Love of the Empress 2: King and Queen

Dion, The Golden Boy

Meanwhile on the rocky mountain slope in a small town in the kingdom of Goluth..

A little boy in a tattered shirt was sitting lethargic eating a burning tuber, which he got from a house on the mountain slope. Voraciously, spent his tubers that had cooled it. It was as if his stomach had been unfilled for days.

The boy was about ten years old. But his posture looks petite with a slightly pale skin color.

The boy's hair was bright red, with heterochromia. Heterochromia is a condition in which both eyes have different iris colors.

The child's right eye color is dark brown. Her left eye is yellow. The characteristics of eyes like this are one of the main characteristics of the golden children. Golden children who have special blood genes.

Although not all symptoms of heterochromia can indicate that the child is a golden child, the search for legendary golden children can be easier with these contrasting eye characteristics.

The boy who was currently downing the water he stored in the leather container was a golden boy. And because of his fate as a golden boy it was who had made his kidnapped to the kingdom of Goluth.

Flashbacks...

The boy had to be separated from his Papa, from the age of five. The boy's name was Diandra Mary Chen, or Dion.

The boy almost forgot his own face. As for Mama, he forgot her altogether. What Dion remembers is that his Papa was a very kind and loving man. And Papa always gives a kiss on the forehead before Dion sleeps. Dion misses his papa so much. The boy really wanted to go home.

Dion did not know that the world he was in right now was a different world from where he was born. All he knew was that the bad guys were taking him away from Papa. And Dion always wanted to go home and be with Papa again.

Many years have passed. The toddler is now ten years old. He knows that there is something different about him than the other children.

It's not just about the irises of the eyes that are different. But also something in his blood. Thus making his must be injected and his blood drawn periodically while he is still locked in the old palace on the top of the rock mountain (Goluth Palace).

Thankfully in his seclusion, a strange grandfather suddenly appears and gives him a drink. After drinking the drink given by the grandfather, Dion felt his eyes feel heavy. And know that he is asleep.

What astonished Dion was that when he opened his eyes again, he knew that he was on the slopes of this rocky mountain.

Feeling surprised but happy, Dion immediately set his foot into the surrounding area. Not seen anywhere is also the shape of the palace building that has been the home of her throughout the years.

Although astonished, Dion celebrated his freedom with a joyful heart.

"I'm free!" Whisper Dion with two flickering eyes.

Soon Dion was hungry, and he saw a hut on the slope of the hut. The hut the occupants left out of nowhere. And Dion ate the burning tubers on the table. Then hurried away from the hut.

Flashback complete.

After eating the grilled tubers, Dion again walked down the mountain. Her legs no longer hurt when she stepped. Because he has also taken footwear from the hut he met earlier.

Dion's steps lead him to a deserted countryside.

Either because it was already night so there was no one Dion could see outside the house in the village.

Staring curiously around him, Dion continued to step forward. Until then a friendly voice sounded greeting her.

"Son, what are you doing outside these nights? Good Lord! Your clothes! What's your name, son?" Asked a thick-bodied woman with thick curly hair that wrapped around her round head.

Although the woman's appearance looks good, years of experience in confinement have made Dion so afraid to interact with other humans. For the boy, only Papa is a good person in his life.

And also the strange grandfathers who had freed him from that prison. So thought Dion.

Straight away, without answering the woman's question, Dion turned back and was about to run away as fast as he could. Stay away from that woman.

But it's a pity. As soon as Dion turned around, he hit the body wall of a large man with a skin color that was more black than the woman.

"Shut up and don't run!" Tell the black man.

"Drums? You're following mom, son?" The voice of the first woman spoke.

"Yes, Mom. Boru was worried about mom. Especially lately began to often sound screeches hyena near here. Boru is afraid that mother will meet the herd of wild animals" said Boru.

The woman who was the mother of Boru daei gave her shady smile to the son. The woman's name is Magenta.

"Who's this kid, Mom?" Ask Boru to mother.

"That's it, son. I just saw her walk alone here. Like her, she had long since lost herself. It's a pity" said Magenta, looking at Dion, who was trying to shake his shoulder from Boru's grip.

Trying to calm down, Magenta approached Dion.

The woman squatted in front of Dion. Until their eyes are now aligned. Only after her did Magenta speak.

"Son. We're not gonna hurt you. But since it's late, as good as you go with aunt first yes go home. We'll take you home later. How's it?" Magenta persuades Dion.

Hearing the word 'home', Dion's attitude calmed down instantly.

'Back.. Dion wants to go home.' whispered Dion's heart.

With a slightly hoarse voice, Dion looked back at Magenta and asked the solemnity of the paroh-aged woman's words.

"Going home? Aunty want to take Dion home?" Ask Dion.

Magenta nodded for sure. Gently, he rubbed Dion's head a few times and rubbed his cheeks with gentleness.

"Yes. Sure do. After the light of day, we'll take you home. So now Dion's coming with auntie first huh?"

"Yes." replied Dion in a much calmer manner.

Dion pulls the shirt on Magenta's arm. And the boy followed him to Magenta's house.

His heart was truly filled with hope by the one word Magenta had spoken to him.

'Back.. Dion is going home.' Dion's rapals over and over again in his heart.

Without the little boy realizing it, a smile loomed on his white and tiny face.

Behind Dion and Magenta, Boru looked puzzledly at Dion.

He looked at the boy. And he sure saw lightning different between one eye with another eye belongs to the child. It's like having two different eye colors.

Surprisingly, when Boru observed Dion again for the second time, the boy's eyes were actually dark brown. There was no difference between his eyes.

'Am I hallucinating? Hmm.. It seems today I am too tired, ' murmured Boru heart.

In the following minutes, the two black adults, and a white boy, walked side by side on the deserted village streets. Then the wolf howls in the distance.

"Auuu.uk..,"

Hearing the sound of the howl, immediately caused a goosebumps sensation on all the feathers on Boru's body. The howling is a sign that the night is getting quieter. And they had to rush into the house, before they met the beast of the night survivor.

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