Lucas deeply admired the Queen and felt grateful to her.
He knew that what he had now was because of her and the trust she had in him.
She had given him so much, but he didn't know what he could do for her in exchange.
Weeks went by and Lucas learned more and more of what he needed to know to be a good King,
but he always guilty for not being able to do anything for the former Queen,
despite everything she had done for him, until he finally had an idea.
He didn't have anything he could give her, but he could make sure she would enjoy her retirement.
Lucas remembered that Soul Markings could only be done on animals or with the consent of the person being marked,
so the Queen must have wanted to be marked as Livestock, she had even transferred ownership of herself to Lucas.
He secretly met with his Court Mage, to learn how he could controll the Queen through the Livestock Soul Mark,
over the following weeks, while making sure that Queen Beth wouldn't find out what he was planning.
Lucas was certain that she would tell him to focus on ruling the Kingdom, rather than trying to do something for her.
Almost three months after he had started to learn how to use the Soul Mark, Lucas was finally certain that everything was ready.
He had full controll over the former Queen, the things that needed to be prepared were prepared and Beth was still none the wiser.
Everything would already be done by the time Beth woke up the following day.
Lucas was happy that he could finally give something back to the person that had done so much for him.