"Back then, Ilthin told me something that I treasured deeply, and then she gave me this." Lith handed to Kamila the communication rune business card of the Banshee that he had never used, yet he didn’t throw it away either.
"Are you showing off your mad pick-up skills or what?" Kamila regretted her choice of words and the poison they were coated in the moment she heard them coming out of her own mouth, yet it was too late to take them back.
Her wounded heart demanded payback but, in her case, cruelty was a tool pointy at both ends and it inflicted the same amount of pain to both of them.
"No. I just want you to have it." Lith flinched at her allegations, but just for one second. "Maybe, if you speak with Ilthin, she’d tell you what she told me."
"Can’t you just repeat her words without the need of a middleman?" Kamila took the rune card and stored it away.
"Let’s be honest. You don’t trust me much anymore so anything I say would sound fake, especially since you know how good a liar I am." Lith replied. "On top of that, if our wordings are too similar, you might think it’s a rehearsed speech."
"Gods, I had almost forgotten how paranoid you are." Kamila couldn’t help but chuckle. "These cards are single-use and I doubt you can force a Firstborn to do anything."
"Anyway, I want to let this be your choice, not mine. Goodbye." Lith left the moment the movie ended.
He had followed Nalrond’s advice while also giving Kamila a tool to dispel her doubts. Back in the tower, after revealing Solus to her, Kamila had chosen to get out of his life.
Yet if she still cared about their relationship, she would call Ilthin and maybe choose to be part of it again. ƒгeeweɓn૦vel.com
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Gorgon Empire, the city of Nestamaath, Capitol of the Empire, and current access to Leegaain’s lair.
Jormun Nidho, also known in the Griffon Kingdom as Jakra the Emerald Dragon had finally returned home after over two months of wandering and five hundred years of imprisonment.
Right after leaving the Golden Griffon, he had thought about going straight to his siblings, but that would have meant breaking his word to Thrud and more importantly, endangering the baby’s life.
Now, however, the pregnancy had almost come to term and Jakra couldn’t hold back any longer. Training alone to master his abilities as an Awakened and searching for a way to obtain the violet core kept his mind busy, but only until Invigoration lost its effectiveness.
When exhaustion forced him to stop and rest, Jakra’s sleep was haunted by the memories of the centuries he had spent inside the Golden Griffon and of the months he had been a prisoner of his own body at Thrud’s service.
He had come to fear sleep more than death because while the latter would give him peace, the former tortured his mind and body, making him regret having left Thrud’s side.
While under the slave spell, at least he would sleep like a baby. Not only because the forbidden magic forced him to, but also because there was some sort of relief in knowing that none of his actions were actually his responsibility.
With freedom, instead, also came the burden of the consequences of his actions and the regret for the lives that he had been forced to take.
After one restless night too many and having come too close to taking his own life, Jakra had chosen to go to the only person who might understand his situation without judging him.
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