Unedited 1900
Milkah
A whole week has passed and in total it's been 12 days in the palace.
I'm just living my life in silence and not attracting any attention.
I go to my etiquette classes and come back.
I eat, sleep , poop and have visited royal grandmother twice. The lady is a bit old fashioned but I enjoy her company.
It's different. There's no bickering about the King and all that nonsense.
She tells me stories about her youth and the past King and the previous King after him.
She never really goes into detail how her Son and his wife died and I never really ask, although I am inquisitive.
I guess there's too much hurt around those memories. I've asked Zodwa but she also doesn't know as she had entered the palace after the tragic incident had happened.
All she knows is that it was an attack and the aim was to massacre the entire royal family.
There really isn't a lot of people I can ask besides Nkhanyezi and at the moment she must also adhere to the one month rule.
Which leaves me with the only one person...the King. The main protagonist to the whole tragic story.
However I know I'm not crazy to go wake up a sleeping lion. After the last time I saw him, he hasn't reached out or done anything.
To be honest I am relieved but I am also disappointed. Relieved because the man scares and intimidates the hell out of me, sad due to the fact that he calls on the other concubines that live within the same quarters as I every now and again but he never calls on me.
Not that I want him too of course! I feel like Melokuhle should be here to experience the consummation of her marriage herself.
It's annoying though having to listen to the other two concubines fond over the King. I mean it's like listening to sidechicks talk about your boyfriend. You would get uncomfortable too.
I don't understand why I feel the way I do but it does irritate me hence I've decided to live in silence so that I can deal with my feelings on my own and analyse what the hell is wrong with me.
***
"My Queen! My Queen! Wake up!"
What the!
"My Queen wake up! Please!"
What the hell is going on!
I open my eyes to find my self in an unfamiliar room. It's a lot bigger and luxurious then the one one I had.
I look around to find everyone running around frantically . I look again only to be pulled by soft hands trying to get me out the door
"Stop! Where is the crownwd prince!" Okey that is not my voice that just came out of my mouth
I look at my body to find it unfamiliar to Melokuhle's body.
You've got to be kidding me! Who the heck did I possess now!
"My queen the Prince has been escorted to royal grandmothers quarters, he is safe! We have to get you to safety too!" Spoke a lady around her thirties in a frantic but calm voice.
I don't know who she is but I feel like I can trust...well the person I'm in feels like she can so who am I to judge....wait did she say queen?
"Okey Bongi. Lead the way!"
I'm taken and pulled outsides the round. The persons body I'm in is shaking with fear however I can still feel the braveness that is still in her heart.
She continues to follow everyone until I notice something strange, why are we being led towards the sounds of crys when it suppose to be the opposite.
The lady must have noticed this the same time I did because she suddenly stops.
"Bongi! This is not the way to royal grandmothers quarters,where are you taking me!"
"My queen royal grandmothers quarters is already surrounded. A guard I had sent ahead to see if we could hide there told me so. Lucky royal grandmother and the Crowned Prince escaped. However all the entrances are being watched the best chance we have is to leave through the main gate!"
Wait what! This doesn't make sense
"Oh Okey, then lead the way!"
Wait lady! Stop moving, this doesn't make sense!
How does this Bongi know which is the safest route. Using the main gate is dangerous because it is usually the most guarded area when such situations occur, there's no way in hell you are going to make it out alive!
"Halt!" Come a rough voice from behind
The whole group stops and turns.
"Mhlengi! What is going on!" Crys the queen
Wait hold on, I know this man. Was he not the one that sat across the King and on the left side of royal grandmother!
"My Queen, where are you running of too?" He asked with a sinical look in his face
" Mhlengi, the palace is under attack. Why are you not beside the King in such dire times!" The Queen asks frantically
" The King? Which one my father or your husband?" He asked with a smirk
Okey this is starting to get weird. Am I the only one that notices the man looks a bit deranged?
"Both of course! What kind of question is that!?" The Queen asks with a bit of annoyance
"Even in such situations you still think you have the upper hand my Queen" he says in a condescending manner
Out of no where soldiers pop up.
"Kill them!" the man says easily
"Mhlengi what are doing!" The Queen crys from the horror she sees happening in front of her eyes.
Bru I feel like I'm in a horror movie, blood is everywhere and the screams of the women being slaughtered don't make it any easier.
"Bongi where is the Crowned Prince?" Mhlengi asks calmly
"He is with royal grandmother Prince Mhlengi" she answers automatically
"Bongi! What is the meaning of this, why did you tell him where my son is!?" The Queen crys out
"My Queen I think you have suffered enough, it's time for you to meet your ancestors don't you think?" Spoke Prince Mhlengi
"How could you do this Mhlengi!? To your own family too, despicable!" Said the Queen with tears running down her face
"My family? Don't act coy Sindiswa, we all know how father has always treated me. I always got second best things or rejects from my younger brother. Come to think about it I had even asked you to marry me but you choose my brother over me. It makes me wonder. What is it that he has that I don't."
"Until I realised it's the power and title that makes him who he is. He is no ruler but a baby that was given everything in his hands where as I had to fight to have what I have today."
"Dont worry Sindiswa, I will make sure that the death of my bother and your son is not painfull" he then took out a sword and started to walk menacingly towards the Queen.
"You're an animal Mhlengi! How can you do this to your own family!?" The Queen screams with pure hatred.
"With ease" came the words of Prince Mhlengi
Before he could murder the Queen he slit the throat of Bongi. "Can't have any useless witnesses can I? "
He then walked towards the Queen then grabbed her by her head.
" You could have been so much more happier with me but you had to choose him..tsk. Now look at the outcome. I hope you two find each other in the realm of the spirits and watch me rule over the kingdom you thought you would rule over" he then took the sword and stabbed it through the Queens heart.
Oucccccch!
***
"Ms Melokuhle, please wake up. You have a visitor outside" I heard the voice of Zodwa
What the hell was that?
I wake up with my heart racing and sweat all over my body.
I take a minute to calm down then turn to look at Zodwa.
"Who is it Zodwa?"
"It's Prince Mhlengi Ms"
I can feel the blood drain from my face as I take in and digest the information Zodwa has just told me.
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