Chapter 706: Terra
Chapter 706: Terra
Jedrek knew very well that Lilac wouldn't let that happen. She was just like an open book that was very easy to read.
The true nature of the guardian angel, who had a gentle heart was not completely lost in her and Jedrek didn't hold back to make good use of it.
Even so, Lilac was still upset because of the way Jedrek treated her.
"No need to be upset," Theo talked casually to her. "You can choose to stay inside the castle, if you don't like to be followed. I don't really enjoy escorting you too."
Lilac shot him a nasty look. "Don't push your luck general, or I will not care about the punishment that Jedrek will give to you."
She thought, Theo would talk back to her, but the general chose to shut his mouth tightly.
"What punishment will Jedrek give to you if I escape?" Lilac was curious when Theo became silent.
The general glanced at the guardian angel and shrugged his shoulder. "Since I can not die, if he was in a good mood, he will skin me alive." Theo chuckled when he watched Lilac widening her eyes in horror. "Don't worry, I will recover after a week, and will feel just like brand new after two weeks."
Theo made it sounded like a joke, but Lilac didn't find it funny at all. "You are lying," she scoffed.
Theo ran his fingers through his hair as he answered her nonchalantly. "Or he will have my head. After all, you are the person that the king had been waiting for a long time. There is no way I will walk out alive from his wrath, if something did happen to you."
Lilac laughed bitterly upon hearing that. Things really had changed. Years ago, Jedrek had asked someone to kill her, but now he would kill someone if something happened to her. This was the most ridiculous irony that she had come across. However, Lilac didn't know if this would be a good thing or the other way around.
"You will not say those words if it was you, who was given an order from him years ago," Lilac grumbled to herself.
"What order?" Theo looked at Lilac curiously.
"Nothing." Lilac shook her head and walked ahead, but the general easily caught up with her.
"But, I still don't believe it you are a guardian angel." Theo frowned at Lilac, staring at her up and down, as if he was judging her.
"Why? Which part did you find it difficult to believe? The fact that I am your King's mate and will be your queen, or the part which I beat you all when you surrounded me with the other generals?" Lilac raised her eyebrows defiantly.
Theo glared at Lilac when she mentioned their first fight in the castle back then, but then he sighed deeply. "Both."
Both of them walked in the bustling street under the scorching sun, but the guardian angel didn't bother. Lilac even completely ignored the people who look at her intensely with curious eyes.
She received that kind of looks when she walked with Jedrek and Theo just a few days ago and now she walked with Theo again, that kind of treatment was expected.
Little that Lilac didn't know was the fact that those people had already known her as their future queen, since Jedrek had never walked with any other woman after Serefina. However, Lilac's true identity as a guardian angel was still unknown.
"Where are we going?" Theo asked. He had been walking on this street for an hour and now the sun had risen and it would be lunch time soon.
"There," Lilac nodded in a direction to her left.
Theo frowned. "What are you going to do there?" he asked feeling uneasy, but he didn't show it on his face. "There is nothing there."
Lilac glanced at Theo before she strode toward the direction that she wanted to go. Sure thing, Theo wouldn't feel anything. However, as a guardian angel, she could feel the darkness from there.
Lilac had sensed it from the time when she walked with Jedrek, but because of the rain, the feeling faded away. Therefore, today she wanted to make sure of it. It was very rare to sense any kind of darkness from such a big, bustling city like this.
The area that Lilac headed was the south side of the city, where there was only vegetation and swamp.
People did not normally live in that area except for those who wanted to hunt in their beast form. Therefore, it goes without saying that the place was a little bit dangerous for Lilac.
"Wait, you shouldn't go there." Theo stopped her by standing in front of the guardian angel, but Lilac simply side stepped and continued walking forward. "There are a lot of wild animals there."
"Wild animals?" Lilac said it mockingly, she crossed her arms when Theo tried to stop her again. "If I can handle your kind just fine, why should I be afraid of wild animals?"
Well, that made sense… Theo thought.
Reluctantly, the general followed her, but he narrowed his eyes in concentration, especially when they got closer to the area.
Drooping trees with black trunks, rotting vegetation and scummy water were the sight that greeted them, along with dirt and mud mixed with stagnant air that hit their senses strongly.
Theo wrinkled his nose and the three Lycan warriors also didn't like the situation here.
But, Lilac felt otherwise, she felt invigorated for being in the nature, yet it didn't cease the darkness that she sensed, if anything, it was only getting stronger.
"Who is there?" one of the lycan warrior sensed something and walked over to check on it. He went behind the tree and returned with a young girl. "You shouldn't be here, what are you doing here?" the warrior asked.
"This place is not for a pup," Theo mumbled. "Bring her back and find her parents."
"Wait," Lilac stopped the warrior and walked closer to the young girl, who seemed like in her early adolescence age. "What is your name?"
"Terra," the girl answered while staring at Lilac with her innocent eyes.