked back to his mother and sighed. "And what if they are still trying to steal the Greater Power, the kingdom which holds the protection of?" Thaddeus asked his mother, but in an angry tone. 

"That won't happen." She adds-on. She walked to Thaddeus' rocking chair he uses for reading. "If the Shadowmoon pack continues to move forward, we may have to fight." Thaddeus' mother added and he sat on his bed. "We're a kingdom, who has immortal power. We can't die physically." Thaddeus said as his mother nodded. 

"And if it gets stolen? The Great Power?" His mother adds, as he got up and paced around. "That's what I'm worried about." He replies. Thaddeus gets stressed about The Great Power in the kingdom, it's the great source of the kingdom that keeps them and everyone alive so they can experience the nearer future. 

The Great Power is an orb of immortality. It contains the souls of different villagers who wished to be immortal to live on, Thaddeus and the rest have the immortality. Thaddeus grabbed a jacket to cover himself up, he was wearing a blackened tank-top with shorts for sleepwear. 

"Astra!" Thaddeus' father shouted from the King chambers. Astra sighed and got up from the rocking chair, she hugged her son to give comfort. "I must go, try and get rest if you can." Astra said, as Thaddeus hesitated in nodding, he atlas did. 

Thaddeus saw his mother leaving his room, he shut the door for her. He sighed and leaned his forehead on the door. He closed his eyes and felt the quietness and the footsteps of the slippers of his mother. He backed off a bit and went back to his small library corner. 

Sometimes he can't sleep, especially on important nights.