Alexander POV
Waking up, I was startled to see my body lying in a wagon travelling who knows where,
“Finally, you're awake” I hear and turning, I see Jim walking alongside the wagon.
Noticing, I see a bunch of soldiers walking along the trailway.
“How long have I been out and where are we heading?” I asked my friend as I began standing to walk alongside him after being out for some time.
“You've been out for a day and a half, as for where we are heading, I have no clue, but It seems we are heading towards a coastal city from the looks of the path.”
he smirks and looks over at me
“You've been getting a lot of praise, Alexander. Stories of how you managed to take down a giant of a man have been going around. When Peter found you he said you looked just about dead then alive.”
“Speaking of which, where's peter?”
“I actually don't know, he was here for a while but walked up ahead to speak to someone I think” replied Jim.
“The giant came after me only after he saw me kill a noble, the noble's name was Alonso of house Wilde if I remember correctly, the giant I have no clue who he was.” I say to Jim as I stare at a dozen wagons all of which are carrying injured soldiers.
“Ha! House Wilde, Alexander they will for sure want vengeance, you probably killed the noble's bodyguard if anything, keep your eyes out you will for sure have a target on your back” he says to me with his eyes widened playfully but soon a serious demeanor appeared.
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I nod to him and walk a little up ahead to speak to one of the people who's on the wagon upfront moving it.
“Sir, do you have any clue where we are headed now?” I ask
“yea we're heading a bit east to a city called hazel town. We received a message from a raven informing us that they have spotted a bunch of ships far out in the horizon, we should arrive in the next few days friend.”
“Thank you, sir” I reply, great we are headed into battle once again surely.
Will they ever stop, will this be a major battle? I wonder exactly what they are planning because Prince Charles has only been sending small squads of soldiers to attack and sure they do a bit of damage in the short term, but long term I don't see how this will benefit them at all.
And this city hazel town, is on the side of a cliff that slowly eases to grown level, so if they were to get sieged, they would have a hard time.
“Alexander!”
I hear my name get called and I see it's peter who's walking to me from upfront from where the wagons and soldiers are marching past,
Falling next to me he walks along with me.
“You gave me a scare back their man. I thought you were dead for sure” he says giving me a jab to my arm
“It won't be so easy to kill the great Alexander now would it ay peter” I say flexing my muscles
we let out a chuckle.
“No, but seriously, I found you laid against a boulder, and you had crows poking at your body, it seemed as if they were eating you. One even ripped a piece of your skin off from your che- oh!” he waves at another person who was walking toward us, as if knowing what he was going to say
“I'll talk later Alex, the general wants to see me, rest up got it” he places a hand on my shoulder then runs up ahead of where everyone is marching.
How did he find me against a boulder? Did I not just lay next to the giant and pass out there?
And these crows were looking like they were about to eat me!
Lifting my shirt, I checked and to my surprise I found on my chest above where my heart, skin was missing and a piece of dark black stone.
It seemed like the skin was ripped off to perfectly fit the stone. I tried to remove it, but it felt like it was my skin, like a part of me.
I definitely need to see a doc soon and I don't want to interrupt the medics here helping the soldiers, so I'll just wait till we get to hazel town.
Seeing Jim speaking to a group of other soldiers I decided to sit back down in the wagon I originally woke up in.
Laying my head against the wooden wall
I drifted back to sleep