Red liquid streamed from his tall nose and the corners of his lips. Yet even though he had lost quite a lot amount of blood, Dominic didn’t realized it even as he found the red liquid that warmly dropped to his hand. He frowned, wondering what it was and saw Rose’s green eyes shaking with fear. Her girl who always felt worried looked even more shaken while looking at him, something that had never happened before. “What’s.. wr—” Dominic noticed finally the taste of iron on his lips. As he felt Rose gentle hands wrapping around his chin, he felt a deadly sharp pain stinging his heart. He frowned and lifted his face upward, finding Rose’s tears that stopped to her eyes. “Dominic,” she whispered, holding to his face and wiping away the blood over his face. Her heart wrenched when she noticed how the more she had wiped the blood, she had smeared it even more all over his face. Dominic slowly moved forward, feeling his vision tilting. He reached out his hand toward the nearest wall when
Rose tightly held back to his big fingers. Somewhere she felt scared to let him sleep. For she feared when his eyes were closed that would be the last time he would ever open his eyes.. But noticing how tired he was, she did not have the heart to deny him from rest. With a smile she forced to leave her lips, she said, “Yes. I will be here until you wake up.” Dominic gently closed his eyes with a smile on his lips. He was in so much pain but he know he wasn’t as miserable as he was in the past. In the past when he was alone and wounded where no one would search for him or tend to his wounds. Even though he was in a better shape in the past, he still felt his current situation was much better well off than the past…Rose’s sweet scent filled the room. Although he couldn’t smelled her earlier, his heart felt in haven upon her fragrance. Rose watched as Dominic slowly fell asleep, his consciousness drifting away. Her eyes softened watching him sleeping to regain back his energy. Not f
Rose flinched upon hearing Starvos’s tone that had raised, causing the man to recoil from guilt. He didn’t meant to shout at her and quickly whisper, “I’m sorry.” “No,” Rose shook her head. She didn’t feared Starvos’s harsh tone. Anyone in his position would feel the way he did and even now, Rose would have acted the same way as he did. She feared that with more people knowing the curse, Dominic would be more susceptible to harm. But she know for once that Starvos would never ever hurt Dominic. “It’s a curse that is extremely rare. Until now there is no cure for it or a way to break them. It— it’s almost impossible to find a way to break the curse. The curse would slowly eat Dominic from the inside, making him suffer from unknown illness…” Rose’s voice broke as anger filled the back of her throat. She had to force herself to speak as though swallowing a bitter medicine. “That’s why he had been weaker physically.” “So all this time.. he’s bearing a curse?” Starvos slumped down to h
Rose’s eyes snapped behind her and she quickly darted her eyes back to Mona, “What’s that?” “Magic,” Mona said at once, “I could feel magic.” “Damn it. It must be them,” Starvos said with a click of his tongue that raised her eyebrows. “What do you mean them?” She inquired, feeling that they don’t have enough time, she quickly walked toward the table, pulling the powdered painkillers which the Master had given to her early in the afternoon. Quickly, she dawned the bitter medicine, gulping it down with water. “When we went to the imperial castle earlier we found out that the King and Queen are under influence of magic. The people behind it are Dominic’s brother, Shawn and that damned sorcerer..” Starvos’s words were cut as Rose uttered the name before him.“Isaac,” she saw the startled look on Starvos’s eyes, confirming her guess that they had been working together. “What magic did you feel, Mona?” “Summoning magic,” Mona shuddered when she felt the dark magic that brushed her ne
Shawn narrowed his eyes, his face saying his refusal to trust her words but Rose didn’t say any more words, allowing for him to think for himself whether the words she had uttered was lies as he had accused or the truth that Dominic had never revealed. He thought about his older brother, who was a hot headed person who wouldn’t hesitate to kill.Dominic wasn’t blood thirsty but to keep himself alive, he would kill whatever necessary to keep him alive. Of course there had been many instances where Shawn could feel that if Dominic had killed him, he would be more free. Of course killing him was difficult and his mother wouldn’t stay quiet about it. But knowing Dominic who would put hhis emotions and anger first before finding a way to eliminate evidence, killing him should have been easier.. Yet he didn’t. He didn’t.. he didn’t want to, not because he could not. ‘You believe in her lies?’ Whispered a voice at the back of Shawn’s ears. In fury, Shawn smashed his hand to the nearest p
Shawn narrowed his eyes, slowing stepping backward. Rose noticed that her words did an effect to him, causing him to move backward out of fear of her magic. She didn’t expect for him to be scared by her words and perhaps he wouldn’t be as much frightened as now if she hadn’t told him the truth about Dominic, he would still remain unfazed by her words.Shawn gritted his teeth, raising his hand, “Move for the last time!” “I said no,” Rose’s green eyes turned lighter in color as she responded to him in a fiercer tone. “I won’t repeat that twice.” Shawn angrily turned the same hand he had raised into a fist, tightening his fingers enough for his fingernails to draw blood from his skin. He ignored the pain, muttering a small whisper of magic.Rose saw the blood drops that fell on the floor began to shake as a creature pushed it body out from the floor. Rose shuddered when seeing the creepy eyes of the gargoyle but something was different with the gargoyle that he had summoned compared to
Dominic had rose to his seat again. A while ago when his eyes were closed, he could hear Rose’s voice. She sounded so distressed that it worried him. Yet for some unknown reasons, he couldn’t open his eyes or find Rose around him. Dominic hated the feeling of being chained but he knows that he couldn’t wake up no matter what. Just then he heard a weak howl coming from his back. His eyes turned behind him, understanding that he wasn’t in the physical world but somewhere inside his mind.. or perhaps his own heart. The howl began to sound clearer despite of how weak it was. He pushed his feet to move, striding toward the sound of the howl that began to appear like a soft cry of small pup. At first he didn’t feel anything to hear the cry but his heart ache to hear the whimper of the animal that sounded broken, as though abandoned. Walking toward the source of the voice, he found the wounded wolf that had sprawled on the ground. From its eyes were tears that continued to stream down.
Dominic never knew that this whole time he had been thinking the way he did until his wolf had pointed this part of him. Dominic looked at the reflection of himself, raising the question he had kept in his mind, “Why do you look like a child?” His wolf raised his hand, his finger pointing straight at him, “You are a child.”“In your eyes maybe but I’m sure I’m not as young as you look like now in appearance,” Dominic raised his confusion. He thought that his wolf should look similar to him as Starvos told him that wolf is a perfect reflection of a person with the only difference being their wolf are more truthful to their desire, something that most people would hide in their heart. “You are supposed to die in this age,” the wolf said, pressing his hand to his chest, “But someone helped you, making sure that you live longer until now.” Dominic raised his eyebrows, confused by what the wolf meant, “I should have died in that age? Why?” The wolf stared at him in silence, uttering n