A Flower and her Knight Episode 3

THE DOOR Timmy wakes up and sees his six-year-old self running with Xylina in the woods covered with blue flowers. He runs after them and gasps when he sees his mother jumping at the younger Timmy and starts to devour him in front of Timmy. After she had finished eating the younger Timmy, Xylina smiles and walks towards Timmy and reminds him to bring the blue flower/ the faceless blue girl to her if he fails, she will eat him too just like she ate the younger Timmy a few minutes ago. Timmy wakes up from his dream and finds himself naked in a bed in a strange room with the wound in his abdomen completely healed with no scar over it. He suddenly hears a boy talking in the room, at first, he doesn’t see him but then he sees a tall boy with long silver hair coming out from a wall after he had camouflaged himself. They look at each other and Timmy recognized him as the boy who winked and blew him a kiss at the market and he blushes in front of the boy. The boy introduced himself as ASH (14) and Timmy also introduced himself saying he is so surprised to be there in the same room with one of the soon-to-be Queen Lily's new knights. Timmy also tells Ash that he was chased by wolves into the cave and Ash is surprised to hear that from him, telling him that wolves are extinct because they were killed a long time ago by Hashina and the royal knights. Ash gives Timmy his clothes and tells him not to worry about the wound on his abdomen, after he wears the uniform Timmy follows Ash to the dining hall. On the way, Timmy asks Ash if Queen Lily had already chosen her knight but Ash tells him that she was not ready to choose her knight yesterday but she will choose him tonight in the main hall. Timmy also asks Ash if he has ever seen Queen Lily’s face without her veil and Ash answers him no one is supposed to see Queen Lily’s face except for her father and her future knight after she had chosen him. Everybody else will be able to see her TRUE FACE after the Cleansing. Ash takes Timmy to the dining hall and when they enter inside, they see 6 other boys who are the sons of royal knights like Ash. HUNTER (15) and ACE (14) who is the identical twin brother of Ash and CASEY (13) start mocking Timmy and calling him an Ie’ongj which is an offensive word used for someone who doesn’t have a royal knight’s blood. Ash gives his seat to Timmy which is between two other boys called GEN (13), an Asian boy, KELVIN (13), a black boy and beside Kelvin is HERBERT (8) a mixed young boy with huge spectacles who is Janey’s younger brother. Ash leaves the dining hall and comes back with Janey and two older Queen Lily’s royal knights. A middle age blonde woman called EMLYN (42) who is the mother of Janey and Herbert and a huge redhead man called ETHAN (42), Hunter’s father. Janey orders all the boys to leave the dining hall so that Emlyn and Ethan could talk alone with Timmy and they oblige. The knights start interrogating Timmy asking him how he was brought here into Queen Lily’s castle by entering one of their secret caves found in the forest. They are surprised to hear that the wolves led him to the cave but they are shocked when they see the Wolf Crest Timmy is wearing on his neck. They ask him about his family and where they live and Timmy tell them everything about his family and their whereabouts and also says the Wolf Crest was given by his mother, Xylina when he was a baby. Ethan also shows him his RED BOAR CREST on his silver necklace and tells Timmy that he was given the crest by his father 30 years ago during the last Cleansing. He and Emlyn are surprised to see a farm boy wearing one of Queen Lily’s special crests which are only given and worn by the royal knights through their bloodline that is being transferred from a parent to his/her child during the Cleansing. Since he has already received the WOLF CREST from his mother, Emlyn and Ethan call Timmy a WOLF KNIGHT. They also tell him that Timmy and his family must be killed before sunset because his family’s bloodline is associated with wolves which is a threat to Queen Lily and he must be killed before he comes into any contact with the little Queen. Emlyn orders the guards to put Timmy in a dungeon so as to be killed later that evening and Ethan promises him that his whole family will be killed too on the same day so as to make sure there are no more wolves roaming around in the kingdom. In the dungeon, Timmy is distraught and he starts crying, he hears the invisible ghost girl whispering in his ear again, telling him to come and see her in her garden. Timmy angrily refuses her and throws his fists in the air wanting to hit the ghost girl but the ghost girl only giggles and promises him she will see him later and also kissed him on his nose. In the library, Emlyn and Ethan are sitting with the other royal knights talking about how their sons are anxious about the Choosing Ceremony. She and Ethan don’t tell them about the young Wolf Knight they have locked up in the dungeon and instead, they pretend as if everything is normal in the castle. After everybody had left the library, Emlyn starts vomiting and having seizures in front of Ethan and in her mind, she sees herself as a crow being strangled by one of the six faceless girls till her neck breaks and is completely possessed by the ghost girl. The ghost girl orders Ethan not to kill Timmy, if he does then Queen Lily won’t choose her knight as well. After that, the ghost girl left Emlyn’s body and Emlyn fell down unconscious into a coma. Later that evening, Timmy sees new two guards open his cell, instead of killing him, they take him to a guestroom and bathe him and dress him into a handsome maroon velvet suit then they take him to the main hall where the Choosing Ceremony is taking place. He sees Ethan alone without Emlyn and he walks away from him. He meets with Ace and Hunter who start mocking and laughing at him again and Ace and Ash’s father SEBASTIAN walk towards them. Sebastian looks at Timmy and says Timmy reminds him of a certain boy he met seven years ago but Timmy denies it and runs away from them. Timmy hides in the corner of the main hall and meets with Herbert, he says Emlyn is his mother and she is the CROW KNIGHT and he just wants to be friends with Timmy. While they are talking, Lord Jabal enters the hall with 13 girls wearing white gowns and white veils on their faces and he tells the boys that within 3 days they have to choose the REAL QUEEN LILY among the girls, on the last third day the REAL QUEEN LILY will show herself to the people and will choose her knight in front of everybody. Herbert looks at the girls and whispers to Timmy that the real Queen Lily is not EVEN there with the girls and murmurs to him “Her face is on somebody else body and not hers.” Then walks away from Timmy when he sees Janey walking among a crowd of people looking for Herbert. Timmy frightened by his words, walks out of the main hall and feels the ghost girl on his back urging him to come and see her in her garden while strangling his neck with her invisible hands. Timmy obliges and she leads him to her secret room behind a wall. Timmy enters the room and sees sparkling diamond lilies, a closet and a door in the room. On the door is an emblem of a young girl with wings holding a lily flower in her hands. He sees the door opening by itself in front of him and Timmy enters a dark tunnel heading to the ghost girl’s garden.