Xaden gave her a strange look.
"To see the fire serpent there must be a code." She said. "And if the Queen finds out she is going to be very offended."
"And I quite frankly do not care." Xaden responded.
Miria looked at him and took his arm and forced him to walk with her.
"Walk with me." She said.
It was command and not a question.
He started walking down with her when his men started to follow them.
"Just you and me." She instructed.
He turned and nodded at his men signifying they stay back.
They walked down the hallway and towards a very open balcony that was free of poke nosers.
She turned and looked back at him.
"What do you want for me Xaden?" She asked.
He rose a brow.
"You’re the red flame?" He asked.
"Big shocker." She gave in boring sarcasm and she folded her arms.
"Why reveal yourself to me?" He asked. "You’ve been anonymous since before I was even born."
"Good question." She pointed out. "That is because for me to help you. I need you to help me."
She pulled his arm and led him to the open archway across the dark night.
"I will help you with whatever you want," she started. "If only you would help me first."
He looked around.
"Don’t worry." She said. "I warded this room. To anyone who is seeing us, we’re just laughing and having some drinks and talking about regular wolf and mage conversations. But they can’t actually hear our conversations."
He turned back to her and folded his arms. "What do you want?"
"I heard rumors.... We all heard rumors of a sea monster on your ship. Is it true?" She asked intensely.
"Yes." He answered.
She took in a very deep breath and started to pace. "And it just came out from the ocean, on its own accord and how did you stop it."
Xaden sighed heavily. "That is the thing. We didn’t do either of those. It came out of nowhere and attacked the ship. I’ve never seen anything like it before. We didn’t even have a chance against it. It would have destroyed the entire ship and when we finally expected it to, it simply retreated."
"It came up and simply left." She said.
"Yeah." He folded his arms. "Why are you interested in any of these."
"There are things you don’t understand Xaden. Things you don’t know. Things much much bigger than just pack wars. I’m not belittling your fight with Bale, but there are things bigger than that in the grand scheme of things."
She smiled at him. "You don’t know what this means. This changes everything that we know or thought we even knew."
She was still deliberating when he turned back to her.
"Now can I ask for your own help?" He asked.
She nodded. "Yes you can go ahead."
"I lost someone and-
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"I need to go somewhere. Right now." She said. "I will return."
And with that she disappeared into the air.
Xaden was transfixed as he looked around for her.
He really didn’t like mages.
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