Father, daughter

"You dare order me around after causing such a ruckus? " The wolf king, threw what seemed like a slap through the winds that made Roe roll over in the other direction.
As the soldiers scurried to get themselves in order, Lin made a last desperate attempt to look for Mia. The temper of the wolf king didn't seem at all like he had imagined from what Roe was implying. He was as hot headed as his son. Lin finally caught a glimpse of Mia, dusting the dirt off her, standing right in the middle of the commotion. Lin immediately whispered her name. But she didn't seem hear. He called again , a little louder. There was still no response. She instead, walked straight towards the angry king shouting orders at his soldier. She walked as if she was hypnotized. Lin had no other option but to yell this time and tranfer himself to her side. But by that time she was right infront of the Wolf King. As soon as Lin yelled her name, the king and the others too turned in Mia's direction. Just at the moment Lin was about to grab Mia's hand and go, the Wolf king looked at her and called out astonished, "Crystal? "
Mia paused in her track. Lin was dismissed with a swish of the King's hand, like he was fly. The soldiers positioned themselves on guard. But the king dismissed them. He took a few steps towards Mia and called out again, as if questioning "Crystal? "
Both Roe and Lin stood up and looked at the strange interaction.
By that time, Xie too had arrived at the spot and so had his other brothers. The entire palace stared at the duo in dead silence as the king asked one more time, "Crystal? "
"She was my mother, " Mia finally answered, tearing choking her. She had grown up always being compared with her mother. But she had never thought she looked as perfect as her ever. She admired her mother the most. Not only for her beauty but also for her teachings that she imparted to Mia in this life. Mia was still to know about her mothers complete family background. She was yet to know about her sacrifice and life choices. She was yet to know what traits of her she had actually inherited, but being compared to her. Rather being mistaken for her, that too by her father, made Mia very very emotional. She didn't even know how she aught to have behaved infront of a king, leave alone the etiquettes of reuniting with a father.
"Was? " The wolf king seemed to have caught only one word from the entire sentence. It was visible that his joyous eyes immediately turned worried with the mention.
"Mother passed away a few months ago, " Mia let the words out with much difficulty.
The king almost trembled at the words himself. His sons rushed to support him, but he moved them aside.
There followed a long, awkward silence in the midst of which Xie came forward to take Mia and Lin under arrest once again.
The king looked up at his sudden advent .
"What do you think you are doing, you moron? " He yelled at him as soon as he laid his hands on Mia.
"Father , these are fugitives. They are from the fox clan and have trespassed... " but he couldn't complete his words before the king threw the cuff in his hands away and yelled again, " You moron. Can't you see this is a Wolf infront of you. That too of Royal blood. What level of cultivation have your powers dropped to? You can't even make out your own family anymore? "
Lin had his hands over his head. The cat was out of the bag now. Their entire secret was about to be tossed , scrutinised and autopsied infront of the world now. It won't take long for Lin's father to join the fiasco now that the news was out. It was a good thing they had already tackled the onset of the curse, but there was no telling what the aftermath was going to be like. As it is Lin knew Mia was hiding what she had to trade in exchange of the curse being nullified. It was going to get worse with both the families getting involved.
The entire palace was filling with whispers and murmurs.
Roe stared at Mia, calculating and analysing a hundred conclusions at once but finally just saying, "No way. Mia? "
Xie however took a few steps back at the revelation and immediately went to his knees dropping his weapons. The wolf king looked around at the weird atmosphere building up and said, "Let's get inside and finish the rest of this "
He looked at the soldiers in waiting and instructed, "Get these two cleane up, fed and well clothed. When they are ready get them to my inner chamber along with these two. " He pointed at Xie and Roe. " We also might need to send a messenger to the foxes. "
"That wont be necessary, " Lin tried interrupting, but the look the Wolf king gave him, made him retract immediately. " You better save your energy. We have a lot of taking to be done. " The king snared and then marched towards his palace.
The four stranded there, exchanged a look that each had a different meaning for the other. The soldiers then accompanied Lin and Mia towards the refreshment area as Roe helped Xie up from his knees.
"Could you believe. They were the one's responsible for the curse all along. They had been fooling us so well all this time, " Roe was babbling.
"Roe,that's not what is important right now. The curse has been tackled. The important thing is, she is our sister. How do I even face her after all that I have put her through, " Xie exclaimed.
Roe looked at Xie with wonder and said, " You sure do surprise me everytime. That minute you were about to torture her to death inspite of me telling you repeatedly not to, and now you are lamenting over how you are even going to apologise to her? Duh! Brother, you are a work of wonder. " The siblings marched their way inside, planning how they were going to present their case to their father as well.