Angel Monarch

As Sera lazily turned on her other side for the tenth time in the past few minutes, she finally decided that she had enough sleep.

With tiredness still in her eyes, she reached to her nightstand and was about to turn on the light, when she realized that her eyes had already auto adjusted to the room's brightness.

She chuckled self-deprecatingly, then turned her head towards the other side of the room and she nearly jumped out of her skin from surprise.

In the corner Lilith sat. Sera's room was large and it even had a small living room area, with a couch and two armchairs. Lilith turned one of the chairs, so it faced Sera's bed.

"Dammit Lilith! You scared the fuck out of me!" Grumbled Sera as she began to climb out of bed. Lilith just laughed to herself in the corner.

"Good morning, my Lady! Was your sleep good?" She said with a mischievous chuckle.

Sera stared towards her with narrowed sleepy eyes, then yawned and stretched her arms.

"Yes, it was great... How long was I asleep?" She asked, then promptly laid back on the bed. She stared at the high ceiling, while listening to Lilith's answer.

"It was about 14 hours... Did you have any good dreams?" She asked with a giggle. Sera's head snapped to her, and she stared at Lilith suspiciously. "Why do you ask?"

"Oh, no reason at all... Its just sounded like you really enjoyed yourself..." It took a hot minute for Sera to remember what she was referring to, and when she did her face turned a bit red from embarrassment and shame.

"What?! You can blush!?... There's no fucking way... I thought you were emotionless! Emotionless people don't blush!" Lilith said, her voice way too loud for Sera's recently awakened ears.

Sera stayed silent about the dreams she had... Most of them consisted of her killing or getting killed by the Empress, but what Lilith was referring to... Was a bit different.

Sera couldn't remember the last time she had erotic dreams, or if she ever had one, but it seemed like her tiredness took over and showed her deepest desires, even though she wasn't feeling like that anymore.

Her embarrassment and shame didn't originate from the fact that she had such dreams, but because of who she had the dreams with. There were more than one during the night, most of them with Bran, but some... Some of them were with someone else...

She couldn't see the woman's face, but she knew her very well, at least it felt like it. Her memories were still gone, but Kastral and her watch's history recorded a lot...

She knew this mystery woman's name... Bea...

Just thinking about her and what she done to her in the dream caused the shame to deepen. Her mind and heart was confused.

She knew that the last time she was in an emotional state she confessed her love to Bran, but with the end of the year looming by, Sera couldn't help herself.

She was in doubt. Did she make the right choice by saying it? At that moment she felt like it, but currently there was only hollowness inside her heart. The biggest question and fear she had was... How will Bea react?

Will she accept the current situation, or will she get angry. Will she not help them because of Sera's stupid emotions?

Her mind was absorbed in these thoughts as she finally got out of bed and walked inside the bathroom. The bath was already filled with cold water, just how she liked it.

She spent the next hour inside there, just soaking herself, while trying to turn off her turbulent mind. After she felt herself clean enough, Sera climbed out of the bath and using her wings' natural heat she dried herself in a second.

Suddenly as she was about to grab a towel, she had a very mischievous idea. Without putting any clothes on she stepped out of the bathroom and walked towards her wardrobe.

When Lilith saw Sera's naked form, her face went red as a tomato, and with a yelp of surprise she buried her head in her robe.

Sera spent an exceptionally long time getting dressed to further annoy Lilith. She heard her grumble curses under her breath, which made Sera giggle.

Eventually she put on her usual getup. A black t-shirt, black leather jacket, black pants, and black military boots. Her hair was placed in a neat ponytail.

She looked herself over in the large mirror once, then she headed for the door, but just as she was about to open it, Lilith yelled from her chair.

"Wait! You can't leave!" With that she jumped to her feet and blocked Sera's way to the door.

She looked into her eyes with an unamused expression, but Lilith was unrelenting and within a few seconds Sera gave up. She walked back into the room and sat down on the bed with a grumpy face.
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"Then what the hell am I supposed to do?" She asked, but Lilith was the worst person to ask about this.

They both were workaholics. All of their free time was spent doing something productive. They took breaks only when they needed to, so asking Lilith about doing anything other than working was useless.

"I have no idea, but Cassandra said she will pop in soon to check on you, so I suggest waiting!" With that Lilith opened the room's door, and she was about to walk out, when Sera shouted after her... "Where are you going?"

Lilith turned her head and smiled at Sera teasingly.

"Unlike other people, I have work to do! See you later!" After saying goodbye she walked out, not waiting for Sera's response.

As the door clicked closed Sera grumbled... "Lucky bastard... I want to work too!"

Since she had nothing to do, she changed into more comfortable clothes, then she sat down on the couch and stared forward.

Curiously she reached and activated the remote controller for the large holo-screen on the wall.

This was the most used form of entertainment in the world as far as Sera knew. Every household had one, since they were dirt cheep to make.

There were dozens of different channels one could watch. The most watched ones were the news, documentaries and different types of dramas. Some were leftovers from before the Apocalypse, but even now people made these TV-shows.

It was a very strange concept to Sera, but Cassandra talked about them a few times. Back on the west coast of Europe ––where she grew up–– there were dozens or maybe even a hundred different dramas being made.

Sera couldn't fathom why would people watch anything like that, so out of curiosity she took the remote, turned on the holo-screen and began watching the first show it landed on.

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As Cassandra made her way towards Sera's room, she noticed many strange things.

There was a bunch of maids moving back and forth from the room, each carried either an empty bowl or other container, while others headed the same direction as she did, bringing copious amounts of snacks.

With confusion Cassandra entered the room as another maid exited. It was a girl who made a small bow and mumbled a greeting, then she quickly hurried away, presumably for more snacks.

The sight in front of Cassandra was truly picturesque. Sera was splayed out on the couch, the only clothing she wore was a very long gray shirt that reached below her knees.

The shirt was very dirty, covered in crumbs and other snack leftovers. Sera's mouth was in a similar state. She was constantly chewing, while she stared at the holo-screen on the wall.

The small table in front of the couch was covered in different kinds of bowls. They were filled with dozens of different snacks ranging from chips, cookies, chocolate, crackers, a bowl full of a mix of nuts, and there were even one filled with fruits.

"Come on! What the fuck are you doing! You should've attacked, there was a clear opening!" Sera shouted at the screen, while spittle and food remnants flew from her mouth.

Curiously Cassandra turned to it as well. The holo-screen showed two individuals fighting in a duel.

This was one of the most famous TV dramas. It was called 'Through Sweat and Tears'. The premise was that the main guy loses his lover, because an Evolved decided to do with her what he wanted.

After learning that, the main character goes on a journey to try and kill the Evolved who raped and murdered his lover. The whole point of the series is that, he as a regular human tries and eventually succeeds to kill the Evolved in a 'fair' duel.

The concept wasn't the worst in Cassandra's opinion, and there are a lot of interesting points made by the show. It supposed to be a social commentary about the Evolved, and how they shouldn't have so much power over regular human's.

The thought was noble, but the execution wasn't the best. People don't watch these shows to learn more about societal issues, they watch them to forget about the real world.

The show's drama part is quite awful, the fight scenes are pretty good in Cassandra's opinion, but Sera obviously wasn't agreeing with her.

"You DUMBASS! That was a clean killing blow!?! How the fuck can you miss something so obvious?! Oh my god, are non of you know how to properly parry and riposte?... That's what you call a block?! If one of my soldiers fought like you I would execute them on the spot!"

Cassandra began to giggle. She never saw this side of Sera, but she couldn't get enough of it. As she was about to scream another round of insults to the screen, Cassandra stepped forward and took a strawberry from the very full fruit bowl.

Sera took one glance at her, but then she turned back to the fight, seemingly oblivious or uncaring about her appearance.

"Who are you rooting for?" Asked Cassandra, while turning back towards the fight.

The moves were way too over choreographed, it was very unnatural, but at least entertaining to watch.

"Neither, I want to kill both of them! People who can't use swords shouldn't fight with them, its disrespectful towards the weapon!"

Cassandra laughed at that, then took the bowl of fruits in her hand and pushed Sera's legs away, so she could sit on the couch as well. After that they both continued to watch the show, while making comments about its stupidity.