CHAPTER HUNDRED AND FORTY
“What seems to be the problem, generals?” I asked, tired of their prolonged silence.
“We just wanted to know what happened. All of this came as a surprise to us and we don't even know why we nearly lost our leader,” Kaid began.
“Yea, the people are anxious and we'd better comfort them about the situation if we could give them a good explanation,” Lyra-en added.
I opened my mouth and closed it, my mind getting fogged up.
“You guys want to commit a coup? Right now?” I accused, anger pouring over my face.
“Of Course not your Majesty!” They echoed in shock and fear.
“So what's the explanation for this crap? I owe you an explanation for how I run my kingdom?!” I screamed in their faces, “you are alive by my mercy! I provide for all of you, I gave you your positions when my father would have never done so and you repay me by questioning my actions?!”
“We're so sorry your highness, forgive our stupidity. This will never happen again,” Astrum pleaded, his form shivering.
The door opened and Zyx walked in.
“I heard screaming,” he said as he looked around the crowded room.
“Your colleagues think I'm a terrible ruler as well as a child –”
“No your highness, we were just trying to –”
“Shut up Lyra-en, you don't cut off his Majesty, no matter what you have to say. If you've gotten too big for your position, why not step down?” Zyx rebutted.
“Please, I'd like you all to leave. Her Majesty is recovering and all of this noise is getting to her,” the doctor interrupted the exchange.
“What are you waiting for? Get out!” I commanded, the room clearing up immediately.
I laid back down, my mind running everywhere, anger filling my veins.
What insubordination!
I didn't need anyone's permission to do anything, especially when it came to my Luminari’s happiness.
The fact that I knew once they got a glimpse of why I had left the ship in the first place would place her in immediate danger made me more livid.
They were simply fishing for reasons to hate her.
We all agreed as a species to evolve and the price for that was that our women were always going to be the second option. The humans would come first, perform their duty and leave; then the male ky’rhan was free to marry WHOMEVER he chose.
I refused to take their stupid excuse for hating her. It was of no one's making that she was my Ky’rhan's Luminari and that the man in me was a bit obsessed with her.
Okay, maybe a little more than that.
But it was stupid to hold her humanity against her when none of this was her fault.
I listened to her thoughts sometimes when she was angry and I'd perceived how she felt about all of this and she was absolutely right.
They should be grateful to her.
Our connection meant so much more than just a relationship; through her, I'm able to give us a new life, a better one.
They definitely should worship the ground she works on.
Then an idea occurred to me.
My gift to her, before she woke up from that coma was going to be a ky'rhan population that loved her and her contribution to our world.
With that thought, I found my phone and scheduled a meeting with the entire inhabitants of the ship by night time.
Then I dozed off, giving my body enough time to recuperate.
***
I stood on top of the makeshift stage across the football field. I'd expanded it a bit to contain more people, even though there were a lot of cameras to carry my voice across the room.
“People of Zorvath,” I called and I got the usual resounding howls and echoing appreciation. “It has been a while since I addressed you guys.” My voice echoed across the huge gathering of people.
I looked across the entire stadium, restraining my anger so I don't mess this up. I needed them to genuinely see reasons before using lethal force in the case of refusal.
“For three hundred years, we lived amongst humans and evolved with them, placing ourselves above them and taking all we could from their primitive planet,” someone hooted in the crowd, and I gave him a steely stare in irritation. “We've outgrown them and have taken their most intelligent, smart and hardworking populace so I called you all here today to let you know that I'm abolishing the classism among us. Every human is to be given as much respect as a Moderate. We're still working on the technology to ensure everyone of us is either Moderate or ABC and nothing less but that'll be possible in the new Zorvath we're heading to.” I paused and watched their expressions.
Someone stood up from the crowd and I was about to berate them for the interruption but I decided to give him the attention he sought. After all, it was quite brave of him to do that. Hopefully, he wasn't a complete idiot.
“Yes?” I asked and someone rushed over to him with a mic on my command.
“Your Majesty,” he cleared his throat, bowing his head a little bit. “I would like to know what made you feel this change was necessary. I mean, they're obviously complaining and all but that has never affected us negatively. In fact, their complaints have only shown how inferior they really are so why change what already works?”
I saw the crowd echo their support for him, agreeing that change should only happen when it affects them and not others.
I watched them, marking faces and profiling it at the back of my head. Some where wise enough to keep quiet but it was obvious that I'll be the most unpopular leader they've ever had. Most of these ky'rhans had lived through three kings since our life span reached five hundred compared to humans who shrivelled and died before clocking hundred.
So I knew the council especially was going to try to undo my reforms but I made it my duty to do everything they needed. One thing you could always depend on from a ky’rhan was gratitude.
I raised my hand and the noise died down.
“It's obvious your opinion of these humans and their contributions to our species is outdated. So let me educate you. I'll be using your queen, my wife and Luminari as a case study.”
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