After some time that felt like an eternity for Kyle and Alice but was in fact roughly half an hour they finally move again after being in shock for this time. But the unbelieving look is still on their faces and wont go away for quite some time probably.
A: We are fucked.
K: ...
A: Soooo what do we do? My family is already dead so i dont care about trying my best to cross the borders or something. Do you still have family here or what do you want to do? I guess being a deserteur how they want us to be would just prove them right so maybe thats not the best idea. We could just wait for them and then kill them and...
K: Wait, you dont have a family anymore? The only thing you spoke about was how you always went hunting with your dad or weird interactions with your mom and something similar and now you tell me you dont have a family anymore?
A: ...
K: And whats with you suddenly speaking about deserting just because they expect you to? By the was my family is still out here so i will try my best to not get killed as a deserteur. I dont have to come back alive but i dont want them to suffer just because someone framed me as a deserteur. So get ahold of yourself and try to think of something useful or just be silent so i can think of something
A: You must really care about them. Although i dont understand why you dont seem to care about your own life.
I was one of those who fought for our village, there was a whole army stationed near it and we were outnumbered. Their troops 3 times more than our village has people in it...
A: My father being one of the best hunters around was the one to organize our defense but we all knew we would die. The question was if we die fighting and if our side would win then we would be hailed as heroes if we survive or die trying to flee by either the enemies or being executed as traitors from the new rulers no matter who won. So we stayed and fought to our best.
A: To our luck the army did not notice our village at the beginning and my father was able to scout and plan for quite some time. In the end he decided to attack from one side giving everybody there bows and then shoot into the camp to get them to move away and then let everybody who has some training in moving undetected into the camp and poison their supplies with the poisons we usually use to safely kill big beasts after a few hours.
A: Since we would need to get as many people as possible to shoot arrows everybody, even the ones not having held a bow in their hands for their whole life were handed crudely made bows when the time to attack came. We had to attack then because we overheard conversations of leaving the next morning to start their attack on the nearest city. We would have 5 people sneaking into their camp to poison the food and water while everybody else would attack from the other side and then try to run as fast as they can.
A: My father was one of these 5. While we attacked the camp, everybody with 3 arrows shooting without real aim into their camp the plan worked somehow. Nearly everyone of their camp thought it was a big attack and prepared the counterattack. All we did was run for our lives next but i was so clumpsy to fall into a cave opening and lost consciousness.
A: The next thing i knew was waking up the day after and trying to find a way out of the cave. When i did all i found was a slaughterfield. Everybody i once knew was there, killed without remorse by those soldiers, most didnt even have a real weapon near. The next thing i did was walking to the enemies camp. It was unreal. Nobody moving around, no sounds and not even an animal near cause they all avoided this camp that smelled like death and poison for them.
A: So i knew my fathers plan succeded but at what prize. After looking around in the village and not seeing anybody i walked towards the camp again to search for my father. After some time i saw him, or rather his corpse.
He tried to do more than just poisoning them. After that succeded without being noticed he moved towards the leaders tent and then tried to assault them to make it look like the distraction was made to assasinate the leaders. Sadly those expected something similar and he was killed.
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A: I just sat down there and did not do anything anymore then. Something that must have been a week later but couldve been a month for me, dont remember, the army came and all they saw was a girl with a bow sitting in a annihilated enemy camp. And some of these soldiers knew me from the village so they also knew i was no part of the enemies. The tried to get me to tell them how the camp was killed but i said nothing. Just silence and then the next thing i knew was me being enrolled into the army cause those who knew me also knew my skills as a hunter and i did not reject. In fact i did not say a single thing.
A: After some years they got me to speak with the other camerades but you have seen me before probably, i did not go to other people to engage in a conversation. In fact you are the first person I ever told anything of all this and i probably spoke to you more then in the last years if you add it up. You just did not seem to listen and i could feel like telling you of my happy life and just talk to somebody again without having to worry about them trying to get more information or trying to use me like those assholes that got me here after their rape attempt failed.
A: So here I am not caring about this country and telling you my life story, hope you enjoyed it and...
Even though Kyle is a social shutin and does not care about anybody except his foster family a bit but more out of gratitude for letting him stay than real feelings. This person that shows no emotions at all, this dark and moody person just noticed that Alice was preparing to leave him behind and try to leave everything behind not caring anymore and maybe if she may survive against all chances would not even know what to do in the other country. So he does the one thing he could never ever imagine him doing. He gives Alice a hug.
Interrupting her speaking about leaving now and just hugs her for the good part of an hour while her tears start falling like rain for the first time finally having closed up with her past in some ways. This would not work usually though. Just imagine you speaking yourself off to someone who did not speak more than 100 words to you ever and then he gets you to stop thinking about leaving and not caring about your life anymore just because he hugs you?
If there were any other people nearby they may have noticed something else. There was an aura of mourning in the air. They would have felt grief regardless of their current actions and even more loss. But at the same time they would have felt a slight tinge of hope and the feeling of not being alone anymore, that there is someone there for you.
Although Alice did not know this feeling was coming from Kyles aura and was not really thinking at all at the moment this all leads to the situation where she was crying herself out at Kyles shoulder for an hour before finally noticing something else about him.
His scales shine a bit in a mix of dark blue and bright red. And mixed into those feelings it emits there is something else. A feeling that is already second nature to her. The feeling of mana.
Authors Note:
I know this one is probably even smaller than the last chapter but I just couldnt bring myself to write more there.
Well this is the first time here i tried to really get something into the story. I would love to hear some feedback towards this chapter because it is something complettely new for me. I dont know if it is the same for someone else but I tried to make it seem like Alice just speaks her soul out of herself and did not interrupt for something like a description of her hollow look and how she did look at Kyle but somehow more through him than at him. Well Feedback appreciated how I said xD