- Your Majesty, - they bowed slightly to me, both men smiled slightly, appreciating my outfit - Have you decided to resume training?

− Yes. Make a company?

- It will be an honor for us.

Darina looked into the hall and walked over the wall into the hall and sat on a bench to watch. Several other strong men followed her.

- Oh, you guys are on time. We are honored to spar with the lady.

- Let's not be sarcastic, just sparring without further ado.

“Sorry, that was not sarcasm, but not the ability to express your joy,” said another man. - Poles or swords?

- Let's start with the poles.

First, there were fights on poles, then swords, and finally, in the usual hand-to-hand combat. They fought exclusively without magic. I got tired of them. After all, they didn’t come out to me one at a time, at least two of them.

- Warm up, - said Eugene with a smile. - I've finished it, you'd better test and check that the lock reacts to you correctly. Oh Darinka hello, where did you lose Vlada?

- He was punished, he destroyed part of the imperial palace.

- Hmm, did you manage to find Saan? Or is this fossil again lost somewhere with the family?

- Not found. But they don’t let me look for him, they sent me to my mother, under supervision, ”the daughter complained.

I quickly cleaned myself up and changed my outfit. She left the hall in a dress and high hair. My sparring partners looked at these transformations in amazement.

- Thank you for a good workout. If nothing happens, I'll be glad to warm up again tomorrow.

I don’t know how Eugene did it, but he made a secret door. And now you can enter my "treasury" not only from the grandson's office, but also from the street next to the office. The wall did not move away and it did not go anywhere, as if it disappeared for a few seconds. And then reappeared in the same place in the same form.

− How is this possible? she asked him.

- Long to explain, in fact, this discovery came out by accident. I made another entrance from the corridor next to the office.

Then he showed how to open the secret entrance and get inside. It all boiled down to putting your hand in a certain place. I felt a pinch. Then it was required to send a little magic to the same place. Then the passage was opened.

- Don't look that everything is so simple, there are traps. If someone takes your blood and your magic from the accumulator. You can get here only if a person betrays magic and blood from himself. And it will not be transferred from anywhere.

- Will Darina be able to get in?

- I didn't set it up for her. We can check. I'll make sure she's not in danger.

Darina was asked to do these steps to enter from the office. The daughter pulled her hand away from the “lock”.

- It hurts.

She looked at her daughter's hand; she had a burn. Cured him right away. Maxim and Roma were asked to do the same. Both doors opened without surprises.

- Why did I get burned?

"Because I didn't set you up."

- Will Romkin's children be able to open it?

- Heir only. And most likely I will control it so that there are no failures. Yes, and Nadezhda will visit here regularly.

We entered the secret room, everything is in place. Daria chuckled and said:

“Personal treasury, that’s right. It is not customary to let other dragons into your treasury.

“Do you also have a treasure chest?” Roma asked Darina.

- Yes, about the same size. You need to store gifts from your husband and sons somewhere.

As soon as the treasury was completed and everything was organized in it, I began to feel that changes would soon come. And not the fact that they will like me. Recently, fate does not allow me to sit idle and reflect for a long time. A couple of days later I was already glad that Darina was sent to me. I felt not only alive, but also happy. I feel that everything is fine with Vlad, and whatever Daniel comes up with will do him good. And I am grateful to him that I can stay with my daughter. Mostly we walked in the garden or read. I showed her the spark and presented her with one lunaris bracelet and explained how to use it to search.

“I think this way you can even find your sons, not just me.

- You cheered up with my arrival.

“I'm just glad you're around. Ah, - she screamed softly, feeling a strong pain in her back.

The daughter turned around and raised her guard. And helped me keep going.

"Mommy," she said fearfully.

Thanks to her, I was able to resist and cast a spell that stopped the blood and removed the pain. Turning around, I saw an arrow in the distance. He took aim again, but was quickly pinned down by the guards. And the guards ran up to us. They helped me to reach my room and already in it they took out an arrow.

- Lucky that the shooter is crooked, - the doctor said - or your bones are stronger. A little deeper and literally a little to the left, and you would have died.

“I turned a little when he fired. My daughter and I were talking, and I just turned a little towards her. If it went like before, it would be like you said. Luckily the arrow wasn't poisoned.

- Yes, lucky.

The doctor, having healed me, told me to rest today and not burden myself for the next couple of days.

- And then I know you. Go to practice in the morning. You need to rest. It's still stressful for your body and for you.

- Good.

Maxim came in after the doctor.

“Interrogated the shooter,” he said gloomily.

− Who?

“He said he was hired by a certain Orist Lethierre. I learned from Nikita that this is one of the aristocratic families of Mering.

− Yes, I remember. Here are the bad ones, I saved their family, did not send them to the gallows. The Goddess stood up for them. And they keep messing up. I wonder if he died in agony? Or found a way to bypass the oath?

- Found it as soon as possible. You better talk to the shooter yourself.

I got out of bed. Maxim held me back, otherwise I was shaking.

“It’s better right away, otherwise this one will suddenly pile up on its own.

While walking to the dungeon, she told Maxim how Anika Lethierre drugged Arthur with a potion and that she, then somehow laid hands on herself in the dungeon, poisoned herself.

- He was searched and dressed in official clothes.

− It's good. Maybe the girl had the poison hidden somewhere, - she said, turning to herself.

The shooter was too calm for me. When he saw me, he smiled. When he was let down, I understood the reason for his calmness.

− Mental blocks. You know what a boy, - she said calmly - whether I was some kind of average mentalist, it stopped me. And so this is not a barrier for me at all.

I took him hard by the throat and looked into his eyes.

- These are not good, - he said so, although he wanted to bend down anything, sometimes I hear the soldiers, while they do not see me. - So he did not place an order, but expressed his thoughts and dreams on the topic of how he would like to get rid of me. And then from the governor. Hmm, this is already interesting. Nothing, I'll take care of them myself, I'll still regret my wish.

She released the mercenary, he staggered and clutched his head. He was bleeding from his nose.

“He was not a fool when he took an oath from you that you would not betray him in any way. By taking this order, you signed your own sentence anyway.

The man looked at me in fear.

“You unwittingly broke your oath, and now you will die.

- What if he survives? Maxim asked.

I looked at the mercenary, who was already bleeding from his ears and eyes, and said:

- No, but you can finish him off, he will die for a long time. I'm not that cruel. What I need to know.

- What did he tell you? It's strange that the oath worked on you.

“He said he wasn't hired, he volunteered to do the job himself. And then he just swore at this Lerrier. Somehow he blurted out the truth too easily.

One of the guards hesitated and said:

“Duck, we poured a potion of truth down his throat. So he chatted until he realized that he was talking to the wrong people and that it was better to keep quiet.

“Thank you guys,” she said to the guard. “I’ll have to go to Mehring, I need to put things in order there while Alik is still alive. And I do not like what I glimpsed in his memoirs. Lera got married too unsuccessfully.

- I'm afraid of you when you are like now, - Maxim said with a smile. But he immediately became serious. - First you will rest and gain strength. Talk to Nikita before that, and then fly.

- Good. I still need strength.

True, before I had time to fully recover, Nikita contacted me. Maxim told him about the attack and my plans:

- How are you? the grandson immediately asked.

- Fine, - she said quietly, I was lying in bed and there was no desire to get up yet.

“I sent your guys to you. In fact, they almost fought each other. When he said that only half would go. I had to rejoice that the second half to join already in Meringe, - I smiled sparsely. Hope, what's wrong with you? I can see that you don't have a face.

- Tired. Several wounds in a row are exhausting not only physically, but also mentally. And maybe I'm just sometimes brave and show that I'm all right. But in fact, I get tired and want to be hugged. In general, I rest.

She said and interrupted the conversation, while she had not said another nonsense yet. As a result, along with the elite detachment, Nikita also arrived with Artur and Laira. Moreover, the girl still kept her distance from Arthur and did not really let him near her.

- Professionally, he turns the guy, - Maxim said, noticing the behavior of young people.

Laira, leaving the swallow, immediately went to her relatives, who worked at the court as a guard. Arthur gave her a loving look.

- Well, how are you? Nikita asked, looking at me intently.

- I've already come to my senses.

I looked behind him, the guys with whom I train at home have already gathered, and they act as my personal guard. True, I refused to take them into practice and I can see by their faces that they are not happy with this fact, then, now.

- Tomorrow, Daniel will also arrive, - Nikita said - it seems that he is also running away from something.

- Or from someone, - said Darina. - Most likely, the young growth just got it.

After a joint meal, my grandchildren took me to the tea room together. And looking at me, Nikita said:

- Can you get a lover?

From my dumbfounded face, he guessed that now I would come to my senses and crack him.

- No, seriously, it is not necessary to advertise. But there will be a reliable male shoulder nearby who will not only hug, but also caress.

She looked at Maxim. At first he looked attentively at Nikita, then looked at me:

- You can have a lover, or you can get married.

– It is unlikely, because of the trappings of power. But he can be in the status of an official favorite.

- Are you serious?

“Yes,” they both answered.

“You think I don’t know that some of the ten that flew with me are head over heels in love with you. This is not counting that many people just really like you. But this one is in love, he checked to see if he was even drugged.

My hands began to tremble with excitement.

- I would suggest that you better get along with Evgenia, but he sent me through the forest for such an offer. And he directly said that if it happens to you, it will not be on this planet. And that means it's still a long way off.