Kaltain Leiya I scrambled to sit up the moment my eyes opened. “Relax,” I heard a voice beside me. I turned to discover Helion sitting on a chair a few metres away. I looked around in confusion. Everything looked different and out of place. I noticed things I had not seen before and wondered when they were brought in. "You're in my chamber.” I heard him say and my confusion disappeared. Just then I realized I had a throbbing migraine. Slowly, I relaxed back into bed. “Can you talk?” The moment I heard his question, the horrific images of the night before flooded my mind. “She came into my room last night.” I mumbled. He leaned out of his chair, his eyes fixated on mine, eager for more information on what happened to me. “I need as many details of last night as you can remember Leiya.” His eyes slowly began to take their bright red form. I looked away, trying to piece together the events of the night before. “I, I had a nightmare that woke me up,” I began
Kaltain Leiya “Leiya,” The faint calling of my name penetrated the walls of my mine. It sounded like a whisper. A call from deep within my mind. “Leiya,” This time the voice was clearer and more assertive. It was obvious it wasn't from my thoughts. I slowly opened my eyes. They fell on Helion sitting on his chair. I slowly looked around. I was still in his chamber. “Is that her?” He asked, pointing to the far corner of the room. I noticed the same lady from the market that also came up to attack me, struggling with herself. She had no bounds or chains around her but she just kept struggling violently like she was being held. What was even more confusing was she was lifted from above the ground. I looked back to Helion's questioning eyes. “Yes, she's the one who came up to my room.” “Are you sure about that, love? The only time I've seen you was with his majesty in the market.” She spoke differently, softer, calmer and even nicer. Like a truly different person cau
Valinor Nayla Xerian's assertive voice took everyone by surprise. I let my breath go and turned to look at him with my teary eyes. “I said, stop.” This time he growled at the guard holding the axe above me. The guard did as he was told and stepped away. Xerian rushed to my side, aiding me to my feet. I wasn't sure what was happening but as long as I wasn't getting my fingers chopped off, I was happy. “Xerian what are you doing?” We turned to the king and I noticed he had gotten up from his throne. The queen had gotten up too and so did Katlyn. “I’m saving an innocent person from having her fingers cut off for something she had no hand in.” I looked at Xerian as he spoke with so much confidence. “Xerian you are countering your father's order. The King.” His mother spoke after a brief silence. It was obvious the King king was breathing furiously at the stubbornness of his son. “Mother, you know me better than anyone else. You know that I wouldn't say something if I
Kaltain Leiya I couldn't sleep almost all night. I was repeatedly waking up at intervals. The excitement of being one step closer to my Nayla was enough to give me butterflies. I was up at the crack of dawn, waiting for him to appear in the center of my chamber. Sure enough, he did. “Did you even sleep at all?” he feigned surprise as he walked to the chair. “Yes.” I whispered. “Lies are distasteful Leiya” I immediately fell silent, watching him shake his head. When he walked closer to the window, I noticed a book in his hands. A dark looking, uninteresting book. “Your first lesson,” He announced as he turned to look at me, holding the book with both hands in front of him. “Is to teleport yourself outside your chamber.” He said casually and planted himself onto the chair. He held out the book to me with a straight face. I stared at him, the book and back to him. I was supposed to learn spells from a book? I almost laughed at the idea itself. I shrugged quietly, s
Kaltain Leiya I spent the whole day cluelessly flipping through the old pages of what Helion handed to me. I had no idea how I was supposed to magically figure out what spell was to successfully teleport me out of my chamber. The whole book was written in the language of the spells and I was close to giving up. “How's my student doing?” I rolled my eyes at the sound of his voice. I didn't need him to be here, especially if he wasn't going to be of any help to me. I remained silent, flipping through it's pages like I knew what I was doing. “You haven't touched your food.” He announced like I didn't already know that. I couldn't eat. My father taught me to starve myself of food whenever I had an objective to achieve. That way, he said, your body, soul and mind would work together. Also, I was too furious to eat. “Leiya,” “What?!” He shot me a dead stare that made me realize I had raised my voice. I was so frustrated, I was slowly losing control over my emotions. If I
Kaltain Leiya He quietly waited until I was done with my food before expecting a response from me. I sat down for another few seconds in silence, preparing my mind to embark on the horrific journey that I solely wished it could forget. “My father and his men had just returned from the battlefield,” I began, looking out into the woods outside my window. “They barely won the battle, with almost half of their men killed or wounded.” I began to vividly remember it like it was just the day before. My own father was wounded and the most tired I had ever seen him. That night, one part of the kingdom was celebrating their victory while the other part mourned the loss of their fathers, husbands, sons and brothers. My father was not happy at all. He believed an army is only truly victorious when they have the least amount of deaths. “That night, at dinner, we received a surprise attack on our kingdom by Degar and his men.” I remembered my father's right hand man rushing in to
Kaltain Leiya He finally told me. I was finally going to learn how to teleport myself out of my room. I didn't know if my story had something to do with his decision to tell me, but whatever it was, I was happy he told me. He went on to tell me how the spell worked with location. I was supposed to envision where I wanted to be before chanting the spell. My first teleportation try was a failure. “Did you envision where you want to go?” His question was almost enough to offend me, but I was determined not to lose control over myself. “Of course I did.” I didn't let him respond before trying out the spell again. I waited, but there was nothing. I started saying it over and over, hoping that it would just work and I would get out. “Calm down, Leiya,” He muttered after I had repeatedly chanted the spell, almost five times. “There's no need to be frustrated. I didn't get it the first few times that I tried either.” I knew he was lying. If his story was right, he was
Kaltain Leiya That was all he said to me. He didn't give me any more details and I couldn't bring myself to ask them of him. We simply sat on the grass in silence, staring at the same moon but living in completely different worlds. “Would you like to join me for dinner?” He mumbled absentmindedly. Again, it wasn't much of my choice as he made it seem. My life at Kaltain revolved around him. It was either him or spend solitude hours in my bedchamber. “I would love to.” I sounded way more interested than I should have. He raised himself up using his hands, clasping them together when he was on his two feet. When he was done, he stretched out his hand towards me. Anywhere I needed to be, I needed him to get there. I took his hand and he helped me up. For some reason we didn't immediately teleport. Not letting go of my hand, I looked into his eyes and he looked into mine. I desperately wanted to look away, but I couldn't bring myself to. His eyes were mesmerizing. The sof