My mind couldn’t stop thinking about him when I saw his mother in the same chapel as me, Luna Mira wore a fur grey coat with a black hair fascinator at my mother’s funeral; she was stylish as if she wasn’t attending a funeral but a fashion event.

　　I know all royals wore expensive outfits right now but Luna Mira hits differently and I assumed she did that to gain the people’s attention for political purposes, or just to show my father that she exists.

　　My eyes ran around the place after that, I was looking for Alpha Drax’s whereabouts but I can’t find him anywhere then I realized the thing that he had done to me.

　　Right, how could he dare to show his face after abandoning me and making the whole group struggle that day? I was also sick of seeing him and his lovely girl, thankfully he did not show his face on my gloomy days.

　　The prayers stopped and the priest started making his way toward my mother’s coffin after praying for her, all people in the chapel immediately get up from their seats so am I and the rest of my family.

　　“Now the families can say their last goodbyes to Omega Athena. But before that, I welcome Lord Adrian and Lady Elora to do the last ritual” The priest declared, his arms opened and welcoming us.

　　My father and I will be the first person who left our seats, we both then make our way to the altar to see my mother for the last time, and tears that were stored in my eyes were now available again.

　　This is my first time grieving because I never experience losing. All my family like grandmothers and grandfathers are passed away before I born into this world, and it hits differently when the person that I lose is my mother.

　　The priest started to aim at my father to do the last ritual for my mother, the ritual that is done by the Red Bloods only.

　　He gave my father a silver sword and my father took it from him, that sword will be used for cutting my father’s ring finger today.

　　Cutting off the ring finger signifies that one has lost one’s life partner. It becomes a symbol of everlasting love that the Red-Bloods believe and the cut ring finger will be buried with a partner who has died.

　　My father was ready to cut his ring finger; he held the silver sword with his left hand and waited for the priest to give him a command.

　　The priest then commanded my father to follow his mantra and my father repeat it three times before cutting off his ring finger.

　　“Eímaste éna kai den tha choristoúme poté, parólo pou to sóma sas den eínai mazí mou, allá oi psychés mas tha eínai akóma mazí”

　　(We are one and will never be separated, even though your body is not with me but our souls will still be together)

　　My father’s ring finger then leave its place, I was terrified when I heard the sound of a sword hitting the table. His ring finger now separated from his body after saying the last mantra and the priest then took the cut ring finger with him.

　　He began to point his finger that had been cut into my mother’s coffin, sprinkling the blood that was still splattered from his right finger onto my mother’s body who at that time was dressed in white, the dress that was as white as a cloud was now turning red.

　　My mother’s body was now covered in my father’s blood, in the last ritual my father scratched his bleeding ring finger on my mother’s forehead, forming a long line that ended above her ears and now it’s my turn to do the ritual.

　　I scratched the palm of my hand with the sword after receiving a command from the priest, the silver sword pierced my skin and it feels hurt but my pain doesn’t compare to my father’s; I then run my palm to my mother and shed blood all over her body.

　　My father’s blood and mine are now mixed into one and covering my mother’s body, there is no more bride white dress wrapped around my mother’s body, it is now dressed full of blood.

　　After finishing the last ritual, my father first gives my mother the last kiss, he kissed her on the lips and forehead. After that, I’ve done my last goodbye by kissing my mother’s cheeks and palms, the priest then placed my father’s ring finger in my mother’s hand.

　　All my relatives then left their seats and say their last goodbyes, the priest then close the coffin and we were ready to drive my mother to the resting place.

　　The guards started to lift my mother’s coffin on their shoulders, after that, they slowly brought my mother out of the chapel, the citizens who were outside the chapel greeted my mother’s coffin and offered their condolences.

　　I walked next to my father at that time and my grandmother walked in the wake of my mother’s coffin followed by the guards behind us. Before we leave the chapel and drive my mother to her grave, my grandmother speech in front of the chapel to thank the citizen who prayed for my mother.

　　“I am Queen Hermione thank all the citizens who attend my daughter-in-law’s funeral this morning and may we all be in the protection of the Moon Goddess!” She declared.

　　We then leave the chapel and walked toward the driveway, the guards placed my mother’s coffin in the car that was in the first row; ours was right behind the first car.

　　My grandmother and I immediately get into the car after figuring out that the guards had already done their job, I can see my father sitting inside the first car with my mother’s coffin behind him. I wish I was there but the regulations dictated that a potential heir must remain on the queen’s side for its safety.

　　All the cars lifted away from the driveway and we were all on our way to the royals’ cemetery, my mother will be buried next to her parents’ grave as she ever wished.

　　People filled every roadside we passed with gloomy faces; there are so many men and women feeling what the royal feels right now, and some of them cry when the convoy passed.

　　It makes me sad to see their reaction to my mother’s death, but it also makes me happy because deep inside I know they love Omega Athena the way I do and they feel my pain.

　　After ten minutes of driving, all the cars finally reach their destination as the guards parked the cars right in front of the cemetery. My family members and I then stepped out of the cars after seeing my father leave the first car.

　　“Stay with your father” My grandmother commanded me as we both got off the car, I then nodded in agreement.

　　“This will be hard for him! I want you to be by his side so that he can feel better” She said.

　　Without wasting any more time, I immediately walked toward my father and when I managed to approach him, I hold his hand and give him a small smile on my face. To be honest, this is the first time of me and my father being this closer, he was far from me because he was too busy with the pack’s things and abandoned my mother and me.

　　When loved ones are gone, everything will matter, and that is what my father’s through right now, he felt guilty because, for the first time in his life, he realized that my mother is more matter than anything else and because of that loss, he started to change.

　　“I don’t want you to experience the same thing as your mother, I swear in the Moon Goddess' name I will kill all the rogues and make them pay for this” My father growled.

　　My brow raised the moment I heard his declaration, how can he knows that the rogue was the one who caused the accident when I don’t even tell him yet?

　　“Dad, how did you know if it was the rogue who caused the accident?” I inquired in puzzled and my eyes were gazing at my father who was still standing next to me at that time.

　　“The guards caught him in the woods! Somebody had sent him to kill our family” He answered.