<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;"><span style="color: #FF0000">Major Tom ‘TT’ Theophilus Peters</span></span></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;"><a class="postlink" href="http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o793/Galvin_Fugazi/0b1c5703-1ec6-4951-9974-ee41ec21aa28_zps54ccd4dc.jpg">[ img ]</a></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: justify;">Tom walked over to Karra and put the blanket over her, giving her a soft kiss on her lips, before letting her fall asleep. Maybe the sleep would help her recover. And laying there calm was surely better than trying to walk around as she did before. He was pretty sure that Kira's work had been well done, but maybe their bodies reacted differently to the glue or whatever. But maybe Karra would indeed walk around in two hours. He turned back to Carine, who had watched him with wide eyes, when he kissed Karra.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80FF00">"She's your wife?"</span><br/><br/>Tom shook his head and sat down with Tania and Carine. <br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"No, I had been in love with her all the time we worked together and she had loved me too most of the time, but it took us crashing in this place to tell each other our love and to stand up for it. I had a hard time today fearing that I may lose her the moment I had told her that I love her. So, no, we are not married yet, but we love each other. And Tania here loves us both. Landing here in Getalia probably changed a lot of lives, at least as much as we are concerned. But what are your prospects in your life? I understood from Freya that you are her cousine and I know that Freya shall rule the country one day, but what will you do?"</span><br/><br/>He had not realised that he had struck some sensitive topic with that question, but it was quite obvious that Carine wasn't happy about the prospects at all..<br/> <br/><span style="color: #80FF00">“That's a damn good question. I have no idea. I guess my mother and my aunt believed that I would be something to Freya like my mom is to the Queen. An advisor, someone who takes care of the everyday works, keeps the small problems away from her. But after the hunting accident of Freya it was impossible to be around her. She resembled her mom a lot afterwards. And I don't really like my aunt. Well, I don't like my mother a lot either.”</span><br/> <br/>It was the first time Tom heard about the sister of the Queen. He tried carefully to pry deeper into this topic. They knew from Freya that the Queen was one of those they had to watch. But now another name had popped up. <br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"Tell us more about your mother. What is her job?"</span><br/><br/>Carine snorted and she answered with a pout on her pretty face.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80FF00">"Keeping the tabs on me. Stopping me from doing anything that may bring me into some risk. Making my life a hell."</span><br/><br/>When Tania put her hand on the arm of the girl, she looked up surprised, but then she caught herself.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80FF00">"She is the right hand of the Queen. The small things she decides by herself, only the big topics come up to the Queen to decide. She is some kind of watchdog for the Queen, having installed a network of informants. She is very effective, everybody calls her the Shadow, as she is always were the Queen is, but like a shadow you can do nothing to avoid it coming over you."</span><br/><br/>Tom didn't like what he heard at all. It seemed there was another danger looming with that woman. And while the Queen seemed to be cruel, this one seemed to be dangerous and effective.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"Carrie, if we have to go to Ovia, because of Freya and you and because there is not really any other place we can go to, whom do we have to fear more, the Queen or your mother?"</span><br/><br/>Carine looked at him at if he had just told her that he wanted to ride on a Drogon. She shook her head violently, making her long ponytail fly right and left.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80FF00">"You can't go to Ovia. They kill you, they kill everybody who isn't from Ovia. And that you saved Freya and me counts nothing to them. You can't go there, you have to return to your place!"</span></div>