Mirrors and purple eyes.

"Nothing in this world is coincidental, if you came across something, it was meant to be like that. You never know, what could take you where."

The moment I stepped inside I knew it had to belong to the Queen. No other person could have such a delicacy. Not even Roze has a room like this.
What welcomed us was the fragrance of lilies. Even thought I was told that Queen doesn't not live here, it was hard to believe .
A big king sized bed rested in the center with tons of lilies on each side. A beautiful couch laid in front of the bed with a table made of glass.
One thing, which is common in every room is, they are lightly but beautifully furnished.
Like this room,although it just had a bed, a table , a couch and a big book shelf , the room screamed peace and power.
A scary combination.

The wall of this room were plane white With silver borders. The ceiling had chandeliers glistering in silver. It was the only room, where nothing was golden.
One wall was completely covered with a grand book shelf . I don't know,but it should have more than hundred books. I entered the room and made my way towards the couch. As soon as I stepped on the floor inside the room, a small voice of striking glass came to my ears, I tilted my head to see what I stepped on.
Oh my god. This room had a floor made up of glass in the middle ,that too a see through glass. I could completely see the room below this room.
"Don't worry, floors won't break." Liza said, "it's there since ages."
"This room was created when Queen Esma had her first child. It was there so that she could look after him always. She loved her children alot."
She replied.

So this is the room where Ruez used to sleep as a child.

A small smile crept across my face thinking about the childhood of Ruez. But at the same time my heart squeezed at the mention of mother's love. I don't know what my own mother might be doing at this time.

"What happen Ayra?" Windy questioned guessing my sudden mood change.
"Nothing girls, just got a little emotional with your mentioning of mother." I replied sadly.

"Aww it's fine Ayra, you mom will be fine." She patted my shoulder.
"Yup, I hope so." I looked around my surroundings one more time for distracting my mind from my mother. And this room gave me a lot of reasons for distraction.

"What are these mirrors for?" I asked instead.

The second thing which disturbed me when I came here was, mirrors this room was filled with mirrors and books. One wall had books and the other had mirrors. Mirrors of all sort, big small curved, plane.
I went towards a big round mirror and put my hand on it. It's colors gradually changed. It was just for a flicker of second, but I indeed noticed.

What was that?

"We don't know it either, my be because Queen Esma loved earth. She used to go to earth once in a while and returned with books and pictures. We still don't know, what is the reason behind the story. " Liza explained staring at her image in the mirror.
"Pictures? What pictures?" I asked.

"Umm, pictures like portrait just a little different. I don't know what they are called." She answered. "Look there." She pointed towards the wall I hadn't noticed.

I turned my face to look at what she was referring too. My mouth gaped open on what I was.
How could I haven't noticed this?

The wall behind bed was completely covered with photographs. Yes, photographs.
I went towards that wall and looked at the web of photos in front of me. I looked at a photo and a beautiful lady stared back at me. She had long brown hair just like me and beautiful blue eyes. She was wearing a pink sundress along with a matching hat and posing beautifully at the camera. In the other photo , she was in a beautiful evening gown with king Tenet. My eyes shifted towards a picture of a cute little boy with red hair and red eyes. I instantly knew it was Ruez. So sweet and adorable. Along with it was a similar pic of Roze , wearing a red skirt and giving a toothy smile. How adorable they looked.
While my eyes were scanning some of the most beautiful memories of Ruez's childhood, my eyes drifted towards a picture of a person I didn't recognized. He was standing in a pic near Ruez and Roze. The boy looked older then Ruez . He might have been 10 years old when the pic was taken.
He had a different color of eyes , different from the people in this world have. Red, blue, white and brown.
His eyes were purple. Purple? It reminded me of the image I had seen in that room.

What if he is the person I saw in that room? Is he connected to Ruez and Roze? May be that's why they became so angry.

"Who's this boy with purple eyes?" I asked.
Windy didn't replied me at once, instead he tried to divert my attention to other things.
" I think you might be hungry ,you haven't eaten since breakfast. Would you like me to bring something for you?"

I didn't care to reply her. I was still busy in staring at the images of that child with purple eyes . He was in most of the pictures with the family. In some images he was alone, a small child of four.
Moreover I noticed that the last pic they had together were from the time when Ruez was around 15. After there was no picture of any of them.

"Princess, would you like to eat something?" Windy asked again.

"No, I am not Hungry." I said turning towards her.
"You haven't told me who this boy is?" This time I pointed towards his picture.

"He is... Umm we are not allowed to talk about him, Ayra." Windy turned his face towards the floor.

"Yes, we can't talk about him." Liza whispered.

"Why?" The revelation that this boy's identify should be kept a secret from me took more of my interest.

"Please don't force us Ayra, we will be punished." They pleaded.

I found there behavior strange , why they can't tell me about him?
Who he exactly is?
I decided not to push them further. I am going to find it out myself. There are so many things I need to know.
May be I will have to explore things to know them better.

"Okay, so what about a cup of tea?" I said instead.

This lifted there mood a little.

"Yes, offourse. I will be back soon." Windy said and left for the kitchen.

I sat on the bed, feeling it's warmth and comfort under me. I closed my eyes , pressing my temples.

I need a plan. I need to make plans for finding about that boy with purple eyes.

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Author's Note:
Hey, finally I updated. Sorry for taking such a long time. But I had my semester. I am free now , I don't know till when. But now I am going to update fast. Because I want to finish this story soon.
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