Spat between the first antagonist group for anon!
Jenna groaned. Her feet were slowly killing her. And with each and every step she was forced to take in the company of the Proxians was pure agony. She was tried, she was hungry, she was sore, she hadn't had the chance to bathe in a week. All in all, she felt like crap.
"Can we please camp for the night?" She whined, asking the same question for the twelfth time in the past hour.
"Silence, girl!" Menardi answered, "We are but an hour from Mercury Lighthouse. We shall scale that, light it's Beacon and be gone before sunrise."
"But, I'm dying." She whined, sick of all this travelling she was forced to do. And, despite her brother's advice and wishes, she was not afraid to show it. One of the few joys she got was annoying the hell out of her captors.
"Felix, silence your sister. Now." Saturos ordered, clearly resisting the urge to massage his head from the migraine Jenna had given him.
"She has a point." Felix stated simply, causing the group to come to a stop for the first time in hours. Jenna breathed a deep sigh of relief, plopping down into the snow covered ground to rest her feet for even a few seconds.
"We have been travelling all day and all night. We barely had anything to eat throughout. My sister is unused to such conditions." Felix said, glancing just momentarily at his sister to flash her a smirk.
Menardi stepped forward, her fingers dancing against the handle of her scythe, "We do not care, Felix. Prox has no time to waste on a little girl who refuses to grow up."
"Hey!" Jenna yelled, clearly insulted, but Menardi simply ignored her.
"If she wishes to stop, she is more than free to do so. You however, know that you must accompany us. So either pick your sister up off the ground now. Or leave her here. Either way, we're moving on."
Felix sighed, defeated. He simply nodded, and held his hand out to his sister. Grumbling bitterly, she took it and continued to walk, taking painful step after painful step. Five minutes later she was whining again, just to annoy her captors.
Within half an hour, a welcome sight gave Jenna new reason to intensify her pleas to stop for the night. A small town, which Kraden identified as Imil, sat not too far from Mercury Lighthouse.
"Can we please rest there for the night?" She pleaded, the prospect of a warm bed and a hot meal running rampant through her imagination.
"No." Came the simultaneous answer from Saturos and Menardi.
"Please?"
"No."
"Plea-"
"Fine!" Menardi finally yelled, "YOU may go to the town. But YOU will be the one paying for your room and your meal, understood? We are not accompanying you."
"Probably for the best after all." Alex chuckled, having delighted in Jenna's antics for the entire journey, "I'm not particularly welcome there, and the people of Imil scare easily. Perhaps we should make camp here for the night? I have no doubt whatever Vale sent after us is far behind. They would be as used to travel and battle as she is." He said, gesturing to Jenna.
Silently, Jenna thanked the Imilian. She knew he had won over the Proxians when they slumped their shoulders in defeat.
"Very well." Saturos agreed, "But we leave at the crack of dawn. We expect you back here by then." He ordered, glaring directly at Felix.
"We will be." Felix assured, walking off to the snowy hamlet with his sister and the scholar. But not before Alex slipped them a bag of coins to make sure they would be comfortable for the night.
Twenty minutes later, Jenna was giggling madly while she enjoyed some hot soup, Kraden had already retired for the night, and Felix was exploring the town. While he was out, he encountered a young blue-haired girl by the town's waterfall.
Jenna slept cosily for the first time in weeks that night.
Felix stayed up all night, fascinated by the shy healer he had met.
I think this could've been done better. Was gonna go with a more serious tone, but I figured light-hearted would be nicer. So... yeah...