Sangilak entered to the witches' room.
"The transformed one has escaped" Sangilak.
"Yes" said the middle witch.
"But as long as he had his brother with us, he will come to rescue him, and there we´ll catch him"
"According to plan" Sangilak "So I think we have to be prepare for our guests when they arrive"
"Yes" said the oldest witch, "Also, we must be careful, The Great Spirits are aware of our plans"
"But you said they couldn´t touch us" Sangilak.
"By now, but if we don´t get to The Dark Mountain, they will stop us!"
"Don´t worry will get on there on time" said Sangilak "Then they will have no defenses against us"
"Yes, but I sense something, a spirit, it´s recruiting forces" said the oldest witch.
"So what, we have an army" Sangilak.
"Too many trust can kill a man, Sangilak" added the middle witch "Take this account, be prepare of any kind of attack"
"Okay, witches, I´ll watch if anyone tries to attack us, but only a fool will do it"
…
"Bite it" said Anastasia as she put in Kenai´s mouth a wooden branch.
"What?" asked Kenai, he was recovering his sense of sight, but Anastasia was still seen blurred.
"Trust me" said Anastasia.
Kenai didn´t had any reason to trust Anastasia, but couldn´t be worse than the beat he had received from Sangilak, so he opened his mouth and then felt a wooden taste on his mouth.
"Now what?" Kenai asked with the branch on his mouth.
"Now bite strong, is going to hurt"
"Hurt?" asked Kenai.
Anastasia took Kenai´s broken nose and put it back on his place, the nose made a crack sound, Kenai bite the branch the most strong we could as he felt the pain of his nose, it was horrible, Kenai spitted out the branch.
"Ah!" screamed Kenai.
"I told you it would hurt" said Anastasia, and then she took a piece of clothing and then she wet it on a wooden pan that had hot water on it, then she started to clean the blood from Kenai´s nose with it.
"What?" asked Kenai?
"What what?"
"Why are you helping me?"
"You had a rough day; this is the less I can do"
"No, the less you can do would be release me"
"I can´t"
"Why not?"
"I told you!" said Anastasia "I´m forced to make this"
"You are capable of take your owns decision, then why are you following orders?"
"Not of your business"
"When you kidnap me and my brothers it becomes something of my business"
"You don´t need to know it!" finished Anastasia, the had finished cleaning the blood from Kenai´s nose, she took the pan and put closer to Kenai´s mouth "Drink it, then spit out, for the blood"
Kenai did it, when he spit the liquid and the floor was covered by a mixture of blood and water, then Anastasia put out a wooden pincher.
"Now this is for drink" she said and then she let Kenai drink from it, a long sip.
"Thank you" said Kenai.
"You´re welcome"
Then they were silent for a couple of minutes, Kenai was looking at Anastasia, trying to figure it out what she would have been thinking, but it was so mysterious for him, first, they had fight, then she make him a favor, they fought again, making his escape impossible, beating his ass and then, she was helping him again, he couldn´t believe it.
"Can I ask you something?" asked Kenai to Anastasia, who was looking to other side.
"Shoot"
"Are you going to do me a favor after you beat my ass all the time?"
Anastasia couldn´t hold a laugh.
"I don´t think you live enough for that" she said without looking at him.
"Oh that´s really sweet, thank you, it helps me a lot"
"Sorry, I´m just realistic"
"Then you should know that your mate plan isn´t going to work and that the Great Spirits are going to punish all of you"
"You have so hope in your Great Spirits" Anastasia "That´s so sad"
"And why´s that?"
"Because the hope is bad, trust me"
"It isn´t"
"It is, trust me; I know it from first hand"
"How?" asked Kenai, now very intrigue for her words.
"It doesn´t matters!" said Anastasia looking at him "Simply not!"
"Okay" said Kenai, realizing that she wasn´t going to tell him nothing "So, if you don´t want to talk, why are you still here?"
"I have to, orders"
"History of your life"
"It´s not funny" said Anastasia with a mad look.
"Isn´t funny either that your boss wants to kill my brother"
"He´s crazy"
"Really? I haven´t notice it"
"Well, he is" said Anastasia ignoring the sarcasm "He hates animals"
"He hates animals and has animals on his canoe?"
"Ship, this is a ship, and yes he hates them, but, he uses them as slaves"
"He´s a monster!" said Kenai really angry "And why the animals' don´t fight back?"
"Because they´re afraid of him" Anastasia "The fear makes them obey"
Kenai couldn't believe her words.
"He makes us traveled around the entire world" continue Anastasia "Beyond the long sea"
"But, no one has crossed the great sea, there´s nothing out there!"
"Oh there is, trust me, he has, and there´s a lot out there, lands that you had never dream, strange creatures, things, weapons, where you think I get those" said Anastasia showing his sais.
"I imagined those thing couldn´t be from here" said Kenai looking at the weapons.
"And from his journeys, he had buy animals, weapons, he met the three sisters and brought them with him, he made a lot of people made this ship. And all of that, with only use one thing, fear, that he´s most powerful weapon"
Kenai was silent for a while, trying to believe Anastasia´s words.
"That´s… fear, are you afraid of him?"
"Not of him, of what he´s capable of do"
Kenai was now getting frightened.
"Like what?"
Anastasia looked away again.
"I think I had said enough"
"Hey!" said Kenai with a louder tone "My brother is in danger, I need to know what´s that man capable of do"
Anastasia keep quiet for a while, not looking at Kenai.
"Please" Kenai "I need to know"
"I´ll only said that one time" he keep silence for a minute "He burn down a village, when everyone was asleep, even the children, the only thing that remind of that village, was ashes"
"Even the kids…"
"Most of them didn´t make it, the ones who survive, Sangilak took them as slaves"
"He must be stopped" said Kenai, he knew that Koda was in danger, but now he was aware of Sangilak´s madness.
"Many have tried it, and many ended at the bottom of the ocean"
"Well, I´m not going to be one of them" Kenai "I´ll do anything I can to save my brother.
Anastasia looked at him.
"Are you so determinate to do that?"
"Yes!"
"Why"
"For love" was Kenai answer.
Now was Anastasia the one who was surprised.
"I have only met another man so determinate like you in my life"
"And who is him?"
"Sangilak, but he don´t do nothing for love, he do it for…"
"Hate" ended Kenai.
"Exactly" said Anastasia.
"Well, hate or love, I´m not going to let him touch Koda, if he does, he better knows what comes for him"
Anastasia couldn´t said nothing to that, she thought that it will be his funeral, Sangilak was stronger than Kenai, also, she didn´t had the courage to face him, but what intrigue her more, was why Kenai wanted to fight Sangilak, love, once she also had a big love, and it was taken away from her, but even do, the love Kenai show for his brother make Anastasia remember the love she had lost.
"It´s better if we sleep" said Anastasia "Tomorrow is going to be a rough day"
"Like you said" said Kenai, too tired to continue arguing, even if he didn´t had any intention to fall asleep "By the way, my name is Kenai"
"I´m Anastasia" she said as she put comfortable on one side of the room, she was silent for a couple of minutes until she spoke again "Good night, Kenai"
Kenai didn´t knew why, but he answered.
"Good night, Anastasia"
Then, they were silent, like if they were asleep, but they didn´t sleep anything that night, they were too busy trying to assimilate all the things that had happened them.
