Sir Xellous: The fourteen-year old main character, played by Kurlak. Recently he, Telos, Kora, and Ikuinen Lampo had a meeting with elves, at midnight. The elves were to scout out a planet that had a fusion generator, so that way Ikuinen Lampo, his sworn star, could be in her Epiphany Form, which could allow her to defend their planet directly.
Kora: Sir Xellous' wife. She had been raped by her father, Altous, and carried his child, named Gerard, to term. She had been kidnapped and completely mindwiped by the Khen-Zai, something that Sir Xellous is wanting to reverse. But first the planet has to be secure. No, he hasn't told her yet.
Prime Minister Komas: The man who had gotten Sir Xellous into his first meeting with King Varlur... a bit too easily. He married Kora after she had been dropped off in the city, alone and with amnesia.
Telos: A man from another planet. He has contacts across the whole solar system, apparently.
Ikuinen Lampo: The star of the province Khouria. She had selected Sir Xellous to be her knight.
Threen: Kora's mother. She had been forced by the Khen-Zai to drown her firstborn son, Charles, in a river. She's alone in Khouria.
The next morning Sir Xellous went to his morning audience with King Varlur. Prime Minister Komas stood at the King's right... and beside him stood Kora, pale and trembling. King Varlur was furious. Sir Xellous tried to scan the King's aura, only to find someone was trying to catch him doing it. Sir Xellous managed to get just enough of a read to know just how angry the King was, but not enough to get beyond the merest hint of a guess. The King was out for his blood, that much was clear.
Sir Xellous asked what the nature of the meeting was. King Varlur, knuckles white from gripping the arms of his throne, informed Sir Xellous that he and Kora had been seen at a midnight rendezvous with strangers to the kingdom and had then walked through several locations, some of which they could not be followed through, where they had stayed for awhile. They were accused of treason, adultery, and the humiliation of the Prime Minister! Sir Xellous asked if he could talk with the King, in private.
King Varlur, pale, stood up, walked down from his dais to Sir Xellous and backhanded him so hard that blood flew out of his mouth, knocking him over. Standing over him, King Varlur excoriated Sir Xellous for presuming upon the royal kindness. This was a formal investigation of Sir Xellous and that harlot-
Sir Xellous was back up, yelling at the top his lungs that if King Varlur called his wife a harlot one more time...
Everyone gasped as Kora fainted, right into Prime Minister Komas' arms!
King Varlur was surprised but he didn't flinch. He asked if this was indeed the wife Sir Xellous had told him about. Sir Xellous nodded.
Prime Minister Komas, still holding the unconscious Kora, came down the dais, screaming at Sir Xellous. He demanded immediate proof of their marriage. Telos elbowed his way through the crowd and confirmed Sir Xellous' story, saying that Ikuinen Lampo and Kora's mother, Threen (who was still back in the province of Khouria) could provide further proof. Soldiers were dispatched. But that wasn't good enough for Prime Minister Komas. Gerard was his, he had found Kora, had found a new life because of her and Gerard. Sir Xellous retorted that he clearly hadn't put himself in Sir Xellous' shoes. He really had tried to keep his mouth shut, but he couldn't keep his broken heart to himself, not anymore. Telos asked King Varlur to move this meeting into a more private setting. The King agreed. Court was adjourned.
Kora was moved to a nearby bedroom and laid down. Komas sat next to her, head in his hands. Ikuinen Lampo was summoned. King Varlur asked her how long she had known Sir Xellous. With the flush of Genevieve's cheeks she revealed she had the ability to know everyone person in her territory, so she had known Sir Xellous his whole life, and the same was true of Kora. She confirmed Sir Xellous and Kora's marriage, and gave the exact day the astrologers had married them in her observatory. Prime Minister Komas did the math and asked if Gerard was actually a legitimized bastard. Sir Xellous delicately told him that Gerard was conceived in a horrific tragedy, and left it at that. Prime Minister Komas checked out after that.
King Varlur asked what the meeting at midnight had been about, and Sir Xellous, Telos, and Ikuinen Lampo explained the plan to find a power source to keep Lampo in her Epiphany Form indefinitely. King Varlur asked why Telos couldn't just go with Lampo; the King had received a vow of fealty from Sir Xellous, after all, and Telos was clearly capable and wise. Telos told the King that Sir Xellous was Ikuinen Lampo's sworn knight, a greater honor than being any King's sworn, and that Sir Xellous was the one who could protect Ikuinen Lampo the best. Sir Xellous agreed; he was sworn to the protection of the whole planet, not just the kingdom, and he needed to do his duty. Ikuinen Lampo only said three words: "I need him", blushed, and said nothing more. King Varlur relented; Sir Xellous would go with them, to the forsaken planet, once the elves returned from their reconnaissance. But once this was over he wanted Sir Xellous back; the oath to the King was not relinquished. Sir Xellous agreed.
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