Unknown territory

"Thank you, my lady, but we\'re gonna head off," my mother said to Anraiya.

"As you wish I shall see you tomorrow my queen." She bowed her head as we stood with my moms guards following on our heels along with Yeiri and Clairissa. As we walked back up the stair case we passed through the ball room where the meeting had taken place. Walking out the front door I felt as though we we\'re being watched from a far. As I looked around I saw nothing in the distance, but felt a slight fissure of power rising and lowering. I brushed it off as I took my moms hand as we flash stepped it to our home.

We arrived in the foyer where I first met my mother. Her silver and green chair at the back of the room. Flowers we\'re in full bloom as a white mist was barely noticeable lingering all around the chair.

I let go of my moms hand as she walked forward to take a seat on her chair. As we walked forward standing a couple feet in front of her the mist dissipated.

"Someone of Unseelie was tracking us tonight as we left. And I\'m pretty sure I wasn\'t the only one who felt it..." She looked to me and I nodded.

"There was a certain aura of destruction that floated around the east side of the building," she said continuing. "Which means it could have been an Ogre of Unseelie, or possibly the blood queen of Seiria."

"Who\'s that?" I asked.

"She\'s the past queen of Unseelie courts, she was banned to the outer lands of the underworld for trying to massacre the council members. The punishment should have been death, but the blood fae aren\'t allowed to kill their own kind because there is so little of them..."

I scratched the top of my head because there was so much I didn\'t know about this world.

"So she has escaped the barriers put against her, then should we warn the council members?"

"Yes, those were my thoughts Clairissa, but tomorrow when we wake. Anraiya is suppose to be here tomorrow anyways."

Thinking about tomorrow made me think of my home. I wanted to ask if I was free to go home, but I wasn\'t a captive so it shouldn\'t be a problem, right?

"Till the next morn to you all," My mom said as she stood. Yeiri and I bowed while Clairissa picked up one side of her skirting and bowed her head. We all retreated to our rooms to get some sleep.

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Hours later I awoke to a loud to crack as my ears adjusted I noticed it was thunder. I sat up in my bed I felt my cock pushing against my zipper. I rearranged it as I stood up to my full height. Before I went to bed earlier I put on some pants changing out of my suit. I walked into the closet throwing on a plain white t-shirt. Looking at the clock on my bedside table it read: 6:55 I was only sleep for 6 hours. I sighed as I walked out of the closet looking for my phone. It was in the same place the first night I awoke here. By the dresser next to the closet along with my wallet, car keys, the invitation, cigarettes, and my zippo. My phone was dead as I tried to turn it on, and I didn\'t have my charger. Before I set it back down I felt an electric run through my fingers into the phone. Before I could return the phone back to where it was I dropped it because it was hot to the touch. It landed screen up turning on. I felt confused as the phone charged to 100%. I didn\'t know what happen, but I was sure as hell about to find out.

I placed it back on the dresser after making sure it wasn\'t hot. I threw my car key in the trash not even wanting to think about the bomb that blew up my car. I put my cigarettes and zippo in my pocket.

I headed out of my room taking a right heading down the stairs at the end of the hallway.

Coming around the spiral staircase the mansion was creepy at dawn. No one was in the hallways not even the butlers, or maids. As I reached the bottem step I passed through another hallway with rooms on the left side, and paintings on the right of different sceneries. Clairissa\'s room was on this floor, and as I listened there wasn\'t a sound not even birds chirping outside. I walked down the hallway going down another spiral staircase. I walked into the kitchen it was huge with an island in the middle that had granite counter tops. The kitchen was a huge circle, and the counters were all granite, and there was at least fifty cupboards all around. The appliances were all black, and there was two of everything: refrigerators, stoves, dishwashers, sinks, and microwaves. In the corner of the kitchen was a small circular table with a marble top and black legs. A coffee pot sat there filled to the top with steaming hot coffee that smelled like hazelnut. As I got closer I noticed there was all kinds of sugar in tubs. I looked around hoping to find a coffee mug. I sighed as I checked at least five cupboards before pulling out a mug. Setting it down on the table I checked the fridges for creamer. There was nothing but food in the first one even when I checked the freezer. And when I looked in the other one there nothing but drinks: wine, soda, water, beer, milk, several juices, some that were in bottles that didn\'t even look appetizing, and finally coffee creamer. There was so many to choose from and they all sounded delicious, so I just picked one up and brought it to the table. As I finished making my coffee I heard someone open a door to my right that looked like apart of the wall. It was a couple butlers along with some other maids. They all looked very elegant in their suits and dresses, and they were all gorgeous and looked like they should be on the cover of a magazine. As they noticed me their faces flushed red and they bowed.

One of them said, "We are so sorry for the late arrival master charles, but no one usually wakes up till eight..."

"That\'s okay- uhm" I stopped mid sentence because they looked at a loss for words. As I was about to take the spoon back to put it in the sink one of them said, "please just leave it there... On the table, we\'ll clean up after you..."

"uhm- okay, thank you," they seemed to glow after I said that as I set the spoon back down. "Uhm, is there somewhere I can sit outside to drink this?"

"Yes, I\'ll show you," one of the woman said as she started walking towards the opening that lead to the dining room. I followed right on her heels as we went around a table that was at least thirteen feet long. The table was mahogany with the chairs to match. There was a beautiful chandelier set in the middle that had shards of sapphires, emeralds, diamonds, and rubies. The lights were dimmed and just barely the crystals sparkled like stars in the night sky. The walls were set a deep mahogany color same as the table. I kept walking following her out to two beautiful glass doors.

As I looked out the window there was two beautiful glass tables that sparkled like crystals. The chairs were likewise beautiful, but they were made of glossy stone. They were black and most likely made of onyx. There was marble tile underneath the tables, and before I noticed, Yeiri was sitting at the table in pants and a t-shirt.

Seeing him in normal clothes was a little weird, because I had only seen him in suits. But he still looked the same: dashing as always no matter what he had on.

"Thank you," I said as she bowed and nodded walking away.

The sun was just rising on the horizon peeking out above the trees spreading colors through the sky like wildfire. As I opened the doors stepping out onto the cold tile. Yeiri finally looked my way noticing that I was joining him to watch the sun rise...

"Good morning," I said as I took a seat feeling the nice breeze coming from the east.

He cleared his throat, "good morning. How\'d you sleep?"

"Great, are u always up this early?"

"No not really, to be honest I couldn\'t sleep..." His eyes darted away as I took a sip of my coffee. As I looked over the rim of my mug his eyes met mine.

"What kept you awake?"

"Memories of the past..." He looked away again as I followed where his eyes went as they scanned the clouds.

Feeling as though I was being nosy I hoped to change the subject.

"So, do you and your sister work for my mom?"

"No, we just live here. We moved in after our parents were murdered by the Unseelie queen..."

"You mean the one that may have escaped last night?"

"Yes, our parents were visiting the council members the day she tried to massacre them. They got caught in the crossfire..."

"I\'m sorry I brought it up..." Taking a sip of my coffee I felt the suns rays finally hit my face. "You don\'t mind if I smoke do you?"

He nodded as I lit a cigarette grabbing an ashtray from the other table.

"You know as a fae you don\'t catch human diseases..."

"What do you mean by that?" I asked as I took a seat.

"You can\'t get cancer, nor anything that comes along with smoking."

"So I can\'t die from it basically?"