Life of a Dancer 2 - Chapter Twenty Three
As they began to leave the church, Lily began to breathe a sigh of relief, and smiled. Arden, always watching her, felt his heart swell at the sight of her smile. He rarely ever saw her smile and her entire face transformed into that of a goddess. Before they left, Arden had made sure that she had a fresh uniform, as she had not been allowed to change her other uniform and it's once pristine white and cream colour, had been a near dirty brown because of dirt. Now looking at her in the completely white uniform, and her porcelain skin and white hair, her lavender eyes shone with delight. 'Porings, I love her' he thought seeing her smile at everything as the cart moved along.
As they stopped, they spied a peco out in the open. Curious as to its owner, Lily came up to it, and grabbed its reins. Looking back she saw that no one was watching her, and she vaulted up into it, and reined it towards the deep forest and ran.
Arden watching her as he always was, saw her come up to the peco, and get onto it. Saddened, yet elated at the same time, he told the other monks that he sent Lily to do some investigation, and that he would be joining her. Some of the other monks snickered cruelly, as it was not too much of a secret, his feelings towards her, but one deadly look at them silenced them completely. He then made one of his friends, in charge and took one of the Pecos he had brought and charged after her.
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Lily was still so wary of getting caught, that she hadn't been able to relax. After 15 minutes, she finally realized that she was not being followed and relaxed finally, for the first time in 5 years. Leaning down to the peco, she whispered "Find your master". Making a kind of blurbering noise, it tore off in search of Aurora.
Meanwhile, Aurora and Lex, had dressed and were wondering where her peco had gotten to, when they saw Zenia and Lily emerge from the brush. Aurora then whistled and Zenia tore after her, stopping right on cue, and dropped Lily onto the ground.
"Hello Lily." Lex said astonished at who she looked exactly like
"Where you the voice in my head last night?" Lily wondered staring at the tallest man she had ever seen
"Yes I was precious. And I am glad that you found us. I am Lexkai, and this is my Valkyrie Aurora." Lex said as a very astonished Aurora looked at him "Did you get Kiniro out of there like I instructed?"
"Yes sir, and I left the bow and arrow like you requested as well." Lily said bowing to him
"My dearest, we are family, so you do not need to do that." he said as he brought her chin up and felt her urge to flinch. Narrowing his eyes at that reaction, he touched her forehead and closed his eyes. It was at that precise moment, when Arden found them.
Angered at another man touching his Lily, he pushed his peco towards him. Lex then smiled as Arden was not hiding his feelings and removed his hand from her forehead and turned towards him. Casting Firewall in front of the Peco, it turned upwards and knocked Arden off of it. "You done young man. As you can see, your ladylove is fine. And she is with FAMILY. She will never be a slave again." Lex said as he picked Lily up and placed her onto Zenia and directed Aurora to take her home. Aurora asked about Kini, but Lex just held up a hand and smacked Zenia in the haunches and that sent her flying back to the cottage.
"Family? She doesn't have family? She was orphaned 5 years ago." Arden said getting back up.
"No she was not, but that is neither here, nor there. I know you love her deeply. However, she has been so mentally abused, that I don't think it's a good idea for you to be pursuing her." Lex said as he started walking towards Payon.
"Where do you think you are going? And where is Lily going?" Arden asked running back to him, and turning him around.
"Young man, if you value your life, I would suggest you remove your hand." Lex said in warning
"And you will do what?" Arden said as he summoned a few of his energy spheres almost in preparation
"This.." Lex said as he cast Magnetic Earth and cast it in front of him, then cast spell breaker, and broke the spheres. "Now, I am going to collect the rest of my family, and you young man, are not equipped to stop me." he finished as he continued towards Payon.
