"No. Let’s get to the rewards. First, the mories. Both of them. Hit with your best shot."
[As you wish. Two Original mories activated!]
At first, Anna felt nothing.
Then the images ca rushing into her mind. They felt like she was an astral being, watching the mories as if they were a movie.
The first mory was a simple one; Princess Orchid inside what looked a laboratory. At first glance, Anna imdiately understood.
I’m so different from her.
There was an air around Princess Orchid. A very specific brand of royalty and elegance that can’t be learnt. The Princess carried herself like she had the world at her feet. Her beautiful face was stoic. Her posture was impeccable. Anna felt breathless just watching her sit down and write in a notebook.
If this is her in private, what did she look like in a political eting?
The mory continued.
A man walked into the laboratory. Princess Orchid rose to greet him. She didn’t smile but her eyes softened a fraction. Then the man said "we have acquired the specin, your highness."
And Princess Orchid replied. "Send him in."
Woah, present Anna thought. Even her voice carries raw power. I sound so different! No wonder everyone noticed sothing was wrong!
The man in the mory left and returned with three servants pulling in a massive fish tank.
"Excellent." Princess Orchid said, amusent in her tone. "A shark type. They’re very rare. You have given a beautiful gift. What do you want? Na it and it shall be yours."
The man bowed. "Your highness. I don’t ask for much, only that you make him your husband, legally."
Princess Orchid tapped her chin. "He could be dead before I’m done."
"If he survives."
She walked over to the fish tank and tapped on it twice. The water rippled, and sothing, no, soone, swam closer.
It was Kai. He looked younger, but even more unhealthy than Anna rembered.
Princess Orchid nodded. "Very well. I shall grant your request. Continue to serve well and you will live a very comfortable life."
The mory ended.
Anna stared into space, her mind reeling. It want an entirely useless mory. If anything it showed her just the stark difference between her and Princess Orchid. And Kai’s history.
He was a gift, a re specin that she married because he survived whatever hell she put him through. That’s so sad.
Is that why he gave his teeth and then took it back? Did Princess Orchid like those kind of gifts?
Anna’s thoughts ca one after the other with no answer or resolution.
The next mory started playing.
This ti it was a mory of Princess Orchdi walking down a dark path lined with strange glowing blue flowers. She walked briskly, each step filled with purpose. Her spores covered her in a dark halo of bright red. They were so bright that she didn’t need a lamp, even though it was night.
Even as Anna watched, fear struck her heart.
Red spores. She didn’t even think that was possible. What sort of emotion evoked bright red spores?
They look straight from hell. Damn this woman was terrifying!
The Princess marched on to her destination, which happened to a beautiful but isolated house hidden deep within bushes. The front door had a lock made of a glowing red stone, the sa stone in the collars.
Princess Orchid sliced open her finger and dropped her blood over the stone. Then she took a hidden object out of her pocket and held it on top of the stone.
Imdiately, the lock hissed and opened. She stord in, her steps echoing down the floors.
"My darling," a lilting, musical voice purred from the shadows.
"Show yourself, brat." The Princess hissed, her voice carrying anger, her spores crackling and glowing brighter.
Then a man stepped into view.
He was tall, slender, dressed in flowing robes with long sleeves. He had long black hair and feminine features, with long lashes, red lips, and elegantly drawn eye liner. His eyes were dual toned, one yellow and one dark green.
He was beautiful, with a hypnotic allure that whispered of danger.
He smiled at Princess Orchid, a smile filled with hunger and obsession and longing. "Finally, you’ve co to see . I’ve been rotting away in here without you, my love."
"You want to be free?"
"Naturally. It’s dreadfully boring in here." As he spoke, he moved closer to her. Glided across the floors like friction didn’t exist. He reached out, despite Princess Orchid’s angry red spores, and touched her cheek.
Then her shoulder.
Then he trailed a long, sharp fingernail from her shoulder to her wrist, a red line of blood following. He took her hand and kissed each knuckle, all while his eyes remained on her.
Slowly, her red spores turned purple. Then light pink. Then white.
The man smiled, his eyes flashing with satisfaction. "You missed ," he said as he kissed up the line he’d carved, lapping at her blood with a forked tongue.
"Shut up and answer my question." The Princess hissed.
"If it’s about that, I’m sorry my love. My answer remains no. You can stay the night, I’d love for you to." He curled one arm around her waist and pulled her closer to him. "I miss your warmth very much."
And then he kissed her.
She kissed him back, grabbing his collar, pushing him away but still chasing after his lips. The kiss was violent, and full of raw desire.
"You’re a bastard, Drax. I swear on my life, you’ll never leave this place."
He nicked her jaw and licked up her blood. "As long as you’re with , I have no objections."
And the mory ended.
Anna jumped to her feet and scread "the fuck?! That was Drax?! That’s him? The fifth husband?!"
[Yes~ and he seems very chummy with you~]
Anna’s face burned.
"Chummy with her you an! Oh my goodness! She locked him up? But why? And she kissed him back, which ans she likes him too?! Right?"
[Maybe~]
"That was not a maybe! That was a kiss with emotion! Fucking hell...I think it made wet. What the fuck am I even talking about?!"
She collapsed on her bed, buried her face in the mattress and scread.
She scread till her lungs gave out and it still wasn’t enough.
So much information and it was only two mories. What if she got ten? Or fifteen? Or all of them?
Anna moaned, shaking her head and groaning. "I don’t think I can handle all her mories. She’s so intense. Goodness she’s scary! No wonder everyone is scared of her!"
[Hostie~ would you like to check your stats now?]
"Wait a damn minute I’m thinking!"
Anna felt like she just had more questions.
Why was Drax locked up? Why was he so chill about it? Was he in love with the Princess? What was their true relationship? Where is he locked up? What did the Princess want from him that made her lock him up for refusing?
And Kai...who was that man that brought him in? What was he to the Princess that made her agree to marry Kai just because he asked? Why did he hope to gain from the marriage? What sort of request was that anyway?
So many questions. So many things not adding up.
"I’m losing my mind!" Anna wailed, grabbing at her head like she wanted to pry her skull open. "Ahhhhhhh!"
In the middle of her crisis, a knock sounded on the door. Three sharp raps, each one louder than the last.
"A visitor at this ti?"
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