Tselmora: A Tale of Two QueensChapter OneInfectious Smile –
I woke up dazed and confused in a dank room. There was lime green moss that was caked on the cobblestone walls, and cobwebs were…
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I woke up dazed and confused in a dank room. There was lime green moss that was caked on the cobblestone walls, and cobwebs were…
I woke up dazed and confused in a dank room. There was lime green moss that was caked on the cobblestone walls, and cobwebs were plastered in the corners of the ceiling. Water droplets pinged in a puddle on the cold stone floors and echoed throughout the room, along with the skittering of tiny claws. The small room allowed the breeze from outside to whisper past the dangling dusty drapes and prick me with its coolness. It felt like my psyche was hit by a freight train as I realized that I had no idea where I was.
Then, I noticed her at the foot of my bed. Queen Reagan. She had her legs crossed as she sat elegantly in a stool. They were swinging back and forth almost in an impatient manner, but she smiled anyways.
The Queen wore white flats on her small feet. She also wore this beautiful but simple white dress that was cut on the side revealing most of one of her legs. It was like a corset at the top being laced at her breast, and the laces were nearly about to burst from tension and left little to the imagination, if anything at all. Her ice blue eyes were nearly as white as her soft hair and were darting up and down all over me. A silver tiara sat on top of her high mid-length ponytail, and the front of her hair fell down to her small chin on either side. It looked like the fangs of a snake ready to swallow its prey, and even at THAT time, I felt like I was that prey.
Reagan's ring gleamed in the peach morning sunlight that cracked through the drapes. She was rubbing it a lot as if it was a narcoleptic genie in a bottle, but her smile still grew when my eyes met hers.
"Dallas?" She nearly sang it with her silky smooth voice.
"Y-Yeah?" I nearly croaked it out due to my waking up voice.
The Queen paced in front of my bed rubbing her fingers through her hair. "Calm down. Calm," she inhaled, "down," then exhaled. The poor attempt of concealing her excitement was awkward to try to ignore.
"Who are-"
"Oh! My manners!" She sat on the bed next to me. "I'm the queen of this castle, Reagan."
I opened my mouth to talk.
But she continued, "You're 3 Period in a dream." Her eyes calmed down, but her smile didn't
My eyelids flickered, because that was all that my body allowed me to do. I was in a dream but aware. It never happened to me before that point, so my mind fluttered with surprisal and light excitement, despite my predicament .
She clearly saw the questions that I had written all over my face. "I know it sounds crazy to you, but none of this is real." She batted her eyes.
I looked around. "That explains a lot." Then, I looked at my hands and screamed. "Why do I only have three fingers?!"
She giggled. "It'll do that sometimes." She showed me her hand and she had only three fingers on it herself. Then, two more fingers flickered on her hand like a light bulb responding to a switch.
I looked at my hand and it restored itself when trying to feel my fingers with the other hand. I stretched it out and flexed my fingers staring at them amazed.
Reagan dusted off her dress and continued, "Now, Dallas." She did an infectious smile as she said my name. "I summoned you here for an experiment."
"What kind of experiment?"
"Well, that's the thing." Her eyes hit the floor as she held her hands behind her back.
There was a silence between us only broken by the water droplets, but my eyes still studied her ferociously. Up and down and back up again. It wasn't anything sexual or even romantic yet, no. I was more intrigued with her more than anything. She held my attention hostage, and I didn't mind. I actually wanted it, because I was already in a trance from the jump.
If I thought anything of Queen Reagan at that time, I'd say that she was cute, but she didn't even know that she had me hooked herself. . She didn't quite have my heart, but she definitely had my mind. I was ready to help her with anything she wanted. Slay a dragon. Rescue her daughter, if she, had one. Protect her from an assassin. I just wanted 3 Period no, NEEDED to see where this ride would take me.
But luckily for me, "i only need you to meet me back here tomorrow night," she said.
I smiled. "And that's it?"
She licked her lips at my enthusiasm. "Mhm." Her eyes massaging me from a distance.
I told her, "I was ready to take on a more 3 Period demanding task. But I'm not complaining at all.""
The Queen closed her eyes and took in a huge breath. "I'm so glad to here that." She held up her finger. "But why are you so mellow with this whole accord?" She tried to sneak a glance at her ring.
I shrugged my shoulders. "You said it yourself. It's a dream, so even if you were a witch or something 3 Period"
Her smile instantly dropped, and she squinted at the sound of "witch."
" 3 Period you wouldn't be able to hurt me, right."
Reagan undid her hair and tied it back up in a tighter ponytail. "I suppose that's technically true, but you can feel this cold, can't you?"
I nodded my head then realized where she was going.
"This dream body of yours can, and does, feel sensations. It's made to simulate the real world, and that goes for pain, too. Nothing will carry over in the real world, but pain here will feel like pain IRL." She went to and looked at herself in the cracked mirror in one of the corners of the room. "So, don't go pushing your boundaries with people when you return, young man." Her reflection playfully wagged her finger at me and returned her gorgeous smile.
My heart melted at the sight of it. "Oh. O-Okay." I'm sure I would've been blushing, too, if my tan skin allowed.
Queen Reagan wiped her hand on the crack on the mirror, and it came off like an expo marker, while her "reflection" remained standing and winked at me. Then, she sat back on the stool, crossed her legs, and swung them more delicatly. "This time, I summoned you, but next time, you come and meet ME, okay?"
"And how 3 Period do I do that?"
"Your intrigue is 3 Period encouraging." She bit her bottom lip. "Just meditate right before you sleep. Think of me and this place."
I rubbed my chin. "Speaking of which, what even is this place? How did my brain create this 3 Period event?" I gestured around the room. Then, my gaze fell upon hers. "And what 3 Period are you?"
"Well," she said as she looked at her red painted nails. "Come back tomorrow night, and I'll tell you what you want to know." She winked. The Queen knew how to interest me.
"And what if I forget?"
Her smile fell again. This time, it stinged even me. "Then, I'll finally know it's not meant to be." Her words toppled off like a pebble falling down the side of a mountain.
"I will come back 3 Period Queen Reagan." I got out of the bed that I was laying in. My bare feet was sticking to the cold floor underneath with each step I took, but my mind was laser focused on her, so I barely noticed. I took both of her hands in mine.
Now, seeing her frown felt like daggers were being shot into my heart. It was a sensation that was intensely strange to me, and I hated it, but I loved how I hated it. I was willing to do anything for this stranger, so just dreaming of a beautiful girl around my age was a walk in the park.
"I-I'm looking forward to it, Dallas." The Queen's words sank into my ears. "But now, it seems like you got some place to be, right?" She handed me a watch. "I think you have an important day ahead of you, too, right?"
The watch read 7:47.
"That's 3 Period that's the real time?" My eyes locked onto the analog wristwatch.
Reagan giggled. "It is." Her laughter was music to my ears, despite me going to be late for school. "I'll send you back, but before you go 3 Period" Her lips graced my cheek and spun me in a daze.
Then, her eyes met with mine as I woke up in my actual bed.
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