دانلود رمان انگلیسی “در یک سیاه چال پشت آب خنجر زده شد” – اصحاب مورد اعتماد من برای کشتن من تلاش کردند – جلد 9

Lying in her canopy bed, the reigning monarch of the Elven Queendom, Queen Lif VII, moaned balefully for help. “My head’s aching again,” she groaned to a nearby maid. “Fetch a healer.” Although the queen couldn’t see past the lace that covered the canopy bed, she sensed the maid rushing out of the room to fulfill her request. As Lif waited in bed for the healer to arrive, she pressed a hand to her head. Ever since that Wicked Witch of the Tower mushed up my brain, I’ve been getting these terrible migraines, she thought. She must have cursed me with this pain to remind me who’s really in charge. After conquering the Elven Queendom with her army of dragons, the Wicked Witch had captured Queen Lif and used sorcery to read her mind. She had said that she wanted to make sure that Queen Lif was telling her the truth, but the elf believed in her heart of hearts that the witch had really done something to her brain to assert her dominance. In truth, Ellie in her disguise as the Wicked Witch hadn’t actually placed a curse on Queen Lif —the migraines were a post-traumatic effect of undergoing Ellie’s excruciatingly painful memory probe. But since Lif did not realize that a traumatic event was the cause of the migraines, the queen was doomed to believe that she was cursed until such a time that the Wicked Witch told her otherwise. Curled up in bed, Lif kept wincing in pain. This is all because my poor Hardy-Wardy—Lif caught herself and turned her heart to stone— Everything that’s happened is all the fault of that stupid boy! He should never have bothered that witch in the first place! The Wicked Witch’s mysterious tower had suddenly appeared in the forest west of the royal capital one night, prompting Hardy—Queen Lif’s son and the commander of the elite White Knights order—to embark on a search-and-destroy mission to the tower after receiving multiple reports that a Red Dragon resided within the hard-to-reach structure. He had felt compelled to take on this mission that turned out to be fatal for him due to the political pressure exerted on him by the chancellor, who was part of the faction that was seeking to end matriarchal rule in the Elven Queendom.