Witch's Daughter And The Devil's Son

Unwillingly the older servant moved aside and looked at her daughter who was already covered in lashes of whips and her servant uniform showed the blood oozing out of her skin wherever that whip had hit her. The girl looked exhausted and in pain that she kept kneeling on the ground after being dragged in front of the throne. 

Seren observed everything quietly to know what was going on while Lady Tyra kept quiet to let her Queen know the inside reality of the Harem. On her first day of the visit, she had got to see it.

Lady Clarisa was about to head towards the throne, not knowing who had arrived inside the Royal Harem. Before she could sit on it, Lady Tyra called her out. 

"Lady Clarisa, You have forgotten to pay your greetings to Her Majesty, the Queen of Megaris."

Lady Clarisa didn't sit on the throne and walked towards where Seren and Lady Tyra were standing. 

Lady Tyra raised her one eyebrow in a question as she said in a strict voice, "I believe, this time around Lady Clarisa remembers the right way of greeting Her Majesty."

Lady Clarisa smiled and ignoring Tyra she bowed lightly to Seren, "Greetings, Your Majesty. Good to see you here. Please be comfortable and don't let other things bother you."

Not reacting, Seren only looked at her as she had understood this pretty-looking older woman was sly like a fox. 

Lady Clarisa looked at Seren but being the lower half of her face covered in a veil and her eyes carried no particular emotion, it was impossible for her to guess what was going on in Seren's mind. 

"What is going on here, Lady Clarisa?" Lady Tyra asked. 

"Do I need to answer you, Lady Tyra, when you are just a mere servant?" Lady Clarisa countered. 

"Not me but the real in charge of this Royal Harem, Her Majesty wishes to know what is happening here," Lady Tyra replied. 

Lady Clarisa smiled mockingly, "That her Majesty can ask me herself. You don't need to waste your breath, Lady Tyra." 

"I don't wish Her Majesty to waste her breath over useless stuff so I am being helpful. Would you like to explain now?" Lady Tyra asked.

Though Seren didn't ask Lady Tyra what was happening, she was curious too. She wanted to know why that young servant who looked around her own age was whipped so brutally.

That servant broke one tea cup from the most precious and treasured set," Lady Clarisa replied and looked at the servant who was holding one tray and had followed Lady Clarisa to the central hall. 

The servant understood what Lady Clarisa meant and immediately came to them. 

Lady Clarisa picked up one cup from the tray and signaled towards the broken pieces of another cup. "This was a rare tea set which my mother had brought from the west when she traveled there. It has been with me for so many years but this servant broke one cup due to her clumsiness."

Seren looked at the remaining four cups in the tray and picked one of them. She observed the cup silently to know what was so precious about it. 

"For this, is she getting whipped like this?" Lady Tyra asked again. 

"Yes, and she deserves it. The one who can't handle precious things like these and break them deserves to get whipped no matter who that person is. It had memories of my late mother in it and as she had spoiled it for me, she deserves more severe punishment. I won't spare anyone. We don't need clumsy servants here….."

Smash!

Everyone heard the sound of the tea cup smashing on the floor and shattering into small pieces. It was the cup that Seren was holding and now it had turned into broken pieces.

Lady Clarisa looked at Seren in disbelief. She was just talking about punishing the one who will break it and this young Queen broke it right away. What was she trying to do?

Seren didn't even look at the shocked Lady Clarisa and picked up another cup from the left three. 

Smash!

Next moment everyone saw Seren letting it go from her hand and the tea cup smashing on the floor. Now only two cups were left in the tray. Before Lady Clarisa could even react, one more cup was on the floor and was converted into tiny pieces. 

Smash!

Everyone was shocked to see what their Queen was doing. She had not uttered a single word since the moment she had arrived here so no one understood what she was trying to do. Lady Clarisa held the power in this Royal Harem. Though Seren was a queen, she was too young to face the strong and crafty woman like Lady Clarisa. Was this young Queen asking for trouble?

Seren again silently looked at the last cup left in the tray and was about to pick it up, when Lady Clarisa called her. "Your Majesty, what are you doing?"

Not answering her, Seren picked up the last cup from the tray and let it go from her hand.

Smash!

Everyone looked at the young in disbelief as no one ever dared to act like this with Lady Clarisa. She didn't even answer what Lady Clarisa had asked her. Among all, Lady Tyra and Seren's servants were the happiest seeing how their Queen managed to affect Lady Clarisa without even uttering a single word. 

Once the last cup in the tray was broken, Seren looked at the one that Lady Clarisa held in her hand. 

Lady Clarisa immediately moved her hand to her back to hide that last cup and asked, "Why did you do this, Your Majesty? Didn't I say it has memories of my late mother?" Lady Clarisa asked, trying to suppress her anger and annoyance. 

"I wanted to see those memories. As I couldn't see them while I was observing it, I thought I might be able to see them once they are broken," Seren replied. 

"What?" Lady Clarisa exclaimed. She had no words to counter. 

Seren being a Queen, no one could dare to even think about punishing her. A while ago Lady Clarisa said she will punish anyone who will break her treasured thing but Seren was not included in that and neither did Lady Clarisa had expected Seren to do this. Lady Clarisa thought this young Queen will only get scared after seeing the brutal scenario in front of her and will be wary of her. 

Lady Clarisa wanted to show Seren her power and scare her, but everything went opposite of what she intended.

Seren looked at Lady Clarisa's hand which was holding and hiding the last cup left and said, "I think one cup should be enough to treasure all those memories."

Lady Clarisa gritted her teeth and clenched her grip on the cup as she could say nothing. This young Queen had openly challenged her authority, the one who had been in charge of this Royal Harem for the past eighteen years since Queen Esther has gone.

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