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Zylith.

Ola' people. I just wanna say, I'm not in a good mood today. Why you ask? Because I had been bestowed another enlightenment today; If I was a bird, I now know who I would shit on.

Oh, I think you guys have guessed it out already, but I'm still going to narrate my sob-story to you guys today, otherwise I don't know where else I would be able to vent out my frustrations. So bear with me people_

Reuben didn't speak much after his heart to heart with me. He and lord Gilbert left me to attend to their respective royal duties, but I had a gut feeling about the recent changes in the wind. I felt nothing was going to be the same anymore. And No, I was not being paranoid. When I say that you should always trust your gut, please do not question my supposition. Your brain can be fooled, and your heart is an idiot, but your gut doesn't know how to lie.

Maybe I was a bit timid about the entire turnabout of the situation, but there was nothing to be done anymore. Reuben couldn't take back his words nor could I unhear them now. As such, I had resigned all else to my fate and decided to get some much-needed beauty sleep.

However, the next thing I remember was screaming at the top of my lungs in fright.

Why you ask? Well, I was drowning in my sweet dreamland when an outlandish rude intruder decided to invade my dreams and crudely destroyed my beautiful leisurely dream world.

The very next second, I almost had a myocardial infraction as all I saw was spinning stars and a whirling white and black, which for your information almost turned me blind.

There are some things that you must know about me(Ahem! Other than the fact that I hate admitting that I'm in the wrong), I hardly ever regretted any of my decisions in life. But at this moment, after a very long time, I really really regretted one of my decisions that I recently took. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I regretted ever being in cahoots with this whacky sadistic mummy king. And I lamented the demonic hour which muddled my senses to so casually hand over my precious torchlight as a mere compensation gift to him.

This jerkface was lunatic enough to grab one of my eyelids open and shine the 1000 lumen torchlight into my befuddled eyes with a loud "HAA!" shout into my poor ears.

I was so scared I thought I was really a goner this time.

"GHAAAAAA! Wha-What!! What the f*uck!!! Jesus! Who died!!" My stumped jumbled up thoughts were still in a disarray while I wildly looked around to probe for any danger. But the only danger I saw before me was a wicked man with a sly pretty smile, staring at me as if I was his all-time favourite toy in the world.

"We are so sorry to startle you like that Your Highness. But no matter what we did, you were like a dead fish floating belly-up in water. So finding no other alternative, His Majesty took the liberty to wake you up." There was a tiny smile on lord Gilbert's comely lips, as if he was very satisfied with the result.

I gawked at the two handsome men in sheer bafflement as they talked animatedly amongst themselves.

"Your Majesty, what is that amazing light that you just used on Her Highness? It is so incredible and unconceivable." Lord Gilbert asked in awe.

"Oh this? It is my wedding gift from my wife. A marvellous present indeed, isn't it?" Reuben smiled in a pleasant mood, as if he had acquired a treasure amidst treasures (I really wanted to strangle him right now).

"My my! What a wonderful present. Your Highness, I should really applaud you for such a spectacular present. With this, we don't have to worry about losing our voices while shouting just to wake you up. This is amazing! Where may I ask is it that you found such a splendid device?" Lord Gilbert's eyes were shining with innocent glittering stars of expectations and excitement.

On the other hand, I was gritting my teeth so hard that I felt I would grind them into dust if I didn't stop my grounding. To make matters worse, in the background of Lord Gilbert's excited chatters, I could hear a certain annoying person's stifling titters.

My bloodshot eyes glowered hard at the two excited offenders as I thought, 'Damn it! It's all my fault. What was I doing handing him over a loaded 1000 lumen torch light. It's like handing him a loaded gun and hoping and wishing he wouldn't shoot me with it. I even suggested him to shoot me with it! Am I an idiot or am I an idiot?'

"..... Gentlemen, can I ask the both of you to go sit on a cactus?" I looked at the both of them dead in the eyes and blurted out those words with a straight face.

The two men silently stared back at me for about a minute, and then there it was again.

The irritating bouts of laughter that filled up my days lately.

King Reuben_The-irritating-mummy finally morphed up into the very familiar lunatic seal once more, and the room was filled with humorous hoots of laughter. This time, even lord Gilbert along with the handful of servants in the backdrop joined him. What could be more humiliating than this?

I wished to 'do a Daphne' and drop through a scooby-doo style trap door in the floor. But there was no rescue from this embarrassment. It was absolute. Torture. Utter humiliation. The memory would be seared into my brain forever, ready to pop up and torment me again when I'm ever in a quiet moment with this jerk mummyface.

"Ahem! I am apologetic if I had scared you my lady." Reuben somehow contained his chortles.

No, you aren't!

"You see, you were sleeping like the dead and it is already time for supper, so when the maid-servants came to wake you up and you didn't respond, they got scared and appealed Gilbert to come take a look. But even poor Gilbert was dead in the water when it came to wake you up, so he called me and I had to take matters into my own hands. I hope you're not too offended my queen." I could clearly see the playful glee dancing in his green eyes as he narrated the following events. Even a blind could tell he was not sorry for what he did at all, on the contrary, he rather enjoyed it.

I was so angry I wanted to make him cry a f*cking river and drown him in it. But my rotten luck, I was not an opponent of this guy. But that didn't mean I would forgive and forget. He dared to fondle my trigger, now he could not blame my gun.

"Dear Lizzy, you can't blame me for your sleeping habits. Drastic measures like these are necessary, this was why you gave me this torch in the first place, isn't it?" He smiled wryly at me, because he knew I couldn't refute him. After all, it was me who had proposed him the idea of waking me up with that wretched torchlight.

I grounded my teeth and fisted my hands till my knuckles turned white as I grunted in reluctance, ".... Yes Your Majesty, can I be excused to freshen up please?"

"But of course, I shall await your arrival at the dining hall." He still had that wry smile on his face but finally let me off the hook.

I wordlessly walked towards the washroom and angrily slammed the door behind me. I was a heavy sleeper, but not heavy enough to shine a 1000 lumen torchlight into my eyes. Today I was specially tired, both mentally and physically, and as a result I had to undergo such drastic measures to be woken up.

I was seventy percent mad and thirty percent embarrassed. I knew my sleeping habits, once my mother emptied a basin of ice-cold water on my head to wake me up when I pulled an all-nighter because of exams. So it was no surprise to me that they couldn't wake me up no matter how hard they tried.

I silently tried to calm my nerves and consoled myself, saying they had no other choice.

After clearing my murderous thoughts, I cleaned up and came out of the washroom. The maidservants wanted to come in to help me freshen up, but I denied saying I needed some alone time to take a breather. I really did, else I feared the chains of my mood swing would snap and I would end up committing unthinkable crimes.

By the time I dressed up and entered the dining room, Reuben along with Alexteris and lord Gilbert were already seated in their respective places, and the dishes were served.

I furrowed my brows when I saw the two brothers sitting side by side wearing identical clothing, as if they were trying to impersonate a clone of each other.

"What's the big idea? Are you guys playing some game like trying to see who can replicate whom better?" I asked.

One of them softly chuckled while the other sniggered in silence. Both had their faces covered with the ever so popular mummy bandages. I wondered how they were not itchy under those torturing pieces of bindings.

"Your Highness, can you tell which of the two brothers is His Majesty and which is prince Alexteris?" Lord Gilbert asked with gleaming eyes.

I knitted my brows further and asked, "What is this? Another test?"

"Take it as it may Highness, it is just something that His Majesty is curious about. Your ladyship doesn't have to fret too much over it." Lord Gilbert smiled amicably, but I don't know why I smelled that the matter went way beyond deep.

Well, no use mulling over it without getting any hints. So, I did as they asked of me, "Isn't Reuben the one on the left?" I shrugged as I pointed him out.

For a second there, two out of the three people in the room wore dumbstruck faces, as if electrocuted by lightning itself. Now I wondered why that was.

"Why are you so certain? You didn't even wait to consider." Asked on of the two Royals.

I, as in turn, looked at them weirdly, "Erm.... what was there to even consider. I could tell which one of you is king Reuben the moment I set foot into this room. However fake I maybe, you guys still shouldn't underestimate me, you know. Fake as it might be, I'm still His Majesty king Reuben's wife. Not to mention the fact that both of your statures and voices don't match in the least, how could I not recognize my husband. I'd have to be plain dumb, deaf and blind to not recognize him between the two of you." I shrugged in nonchalance.

Whereas the very next second, Alexteris and lord Gilbert's speechless expression grew even graver.

"..... I couldn't identify His Majesty between the two." Lord Gilbert grumbled in a sullen manner.

I whipped my head to look sharply at Lord Gilbert and frowned, "What! Really!?" I was very taken aback to say the least. Lord Gilbert had been with the mummy brothers way longer than me, it was puzzling why he said that he couldn't differentiate the two of them.

"Hey! Woman, how could you tell? What tricks did you use huh? My disguise is still in full force, how the hell could you tell?" Alexteris flared up in agitation.

I was a bit baffled myself for I didn't understand what the hell was going on around here, "I... what are you even talking about? Your auras are a dead giveaway. Can't you see the difference at all?"

Lord Gilbert silently shook his head while Alexteris's scowl grew more and more profound when he heard me. During this entire farce, the only unaffected person was Reuben, who sat tranquilly beside Alexteris, without making a single peep.

"Brother!" Alexteris turned towards his omnipotent brother for an explanation as he felt Reuben would definitely have an answer to this enigma. So did we, so both me and Lord Gilbert turned towards Reuben for a clarification.

He let out a lazy fox-smile and muttered, "Well, from what I can deduce from the current situation, I think Fake Lizzy can somehow see through our glamor."

"What!! She can see through our glamor!? That... how could this be brother?" Alexteris was disconcerted to say the least.

I roved my eyes over the three people in the dining hall in confusion, "Can I ask what exactly is going on here?"

All three men in my team now were looking at me like I was the most exotic animal in the whole wide world, however their awed gazes didn't give me any good feelings.

"Well you see Fake Lizzy, it seems I've really got lucky choosing my ally this time, you've got the Dios eyes." Reuben smiled wider as he talked.

I furrowed my brows deeper as I stared at him in utter confusion, still not comprehending what he meant.

"... What do you mean?"

"'The all-seeing Dios Eyes' is something that rarely comes into existence in a thousand years. There has been records of only one possessor of Dios Eyes since time unknown. Really, we have just read about them only in books, no one even knew if they were real until today Your Highness." Lord Gilbert explained, "The Dios eyes are said to be most invincible eyes in the entire world, they can see through any deception or illusion magic. It is said that when Dios eyes really awaken, they give off a glow of heavenly gold, as if they were made from ceramic rich gold itself. Have your eyes ever glowed golden?"

"What! Wait wait wait, I think you guys have mistaken me for someone else. FYI my eyes are the most mundane eyes you will ever come across. They are so ordinary that people even dismiss me sometimes as a being without eyes." I knew I was blabbering nonsense, but you can't blame me, I was pretty freaked out here. I didn't want to be some superhuman with magical all-seeing eyes. What if someone comes to know about this magic eyes nonsense and try to dig out my poor eyes because of greed. I did not even want to consider the possibility that I might possess some kind of magic eyes. That was really too scary if you just ask me.

"That is true." Reuben agreed with my comment as if he was one of those people who found my eyes ordinary enough to dismiss them. Honestly, I was a bit ticked off at his prompt agreement, but I couldn't really say anything against my own comments now, could I?

"What is FYI?" A curious Lord Gilbert cheeped in.

"Oh, 'For Your Information'. Abbreviations you know." Gosh, sometimes I forgot that I was in the feudal times. My slip of tongue(sigh).

Both Reuben and Lord Gilbert made 'Ohhh! I get it now' expressions whereas mummy brat Alexteris intervened in violently, "What! What, why are you people going off-track? Does it matter if people see her as an eyeless monster or what FYI mean? What's important here is that whether this girl really has the eyes of Dios or not!"

Oi! Of course it matters if I'm seen as an eyeless mons-... wait! Did this fake mummy brat just call me an Eyeless monster!?

I tartly looked at the annoying prince Alexteris in absolute resentment, but no one seemed to be paying any attention to me.

"You know, I'm actually very pretty if you close your eyes." But still no one seemed to have heard me at all, or they were just blatantly ignoring me to my face. The nerve!

"Ahem! That is true indeed." Said Lord Gilbert to which Reuben just nodded in silent consent. Oi Oi Oi! Who were they agreeing to?

"Brother, how are you so sure that she has got the Dios eyes. How did you even come to that conclusion?"

Yes, yes. Even though I don't like you bratty prince, you still ask the precise questions sometimes.

"Ah yes, well its simply because she can see through our glamor." Reuben in turn, shrugged in indifference.

"What! Just because of that? Brother, I don't think it's an ample reason for you to establish such a grave fact based upon these feeble speculations. You know that this could change the flow of power in this world, right?" Alexteris spoke in a frantic tone.

"Of course I know." Reuben nodded all the more.

"Then I think we shouldn't come to such a hasty conclusion. I mean, she doesn't even have golden eyes. Maybe it's something else."

"I agree with the prince as well, sire." Lord Gilbert bobbed his head in concord too.

And in this entire conversation, these people had me utterly lost.

"Sorry to burst your excited bubble, but what are you guys even talking about? Care to explain?" I looked at them in exasperation.

"Oh yes. I apologize my queen; I should have explained to you earlier." Reuben gave me a lopsided wry smile and said, "You see, you asked me why other people couldn't differentiate between me and Lexter, right? That is because we use glamor to disguise ourselves."

"... Glamor!?" I frowned intensely. "You mean fairy glamor kind of stuff?"

"Whatever is that my lady?" Reuben frowned back at me, puzzled.

"Err... never-mind, continue with what you were saying." I shook my head hopelessly.

"As you can see, no one other than you can tell the difference between the two of us. This is a magic that only circulates amidst the royal Regalious family of Reveldron. It flows in our blood and each one of us can impersonate anyone we wish to be." Reuben said.

"Magic?" Wait! Magic really existed in this world? Woah! Who am I kidding! I was brought here from the 21st century, what else can't happen in this world.

"Yes magic." He smiled sweetly at me, as if telling me a bedtime story, "Why else do you think we are the ruling class? Because the only Regalious family holds true power. We do not know why or how we were bestowed this power, but in every offspring of the Regalious blood, this power manifests and flourishes. No one other than us can use magic and it is a national secret of this nation. In the fear of other individuals trying to covet our power, it is the absolute obligation of the royal family of Reveldron to put anyone who knows about our powers to death." This guy was still smiling elatedly as he kept talking.

I could almost see the scythe of Death looming over my neck as he continued, "So you see, I deduced that you might be a possessor of the all-seeing Dios eyes because only you could see through our disguised glamor in a heartbeat."

"....Erm... wha-What about the law of putting the people who knows your secrets to death?" I gulped in fear as I stammered out my concerns.

"Ah about that," the mummy jerk's smile just got creepier when he heard me, "Do not worry my fake Lizzy, you shall not be put to death so easily."

What the hell did that even mean!!! Does that mean I would be put to death once I completed my mission???

All kind of gruesome and terrifying thoughts clouded my mind when I heard his words, "T-Then, what about Lord Gilbert? Wouldn't he be executed since he came to know about your secret too?" I asked in panic.

"Oh, Gilbert is family you see, he is my mother's dead brother's wife's little brother. So I don't have to worry about him stabbing me in the back." He smiled like an harmless child who was talking about toys and balloons rather than spewing national secrets to outsiders.

"... Your Majesty, I can't help but doubt your words about letting me go once all of this travesty is over." I muttered in hopeless despair when I saw his sugary smile deepening.

"Oh no, Fake Lizzy. Do not worry please, I shall definitely keep my word. How could I not, I am many things, but a liar is not one of them." His sickening smile was still intact to his face like super glue.

"For the sake of my sanity, I hope so too." I just sighed resignedly to his words, what else could I do other than following his lead at this point in the game. I was stuck between a rock and a hard place, nowhere else to turn to. And this sly devil of a king knew this very well.

"Now then, do you have any questions you're curious about Fake Lizzy?"

I eyed him sceptically