Chapter 63 63
DAVINA ELM.
Weeks later…
I didn't want to bring up my brother to Dragon Sovereign, because I wasn't sure if his softness towards me these past few days had to do with my brother or not. One thing was that I promised myself not to talk or think about the soulbond since our last encounter, and thankfully, I hadn't seen him in his chamber for the past few days.
When I was done with my normal morning routine, I decided to sneak into the field where River was working with the others and meet with him for some time. I'd missed him so much, and it would be so cruel of me if I respected the Sovereign's order of staying away from my brother.
I squatted behind a tree, watching and hoping that he could feel my presence around. And soon, he began darting his eyes around, meaning he was searching for me.
For that, I began throwing stones towards where he was, praying he noticed the stone thrown and traced me. I had finished the five stones I picked, and was about to take the next ones on the floor when someone tapped my head.
I flinched, my heart skipped, and I fell back to the floor before I realised he was River.
“Brother?!” I said, smiling sheepishly, and he helped me up. “Am I disturbing? I just wanted to see you for some time since my master isn't around.”
He glanced around, and when no one was watching, he leaped with me to a hidden fortress where we sat on the floor comfortably.
“Won't they search for you?” I asked him, and he shook his head. “I guess they are even tired of you.”
“They should be!” he said and turned to me. “I hope nothing is going on between you and that dragon? When I said you were engaged, I meant it.”
I shook my head. He shouldn't start it again when he should be wishing that we at least survive here.
“I'm not interested in a human or any man…” but I knew I was lying, because I was interested in my master, although the situation around us was bad. “Do you even know the length of punishment I took just so they don't go after whoever he is in the human realm? We would have been dead if I hadn't gone into a deal with Dragon Sovereign.” I said and pouted.
He tucked my hair behind my ears and breathed out. “Maybe, if you didn't show up in that shrine, all these wouldn't have happened.”
“And you didn't expect me to stay still when my only sibling was going to be killed.”
“Vina!” he mentioned and adjusted me closer to lean on his shoulder. “I already knew my fate…”
“But why was I supposed to be the only one hidden in the human realm? You should have been hidden as well,” I ranted, and he chuckled. “It's not funny, River. We just have to lie low here because the fae realm has been covered in a barrier by the Sovereign, so they don't escape a bit. Soon, he would strike them, so serving them is the only way for us to keep living, because even in the human land, we would still be found.”
He ran his tongue across his upper lip and started patting my shoulder. “It's okay, I just don't want you developing feelings for that dragon. They are demonic and are our enemies, so just serve him and do nothing else with him.”
I kept silent, because I had already gone against that rule.
What would he do now if he found out that I was soulmates with Dragon Sovereign? Would he fight the man? Not like it was in our power to choose our soulmates. Even when a soulmate is rejected, the bond is always active, which was why it wasn't advisable to reject a soulmate, as it could lead to infidelity with the rejected partner, thereby stirring misunderstanding in marriages.
But in our situation, the bond wasn't straight. No one would applaud the goddess mother or dragon gods for letting such happen.
An idea bumped into my mind, and I narrowed my gaze. Could it be that my parents saw that I was going to be mated to a dragon, and they hid me in the human realm?
I nudged River again and asked him the last time, “Why was I hidden in the human realm when I was part of the clan? Is there something about me that I don't know?”
I wouldn't say it was my power, because every fae has powers that they control. I would say that the little space of me getting my powers the other time, and my reaction was that I didn't know how to control my powers, so it surely wouldn't be…and I didn't want to talk about my powers as recovering them could mess up my life here.
River sighed and shook his head, “I really don't know. Mother only told me it was because you're powerless and shouldn't be left in the Fae realm, so they don't mistreat you. Don't you think that's a good reason?”
“Is there no way to get back my powers then?” I asked him, even when I did not want to.
He rolled his eyes and hissed, “I seriously can't tell. Maybe if we aren't stalked here, there should have been. Although our parents didn't mention it.” he patted my head and added. “But if there was, shouldn't they have done so to avoid you being bullied? Or did they see it as an opportunity to continue to bring out the one person who can continue our lineage?”
I shrugged my shoulders, “Let's forget about that…” Both my soulbond with Dragon Sovereign and my powers, which they thought I didn't have, and I was feeling in me, were making me think that they hid a secret from my brother and me.
What if they intentionally suppressed my power after finding out I would be mated to a dragon, which also led them to engage me without my knowledge? No doubt, they knew all these. It didn't seem like the clan's execution was the main reason they hid me, or they would have done so to my brother, too.
“Vina,” my brother called for my attention, and I cleared my throat, facing him. River was over two hundred years old, and that was because the faes take a long time to conceive, so their descendants have a long age difference. “I'm seeking a way to leave this realm,” he said, and my gaze narrowed.
I refused. “That’s dangerous!”
“Exactly! Staying here is dangerous too, so I'm going to try to find a way for me to leave. If I succeed, I'll return to take you with me with the help of allies that I have at that time,” he said, caressing my hair.
The tone of his voice revealed that he had already thought about it and made up his mind, and so there was nothing I could say that could change his mind.
I was scared he would be harmed if caught, and that could stir my master's anger again.
“Do you have an exact time and day you'd leave?” I asked, to know if there was any way I could help him.
He shook his head, “There's none, because I'll make use of any little opportunity that I find. So be sure not to develop feelings for that man, and I will return to take you with me if I succeed.”
I exhaled and nodded, inwardly praying that he changed his mind because it wouldn't work out in this realm even with his powers.