Queen Yavara Ch. 53

"What's your point?"

"You have a natural connection with them, don't you? They should all hate you, and yet, they come to your chambers every night after spending only a day with you, while Yavara struggles to connect with them. I knew Elena briefly, but I could tell instantly that she loved Yavara with all her heart, and yet... you stole her. Why do you think that is?" He raised his finger as if an idea had suddenly popped into his head, "Actually, I think a more pertinent question is, would Elena have loved you if she hadn't been turned into a hybrid?"

"We hated each other before."

"Before... yes, I'd like to venture back to the 'before;' that time when Yavara had not yet transformed. Now, I've heard rumors about you and your..."

I rolled my eyes. "Yes, I was fucking my dad."

He smiled devilishly. "Wonderful. So, as a teenager, you were in a sexual relationship with your father, which you used as leverage to gain power years before you were supposed to. You became a premier diplomat by the time you were nineteen, and you had ordered your first assassination... when?"

"Six months earlier."

"Even better. And all this time, what was Yavara doing? Well, she was a virgin girl who liked to shoot arrows and skip class to play in the woods. Hmm... I wonder which one of you was supposed to be the Dark Queen? If Yavara hadn't merged with Alkandi, what would she have been? A trophy wife. But let's pretend for a second that you weren't the firstborn, and Yavara was the heir. Do you honestly believe that you would've ever let her live long enough to even sniff the throne?"

"No."

"And so, here we are." Titus said grandly, "Yavara struggles interminably to find commonality with the hybrids she herself created, and you bond with them even when they hate you. Yavara made this country, but she doesn't fit into it. You tried to destroy this country, and you fit right in."

"Yavara mistakes being a slut for having a personality; that's why people don't like her."

"It's a bit more complicated than that."

"And I don't give a shit, so I'll ask you for the final-fucking-time, why are you here?!"

"For Adrianna." He said simply, "Whether she likes it or not—and I daresay she absolutely hates it—she's bound to you now. She chose you over Yavara for some unfathomable reason, and for an even more unfathomable reason, I trust her judgement." Titus considered me with his red eyes, "You've been pregnant before."

"Briefly."

"And your sister is infertile; did you know that? It's strange. I once asked Adrianna why she thought Yavara transformed high-elves into hybrids. She said—"

"Just get to the fucking point!"

He considered me with a wry smile, "Yavara was transformed through sex, and so she transforms through it as well. Alkandi can only merge with high-elf hosts since dark-elves went extinct, and only through sex, and so only elves are transformed when Yavara has sex with them. Whatever is inside Yavara is unstable. It's trying to get out. Her body and soul merged with something incompatible, and it's rejecting it—it's rejecting Alkandi. And when Yavara's body and soul find a host that can bear Alkandi, she will give all of Alkandi to that host."

I just blinked at him.

Titus winked back. "There's a reason Alkandi came back so infrequently. Kindred spirits share more than just personalities. They share expressions, mannerisms, weaknesses, strengths, speaking tones, behaviors, etcetera... She chose you, but she found someone else—an egg with magical potential beyond anything she'd known before. Yavara may have become a mage the likes of Zander Fredeon if Alkandi hadn't suppressed the magic, kept it hidden so as to avoid scrupulous eyes. She got greedy. She bit off a bit more than she could chew." He smirked at me, "I'm sure you understand the sentiment well right now. Find your way between your sister's legs, and you will find a way to survive. It's your only chance, little queen."