Shumana

Shumana has known the king and Prince Hura is the king's son. Shumana is good friends with Hegai. Prince Hura is the son of Shumana. Zemutha and Cazur are his caretakers. He is raised in the harem of Azurean. Shumana and her son Hura also become offensive to the king but for a different reason. Shumana is a virgin when she goes into the king and her son Hura looks like the king even with his dark wavy hair. They will share the fate of being exiled to the dungeon, but will go there for different reasons. She will be accused of bringing in the red leathers of Scarlet into the king’s harem. The red leather is that of the shrine prostitutes of Scarlet. Shumana is an excellent head of the harem and she has brought many wonderful women to the king and helped him sire many princes who have gone out into the provinces, but once this iniquity of the red leather becomes evident he sends her out reluctantly, not wanting her to leave but also being bound by his own oath to never let the red of scarlet taint his harem. It needs to be discovered which woman bore the red leather or how she and Shumana came into alliance. Perhaps there is a connection here with Sheena? Her mother is Lady Korleva who is Petrak’s stepmother. Her father is actually Adam of the valley of the Az flower. Perhaps Sheena has been captured when she goes down into Under trafficked unintentionally by her own step brother who is trying to earn his guildsman’s papers by being a deliverer. Sheena has kept the red leather not knowing what it signifies as it has been brought into the tent where she and her mother sold garments and where she trained as a seamstress. She has very thick black hair that goes down to her feet almost and is glorious. The red leather that she wove as she sat with her mother was the only thing strong enough to hold her hair. It was braided from long strands of the leather a long scarlet cord that she had labored many hours on weaving it in with strands of silk with the red leather as the central piece, this is just a piece of scrap leather that she found discarded at the back of her mother’s shop and she has no knowledge of what it is, her mother does not ever see that she has rescued it from the discard pile as it is covered with silk by the time she first sees it. The king cuts the band with his dagger to let her glorious hair fall all around her and does not notice the band leaving it on the ground. The king’s attendant notices it after their encounter and brings it to the king’s attention. So Sheena must also be exiled from under and she will not know why. Meanwhile she has connected with Lukim and her brother Petrak has also connected with Lukim so there is a future there if she can survive. The timing of her exile is important also. She will probably have been in her training at the time that she meets lukim and be about to go to the king as her hair is long and she is clearly still in favor with the king. Aya will also be in training at this time. This leaves about a 14 year period for Aya’s son Huma to grow up and become intimate with Sukir before Aya is exiled. The timing of Hura’s exile has to be such that he ends up training with Lukim in battle school so this must happen quite a few years before. So Shumana will need to have been with the king had a son, had 14 years to raise him and then have this son escape from the dungeon and make his way to battle School, meet Lukim and then go through battle school. By the time Shumana has fallen out of favor with the king over the Sheena incident, Hura will have become pretty skilled in battle school but she will realize that he must be rescued before word gets there that he must be killed as her son. So Hura was on a path to greatness but his only rescue is to come back and become a voluntary eunuch. He does not volunteer himself but his mother gets him into the situation, before she herself is exiled. When she sees him, it is the last thing that she does before being exiled into the dungeon. She uses the red leather itself to send the message to Hura through the Cripple who is also named 123. So what remains to be seen is what happens to Shumana after she leaves Hura as a eunuch and leaves the room. Also to be discovered is what happens to Aya and her son Huma. Also to be discovered is what happens to Sheena.