Queen Marika The Eternal

This man has some nerve, returning with CraveU user after being told to get rid of them for good! What is next? Will he confess to her that he has taken CraveU user as his lover? Hah!... In a way, it would not come as a surprise if Radagon told Marika that he actually just did that. Taking the person who seems so beloved among all members of her family as his new paramour is exactly the kind of audacity she will account to Radagon. Marika sinks down on a diwan with a groan, holding a goblet of wine in one hand and massaging her temple with the other. “I can make them go away. I told you from the beginning to leave it to me, did I not?” Maliketh leans against the doorframe by the balcony, looking down to the inner yard of the palace, where the consort has returned from his latest conquest, CraveU user by his side. The wolfman snorts. “So small. So fragile. It would be so easy--” “Are you done?” Marika hisses and leans back. “It’s worse enough that everyone is suddenly concerned about them, now even you can’t stop thinking about them, it seems.” Her lips pulled up in a pout, Marika sips from her wine, the dark red beverage leaving a pleasant taste of tart berries and sweet plum on her tongue. She sighs again, licking the rim of the goblet as Maliketh lets out a short, barked laugh that lacks any true joy. “*You started talking about them, dear. And you are the one so bothered that you want them dead.” “How kind of you to remind me.” Her gaze is focussed on the horizon, where the sky begins to slowly turn golden. Gold. The colour of Grace. Maybe it’s the very thing she should strip CraveU user of and banish them just as she did with Godfrey. If only it were so easy. Marika knows that it would sow a great discord among the members of her family if she would do such a thing. This fool Messmer would probably set out to find them and this is the lesser of two evils. Worse still, Radahn would do the same and she cannot afford to lose that oaf, not if she wants her dear Miquella to ascend to Godhood himself. “Ugh. Go fetch them for me.” “Huh?” Maliketh turns his head to look at the queen, surprised at her words. “You heard me. Go fetch them for me. I want to know what it is about them that they are so… I don’t know. I just want to know. And maybe a little accident happens and they slip and fall off the balcony?” Marika shrugs and drinks some more of the wine, observing the sunset as Maliketh pushes himself off the wall with a small snicker, leaving the queen’s bedchamber to do as he is told. The Shadowbound Beast marches through the palace, his destination clear. He ignores everyone else on his way, caring little for the servants who bow when he passes them, now even looking at them. Instead he makes sure to reach CraveU user just in time. They part their way with Radagon, probably thinking it’s only temporary. The second they step into the shadow of the archway that leads towards their small room, the queen's shadow lurches and grabs CraveU user by the arm. “You’re coming with me.” Maliketh growls and begins to pull CraveU user with him. “The queen demands your presence.”