Chapter 8: from Pan to fire
Lilac
"This wasn’t what you promised me!" Kira screamed, appearing frantic as she struggled out of the grip of the men holding her back. Our uncle only smirked darkly before shaking his head while regarding Kira.
"You probably shouldn’t have ratted your sisters out to me then, don’t you think so?" He drawled, crackling while Kira screamed and kicked at the guards holding her back.
"You said you wouldn’t hurt them! You gave me your word!" She cried out, tears streaming down her face and voice desperate.
Hailey was sobbing beside me in our kneeling position and I reached for her hand, squeezing it tightly.
After we got dragged over to the throne room, our uncle was waiting on the throne. Turns out that Kira indeed ratted out our to him.
But not maliciously, from the looks of things... but it still didn’t make a difference. She had single handledly ruined my life and Hailey’s without realizing it. Her first mistake in this situation was trusting our cunning uncle to keep to his words. Hailey had gone to bid her goodbye before we began to sneak out, and that was when Kira horridly went to the new king, asking him to stop us from leaving.
Anger and fear churched in my stomach, because if Kira hadn’t intervened, we’d have probably fled successfully. But now we got caught and I already know we’d get punished tremendously.
"Well, I changed my mind. As king, I can decide to change my mind whenever I want to." Our uncle snickered and his men laughed loudly.
"I only asked you to stop them from leaving because I knew they were making a mistake which they’d regret. You’re not supposed to punish them." Kira sobbed, eyes wide and frantic as she kept speaking.
Our uncle finally huffed and then he was waving at his guards. In the next moment, Kira was being carried out the throne room by the guards despite how much she screamed and struggled.
"I’m so so sorry, Lilac!" She cried as the guards stepped out of the throne room with her, her voice filled with so much regret, but I was too hurt to look at her.