"Do you think she actually thought you cared about her?" She sat by the fire feeding the fire.
"I would think it'd be obvious I did... despite her treachery against my kingdom... despite her attacking me countless times... despite all things she's done to change my life... I never once doubted the good in her... I fought to keep her safe from those that wanted to control and kill her... I trusted in the goodness of her heart..."
"Do you really think that was true did she show you that she cared or had feelings?"
"I don't know how she felt towards me... or if she even cared about me at all... but I could see it in her eyes, each and every time I looked into them... A pure, innocent soul that didn't want to hurt me, or anyone... I could see it in her eyes..."
"...She's no longer suffering anymore..." Looks to the dancers in the floors.
"How can you know that? You ripped her soul from her body, you tried to play god!" he exclaims, finding himself growing tired with each emotional outburst, his body still weak and in need of physical rest.
"You can have her body afterwards." Lies down under a tree closing her eyes.
His voice takes on a growl, growing slightly deeper as he again addresses her, his head beginning to feel as though it were spinning, "You're no better than my enemy... taking control of the girl for you own selfish desires..." That said, he slides down on the ground, laying his head on the log with his body on its side, facing the winged girl.
The winged girl remained silent she didn't even look like she was breathing anymore. "Its not my needs, but the ones of the village..."
"Could you not just take the feathers you need and go? Did you really have to put that damn collar on her and take her soul as well...?" His eyes closed slowly, trying to resist the feelings that welled within him, all making him tired and pushing him to the verge of unconsciousness once more. She stood slowly putting blankets over the two before she sat by the fire once again her eyes closed halfway. Turning his head down towards the ground a bit, he allows his eyes to close fully, though he fights to stay awake and aware, fearing that the woman would try to leave with the winged one as he slept, not wanting to let that happen.
She watches him smirking a bit. "You fear me a woman."
"I fear nothing... not even death... but I refuse to let my guard down... at least until I'm sure you're not my enemy..."
"I am not your enemy if I was then you would be dead I wouldn't have bandage your wounds." Pulling his sheathed katana from his side, he hugs it into his arms, his left hand holding the sheathe, his right holding the hilt as his eyes relax, growing nearer to a sleeping state, though he does his best to avoid falling asleep right away. She watched him smiling a bit. "You spared my life... that much I agree on... but I'm still not sure how well I can trust you... since you've taken from me the only other thing I have left..."
"I told you that you can have her afterwards."
"What good does her soulless body do me... I'm no sorcerer... I've no power over souls..." his voice came soft, just barely audible as he became increasingly tired, finding it harder and harder to resist the urge to fall into a slumber. She walked over slowly picking the winged girl up. His eyes slowly open, though feeling heavy, glancing over to the winged girl, "What are you doing... I told you, she doesn't go without me..."
"You have no need for her now you won't even try to bring her back..." Looking down to him. "Just like me..." Lifts her left foot before smashing her sandal into his head knocking him out.
Gripping at the katana's hilt, he begins to draw it as she speaks, "I said you're not, agh!" His body rolls to the other side as the foot slams into his forehead, his body going limp, his katana sliding away from him and out of his arms reach. She closed her eyes before opening them staring down at the boy tears streaming down as she walked through the forest silently the girl's black wing's dragging behind her as the lady in the white flowered kimono made her way up the hill. His body remains motionless upon the ground for a while, eyes shaking behind their lids as the days events replay in his restless mind. The girl stopped resting for a little bit sitting on a rock her feet in the dark water the angel girl knelt down her eyes dull as she stared to the woman who took her. As his memories grow near to the events that had just happened, his body begins to move a bit, eyes attempting to flutter open. With a jerk, he sits up, yelling out as if she were still there, "I said you're not taking her!"
The girl leaned down beside the stream taking a sip from her cupped hands. "So the hunt begins."