Note: Hey sorry for the late update guys! its Easter ahaha.
I attached pictures of Everest and Aldis just incase if you were curious to what they looked like. Sorry for such a short part, next one will be longer! xxx
Chapter 6: The Truth
I found myself staring at the drink Everest bought me once we had gotten to the inn. I still couldn't wrap my head around what I had done back in the forest, using the dagger. The same dagger that had stole my mother's life I had used to take one. No matter if it was an orc or not, it was still a creature that possessed a beating heart, just like my mother. And to take that from someone…it was evil, completely evil. Thankfully, we managed to regain Everest's horse and escape the forest with no more run- ins with orcs. Good thing because if I had to use the dagger again I didn't know if I could keep it together.
"You know, I never said thank you for, ya know, saving my life back there." Everest said his voice soft and calming. There was something about him that I knew I could trust; something that reassured me that everything was going to be okay. I considered telling him what I was really doing, explaining to him what happened to my mother and what it has made my life out to be become. I would leave the part of the Ryders out, I didn't need him knowing I was being hunted.
Oddly, I felt safer thinking about him knowing everything. I tore my eyes away from the drink and brought them to Everest's blue ones.
"Yeah sure." I said very softly.
"So, tell me. What's a pretty girl doing out in an orc infested forest all by her lonesome?"
Wait, did he just call me pretty? I shoved the annoying voice in my head aside and replied. I guess now is my chance to tell Everest…everything.
"You're not a killer, Aldis." Everest said after I was done pouring out my life story to him. "It was natural instinct."
"It just makes me feel so uneasy, that I did the same thing that my mother's killer did."
"But it isn't. The person who killed your mother is a cold blooded killer, trained to take lives. You killed an orc." My mind lingered on his words, a cold blooded killer, trained to take lives…
"You seem very certain of the kind of person my mother's killer is." I hadn't mentioned the Dark Ryders or M.J.R. to him, not wanting to reveal I was being hunted by them.
"Oh, you don't think I know who they are, or where that dagger comes from." My eyes widened and my mouth opened slightly.
"You know of the Ryders?"
"Yeah. I'm being hunted by them, just like you because you have the dagger."
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