The Ravaged Mind

For the next few hours, we decorated the house, not saying a word. The maid simply decorated with precision, not really seeking to care about her surroundings. She took care of all the heavy lifting and I took care of all the little details, decorating the bland walls.

But I was distracted, very distracted. It was the man inside me, relaying what I say from the bathroom over and over again. The whole time I was very distant to everything.

Before I knew it, while I was just sitting on the bed staring off into nothingness, I felt a hand grab my  left shoulder lightly.

I look to see the maid, seeming rather concerned for me. "What's wrong Tristan?"

I sigh and lay on the bed, my feet hanging off the side.

"Would you like to talk about it."

I look away and nod, and feel my face is rather warm.

"Is it about the bathroom incident?"

I nod.

"Are you confused how to feel? Because if you are, I'll level with you. I didn't mind that at all, so no need to feel embarrassed."

I mutter 'thanks.' but my blush doesn't go away. "But that's not it... Why would the queen make you wear that just for me..."

"That's-"

"Classified, fine..." I mutter, and look her in the eyes.

"Actually, she just wanted you to have some luxury. She thought owning a maid would help with moving in and cleaning the house. But hey, if the dress was too revealing...."

"Yeah, no maid outfit... But why am I stuck down here?"

"She's afraid of the security of her people. You are alien to this world, and anyone would take you away and interrogate on everything. We can't risk being discovered after so many decades of secrecy."

".... Oh...." I sigh.

"But when the mission is over, you can go Topside."

I grin, "Okay... Can you knock me out first, so I can sleep through it?"

"I can, but first... Tell me about yourself... Where did you come from, what it was like there, and how do you perform magic?" she me in the eye, anticipating mind-blowingly awesome things by the grin on her face.

"..." I smile and sit up, only to lie in the bed properly right after. "Okay, I won't tell you were I'm from so you don't invade it..."

She glares at me immediately.

"I'm only kidding, but where I come from, it's covered mostly by water, like huge seas. My species are the most sentient ones there are, and weve only documented only two percent of what lives or lived-"

She scoffs, and I wait and listen, "No offense but your species sounds really stupid."

"Hey, my planets sixty billion years old and in only five decades or so, have organisms been recorded officially... And if there was one encyclopedia of all of them, the pages could reach to the lowest part of this place to the highest in a tightly bound book."

"Okay, impressive than..."

"Yeah, we're smart but yes, we are quite stupid. We fight with whole armies over something stupid, and many of my species have disorders, addictions, and because of how the planets going, there have been birth problems..."

"Oh my!" she covers her mouth.

"Yeah, it sucks, but because of that we mastered many creativities, keep many traditions from long ago, and have many advances in technology. Some of my people are born geniuses and end up revolutionizing something important of our lives, and our education is very good..."

She frowns at me, "But is that all worth it?"

"My planet is quickly overpopulating, and were running out of resources and the planet is polluted... So much but you can't see it..." I sigh, "But even than, at least we became civil."

"Not worth it."

"Yeah, and the only magic we perform are fake tricks meant to amuse the weaker minds..."

"NO!" she stares with bewilderment and disbelief screaming at me.

"Yeah.... But I don't know much about your world... So tell me, what is up with this place?"

She sighs, and begins explaining everything about this planet in extreme depth, and than after a while something about 'Her Kind' ..... 'Born in eggs.', but I was nodding off, and soon fell asleep afterwards.

But I did dream about everything she just mentioned: the legend of the Princesses, Griffons, Pegisi, Unicorns, basically anything mythical being real... Even world peace.

But what kept relaying in my head, was the legend of the princesses:

The eldest sister, the Day, overshone her sister, Night for a long time. After a bit, Night grew jealous, and manifested in that form(jealousy) and plunged the world in darkness, threatening 'Night Time Eternal'. The eldest had to choose wether to save her people, or wait to save her sister... Day chose her people, and banished her sister on the moon, still trapped in her jealous form. The banished sister would return after a thousand years... Plunging the world into night once more....

And I actually dreamt I was her 'handmaiden of darkness'... But it felt way too real.

And all I could feel that whole night with my unconcious body, is the maid lying on my chest, and a tug on my heart... As if I was being summoned.