Choosing a bride

Patrise nodded and I began to narrate from the beginning to her. As I said how I lost my family, the smile on her face faded away. She got pale and paler.

When I finished she hesitated for a while then went on.

"As you said, an inward thing within you called the immortality court to come to you and there was something special about them responding to you! Ai isn't a bad person! She is always strict with everyone so you shouldn't think that she wants to take hard on you."

It was all she said and I was already accustomed to the way that the Crane was treating me. Anyways, she was fay and so proud. I was assured that as the sun heading out to shine in the blue sky I must settle with many things. A new start that I wasn't ready for it. From that day, I began another life in the shadows to protect those who I loved.

"Would you keep the title they have given you?" She asked straight and it made me smile.

I thought about it inside the bathroom and Although it was unseemly, I would do that, keeping the title! I wanted to keep it.

"Yeah, I have signed that contract with my blood! I would like to surrender to this destiny!"

"Well, I feel good now. Tell me about the earthquake night! Did you see any strange thing that might help us?"

Patrise seemed suspicious about that occasion, maybe suspected that wasn't a natural thing that happened.

"First you tell me, were you in Rose Vita that night?"

If she was and this occur happened, she might have sensed the aftershock. No article or highlight I saw about this matter and everyone focused on the huge gap near the Vita River.

"Yes, it has been a week that we are here. The case is emergency and reached the king's ears and he said Cadickus should solve it within two weeks or he would send the royal hunters. My father is the head of Cadickus court and I don't want to disappoint him while we missed a week already."

"Crap! The hunters wouldn't show mercy toward any tinge of darkness and any person related to them." I stated.

"Yes, they are brutal against everyone. The king had gone wicked recently!" She mentioned.

"About that night, to be honest, I don't remember any specific thing. Now, tell me about what had your brother realized about me! As I guessed, the headaches and the tumor in my head aren't for normal reasons."

I said directly, needed to put my pride behind the door and share it with someone. It could be a win-win situation.

It was the real question. The one that I cared about the most was whether these strange happenings were related to the earthquake and the god of darkness. The attacks begun right at the same time, were they all because of me?

"Seems we are in the same boat." She mentioned and I felt so.

She was looking down; studying her expression was wholly easy. It was as if I remarked a memory that she didn't want to remember. Walking along with a line on the floor, she stopped, glancing at me.

"These are the secret cases; can you keep them with you?"

"I promise. You have my words." I had a sealed mouth so she didn't need to worry about that part.

"Eight years ago, the shield went through dysfunction and many cracks appeared on it. TECO realized that someone found the way to bring that disorder inside the station that they used to extract the shield's energy. The cracks remained open for three days."

She paused for a breath; stepping to the table, she picked a bottle of water and made a sip out of half of it. Still doubted if it was right to let me know about the important part. I knew what happened next to what she told me until then.

I really wished that she never said something that I lose hope about becoming well. I wanted to regain my health. If I have fainted on my battle with the wraiths, it could be terrible.

"It is alright Patrise don't panic. I wouldn't share with anyone! It is nothing that I fancy to let others know!" I mentioned guaranteeing that no one would notice it at all.

"The God of darkness crossed one of the cracks. It means that he has been in our world since the portal got open." She swallowed and I did either.

A giggling noise cheered in my head and I couldn't push it back. I felt that knots had been waiting to set for the fact that I was going through! I wasn't ready for this but I wanted to discover it anyway.

"What did the king?" I blurted the words! The king that no one ever saw his face and just heard about his power. The only person that his power of controlling natural elements could persist against a mere darkness being.

"That wasn't the king who made Lashuka retreat! He just moved as an assistant in a rainy night when Vita River began to roar and followed the king's order to take the dark God under siege." She was speaking bewilder.

"What he wanted from us and who else could face him?"

"He was here to choose his bride among our folks! He had stolen six girls from either fay's kin! Vampires, werewolves, cranes, and others. Then he caught a troll girl and at the last was six human girls from various lands. He had stolen them from the same range of ages; they were all ten years old. But he couldn't make it completely! The last human girl caused him huge trouble."

The god of darkness was looking for a young girl to raise and marry him. Making her suffer and falling into darkness, becoming addicted to him. I wasn't sure if my brain could comprehend the reason behind such cruelty!

"What happened to the last girl? Could they save her?" I didn't know why the tips of my fingers went frigid and numb, and my knees were shivering.

"Yes, the previous weaver sacrificed himself for her! The person that you know as dark crane saved the girl and the king fought the darkness god!" Her face went blank and her tune was smooth. It was a tough moment for both of us.

I was sitting there in the hope of finding out about my own problem but it became scary. The fay crane that saved me tonight was the first weaver. My heartbeat raised to a higher level once I realized how he saved the girl.

"What is it to me then?"

The thoughts rumbled in my head, hitting my skull as if someone knocked on the door to say some pieces of news that I didn't want to hear.

Besides all of that, her expression hadn't gotten a reassuring sense to say that was wrong and it was aching my heart.

At the same time, her cell phone rang on the table.

Bip, Bip! Then an alarm buzzed. A man video-recorded call sneaked out of the screen.

"Lashuka sent a servant after the last girl! Find her first, Patrise."

It was a recorded emergency. The man tune was so rough and cold just like his feature. I saw how Patrise got a range of pink shades.