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GARDEN OF POISON
Princess Niyasa's struggle (Chapter 111)
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In the corridor outside the dining room, Emily, Aiden, and Aziel gathered at the far corner, watching Niyasa as she stared at the blood on the floor, which she had yet to start cleaning. The four dead bodies had been carried away, making it easier for the young princess to get to her assigned work.
"Somebody get me a bucket of water and a mop!" Niyasa yelled, her voice echoing through the corridor. With Dante and their grandmother nowhere in sight, she had once again found her voice. In her frustration, she demanded, "Where are the servants?!"
"They have returned to their daily tasks," Emily replied to her sister, not knowing if she was supposed to laugh or cry at her sister's stupidity. After witnessing their oldest brother make an Elder minister explode before their eyes, she was lucky to still be alive.
"How am I supposed to get this cleaned then?" Niyasa asked with a frown.
"Incredible. To think the day has come where I would hear that Niyasa has to clean," Aiden stated in surprise, not expecting her to undertake the work. However, he acknowledged that he would do the same if he saw people being killed one after another.
"Aziel!" Niyasa called the minister, who was standing idle. She waved him over and requested, "Go get me a bucket of water and mop. Actually, on second thought, get two buckets. Hurry."
"Aziel won't be able to assist you today, Niyasa. Brother Dante was very clear about not involving ourselves in this," Emily stated, gazing at the bloody corridor through which none had dared to walk since the incident occurred, "We will be standing at the side, providing you with moral support so that you don't feel alone."
"Don't mock me, Lily," Niyasa growled through gritted teeth as she walked towards them.
"I don't dare laugh at someone's misery," Emily responded in a prim and proper tone. She added firmly, "As you brought this upon yourself, you will be the one to clean it."
Niyasa's anger flared, and she began to speak, "I did what I thought was rig—"
"What you did was a grave mistake, and Brother Dante is being kind enough to not hang you for committing treason against our family without understanding the complexities of the situation our lives are in right now," Emily reprimanded her younger sister's foolish actions.
"I lost my brother," Niyasa's voice hardened.
"We lost our brother too, Niyasa. Maxwell was our brother as well," Aiden responded to her words, but Niyasa remained unsatisfied.
"If you were truly his brother and sister, then you would understand how important it was for Max to be with Mother," Niyasa snapped at them. "You and the others know that he always had to prove himself to everyone, including Mother. Do you think that his soul will rest in peace? Instead of helping, you stand here and ridicule me."
As Niyasa started to walk past them, Aiden stopped her by saying, "Our mother is there looking after him, even though she was exiled from here upon his word. We are here to make sure you don't commit another mistake, which has already cost us by making the Elder ministers our enemies after what happened here. Brother Dante didn't kill him, and you should accept the fact that it was Brother Maxwell's own doing."
With a hardened stare, Niyasa warned, "One day, you will regret it, Aiden. You and everyone else, when you find yourself at the receiving end."
Niyasa left the corridor, and when Emily appeared as if she was going to follow her sister, Aiden stopped her by saying, "She will come back; there's no need to follow her, Lily. It is as if she doesn't realise the gravity of her actions."
A slight frown appeared on Emily's forehead, and she whispered, "She is partly right. Even if not for Queen Maya's sake, at least for Brother Maxwell's sake, he deserves to be seen by his mother at least once."
"I don't think that is possible, Princess Emily," Aziel replied softly, his voice barely above a whisper, in fear of facing Demon Dante's wrath. "Prince Dante was very upset the day his mother died. Not just about the mausoleum, but also about the fact that if Maxwell had never driven them to the old palace, he could have stayed by Lady Lucretia's side."
Emily tried to understand both sides of her family, but this back and forth was causing them more damage than initially appeared. She heard Aiden say,
"Aziel is right, Lily. They were merciless in how they treated all of us."
"But just because they turned into scorpions doesn't mean we have to do the same," Emily murmured. In times like these, when their family needed to be united, they couldn't afford to fight with each other, especially when there was a chance to mend things.
"Even if you wanted to go and speak to Brother Dante, do you really think it would go well?" Aiden asked his sister, wondering if she had closed her eyes the moment Dante snapped his fingers.
"I will go find our grandmother later and see what she suggests," Princess Emily replied, wanting to give everyone some time instead of letting events take place one after another without giving them a chance to think and breathe.
After several minutes, they heard something screeching against the marble floor, and they turned to find Niyasa laboriously pushing a bucket of water, wheezing and visibly exhausted from the effort of carrying the bucket here. She also carried an empty bucket in her other hand.
"This is going to take an entire day!" Niyasa cried out in exasperation. "We have plenty of servants for this."
"The faster you finish, the better. Else the servants will have something to talk about," Emily tried to encourage Niyasa, which only resulted in her receiving a glare.
"I will deal with you later, Lily. Mock me to your heart's content," Niyasa threatened as she carried the buckets to the bloody scene.
Five minutes later, Niyasa returned with a mop to begin cleaning the blood. Having never cleaned anything before, she didn't know where to start. She sprinkled some water on the wall and used the mop to wipe back and forth.
"Should we inform her that's not how it is done?" Aziel asked hesitantly, as he didn't want to be scolded by the Mother Queen later.
"I don't think she will take it well if we tell her. She will take it as us mocking her, so the best thing to do is watch and enjoy," Aiden whispered, leaning against the wall and watching Niyasa looking progressively more appalled by handling the mop than the blood itself.
To Niyasa, it felt like hours had passed, though, in reality, it had only been ten minutes since she had started cleaning the walls. Couldn't the men have been killed without spilling this much blood? she asked in her mind. She was only trying to help her mother, yet here she was, stuck cleaning the floor. How shameful for a princess of her status!
Instead of her behaviour being fixed, Niyasa became furious and she entertained the thought that maybe it wouldn't be too bad if her family would no longer rule Versailles after all! Because then she would get married to a man of high status and leave this place behind. Then, she would sit back and laugh at them; she turned and glared at her siblings.
"What is she doing?" Emily asked with a frown when Niyasa stepped right into the pool of blood, which was in the process of drying on the floor. "She is going to spread the blood all around if she doesn't lift her dress or start from one corner."
"This is going to be such a mess," Aiden muttered under his breath, his expression mirroring his elder sister's.
Emily asked Aziel, "Do you know where Mother Queen is?"
"I am not sure, Princess," Aziel responded, adding, "Allow me to go find out where she is." He couldn't stand to watch the younger princess poorly mopping the floor any longer, and with that, he left in search of the Mother Queen.
Emily turned her gaze back to Niyasa, who had begun to understand that the mop was absorbing the blood, and she proceeded to wring it out in the empty bucket. Since their father had passed away, the palace had lost the little peace that once existed, and matters were only taking a turn for the worse. Aiden murmured with a straight face,
"Maybe we should give her a little credit when it comes to cleaning."
However, just as Niyasa turned around, she noticed the blood staining the hem of her dress, and she let out a horrifying screech, "My dress!" And in her haste to move away from the bloody floor, she slipped and fell flat on her bottom, further soaking the rest of her dress with blood.
"Or maybe not," Prince Aiden added, seeing Niyasa growing angrier by the minute.
"There's far too much blood," Emily remarked, watching her sister, who looked like she wanted to cry, while holding back her tears. "Do you think Brother Dante is punishing her for every mistake she has ever made?" Because if that wasn't the case, then her younger sister had to watch her footsteps, considering how she had publicly whipped Anastasia.
A frown formed on Aiden's lips as the thought crossed his mind before he said, "I believe this one is for today…" They continued watching Niyasa clean the floor, and within twenty minutes, the lower skirt of her blue dress had turned patchy with blood.
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