Second chapter! I really want to get this finished soon. I'm thinking there will only be one more. Enjoy~
It wasn't what she expected, though she didn't even know what she expected until she came through the door. When she went into town she headed straight for were they would have taken him. He wasn't in the local clinic or medicine house. It seemed as if she was too late to save him, though maybe at this point he didn't need saving anymore. The questions that she had still needed to be answered. The tornadoes in her stomach hadn't calmed like she thought it would as soon as she stepped through. She thought that it might be like one of the romantic comedies that she saw in her time. She thought that maybe he would be waiting for her right outside the door with a smile on his face. He would look the same- messy hair, clean shaven face, wearing his dark armor with sword at his hip.
"Imja" she could hear him complain about how long she had been gone. She smiled to herself now as she looked around the town. From the markings on a few posts and flags she could tell that she wasn't as far away anymore. This town resembled her target more than it did just minutes ago. It was still the same town though. The same place that he would have been treated, the same place that she waited in. The place that she now walked through and expected. The street layout, the trees, the inn that she walked into were all the same.
"Please give me something to ease my hunger." she asked a waitress after sitting in the nearest seat, She looked down at her hands and picked at her nails as a bunch of rambunctious men talked nearby her. They joked and tussled and went unnoticed by Eun Soo until a word caught her ear. Tae Jung. General. She had heard it so many times and from so many different people that it was a trigger for her brain. She heard it and her thoughts would usually go to him. Seeing as her every thought was of him since he came through the door, she simply looked up and around- trying to find the source of the words. Tae Jung. General. A young armor clad man spoke loudly to the soldier next to him. That was all she needed. Her eyes flashed around her and she wondered how she didn't notice. The men around her all wore the same specific armor of the Woodalchi. She searched the group of men until she found him. It wasn't the him that she had been thinking about all day or for the past years. It was a younger man, now older and scruffier. Dae Man, The young Woodalchi that followed her general around everywhere. He laughed happily and smacked his companion on the back.
"Of course He isn't here!" he said loudly as the rest of the woodalchi laughed around him. "Where do you think he would be if we came to this village? of course he would go to that place." he explained smiling and looking off into the distance. His smile faded and he looked down. "He's probably under that tree now... waiting for her."
Eun Soo didn't wait to see the rest of the crowd, the newer woodalchi boys, surround Dae Man and begin to bombard him with questions. She stood and gathered her things before hurring out of the inn.
"Ma'am!" called the hostess after her, causing the whole room to turn and watch her walk quickly out of the room. The Woodalchi boys quickly turned back to Dae Man but he stood slowly and pointed out the doorway.
"Wasn't that-" he drifted off as the rest of the Woodalchi pestered him from behind. His mind flashed back to all the different moments he had followed his Tae Jung from behind and seen the same figure leaving. The woman who just exited the inn looked too much like the High Doctor in the quick glance that he got of her. "It couldn't be..." he whispered, "High Doctor?"
The room was full of noise. a few gasps and "oh's" from the people nearby at the mention of the High Doctor that their General was famed to loving. The boys chattered back and forth. "isn't that just a myth?" "I've never seen the General even bat an eyelash at a woman, even the most beautiful!" "I've seen her! She was the most beautiful!" Dae Man sat in his seat as everyone argued around him. "Remember that woman last moon that was trying to get his attention? She was the most beautiful woman that I've seen and he didn't look her way!" "But the High Doctor is from heaven. She is beautiful in a heavenly sense. Her hair was supposed to be the color of blood and she would walk around with exposed legs!"
"It had to be her... I know it was." Dae Man said to himself, attracting their attention. They surrounded him again.
"The High Doctor! who is she?" one of them asked, as most of the new recruits weren't there to see Eun Soon and their general together. "Was she really able to bring the dead to life and to save those that couldn't be saved?" Dae Man looked around at the men. He thought for a few seconds about everything that he heard around him...
"The High Doctor... is everything that you hear... and more." he tried to explain, but the crowd only asked more and more questions.
I hope you're liking it so far and that the last chapter lives up to any expectations... that is if there are any. Hey! why not tell me what you think and expect! :D Send me a review guys!
