No Answer
West Wing
You don’t have to be a genius to understand that some of the Elders aren’t pleased with their house arrest.
Everyone who attended the meeting is guided to the West wing and there are quite a few who try to object, but none of the Guardians respond to anyone.
Five families enter the main living room, while the other families follow the Elder in their family to their room. A room that the Elders only use when they have a late night or a really early morning.
Elder Dawn makes a beeline for her room on the top floor, closely followed by her Father. She knows what they found was taken from her room, but she can’t remember if she had been careless of hot and left it out in the open.
“Dawn, what the hell is going on?” Her Father whisper yells as he closes the door behind them. He understands that something is troubling his Daughter, but he hopes it isn’t as bad as she suspects.
“I am not sure. I thought that book was hidden from sight.” She answers her Father. “I need to check if they didn’t find our hiding place. If they did, then we are in a shit–pile of trouble.”
Irvine pales at the thought of anyone finding their hiding place; he knows there is a lot in there that will prove that he deliberately kept the Royal family in the dark. He also knows that there is another hiding place that holds even more evidence against him.
He follows Dawn into the walk–in closet and his jaw drops as she opens the hidden door. It was emptied out completely; not a single piece of paper was left behind.
“Is there a way we can get into Elder Zane’s room to check that hiding place?” Irvine asks Dawn. “I don’t even know if he is aware of the hiding place; his Father never mentioned it to me.”
“I doubt it, but we can try. Why don’t we go to see him? Maybe I can lure him out of his room.” Dawn answers, but she isn’t waiting for a response. She squeals as she opens the door and a Guardian is standing in front of her.
The Guardian ignores her squeal as he steps aside, his eyes focused on the wall in front of him. It isn’t his job to make her teel comfortable; it is his job to make her realize that she can’t move around freely, that there will always be someone watching her.
Irvine and Dawn quickly realize that the Guardians are spread throughout the West wing and are keeping a close eye on anyone who is anywhere near them.
“This isn’t going to work. Too many eyes on us, let’s get back to your room. We need to make a plan to get access to Elder Zane’s room.” Irvine says to his Daughter through their mind–link.
Captain Vern gave strict instructions through the mind–link on their way to the West wing; each Guardian has to report every movement of an Elder or their family members. Belinda is writing down every report that comes in and it is clear that most Elders are not bothered by their presence.
“Anything strange?” Captain Vern asks because Belinda is looking at the report she just wrote down.
“Yeah, Elder Dawn and her Father locked themselves in her room. They walked out a few minutes ago, walked down the hall and went straight back to Elder Dawn’s room. I already told Princess Dallas about it.” Belinda answers him.
Captain Vern asks through the mind–link if there are other Elders locked in their rooms and it turns out that four other Elders are, while their families are in the main living room on the ground floor.
Seeing the fact that all rooms are soundproof, there is no way the Guardians can hear what is being discussed. Even if the rooms weren’t soundproof, there would be a huge chance that there was nothing to listen in on; they could be communicating through the mind–link.
The Guardians don’t care about what the Elders are saying to one another; they only care about doing their job and protecting the Royal family from harm.
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+25 BONUS
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“Did you see Tammy around?” Irvine’s Mate asks one of the Squad members.
“Who?” He answers, acting as if he doesn’t know who she is talking about. He is very well aware of who Tammy is and where she is, but he is not going to tell anyone.
“She is talking about the woman who disrespected the Queen and currently waiting for her death sentence. Tammy is her Granddaughter, former Elder Jeff’s Daughter and I am ashamed to admit it, a Guardian.” A guardian says from the doorway
The room erupts in whispers after those words and most Shifters look uncomfortable. All of them remembering the last time that King Vaughn had to put some women back in their place for disrespecting his Mate.
“My Granddaughter would never disrespect our Queen. Tammy knows how vital our Queen is to King Vaughn and how much the Queen can teach her.” The woman says.
Everyone is staring at Irvine’s Mte, because none of what she says makes any sense. Why would the Queen want or need to teach Tammy anything?
“My family is very important to the survival of this Kingdom, without us there will no longer be a Kingdom in the future. When that day comes, I will gladly say, I told you so.” She says this before walking out of the living room.
Everyone stares after her as she walks up the stairs, softly talking amongst themselves about her strange remarks and trying to figure out what she might have meant, but not getting anywhere without more information.
Belinda is staring at the men in the room with her, having listened to the report from the Squad member and the Guardian.
“I hope that Dallas can make sense out of this, because I am baffled. What the hell was she talking about?” Belinda asks, but she doesn’t expect an answer.
Even if she had asked someone specifically, I doubt she would have gotten an answer.
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