Chapter 8

Days go by as Romelle entertains Queen Krolia with magic tricks and spells in order to make her happy which worked for a while and Allura is in the kitchen making food and cleaning dishes while Lotor kills monsters to get Lance's attention but fails and Lance is watching Keith practice archery, swordplay and horseback with his black horse however, Lance was not aware that Keith was watching him back and starts to feel something he never felt before

Lance watches the sea as Krolia walks towards him and says "I see you've taken a liking to the sea" Lance agrees "Yes, it is beautiful" Krolia says "I only look at the sea and watch the narwhals jump out" Lance sees Keith and Lotor on horseback and says "Look, your sons are coming home" Krolia explains "Oh, Keith is my legitimate son. I picked Lotor up on a doorstep where a peasant woman left him. I was thinking that I have never been happy and never had two sons. It was pleasant enough at first but it died quickly" Lance asks "Romelle spoke of rumors about Lotor. Have you heard them, Your Majesty?" Krolia replies "Sadly yes but Lotor just ignores them as if they mean nothing to him" Lance notices Krolia still looking sad and when he asks "What was it that made you happy?" Krolia asks "Sorry?" Lance replies "Your mouth says nothing has made you happy yet your eyes tell me that something did before"

Krolia explains "I was happy when I married Keith's father and he always told me that I had the most beautiful smile in the world. He and I adopted Lotor when he was just a baby and as he turned five, Keith was born. But when Keith turned eight and Lotor was 13, my husband died and I barely smiled. That was the last time I've ever been happy. The very last time" Lance says "You musn't mourn for something you still have. You can only mourn those we love and those who fight for us but we do not mourn our happiness. It lives forever" Krolia smiles and says "Thank you, Lance. Thank you so very much" Krolia hugs Lance who hugs her back and Krolia leaves to return to her Queenly duties

Lance continues looking at the sea as Lotor and Keith arrive with a dragon's hide and Lotor smirks "My Lord, I like to bestow upon you the hide of a dragon I slain" Lance looks at the hide and asks "By what right do you kill such an innocent creature?" Lotor replies "Everyone already knows dragons are merciless monsters" Lance retorts "That monster you call may have had a family of its own and you destroy its happiness by ending its life because of your lust for glory" Lotor grabs Lance and yells "And it doesn't satisfy you?! What else does?! Tell me" Keith pulls Lotor away from Lance and shouts "Lotor, leave Lance alone! He's not like the chambermaids you chase around and sleep with" Lotor sneers "What do you know? You've never killed any beast"

Lotor stomps away with the dragon hide as Keith walks towards Lance and says "I apologize for Lotor's behavior. Mother considers it inappropriate and unnecessary around the castle and it's no wonder the people want me to take the throne" Lance stays silent as Keith explains "I didn't mean to kill the dragon but you were right. It did have a family but I let them go so Lotor would leave them alone. I'm not saying it to make fun of you but you seem to know all lot about hunters" that's when Lance says "I watch them enter the forest to find their prey but they leave moments later in order to respect the creatures in the forest and hunt elsewhere" Lance looks at Keith and says "Your eyes betray you. There was an inner voice that wanted to show the dragon's family mercy" 

Keith says "It's called a conscious and it reveals what people refuse to see until now. You never spoke to me since we met and I must've thought you didn't want my help" Lance says "Forgive me" and as Lance leaves, he hears Lotor shout "Who does he think he is?! That boy has tangoed with the wrong man! No one says "no" to Prince Lotor" Lance sees Lotor throwing his things at the walls of his room as Romelle says "Your Highness, calm down" Lotor yells "Dismissed! Rejected! Publicly humilitaed! Why, it's more than I can bear" Romelle asks "Perhaps my magic will cheer you up" Lotor asks "What for? Nothing helps. I'm disgraced" Romelle replies "I can help with that" Lance leaves to look at the sea again

Meanwhile, in the kitchen, Keith is with Allura as he explains "And then he looked at me as if telling me I could've stopped Lotor from killing the thing. Stopped him from killing a dragon" Allura says "You know, Your Highness, I really think you should try something else" Keith asks "But what's left on Earth that I haven't tried besides training? Allura, for his sake, I've shown every animal Lotor and I hunted some mercy but I feel as if my great deeds means nothing to him" Allura replies "Then perhaps, the Lord Lance is not to be won by great deeds" Keith asks "Who is he, Allura? Where does he come from? I don't know anymore about him than I did the first day he came here. Except that I wish to serve him as you do. To help him find whatever he has come here to find. I wish to be whatever he has most need of. Will you tell him so?"

Allura replies "I think you should tell him yourself" Keith says "But he never speaks to me, Allura. Not a word, not a word in all this time except about the dragon" Allura sighs "I'll go talk to him, then while you think about what you want to show him that you care" Allura walks towards Lance and scolds "You are cruel to Keith. You might give him a gentle word at the very least. he only wishes you to think of him" but when Lance asks "Allura, who am I? Why am I here? What is it that I am seeking in this strange place day after day? I-I-I knew a moment ago but I have forgotten" Allura replies "The unicorns if you are not the last"

Lance walks in a room full of unicorns on the walls and the ceilings trying to remember who he is and says "I must go to him. I must face the Lion again and discover what he has done with them before I forget myself forever but I don't know where to find him and I'm lonely" Allura says "Romelle will find a way down to the Red Lion, she has been searching every day" Lance scoffs "I hope for no help from her. She is no sorceress now but Lotor's poor clown" Allura says "She's doing it for you. She plays the fool for Lotor trying divert him from wondering what you are. You do wrong to mock her" Lance regrets what he said and says "Forgive me" Lance leaves to sleep in his room





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