Asean in Love

A guard stood at the door of the emperor's palace in Majapahit, not allowing anyone to approach the emperor, not even admiral Rina.

The chief guard said, "The emperor is so ill that he cannot receive anyone in his chambers."This is the order of empress Dara.

"Oh, she has already become empress", Rina's thoughts to herself, "we will find another way to meet the emperor."

The dowager queen of Bali stood by, and when Rina told her that they were not allowed to visit the emperor, she breathed a sigh of relief.

"In that case, I'm going to visit the castle in Bali, to see my son, " she said and started from the palace in the opposite direction.

"Wait, you're not solving anything by leaving, your son is no longer a little baby, he ran the kingdom well during your absence or we would have gotten the bad news earlier.

The first thing is to see what is happening with the emperor.

We cannot enter the palace of the Emperor Majapahit, but around the castle there are many auxiliary buildings and facilities where I can enter freely because I have an authorized seal from the emperor to even enter his pool, sauna and bath."

The queen recoiled.

"No, I'm not going to those rooms, and if you want to go, I'll wait for you in the garden."

Rina laughed giggling," so you'll be standing in the garden all day, the emperor usually goes to his bathroom before going to bed because by then the medicinal waters from the lake and fresh tropical flowers are prepared in the bathroom, and the emperor likes to watch the night sky from the bathroom when it's a nice night without rain", she told her.

"Until the evening falls, go with me to a room outside the court to get dressed.I have an older cousin of mine who works at the yard."

They entered a large building that had only one long room, in which thin curtains were used as partitions for the beds.

"Rest here for a while, " Rina told her, "I'm going to scout the situation around and find my cousin."

The queen did not feel like staying in that room, she would even less want to go with her, so she sat down on one of the wooden benches in the room.

"Okay, I'll wait for you here."

"No way, someone might come by and see you on the bench right at the entrance, but if you sleep on my cousin's bed, no one will disturb you and move the curtains."

The queen had no choice but to obey her, and as she was tired, she immediately fell asleep.

"Wake up, it's time to go see the emperor ," Rina woke her up by shaking the bed.

"Change into these clothes, you see, I'm already dressed, " said Rina, and she added a sarong and a blouse like those worn by the courtiers who worked in the bathroom.

"Can't we go in our clothes?", asked the queen, regretting that she had gone with her at all.

"Well, our clothes are already dirty from the trip, and the bathroom is a holy place where everything has to be clean, " said Rina.

"If you can't do it yourself because you're the queen, I'll put on these new clothes for you."

"Okay, I'll do it myself, " she took her sarong and blouse and quickly came back changed.

"Let's go, the emperor is already in the bathroom."

There was even a guard posted at the entrance to the bathroom, and the two tiptoed in, hiding their faces behind bowls full of clean bath towels.

The guards let them pass, thinking they were ordinary maids.

Finding herself in the emperor's bathroom, the queen felt embarrassed.

"What are you waiting for, let's go, " Rina pushed her forward straight to the bathroom where the emperor was watching the sky with his back to them.

"Do you see why he has to go to the bathroom before going to bed, his back is full of injuries and battle scars, so in the evening he puts healing ointment on clean skin.

Here we need to put this ointment on his wounds," Rina gives her the cream.

"Oh, you have finally arrived, " said the emperor.