knew that to prevent anything like this from happening again I had to start trusting those closest to my rule in this world. I needed to create some inner fucking circle because doing this solely on my own and keeping my girl safe at the same time, was what I now knew an impossible task. So, I had to take a different approach to this realm just as I did topside.
Which was why, the moment my army backed away from my abrupt and furious arrival, I snapped out my orders,
“Where is Carn’reau?!” My general’s second in command stepped forward, another dark Fae who was named Alvaro. And well, if the rumours were true, then he was also like a brother to Carn’reau. This was no doubt strengthened by the fact his loyalty had also been gained due to joining him when both were cast from their realm. Although his loyalty to me as King was also shown when he lowered to a knee and bowed a head.
“Rise and speak,” I told him making him do as I asked, and when he did, he removed his helmet at the same time. This meant that when I was now faced with the mountain of a muscle bound Fae, I did so by staring into a pair of startling light blue eyes. Eyes that were a stark contrast to his midnight black skin with hues of blue over prominent features.
A harsh and serious story was told in his ancestry from his high cheekbones and keen gaze. The same hues of blue dusted the top of his forehead near the hairline and down the bridge of his nose. This same colour was also seen in the thick snakes of dreads that were tied back off his face and could be seen reaching his waist down his back.
“Carn’reau is dealing with the witch, my lord,” Alvaro answered in that deep gravelly voice of his, though it had to be said, he wasn’t your typical Empyrean being. For this was what all Fae were known as. That being if their ancestry was more than just myth.
Empyrean was known as the highest part of Heaven, thought by the ancients to be the realm of pure fire and where all light Fae had been created. But as for the dark Fae, well they had been born in the Empyrean of Hell and ironically one not made of fire, like Hell is known for, but one purely of the darkness.
The two most powerful forces of all Elemental beings. It was said that eons ago, the two Empyrean sides collided, and it created the Elemental realm. A world not of Heaven or Hell but of both. It was thought that if all the worlds combined were made up of layers, then Heaven would be at the top. Of course this also meant that the Earth realm would be in the middle and Hell situated at the bottom, meaning then that the Elemental realm would have been what was sandwiched in between. However, these realms were not made up like this, they were made from gateways and portals. Which meant that looking up to the sky and praying was utterly fucking pointless unless you thought God might be on a plane!
It was why I always shook my head and rolled my eyes when I saw humanity making these mistakes, even if we ourselves had adopted the habit. The reason these habits existed of course was that the gateways or portals to get to these other realms were usually the ones found underground, not the actual realms themselves. For no sky existed under the Earth’s crust, just as lands existed in the realm of Heaven and not every Angel or God there lived in the fucking clouds!
The truth was that geographically, it was more accurate to say that most of these worlds existed side by side to one another. Admittedly Hell was the lowest of them all, which was why it was always referred to as being ‘down in Hell’. And contrary to human belief, Hell wasn’t all fire and brimstone either. Nor was it just hordes of soulless demons gorging themselves on the souls of others or torturing the vessels of what once belonged to the evils of mankind.
No, it was a world like any other…admittedly a more brutal one than most, but it had an economy just the same. It had a food chain among its races and creatures like the animal kingdom and humanity of Earth.
Demonic beings worked, they