Antares looked at his two loyal who were kneeling in front of him and Zarah, they had respected his orders and looked after the palace when he was busy in the sheets with Zarah.
They had remained silent for little while but they eventually spoke up.
"My lord..... there are several things that happened that need to be brought to your attention." Eli, the youngest of the twin said, he was used to being the one to talk since Levi always had a fight first then talk later mentality.
"Tell me." Antares said as he was stroking Zarah's hair.
"Several clans have sent envoys requesting for an audience with you, they would like to talk about the issues going on in the tribe and a way forward." Eli said.
The Ant tribe had few clans and each was responsible for a certain set of tasks.
"Tell the envoys this." He stopped and he continued "I will receive all the clan leaders tomorrow, it is a general summon made by me, Antares Antis, the current ruler of the ant tribe, Absenteeism without a valuable reason will not be tolerated." His voice strong and commanding.
"Your orders will be relayed as you have said my lord." Eli answered.
"Anything else" Antares asked
"Well, Lord Ian sent word that the harvest of celcane will be plenty, other than that nothing else happened." Eli calmy answered.
Lord Ian was a middle aged man who been serving Antares as personal butler, together with Zarah they looked after him since the day of his birth, currently Ian was supervising the agricultural sector of the tribe where there was a big plantation of celcane.
Celcane was tall, fibrous stalk like sugarcane but ribbed and green like celery, it has a very sweet and juicy interior and on top it had a small bushy like leaves. It could be used in many ways and it could be kept for a long period of time. It is nutritive and delicious even when eaten raw, all in all it was one of the tribe's treasured belongings.
" Hmmmmm, that's good, he may be excused for tomorrow's meeting since he is busy with the harvest." Antares didn't want to bother one of the few individuals he could count on "You can leave, and only look for me when something important happens."
"Yes, Your highness." They stood up and left.
"I think I should be going too." As soon as the two guards left the room Zarah opened her mouth and muttered those words. "Are you tired of me?" Antares asked with an exaggerated sad voice "No not all, I just have my job and I can't just stay here, tomorrow you have your meeting with the clan heads and I need to make sure that everything is impeccable as the head maid." Zarah answered quickly since she had taken Antares' joke seriously.
"Hahahahahaha don't worry I'm just messing with you, I know you have your job to do and I understand that." Antares said as he gently put her down on the floor." Just come back to me tonight "he said as he kissed her forehead.
She blushed and stormed out of the room to carry out her duties.
He looked at her and he remembered the moment when she voluntarily stripped in front of him and blushed. "She is really the embodiment of sweet but deadly." He thought as he was looking at Zarah.
He then brought back his attention to the jug of juice the maids had brought him. He severed himself a cup from the jug and he drank the sweet purple juice, he took a sip then he drank it all even the one in the jug. "I might get addicted to this."
He then removed the furs that were on his bed and put them in a corner, he could not help but reminisce the night he had spent with Zarah, he proceeded to the bathroom where he had a nice and long shower. He found out that there was a number of oils, creams and soaps in his bathroom, he could tell that these were not from here since the ant tribe had no means of making such products. After bathing he put on the new set of clothes the maid had brought him, they were a leather trouser that was lightly bigger than him and a white long-sleeved shit and a fur coat since it was still cold even though the winter had started to end.
The inner nest was thousands of meters underground but still the people could tell when it was night and day with accuracy same with weather conditions and the coldness of winter was even able to reach the inner nest but it was not on par with what was happening on the surface so they were safe.
Antares looked at himself in the mirror which was one of the few things he had in his room, he was drying his long wild spiky hair, he was used to having such a mane but he was definitely not going to cut it since he liked it.
He went ahead and sat on his bed, and took a deep breath
"System, give me information about the rewards I got."
[Surely host....]