We run as fast as we could to the nearest exit. Jade and Forte checked everywhere before meeting with us and said they weren't there. Peony had gathered the survivors and had them be transported to a safer town. The boy was still attached to Liger. Liger fell over and Guy carried him with Forte. Jade said he was too old to carry anything too heavy.
"You're just a wimp, Jade. Forte is badly injured a month yet he's lifting up a monster 300 pounds with Guy." I join in and help carry Liger.
"Ohh!" Jade grabs his chest. "You hurt my heart!" Hymn smacks his shoulder roughly. "Did your heart break from getting told by a girl 19 years younger than you?"
"I miss them already… Right now Viola or Anise would be making fun of Jade like no tomorrow." Forte says. "Who doesn't? No one likes Jade anyways." Arietta spoke unnaturally neutral. "Guy and Florian don't make fun of me, it seems like they're my only friends." Jade fakes a sniffle. "I wouldn't bet on that, Jade!" Florian bursts out laughing. Jade just smiles and walks ahead of us before stopping.
"I can hear a coach, we should keep quiet from now on." Jade pushes his glasses up the bridge of his nose.
We all hunch down in the brush as a coach goes right past us. We got up after the coach zoomed past us. Someone grabs me from behind and puts a hand over my mouth, someone else does that to Hymn, obviously knowing that she knows nightmare.
I try to get out of his grasp but he puts something to my mouth, I can't help but stop moving and lower my eyelids. Everyone by now is staring at us in fear, weapons out. I feel something cold and sharp against my neck, I can't see much anymore because everything's blurred.
"Let them go!" Florian yells, huddled up by the boy. Guy is now carrying Liger, who's pale and weak to blood loss.
"All we want is Arietta, We have Tear hostage in Ortion Cavern if you want her and her child alive you should get her after we get Arietta and have left." The man says in a rough, deep voice. He looks over at a man in uniform and the uniformed man whispers something into his ear. "We'll take Florian and the little boy also."
Florian and the child walk up, not sure what's happening. Everyone else just stood there. Waiting patiently for them to leave already. "Take good care of Tear for us. We'll make it back, we promise." Florian whispers to the others.
We all get into the coach and leave with the strangers. After the coach starts up and we start leaving they all run back to Grand Chokmah.
I pass out soon after. I wake up again with a pounding headache, my vision's still blurred so I just lay there.
"How are you doing Faye?" A man asks me.
"F-Faye?" I ask him unsurely.
"Yes that's your real name, Arietta." A man with a cape covering most of his body is in front of me, no one else to be seen.
"I just thought you'd like to know." He smiles at me.
"Faye…" I just wanted to say it, it really rolls off my tongue.
"Faye Cosmos." He says while looking out the window of the coach.
"Where are the others?" He turns around and looks at me, he crosses his legs and puts his hands on his lap.
"Oh, they're in different coaches. Fon master ditched her fon master guardian at Daath so it was easy." He laughs.
"Who's the fon master guardian?" I ask him.
"A young man named Yule, presumably after Yulia. His mother had recently given birth in Yulia city so fon master Anise wasn't supposed to leave until they got a replacement. Anise left before anyone could tell her not too." He smiles harshly before blowing a piece of grey hair out of his face.
He mumbles something about war.
"I mean, the last thing I'd like to do is kill my little Faye." His face turns weak and pale.
"Oh yeah, I forgot to introduce myself. The name's Trident Cosmos."
I just look at him, not sure what to say to that.
"I'm not your father but, might as well take you and some of your friends along. I was your uncle, I left you in the basket, and somehow Ligers took care of you. I never knew I could feel so glad about someone being alive."