Wives g******e escape

After party

Narrator***

It is 4 am and the royal palace is already teeming with so many people.

The royal servants are certainly in the habit of daily morning activities, but this day, their awakening is 1 hour earlier than usual due to the alarm sounded by the king in person.

No one can remain inactive while the king, for the first time during his reign, seemed worried walking on the palace corridors with an inert woman in his arms.

The men and women on duty at the palace therefore woke up spontaneously,

some following the rumbles of the governesses, activating here and there to support the medical staff according to the king's order.

The doctors required for :

1- the supply of some medicinal plants widely known for their restorative properties;

2- Preparation of a large bathtub of hot water;

3- The preparation of a ventilated neutral room, lit and scented with the favorite scents of the king's new victim, and some cotton sheets instead of royal silk sheets for the mattress.

The royal medical room is located two floors below the landing of the royal bridal chamber, and usually unoccupied, its landing happens to be at this moment the most crowded landing in the palace.

This landing is nothing other than a long corridor strewn to the left and to the right with rooms that have not been drunk for a long time, but kept clean.

Even the royal medical room, located at the end of this corridor, is only very rarely visited, because of the king's iron health and his untouchability on the battlefields.

A large amount of royal staff is therefore active on this corridor, however except for the kings, doctors, Shelorna's parents&sister and 02 highly ranked governesses, nobody was allowed to neither enter nor even approach the bottom room, as 02 soldiers were keeping the entry.

No one dare to ask anything or comment on what is going on Shelorna, as everyone knows what happened to her during this night. Everybody heard her screams of pain, beggings &pleadings for a bit of tenderness in countless time. They all have testified her being mercilessly raped by the king. they were all still at the party when they heard her first cry of pain and distress...

That was unworthy. Not only for the kingdom of the twin king Zedon, but also for the whole empire.

*Indeed, the customs transmitted by their dragons tamers ancestors, made the wive's s****l enjoyment a priority. They said "a fulfilled woman gives sons-dragons". So a man who raped, abused or failed to sexually satisfy his wife was found unworthy and, in the long run, was deprived of all responsibility.

So far the king had given all the imaginable pleasures in one night to his previous queens, before taking their lives the next day. Obviously not for the daughter of Wiseman Fagoore, Lady Shelorna...*

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King twin Zalden P.OV***

After having entrusted Shelorna to the doctors, I had to force King Zedon to retire with me in the royal apartments which he has allocated to me in his palace since i took a temporary vacation from ruling on my kingdom.

As soon as we entered my private apartments, I immediately dropped the questions that burned my lips all night long...

- "What has come over you brother? This girl was a virgin offering herself completely and voluntarily to you. Why assault her?" I started, staring and wondering on him, taking a pause but not waiting for any answer, as I was taking the time to try and understand what happened to him.

"Everybody saw how she shyly lovingly executed her little song&dance to charm you in her way. They also saw how you abruptly took her out of the gardens and heard, moments later, how she screamed and begged you for patience and tenderness, for hours practically. Why would you treat her like that and by your ways put shame on all our people's men?" my brother did not answer, instead he stared blankly and for the first time seemed considering his messed up.

Although surprised, I cannot stop there.

"I even send some drums play to recall you but you were so busy torturing your prey that you didn't hear them. Well, know that the purity inside-out of Lady Shelorna has always been known of all, as well as her decency and her respectful conduct. We will not be able to evoke anything like those as some excuses for your assault on her." I continued with my thoughts ignoring the sudden frown from Zedon, turning his back to me out of annoyance.

"The law is clear brother : your wives are supposed to die the day after their wedding on the archers grave, not on the wedding night &worse from making love with you..."    Crude silence...    "If she dies ..."

he didn't even let me finish this sentence as he came back round, facing me with an icy and murderous look.

- "She will not die." He whispered from gritted teeth, "Women doctors are taking care of her"

- "What if they can't ? If it's too late ?" he took one more step towards me keeping the same murderous look,

- "Then they will die with Her". *s**t! he was not kidding when he told that to the female principal doctor. But I cannot let another m******e happen, moreover the medical professionals which are significant resource for the empire.*

- "What will it change apart for more losses? What exactly are you doing, despising the family customs and violating the royal laws you made yourself? Is that honoring Father's last wishes and memory?"

And with that last sentence, I just punched him where it hurts the much. I had to do it. To wake up my brother and lead him to understand his error.

He had the possibility of making a law to marry a woman and have her killed the next day, YES but TO TREAT her DECENTLY *as long as she's alive* is an old and honoured custom and duty. And this duty concerns the rich as well as the poor, the nobles as much as commoners, kings as well as peasants.

What offends King Zoden the most is not the fact that i'm reminding him he failed in this duty. Like me, my brother King Zedon holds nothing more precious than our late Father's last wish, that is for us to follow, honor and respect each customs and instructions he has bequeathed us.

Failure to do so makes him feel like he gave our late father a slap.

The look that Zedon accentuates on me is no longer just icy and murderous, he is enraged and furious. Even if he knows I'm right.

Since the death of the emperor, I have never had to speak to him, evoking our father's will in order to reproach him for his actions. I didn't need to, because he was beyond reproach in our customs sight, until last night...

No one but me could tell him openly. His intense and angry look confirms to me that it would have been another person that he would have beheaded him on the field of his own sword. But I am his beloved brother. And I am King like him. So he pulled himself together, calming himself down as I perceived a hidden sigh escaping.

- "Father told us to take care of each other bro." I said to him, taking a step towards him, placing my hands on his shoulders. "That's why I ..." his gesture cutted me off: he slowly took my hands off his shoulders and without saying a word, left my apartments.

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