There were interesting retionships going on too!
The biggest one that Matilda was speechless about was Madeline and an emperor! She was witness herself as both her and Madeline were walking like pros!
Madeline had wanted to walk because she was good at it, and Matilda wasn’t against it and so fun was to be had! Let it be known of an obvious fact that was happening here, the girls were drunk!
But it seemed it wasn’t the first time that the red haven emperor would follow after, like Matthew was to Matilda, and catch a certain drunken girl when she was about to fall!
Well, Matilda, all she could do is ugh! It probably looked very insensitive but to her it was hirious!
“I win! You fell over!”
And so, even though Madeline was obviously in a man’s arms, the conversation kept going, almost like it was natural to be caried and watched over like that!
…Except it happened to Matilda too and so both girls were compining about who stopped walking first while being carried…
It was only in the morning that Matilda looked into the memories of both the red haven king and Madeline that she saw it wasn’t the first time that he had held her like that.
The red haven king was indeed becoming quickly affected by Madeline. It was almost like she was everything he wanted in a woman…He hadn’t even known he wanted a particur type of woman!
He had done what he had to do as king and married a few women. He’d got a few kids, and the sex had been good…But Madeline was a first in a few cases!
Never did he think that flirting was such a scary thing!
So many times, he had just wanted to kiss her and take her! Holding himself back was the scary part because he had never had to worry so much about this urge before!
Then, she had drunkenly told him many times that he was the ‘right age’…He was sure that was a good thing…Positive…
But there were more things that just kept being added to the list upon why he was getting so attracted to her!
She was amusing! The childish thoughts and actions she had wasn’t all bad…She could be mature, and do as she was told, but it was almost like she choose to be an innocent child at other times…Even though she was most definitely an adult! Hell, she was into her thirties, and for a dy that old and still not married…It could be said that the not so young dy will become a maid!
He just didn’t understand it! He didn’t know how he could like such a person! He thought he’d like a more mature woman that held grace and smarts but…This girl was the opposite and…It was fun!
It took the red haven emperor three days to finally talk to Madeline when she wasn’t drunk. He needed to confirm his attraction to her!
If he wasn’t attracted to her when she was sober, then he could leave it all behind and just put it down to lust and not having sex in many months!
…It wasn’t to be so though…Madeline might be different when drunk but she was still a bit flirty and childish, making him sigh quite often…She was active, perhaps too active, she was also different in the way of obtaining information. She remembered him because he was older, not because he was the red haven king. She did indeed have attraction for the men that were older than her, much older. Hell, she even got along with the blue haven emperor on most occasions!
The problem was, she didn’t show much in the way of feelings for him. Most of the times he would keep a distance knowing that any kind of retionship was bound to be doomed anyway but not even knowing how she felt for him didn’t help give him any kind of courage!
So, it was almost a stalemate…Or something of the kind…
***
The kinds of ‘races’ that Matilda put the golden heirs through were interesting.
It gave her some nostalgia when she asked them questions, like what she had done in purple haven a long time ago. This time though, after Matthew had asked his questions, the emperors took over, asking some questions of their own.
That day was a bit of an eye opener, as the emperors not only felt included but also found a few golden heirs didn’t have a clue on how to handle some situations…Even if the questions do seem quite easy…
There was another challenge for each of them to build a bit of golden haven…Which actually wasn’t as bad as Matilda thought it would be! In fact, it went so well that Matilda put up a pque and stated on it that this was a challenge to help obtain the golden emperor…Well, you never know…Perhaps it might come in handy for when they need to pick another one!
They all were shown how the haven used to look, which is what their challenge was, and the way they had all done it was really quite interesting!
The blue haven golden heir pretty much demanded a ‘helper’ from the crowd, funnily enough that ‘helper’ couldn’t actually help much because he was too old! The blue haven emperor had poked his tongue out and told his grandson to get someone else! But he had made it work! It was all for show, apparently, as the blue haven emperor’s job was to just do small tasks and be there to tease!
…Of course, the blue haven emperor teased his son back and so there were a few ughs!
Nate used his cultivation and did it ‘his’ way, trying to make it sound like his way was even better than that of the st golden haven’s way. To a regard he had a point, he was quite convincing…Well considering his history, it made sense!
Austin stared at Matilda for a while, and she stared right on back. He was wondering something, yes…A trade…
She wasn’t at all surprised when he finally came to her and asked if he could make a trade with her, that she could build for him, and he would do something for her in return. The emperors didn’t like it at all!
So, Matilda had to quickly think about what Austin would have to do, in return for her to pretty much do his job!
Actually, meals were dwindling down! Getting more meat and cooking more in the kitchen would really come in handy!
It took some time, perhaps twenty minutes, to think about it, but Matilda did turn towards the emperor’s and did state she did have something that Austin could do in return for her to build and asked them to hear her out.
It was through that way that Austin had to ‘entertain’ the emperors in the afternoon by taking on beasts in the amphitheater. It was a win win situation and Matilda could only be even more interested in Austin. She was sure that he was probably her favorite horse!
Building their areas, it was hard to pick! Of course, Matilda got top marks, even though it was supposed to be marks for Austin…But even Nate did surprisingly well in the emperors’ eyes. It was a talent after all to prove that one way is better than another and show good reasons for it!
Another challenge was how they treated different types of people. This was quite the challenge as Matilda had to teleport people from other havens. For instance, a golden heir from blue haven would have to pacify and reassure teleported people from red haven, and all those people would range from commoners to nobles, old and young.
This was done one at a time and the emperors had to practically hide around the side, so that they couldn’t be seen and could not interfere.
It was indeed a very interesting challenge!
Nate didn’t do that well, being quite demanding and not giving them any kind of information. Austin was quite formal, going as far as to get a chair for an elderly man to sit on…He nearly made the emperors be seen by the people by doing that, but Matilda knew that that wasn’t his intention.
The dusk haven heir had had it after this, having done a terrible job at keeping some children from screaming for their parents. He had thought it was hard for him and easier for others. He compined and insulted Matilda, making Matthew go to take action, only to be stopped by the golden heir as he stated that he was leaving!
Of course, during this type of challenge the old and young people were compensated, as Matilda gave them all some sum. It wasn’t much, but most of them accepted the sudden teleportation after receiving the payment…The ones that didn’t like what had happened still took the payment but couldn’t do anything about their discomfort simply because they were back home before they could say much about it!
The biggest problem was that no particur heir was chosen still. All they had to do was either tell Matilda or write it down on the big wall.
If they all agreed to the name, they could all go home but…No name had been written, and it had already been four days since they had arrived!
What else were they to do!? How many challenges did Matilda have to come up with!? As it was, she was stretching her own limits here!
Taking a sip on the fourth night, Matilda went into contemption. What was she going to do tomorrow!?
“You should have a night off, my dear.” Matthew stated, taking her drink away from her.
Letting him be bossy, she sighed, “It’s hard not to drink when everyone else is doing it!”
“The Blue Haven Emperor isn’t doing it.” He stated, holding her hand once again.
“That’s because he’s too old!” Matilda stated, in no way meaning that as an insult…It was just pointing out what she thought was fact!
“I’m an elder and I drink!” Christian said, quite loud, even though he wasn’t too far away.
“Are you actually agreeing to being old?” Matilda asked him.
“No, I’m an elder.” Christian simply said back.
Matilda frowned and shook her head in irritation, “You…You talked when you didn’t need to say a word, almost like you are instead saying that you are old, and you still drink!”
“…Yeah! I still drink!” He said, a little confused.
Matilda rolled her eyes, done with the conversation! That man, he might be getting some ‘elderly’ problems!
There was one particur person who was dead silent as a female had gone to the extent of touching him under the table…
He wasn’t one to pry into another decision or to thoroughly wonder about just one simple action, but he was completely speechless.
Madeline had accidentally hit him at first, having not even realized how close he was to her, but she had shrugged and left her hand there…Liking the fact that he hadn’t pushed it away…
It was all so thrilling!
Both of them seemed to ‘act’ like nothing was wrong, even though they weren’t doing much, but below the table is where their thoughts were!
He finally put his hand on hers, unable to help himself, and could only smile, like her, when their fingers folded together. Had he sat next to her just to do this? Perhaps he just wanted to be near her…Whatever it was, the red haven emperor felt his heart pumping, almost making him worry about his health!
