Lia woke up with a start. She turned her eyes and head to search the room. Her ears were strained, she was scouring the room with her senses she was looking for an intruder. Then she heard it a small breath out then in. The pupils in her eyes contracted as she zeroed in on the intruders position. The muscles of her legs wound up to spring as she pushed herself up into a crouch. She hissed and sprung at the shadow that was her assailant. The shadow move for her door the moment she left the bed and couldn’t change her leap. When her assailant opened the door she got a look at them. The person was a man when she looked at his face all she could get a glimpse of was his eyes color then…. he was gone. Lia shot after him watching the route they went through as she chased him. He must have a very intricate knowledge of the castle because of all the back routs and servant’s pathways they took. When they got to the exit to the courtyard which led to the gates leaving the castle Lia stopped and watched him run a satisfied smile on her face. The man kept running all the way to the wall surrounding the castle and the city around it. He slipped through a drainage grate that he had removed a bar from and then he was out of the city and into the fields surrounding the wall. He had exited into an apple orchard and shot down the middle of the row of trees. He was looking behind him for a trailing party or something. When he got close to the end of the orchard he smiled and turned around just in time to get hit in the face with a club. The soldier stared at the club that he had hit the man with it had a dent were it had connected with his face and cracks all the way up to the handle. He looked at the man who was now bleeding from between his brows and looked to have a broken nose. Lia came up after a few moments on a horse with one guard following, her nightgown billowing in the small wind that wasn’t broken by the trees. “Take this man to the dungeon and await more orders” she said both men nodded and grabbed the assailant by the arms and put them around their necks while they drug him towards the castle. Lia turned her horse and headed back to the castle. Lia arrive back at her room with a ragged sigh she was tiring of the attempts on her life. She went to reading a book. After finishing a chapter she thought about the current state of affairs of the country.

The country was mainly composed of animal demons. Demons are creatures that are humanoid in shape but still very different than humans. But each race is different and then there are categories each race fits into but majority of the country is composed of animal demons. Animal demons obviously have attributes like that of animals like tails and ears. They also have a beast form, a human form, though there are exceptions that have another form this is called the races true form ones who have this their form are very powerful and are more often than not leaders. Most demons prefer the human form because it lets social interaction between all the races to run smoother if all of them have the same basic shape if with some additions. Demon races can interbreed and the child will be either or there are no half-breeds unless between a demon and human and even then the children are very often known to have amazing talents even if they don’t have the full strength of their demon parent.

The current realms are Pueterra which controls all the countries main trade route; Corona which controls the mountains, mining and some forestry; Loregon which controls the major forestry, wood crafting, and naval; Heirso is also a large naval controller but their main interest is foreign trade and fishing. Pueterra is extremely small compared to the other realms but it is very strategically placed and very easy to defend to its east is large cliffs and mountains that are not able to be scaled by armies. With Corona to the north, Loregon to the west and Heirso to the south Pueterra is always on guard to defend itself from attacks. Corona has never tried to invade and has several times come to the aid of Pueterra. Corona is a country happy with its peace and with Pueterra in power of the trade routs they have a lot less to fear from invasion.

Lia is the current leader of Pueterra she had it rough. The leaders of Loregon and Heirso were becoming violent they did not like Lia making them treat her tiny realm as an equal. She yet out a sigh before rolling over and getting up then undressing for her bath. She looked in the mirror before she got in the tub. Lia is a cat demon which is the majority demon race in the country though there are many subclass cat demon races. The Lizards are second and after that are the Rats which are centered in Loregon. There are many races in the realms these are just the majorities. Lia has the normal human body and cat ears on top of her head and two cat tails coming out just at the end of her spine she is 5’7” and has silver colored hair and blue eyes. She was a beautiful woman really she thought she was a bit short and was rather embarrassed about her well endowed chest. But Lia was full of fire and was a very spunky woman and very committed to her descisions.

After finishing her bath she dressed and headed off to greet her new ‘visitor’. Lia headed down the stairs and into the dungeon. Her shoes clacked on the stone floor of the hallway that held the doors of the cells. She greeted the guard that was on watch on the outside of the door he was one of the two men that brought the assailant to the castle. He opened the door for her bowing to which she frowned at but still went inside anyway inside was the other man and the Dungeon keeper Florence he was a big tiger cat demon. ”has he woken up yet” Lia asked and Florence shook his head in reply “from the damage he done to that club though he shouldn’t wake up anytime soon unless he is one hard headed son of crystal demon” Florence said making Lia chuckle. The man was chained to the wall by manacles on his wrists the links of the chain was as thick as Lia’s legs. The man groaned “ouch you broke my nose” he said and reached up and grabbed his nose putting it back in place with several crunching noised “maybe it will be straighter than before” he said and opened his eyes to look around the room. “Oh hello didn’t know I had an audience” he said the grin apparent under the mask he still had on. ”you should shield your tongue ruffian before you speak before our Queen” Florence said growling in the back of his throat. The man grinned under that mask again it was driving Lia nuts wondering what his face looked like. He looked at the metal holding him to the wall “not exactly the best security system here” He said and tugged his arm forward “mostly brass” he muttered to himself and tugged again the links groaning under the pressure and thing with a great bang noise the links broke “now then” he said and stretched his arms out “As I was before I think I’m going to leave now” he said and Florence moved to stop him but Lia put her arm in front of him to stop him “no you would be crushed like a gnat compared to a toad” she said then looked at the man “who are you” she asked. The man grinned under that damnbdable mask again. “My name is Roland, Roland Desagare” he said and pulled of the mask making the chains clink as he reached up.