“Father? What does my mother look like?” Father, who was holding my hand and was busy explaining about the Kingdom of Peace right before us, stopped in his tracks then look down at me. I smiled, waiting for him to answer my question when he let out a sigh. “Before answering your question, have you understand what will be your role as a chief one day?” I didn’t get that. My head tilted to the side, giving him a curious stare. Father must have figured I wasn’t listening all this time. “Maybe, you’ll understand when you grow up.” I heard he mumbled before pulling me. I wasn’t sure where he is going to take me but after a couple of minutes we stopped from our hike.“Whoa…” I was breathless when I took a step forward to see what’s below us. Father didn’t let go of my hand since we’re at the cliff. “It’s beautiful…” “Just like your mother.” I glanced at Father who took a step forward to match where I stand. His eyes gleamed along with the sun that’s almost setting. The Kingdom of Pe
“You possess a power that can also destroy you.” I don’t know how many times these words keeps on playing in my mind. The wind blows where I stand, scattering my hair. I lifted my chin, welcoming the breeze that’s whispering in my ear.All of these information is new to me and my mind can’t process them too much. I slowly look down at my palms. They aren’t clean. It’s covered with dirt, scars, and wounds because of my harsh training before.For all these years, I have thought that I am really not that strong enough to fight an entire army. Azariel defeated Wolfrith and he was known as the most powerful creature in the Land of Dawn. After the horrific incident, the land has suffer its magic.Desperate to save everything, I have pushed myself to the limit until a simple punch is nothing to me. But, I don’t want to put myself into that training where I have to vomit blood just to make sure that I am strong.However, now that someone have told me that I, Daciana the next chief of our tri
“No, there’s nothing going on between us.”I don’t know why I have to answer his question if I could just ignore him the way I can. I could feel my stomach twisting and turning because of the way how he stared at me.Why? Why did he ask such question?He nodded his head, taking my answer. But I know he’s not convinced judging by the look in his eyes. He look down on the map.“You do know that a werewolf can only pick their mate if it’s another werewolf, right?”“Pardon?” I don’t know why he had to explain to me these things. I couldn’t care about it.“And a human is only destined to be with a human.”“Okay, cut to the chase. What do you mean?” I raised a brow then crossed my arms.I don’t care if I look brutal but he’s getting into my nerves. Is he implying that I have a thing for Adolf?It’s obvious there’s nothing.Frode didn’t answer my question instantly. Instead, he took a step forward. My foot automatically took a step back, my hands slowly snaking their way to my sword when he
I am parched.The sun was up in the sky. Its heat waves were fervent on the skin. I look to the other direction to avoid my eyes from burning. For some unknown reason, the heat is too much to bear today.“Another man, down!”We stop moving from our tracks to look from behind. I saw a man almost crawling on the dry land, catching his breath. His tongue is almost sticking out of his mouth. He was already surrounded before I could make a move forward to assist.“Another man, unconscious.” Stoic shake his head beside me. He massaged his forehead to ease down the stress he’s feeling.I couldn’t blame him. We have been travelling for hours. We only have limited supplies for our journey.Stoic and the rest of his tribe decided to come with us. Some women came with us and some were left because they can’t fight. Someone needs to look out for the children. As we have previously discussed, we agreed to find a way to sneak inside the Kingdom, where, Azariel is sitting pretty. The thought of him
“Daciana…”Someone was calling my name. I slowly open my eyelids to see who it might be. The voice was soft, gentle, and welcoming. It’s like it came from a woman.“I’m glad you’re finally awake.”I mumbled unforeseeable words underneath my breath. My body feels light. Did I lose weight or something? What is happening? And who is this person that’s talking to me? The scent and voice wasn’t familiar to me.I massage my forehead, blinking repeatedly to see who is it. My vision was a little blurry but I could detect it’s a silhouette of a person.A person?“Daciana, come on. Get up…”I inhaled some breath then slowly sat up while holding my head. The person who’s calling me assist me by placing a hand on my back to balance my body. I groaned, rubbing my eyes.“W-who are you?”The person didn’t said a word. I removed my hands that’s covering my eyes then look at the person who’s been calling my name. My vision slowly started to get clear.“It’s me, Daciana.”My eyes widened as words could
“Man down!”I couldn’t believe what I am seeing. I covered my mouth with my hand, stopping my tears from falling. Others were looking down on the ground with their hands on their chest. Adolf, who’s standing in front of me, took a step forward while shaking his head.“Who would do such a thing?”Some people who’s blocking a little cleared their way. From here, a poor man who’s holding twigs and branches he’s collecting for the bonfire, drops on the ground.Lifeless.His body is intact. No injuries or wounds. However, his eyes were pure as white, as if his soul was sucked out of his body. Its flesh were turning colorless and scorched.You’re all probably wondering how did I manage to stand and got here when I was told to stay put in my place earlier? Well, I didn’t listen to Adolf.“Stay here. You’re not going anywhere Daciana!”He gave me a threatening look. For a moment, I was speechless. I couldn’t move while staring at him because of his eyes that are alarming. He probably noticed
The journey continues.After the incident last night, Stoic and I decided not to talk about it again. He clearly has no any idea what I was talking about. He’s probably thinking I am just hallucinating.However, that’s not the case here. I am sure that I saw a shadow. It was petrifying I could still feel a chill down my spine.“Stay close! We’re getting near!” Frode yelled, encouraging everyone.I don’t have any idea how long we’re walking. I was lost from the deep end of my thoughts when thanks to Frode’s scream that snap me back to reality.Stoic and the rest of us agreed not to cross the city where I was poisoned since it’s dangerous to go there again. And that’s the short cut. We have no choice but to go to the long route. Now what Frode said we’re near, we must have been hiking for miles now.“Seems like something’s bothering your mind.”I wasn’t surprised Adolf was beside me when he asked. I know he had been keeping an eye on me ever since last night they heard me screaming for
It was dark, cold and trembling. I could feel my body shivering severely. I tried opening my eyes to see what’s going on and where am I. I saw nothing put pure iniquity. The atmosphere is eerie and blood draining. I closed my eyes again, trying to move my body only to scream in pain. Where’s everyone? “Get up!” I groaned when someone kicked my stomach. I choked out my saliva from the impact. I was left crying and mumbling words under my breath. A light illuminated the place all of a sudden. Even if my eyes are still closed, the agleam of light-colored coming from the torch is burning. It was followed by a series of voices coming from those who’s unfamiliar with me. “Princess Daciana! What a pleasant surprise!” I open my eyes when I was rolled on my back. Someone step on my stomach and when I get to stare at the suspect, I couldn’t believe what I am seeing. It was a person. “Yeah, it was a total jackpot to meet her.” Frode step to the side, leaning his head a little so he coul