"Mother?" The white Naga rose when her mother entered the tent. "Everything allright?"

"No…" Charis fell into the chair. "If I don't find Aileh quickly, I have a great problem." She signed. "Damn it, where can he possibly be? Back at Alfea again? Would explain the relaxed behaviour of that humans. But then again, why wasn't he there during my attack?"

"I don't know, Mother, but isn't one of the captured humans his girlfriend? Ask her…" Charis smiled at her daughter. She had become smart the past years. "That's it. I'm not going to ask her. I'm going to force HIM! He will have to come out of his hydingplace if he wants her alive." She left the tent again, heading towards the cottage where the humans where held prisoner.

Faragonda was calming Flora down. She stroked the trembling back while whispering soft words of comfort. Flora was sobbing, clinging to Faragonda's chest like a small girl who had a nightmare. But unfortunately for Flora this nightmare was just starting.

"I… I thought…" She could finish the sentence about what she thought. Her tenth try to tell her Head what she thought. Her tenth fail.

"You thought I would die?" Faragonda smiled. "You should know that there has to be more to kill me. We both will survive this, accept for some Nagas, I'm pretty sure no one will die." She gently hugged her student. "And as far as I know, WE aren't Nagas, right?"

"Right" Flora wiped away some of her tears. She smiled at the woman in front of her. Suddenly a voice said: "Wrong… Some one else then a Naga will die." Charis grinned at the two humans in the cottage, while gesturing to other Nagas to get them out of it. "And that will be you… Follow me!" All the Nagas obeyed and followed her out of the camp, separating Faragonda from Flora. She ended up in the front, next to Charis. No one said a word.

"Let's pray she finds our Son now." Romanov was standing at the basin in the middle of their tent. The water reflected the Nagas who were heading towards Alfea. Egina said on the bank, looking outside. She didn't listen to her husband, but was again thinking about that terrible day, where she lost both her sister and her fertility. "Egina!" His loud voice woke her up. Confused she looked at her husband. "How often have I told you to not think every second about it?"

"Quite often." She weakly smiled. "But in everything I see something Regana may have liked and I start to think about her and end up in the events of that day." She looked down again and started telling what her sister liked. "She liked the excitement of a good military action and these forests…" She looked outside the tent again. "They're exactly the same as the ones in her garden." A single tear escaped the corner of her eye and marked a wet trail on her skin.

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