Is it a lucky hamster foot?

*Kamila*

“What the hell are you two doing in my office?” ET1 Kane bellows as he rushes through the door.

“Looking for you,” Diana says quickly. —We had important information to tell you, and Miss Kamila needed to find you immediately. But obviously, you're not here, so we decided to go back to her room and wait for you.

He seems to be considering whether that might be true or not. —Well, what do you need to tell me? —She has calmed down a little, but not much. She stands there, stroking her chin.

"Uhm, the important thing... we need to tell you... is... uh... is...?" Diana looks at me with a big question mark over her head, and I'm speechless too, but then something comes to mind.

—It's just... I think... that King Gene believes that you are working with Malena Milly against him!—There it is! That should be enough to divert his attention to what we were actually doing in his office.

"What?" he asks, confusion taking over his face. -What do you mean? How could she know that?

“Well,” I say, trying to think of a reason that makes sense. —She...she talks in her sleep, you know? And when she was trying to seduce one of my ET1s, she fell asleep. And he heard her say that she was going to kill King Gene and make you king. I hope half of what I'm saying sounds credible. I have no idea if Malena Milly talks in her sleep or not.

He looks at me, his face impas...ive, for several long moments before he finally says, “That bit...!” I look at Diana, and she has a relieved expression on her face, but I don't think we're done yet. —How could she do that?

"I don't know," I say, even though the whole story is made up. "I guess he's not as loyal to you as you expected him to be."

"I guess not," he says. An angry look fills her eyes, and she looks into the distance, as if he were plotting Malena Milly's downfall.

Outside, we heard the sounds of ET´s howling and growling at each other. It seems that the battle is getting very close to the castle. I wish I could run out and be carried away by my ET1s' troops, but it would be dangerous. I'm sure ET1 Kane's men would never let me out to the other side of the battlefront.

“Sir,” Diana begins, her head bowed as she appears reverent, “I hate to interrupt your thoughts, but it seems the battle is heating up out there.”

“Battle?” he asks, looking up and then turning his head a few times, as if he'd completely forgotten there was a battle going on. -Oh shit! The battle! Yes, I just came in here to look for the lucky hamster foot.

Once again, Diana and I can't help but exchange questioning glances. "You mean... rabbit's foot?" Diana asks.

—No, no!— He pushes us and walks towards his desk, where he sits down and opens the top drawer. She stirs for a minute and then pulls out a small object on a silver chain. It's hard to tell what it is from here, and I don't want to go near it and look at it. The thought of someone carrying a hamster's tiny foot makes me a little sick.

Just as he's about to get up, he glances down and sees his phone, and then his body language changes, and he looks at it intently.

“Is, uh, everything okay, sir?” Diana asks, and I can feel the sweat starting to accumulate in the small of my back. What are you looking at?

"My phone," he says. —Something is wrong with my phone.

"Is something not right?" Diana repeats. -What do you mean?

The sweat that has accumulated in the small of my back overflows and begins to drip down my butt, sliding down my butt crack... My butt is sweating.

"I mean, someone touched my phone." He raises his eyes and looks at Diana, her gaze piercing and threatening.

I swallow and say, “Oh, you know what? When we, uh, walked by to see if maybe you were... in the... closet, I probably bumped into him. With my huge pregnant belly.

He frowns as he is now looking at me. —Why would you check if she was in the closet? —She asks me.

The closet door is behind his desk, but there's really no reason he would have needed to walk around it to see if it was there, at least not on the phone side. It was the only excuse I could think of.

—Uh...because I thought...maybe you were there, planning what to do with the attacking ET´s. Don't you keep your secret plans in your closet like King Gene does? “Now I'm getting all this out of my as...... my sweaty as......

"Oh," he says. "Does King Gene keep secret plans in a closet in his office?"

Seat. —That is my understanding.

-Interesting. I'll have to inform Malena Milly so she can go in and find those secret plans. Now, you've really helped me, you stupid, fat, pregnant woman. She gives me a wicked smile and then leans over and straightens her phone.

I want to punch him in the nose for calling me all those names, but I have to remember that he's an idiot, and idiots often say stupid things.

Diana grabs my hand. —We have to go back to Kamila's room now. Babies need to nap.

"It's okay," he says. —Thank you for helping me with all this valuable information, Kamila. Now maybe I won't kill all your babies in front of you. Maybe take them to another room to kill them.

"You're a saint," I say as Diana leads me out of the room.

As we walk, she says, "Stay calm." You can't let him make you angry. That's what she's trying to do. Also, if you listen to what's going on outside, I think your ET1s are progressing well. There seems to be a lot of screaming outside, and I doubt your ET1s' troops are screaming like babies.

She is right. I don't want to go back to my as...igned room and wait for the ET1s to rescue me. No, I want to run out to meet them, but I know that's a mistake. I have to stay here and be patient.

I have to trust that my men will come for me, sooner or later.

And I have to trust that they will arrive in time to save me and their children.