Chapter 43: CHAPTER 43 - Turmoils In The Heart
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Sage just stared blankly as Prince Yue left her alone in the room.
'Despite this vow, that he said and promised or not--we'll soon see whether your word is trustworthy of it.' Sage thought as she went to make plans after seeing Prince Yue go back to his room that is next to hers.
She also thought with a grimace that she needed to speak with her sisters about what Prince Yue said and did.
She can easily tell each of their reactions once they heard it from her.
And true to Sage's words on the day after as she went straight to where her sisters might be meeting privately in another room in Silverine Palace, each of their predictable reactions came simultaneously almost the same time as she told them what happened and what Prince Yue has told her before.
"You've got to be kidding me!" Rose exclaimed with a fierce frown in her face, filled with disbelief.
"Surely, maybe he's being sincere with his promise?" Lily asked uncertainly.
Dahlia snorted. "If that were true, then that would be like me stopping from being the mischievous trickster that I'm known for!"
Violet said, "She's right. We all know for fact straight that Prince Yue and his Southirea men came here for ulterior motives besides the peace treaty. Even with him knowing the truth now about us, who knows what Prince Yue can use this knowledge against us?"
"But what if Lily is right? That Prince Yue is sincere with his vow on keeping the secret and hiding the truth for us?" Iris asked reasonably.
Jasmine agreed with Iris as she said, "So far he hasn't done anything nefarious against us since he's been helping us all the time. Perhaps he's proven himself to be trustworthy."
Rose ranted again. "And I'll believe that once I have my share on talking with him and give him a nice little warning that he won't tell."
Sage glared at him. "Don't start getting rash, Rose. I trust Prince Yue's word. He won't tell."
"And how would you know?" Rose demanded disbelievingly at her.
"I can easily tell that he wasn't lying. If he were, then he wouldn't have looked at me straight in the eyes as he told me of his vow that he'll keep this a secret," she said calmly.
Lily blinked and looked at her oldest sister confused. "Looking at you straight in the eyes is considered truthful?"
Iris pointed out calmly. "You forget that Sage is a master in manipulation and secrecy and all that. She can easily sniff out the lies from any enemy she comes across when it comes to politics or royal matters."
"Oh."
"But even if he wasn't lying, what's to guarantee that one day he would break his word and tell the secret?" Violet asked worriedly.
Sage's eyes seemed to hold a cold glint again as she said solemnly. "Then just as I said before--I will deal with it before he tries to."
Sage's sisters exchanged uncertain looks, except Rose who just glared at the wall by her side, and then they relented, trusting Sage's word and Sage decided to go to the next important topic.
"Any word on finding where the enemy is hiding?" she inquired calmly.
Violet shook her head as she replied. "None. It seems that the enemy has either gotten good on hiding himself, or he has several places that he could move back and forth to hide away from us."
"Well, we'll need to find him fast before that enemy discovers about the magical paired items and that he might make an opportunity to strike without us knowing about it," Sage said.
Sage looked towards Rose who's still glaring at the wall as if picturing it that it was Prince Yue and wishing that it is. Sage said to her. "Rose, you coordinate with Violet and Dahlia to finding the enemy and where he might be hiding. And also double security around Silverine Palace, just in case the enemy might try to infiltrate inside."
Rose snapped out of her glaring and nodded and Sage turned to the others and said to them. "Jasmine, Lily, and Iris, I want you three to focus your efforts into making sure that our royal 'doubles' keep up the pretense for the people here in Northia while working on finding out more about the Dragon Blade and the Phoenix Cross and discovering what other powers or abilities they can do for the wielders."
They nodded to her at her orders and then Sage looked at her sisters before she said. "If there's nothing else to speak of or anything at all, then let's be off."
With that, they all went their separate ways to do their tasks given, and Sage stayed behind in the room, her face blank while her mind is thinking deeply over something.
She seemed to be thinking about what to do and how to deal with the current situation over Prince Yue. It also seems that there is some kind of difficulty she's having trouble with over this.
Sage wondered whether she might be able to do this since she's suddenly starting to feel these turmoils in the heart towards Prince Yue, and wondered whether it might be a mistake for her to trust him for the time being when he gave that promise that he wouldn't tell anyone, even to his men, the truth about her and her sisters beings the Northia Queens.
She wondered why she's having these conflicting feelings and doubts to herself, despite that she promised before not to have these kinds of feelings again when she just realized it.
Only time will tell eventually after they have dealt with the enemy first once they find out his hidden whereabouts.
Hopefully, it will be soon. So that Sage wouldn't be hindered by this.
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