Rising Suspiscion

When Sent who had lied that her name was Macy, realised that the union between Margaret and the three princes was just around the corner, she panicked.

She watched as Margaret took the measurement for her new dress and Macy secretly eyed Roger. There was work to do, and fast.

While that was going on, Prince Bane could hardly exist alone in Persia, as his mind was in Magus with his girlfriend, wondering whether she had gotten the job as a ''maid.''

''This is all so pathetic.'' Prince Bane paced his throne as he spoke to the only person that he could confide in besides Sent, his uncle, Xavier.

"Bane, this is for the best. Trust Sent to carry out the plan just as she has been doing all this while. Why are you so bothered this time?" Xavier asked his nephew.

"Uncle Xavier, Sent said that she would have to go as far as seducing the Vandersar boys just so that she can sew discord between the supposed Usylon girl and them," Prince Bane complained bitterly.

"By the way, has it been confirmed that she is an Usylon?" Xavier asked.

Prince Bane paused and looked at his uncle carefully.

"Are you also going to pretend to be clueless? No woman has entered that palace for more than twenty years. All of a sudden, one is brought in riding the official royal car and you still dare to ask if it's really an Usylon? Well, I say she is. I have not received any confirmation but I am very sure of myself." Prince Bane refused to deceive himself.

''Nephew, if that is what it will take for you to keep the eight kingdoms under your scrutiniy, then why don't you let her do it?'' Xavier asked.

Prince Bane glanced at his uncle worriedly.

''Or, don't you trust her?'' Xavier continued.

Prince Bane heaved a sigh of wariness.

''It's not like I don't trust her. It's just that...''

''That what?'' Xavier was interested in what made his nephew so worried about his girlfriend taking care of business for him.

''All three of them? What is the tendency that Sent will want to return to Persia? You know how the Vandersar Princes are. The rumours about women clamoring over them, are they not true? Also, they are rumoured to be virgins. Sent, Sent might get swept out of her feet because of them.I don't know. Seducing them might lead to something that she won't be able to back away from later.'' Prince Bane ranted and whined to his uncle.

''Should I send for her to return? You can device another way to get between the Princes and this so-called Usynol that you seem so sure of.'' Xavier got up, he was heading towards the door to leave his nephew to his worries.

''I have my fingers crossed uncle Xavier. When it is time I will know if I should send for her or not.''

In Magus, the Kingdom was agog. In three days, the union that has been stalling for more than five hundred years would come to pass, a union that would see to the end of the calamitious rule of the Prince Of Persia, Prince Bane.

''Have you not had an opportunity to stop this union?'' Roger asked Sent, AKA Macy.

Sent was troubled.

''It's so difficult here. I think seducing any of the Princes is out of the question, since they all have schedules that have nothing to do with me. I don't think it will work out as there has been no chance for me.'' Sent was worried sick.

Roger shook his head.

''Prince Bane is counting on you.'' Roger held Sent's arm and tugged it a little too hard, forgetting that she was the Queen-to-be of Persia.

Sent looked at Roger with an expression that could kill.

''Have you lost your mind?'' Sent said with disgust as Roger quicly bowed his head and looked away from her.

''Forgive me, Queen. It's just... I am as worried as you are. The task would be a more difficult one if the union holds. Prince Bane would face challenge. How do we go about it now?'' Roger asked desperately.

Sent appeared to be thinking hard.

''I know of a poison that...'' She started to speak but Roger interrupted her.

''Poison? My Queen, you want to kill her?'' Roger was troubled.

Sent rolled her eyes.

''Can you allow me land? The poison won't kill her, but it would make her sleep for fourteen days. She would sleep past the union, and might even get buried alive.'' Sent seemed like she had a plan.

Roger was breathing heavily.

''Okay, okay. It will not kill her. But if she gets buried alive it will be because they will think she is dead, right? Is that not the same thing as killing her in the first place?'' Roger was concerned that something they would think was not a big deal would end up back firing on them.

''Then it would have nothing to do with me technically because I only made her sleep. Look, I don't even know why I am asking you to give an opinion. I have always been in charge and I have never failed, so sit back and let me do what I know how to do best, plot and scheme.'' Sent tried to walk out on Roger soon after, but a voice from behind them made her startled.

''You two...'' Larry had entered the living room where Roger and Sent were gossiping and he saw them in a position that made him raise an eyebrow.

''What are both of you up to? What's with the closeness, are you planning something?'' Larry wondered why Roger and Sent were discussing so close to each other.

''He needed help in fixing something around the house, so I was telling him what to do.'' Sent switched back to her disguise and started to play like her false self, Macy.

Larry stared hard at them before he walked away to McGuire to complain about how the pair that was Roger and Sent made him feel from the first day they ever stepped into the palace.

''McGuire, where did you get the maid and the butler from? Ther's something off about them, especially the maid. She always seems to be in a state of anxiety. Where are they from?'' Larry asked McGuire.