Ilustria for all it's weird eccentricities was the capital for a good reason, towering walls covered the city from all sides as guards patrolled the walls all day and all night ilustria was a behemoth of power

  The front gates of the city swung wide open as people streamed in from far and wide, the line shortening until it was our turn, a quick security check was performed, soon after we were asked to confirm our identity

  The guard I was with winced as I confined my identity, asking me to stay put "that isn't a good sign" the voice in my head tattled, I ignored it but in my head I agreed with him.........wait isn't he already in my head?

  Before I could follow that train of thought, the guard came back, informing me that the captain was looking for Me

  I was lead into the walls of the city, after following a series of twists and turns I was lead to a door,

  After a few knocks on the door by the guard, a voice, muffled by the door asked us to enter inside the room was a man who seemed like a dainty flower a charismatic smile on his lips as his hypnotic purple eyes seemed as though they wanted to suck you in, immediately I was on guard

  The man felt dangerous, that's what my instincts were telling me and I trusted my instincts

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  The man smiled gently and waved for the guard to leave, he leaned back into his chair taking his attention of what he was doing

  "Lithra isn't it?" He asked me, I nodded tensely "no need to be so tense" he said with a slight smirk on his face he reached into his desk, bringing out an envelope with a gold seal on it and passed it over to me,I received the envelope with a confused look and my face"what is this for?" I said to him "that is a pass to go see the king, the royal family wishes to talk to you" immediately he said that a shiver ran up my spine "fuuuuuuckkkkkedddd" the voice in my head sang

  "You can leave now" he said, his attention returning back to whatever he was doing, I stared at him for a few more seconds confusion and weariness crossing my face as I finally turned and left the room

  A few seconds after I'd left I took a deep breath "what was that?" I asked myself, surprisingly the voice in my head answered "mental manipulation he answered, passive infact, he wasn't even trying and it was able to affect us "

  "Yeah, also thought of that" I answered him with a shiver in my boots, that man wasn't here to defend the city against beasts, he was here to defend them against humans,

  I managed to make it out of the confusing labyrinth of the inner workings of the walls, outside a carriage was already waiting for me,

  "No rest for the wicked I guess?" I said to myself

  Before dragging my feet into the carriage, this ride was a lot smoother than what came before it, but that was due to the smoother roads and the discreetly hidden runes in the carriage, I would have missed it if not for the little specs of colour emanating from them

  Soon after we were at the royal palace

  But as you all know, I definitely wasn't nervous,who is nervous? Me? Nahh impossible