Chapter 84 84
I gave him a few minutes to show up and get her meal eaten, and I was sure she recalled the kind of pain she experienced wrapped by my stormfire, and then she walked out gently and began eating.
Watching her like a baby had become my routine, while I acted tough as though everything was okay with me.
She never even spared me a glance until she emptied the plates, emptied the cups of water and stood to begin leaving. “I hope you won't call me out again until I want to, because there's nothing for me to do for you,” she said, her head held high.
I scoffed and stood up, "I should have wanted this chamber cleaned up, but you need to rest a bit.”
“You don't need to tell me what to do. I know my role as your slave,” she snapped and walked towards the door when I closed the entrance with a barrier. Unlike the other times, she found out on time and turned around to me, "What's this again? You're stopping me from going in?”
“Why are you acting so tough? I took care of you until today when you woke up, so why make it look like I caged you until now?” I asked, getting seated on one of the couches, my arms resting on my thighs. “Davina, you should have still lain low and not awakened your powers. You shouldn't have found out my plans to take your life, because your actions could mess you up.”
She released a heavy breath and transfixed her palms on her waist, “Now that I know all that and isn't lying low, what is it you can't do to me? Will my powers stop you from taking my life?”
I shook my head, “It won't, but it could be a waste of time for you…and if time isn't taken, you could regret ever recovering them.”
“Lie! I won't ever regret it…now get off the barrier,” she said, and I simply did for her to get in.
She entered and shut the door as though it was her enemy too, so I stood and walked straight into the bathroom. I hadn't gotten a good bath since she was unconscious, because while I was with her, I felt that leaving her side could cause her danger.
I sat in the bathtub, reflecting on everything and how things were happening so fast. Just in the few days that I left, she recovered her powers. When on earth did she even get to know that I planned to take her life? I had tried my best to keep it a secret, and not like I ever discussed it with Orrifin audibly.
Things wouldn't have gotten to this if she hadn't heard all that. So what was I going to do? How do I handle this?
As much as I planned to take her life with the seed of death I had given Orrifin as an assignment to search for, since it was a rare one, I had still been thinking if there was a way to get rid of her powers and have her become weak so she could live.
No one, not even her brother, will find out how her powers were, and she wouldn't want her to lose them. Her parents didn't do well by suppressing her powers and hiding her, when they should have just gotten rid of it, even if she would still stay in the human land.
‘Well, you forgot that it was because of those powers that her tears, which dropped on the ground, saved us. We could have still been there by now.’ my dragon purred in my head, and I couldn't help but smile.
Let's say, everything had a reason for happening. The heavens had a reason for creating her and also not letting her parents find a way to get rid of her powers. But those powers were sending her to the grave.
‘Maybe, that's the use for creating her; to save us from the underground. If there's no way to get rid of her powers completely, then she must go down the drain, and we ascend instead of risking every other person's life by letting her live,’ my dragon came again.
I crossed my legs and rested my head comfortably in the bathtub, ‘Then, I would choose to get rid of her powers. Even though I searched already, do you think there's a possibility of finding out the remedy for that?’
‘You only searched twice. I think searching the third time would give us a remedy. Instead of killing her with the seed of death, which will slowly take her life while suppressing her powers, we should slowly destroy her powers completely.’
That night, I slept over my discussion with my dragon, trying to think if there was indeed a way to only take off her powers and not kill her…but I couldn't come up with such. I walked into the library early in the morning, and with my dragon ability, searched through all the books discussing supernatural powers and how to take care of them, yet none yielded anything about a fae.
‘Do you think such a book will be in the fae realm?’ I asked my dragon and leapt off the library.
He grunted and said, ‘I think so. But you can't enter there with that barrier up there. Do you want to release them?’
I shook my head, ‘I should find another way to enter their realm without their awareness.’
‘A seer can do that for you. But a dragon seer will refuse to do it when it has to do with a fae, and not all seers can do it.’
I moistened my lips, taking in a light breath.
A seer? How am I going to get a seer that will handle it for me?
At least, there's hope for her restoration. I am not ever losing her to death, and I must stop Orrifin from searching for the seed of death and find me a seer outside the realm.
“Sovereign, such a seer can be very difficult to find outside the realm. Some might even refuse to do it because it's in the fae realm that is in disaster.” Orrifin lamented when I told him of my plans. “And, why do you think her powers could be gotten rid of permanently? What if she rises again tomorrow?”
I stood to my feet and clamped my hands backwards, “You really want to lose that human female, right?”
“That's not…that's….
“Stop stuttering when you know that human wouldn't give a damn about you if her friend dies,” I whispered to him, and he nodded, finally understanding that it wouldn't affect me alone. “Then, you must find me a seer who will help us get a remedy in her realm. I can't release them for what I put them into, or they would think that I'm a joke.”
He bowed, pressing his lips into a thin line.
“I do not want to ascend. Not now that I have found my soulmate, I have to find a means to spend the rest of my days happily with her on earth.” I sat halfway on the table in my office and said to Orrifin, “I want our mating ritual prepared immediately.”
His eyes snapped wide, and he glanced around, as though wanting to be sure no one heard me. “You want to do that? Do you think she will accept?”
“I don't need her approval!” I stated and swallowed lightly. “The mating ritual needs to take place immediately, so she will not think of running away. And once we are bonded to each other ritually, my aura will always bring her down if her powers try overacting. That way, getting rid of her powers would even be easier.”
He nodded gently and put up a smile, “Then, I will get everything ready while searching for a seer.”
I waved my hand at him, and he left. Then I stayed in my office alone, giggling over the idea I had just gotten randomly.
Since all these began, I didn't even recall the power of bonding, which would help handle her. I believed it would be of help to protect her from my people's attack as well, until everything is taken care of perfectly.
By the end of that day, I returned to my chamber to meet her tidying up the bed. She refused to sleep on the bed with me, and I didn't want to force her.
But tonight? She will have no choice but to lie there with me.
I cleared my throat as I walked closer, and then I grabbed a seat. “There's something you need to know….” I said to her, but she didn't even spare me a glance, and I refused to hold back my words. “In days to come, we will be getting married. Our mating ritual will take place.”
She swirled her neck to the side where I sat, her brows wrinkled. “I never said that I want to marry.”
“Unfortunately, you don't have a choice here.”
“I do have a choice. It has never been mandatory to get married, or I should have accepted the human male I was betrothed to, and you could have gotten married to Irian,” she retorted, her voice rising at each word. “Just so you know that I will never marry you, and there's nothing you can do about it.”
My dragon growled in my head, and I felt my neck turning to scales that moment.
We hated being challenged, and she was doing that right now.