She had laid her cloak, rapier, and her travel pack in front of her, quietly not to wake up the red-haired she shared the room with. Three days had passed since they had left Shimmer Coast, three days since she had seen Aranai, since she had lied to him. Even longer since she had broken into the man's study and discovered he necromancy book and his journal that detailed his journey to the Underdark.
She was naive to think she would get away with it even more naive to think that things would work out, to think he would allow her to go with him.
On a suicide mission.
She focused on her rapier, the Divided Eclipse, a family heirloom passed down to the eldest child of the Nox family. She was the only child, an injury to her mother left her unable to bear a child again. She held so much responsibility to uphold for her family, for Shimmer Coast, and soon to be wife to the second son of the oldest families in the Feywilds.
Aranai Amastacia.
His demeanor, the crazed look in his eyes was still fresh and had been on her mind since they had left. There was no way she could have seen this coming he had hidden it so well, no one knew.
She closed her eyes and hit down on her bottom lip to keep herself from making anyone noise. Her heart pained for the man to be husband, they had to beat him there, she had to. She couldn't let him do this by himself, he wanted to protect her, to keep her from harm's way but she couldn't just stand by and watch him struggle let alone get himself killed. If she were to perish on the field-
"You're still awake, "
Arihris opened her eyes to see the crimson-haired woman that stared back at her.
"Shouldn't you be resting?" Arihris questioned
"I was trying to," Circe replied as she sat up and crossed her legs. "What about you?"
"I'm fine, "Arihris replied.
"You know… You always say that. You're always thinking and planning without us. We just want to help. We're in this together. Your husband, Yusolis' brother and… the old grumpy man inside of me," Circe began. Arihris sighed and ran a hand through her silky ebony hair.
"It's out of embarrassment, to be honest… but I am also…. hurt," Arihris began.
"Aranai right?"
Arihris nodded and Circe sighed.
"Don't worry. We'll catch up with him and we'll show him what we can do," Circe nodded and yawned.
"Yeah…"
"So stop worrying and get some rest,"Circe said as she laid back down, her back to her.
Even though Arihris trusted her friends but the dread that had wrapped itself around her chest made her feel otherwise despite what her mind said. She knew that she had to keep going, she was going to help him even of he didn't want it.
She had to.