21. A disastrous journey3

Emma ran deeper into the bushes after the thieves, and Yue kept the child to sleep safely in the coach and went after her. He ran for miles with no sign of her or the thieves and slowed down walking carefully when someone tapped him from behind. He turned around and felt a blade sink into his stomach quickly, blood gushing out of his stomach as he fell to the floor. The assailant threw his dagger on the floor and retreated in fear leaving behind all that he had stolen on the floor as he ran away. "Lord Kovel" he heard a voice call out, he struggled, pushing himself to where the abandoned loot was, "Lord Kovel" he heard the whisper again amongst the loot. He searched slowly amongst it and felt swirling lines from carving's on a box. He pried it open, his head falling to the floor, his hands limp.

"Shijieon nia" she muttered and a ball of light appeared, she searched through the entire bushes carefully but found nothing, no trace that anyone had gone through there. She turned back, checking along the way when she found the box that had contained the dragons essence, but it was wide open, and empty.

Yue leaned against a tree, inhaling and exhaling with difficulty. His mind was fogged, his skin was healing up slowly. He groaned in pain and tried to get up, but fell to the ground with a thud. He felt needle like sensations on his body, "argh" he moaned in pain holding unto his head. He felt insects crawling all over his body and tried to get them off of him, but they persisted and kept walking all over him.

There was blood all over the floor, and a dagger along with all the other stolen goods. She heard a low groan and knew it had to be Yue " Yue, Yue can you hear me" she called out parting the long grasses as quickly as she could. She followed the blood trail and found him holding onto his head with both hands, his shirt soaked with blood, but he was not injured, there was no sign of injury, only a little tear on his tunic. "Yue" she called his name softly, but he did not respond "Yue, can you hear me" she shook him trying to bring him to his senses, he opened his eyes and looked up at her a stupid smile on his face," what's wrong?" She asked slightly afraid, but mostly worried. He laughed a low manical laugh and fell back against the tree unconscious.