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26 Letters, 26 Words - Chapter 5

E is for Enemy

He had betrayed them. Alvin had betrayed them. The mercenary knew that he had to betray them, and would have been fine with it. That is, if Leia wasn't there.

They weren't the only ones who had fled from Kanbalar; Alvin ran after he threw the Chimeriad off of their trail. He stopped running when he reached the Mon Highlands, opting to walk instead. It reduced risk, after all, and gave him some time to think. He wasn't happy with himself, not in the slightest. Leia had trusted him, all of them had, with their lives on several occasions. His way of repaying them was throwing that trust away and ratting them out to Gaius.

Sighing, he kicked a stone out of the way and stared ahead of him. They were headed back to Xian Du, so that was where he was headed.

Leia was trailing slightly behind everyone else. She couldn't really believe that Alvin betrayed them, she refused to believe it, yet she knew that he had done it.

Whenever she looked up, Leia could see at least one of the others staring back at her, silently asking if she was alright. Every time, she put a false smile on her face and let out a happy "I'm fine, really!" to make them look ahead again. This continued for a while until they finally decided to take a break. Everyone pitched in and helped set up a miniature camp site, then they all went off to do their own things.

Jude was off to the left of the campsite, practicing his artes on a nearby tree and any monsters that came nearby. Rowen was cooking something for them to eat, a calm expression set on his face. Elize sat a little way away from him, talking happily to Teepo, who was floating around her head once again.

Milla stood just outside the site, scanning the area for any threats. She knew that Leia was sitting in a tree some distance away from them and was keeping an eye out for anything approaching said tree. Something caught her eye in the distance, something that looked a lot like a human... Something that looked a lot like Alvin... Milla's hand was on her sword hilt in an instant, but the figure had disappeared. Maybe it was just her imagination...

In the tree a little ways away from the camp, Leia sat on one of the lower branches. Ever since they escaped from Kanbalar, one sentence had been running through her mind.

"He's the enemy... I hate him!"

As the words repeated themselves in her mind, the sentence slowly began to change until she finally managed to whisper the real sentence.

"Even if he is the enemy, I don't hate him..."

We had a lot of fluff going on. I just had to break it :3 I'm sorreh, I love you guys really =w= Forgive meee...

-Flame'sHawk