Estevan
When I felt the touch, I opened my eyes.
The strong sun over my head didn't allow my eyesight to stabilize quickly, the wind hitting my face was strong but I was sweating. A strong smell that I couldn't identify was strong, it was uncomfortable and I realized that the smell was coming from me, from my chest where there were plants.
I took them off and stood up, looked around and felt my chest quicken as I saw three dragons around me, making me take a fright and stand up quickly, they were still small babies which didn't make them any less dangerous, I moved away slowly as I saw them coming slowly too, one step after another.
"Damn!" I said and grabbed a stick from the first tree I saw "Stay there!"
The dragons didn't seem to hear me, one of them seemed to get more agitated as it let out a strange sound from its mouth.
It didn't even know how to roar yet.
I looked around, there were only bushes and trees around me, I started to enter the forest still holding the stick wondering where my sword was, I touched my chest remembering the latest events.
I had been wounded and suddenly I was fine. I looked at my now naked chest and saw that it had healed, leaving only a scar to remind me that I had in fact almost died.
I frowned without understanding, how I had healed overnight was a mystery, a witch? maybe.
One of the dragons almost jumped on top of me and, realizing that they had come significantly closer, I decided to run.
Ignoring the branches that dragged over my skin, tearing it and the fatigue I felt from being weak, I ran, knowing that my life depended on it, and not for a moment did the dragons stop.
Without knowing where I was or where to go, those trees looked different, they were so big that they seemed to touch the sky.
I heard the sound of the sea and felt the wind grow stronger, so my feet braked quickly, causing only a stone to fall into the abyss. I looked down and felt the cold in my stomach when I saw that I was on a cliff whose height could not be measured. I looked back from where the dragons were coming towards me and swallowed my own saliva, feeling as if my chest was going to explode.
"I told you so!" I shouted at them, pointing the stick at them again, even though I felt pathetic, it was the only thing I had in that place "Stay there or I'll hurt you!
"With that stick? I doubt it!" A male voice said and a man's face came out of the shadows, he smoothed the head of one of the dragons and looked me in the eye, approaching me, he looked at my wound " You've recovered well, but you shouldn't run yet, you've lost a lot of blood tonight".
"Who are you?" I asked, lowering the stick, "And where am I?"
"My name is Kanue and you are?"
"Where am I?" I repeated impatiently, and he looked at me seriously.
"You're on the island of dragons, warrior"
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Alexia
Too scattered, after hours of flying with Silver in search of Estevan now all I could do was stare out the window and watch time go by as the last orange hue left the sky to usher in the night, time was my enemy, it dragged on slowly and I only wished that vision of the city in flames would leave my mind when knocks on the door made me turn around.
"Princess Alexia, it's me, Constable Martin"
"Come in"
He opened the door dragging Raila by the arm, she looked at him harshly and he threw her in front of me falling next to my foot.
"Tell that idiot how to treat a woman!"
"You're not a woman, you're a monster!"
"Raila, Martin is not an idiot! On the contrary, he's my most trusted guard" I said to her and looked at him saying "And Martin, Raila isn't a monster. Leave me alone with her"
"I don't know if that's a good idea, Your Highness"
"Martin, please" I looked into his eyes, it wasn't an order, it was a request because I knew that Martin cared about me.
He looked into my eyes and then nodded and left begrudgingly, touching the door and before closing it, he turned and spoke:
"I'll be right outside if you need me, don't hesitate to call me!"
"Thanks Martin"
He closed the door leaving us alone, I raised my hand to help Raila up and she accepted my hand.
"Did you know I was going to get you out of prison?"
"No" She looked me in the eye "I don't control my visions and I don't see everything"
"But you saw me and predicted that all this would happen"
"I was warned about you" she said, making me frown "My grandmother appeared to me in a dream and told me about you, about a prophecy and told me everything that would happen. The only vision I had of you was that you would set me free"
I looked at her neck, it was in living flesh. The chain had tightened so much that it would take time for the mark to come off and perhaps leave a small scar running around her neck.
"Then I don't know how useful you are," I looked into her eyes, "unless you can tell me whether Prince Estevan is alive or not."
My chest quickened as I finished the sentence, afraid of what she might say, and then I saw her shake her head in denial.
"I don't know, I don't see him, I only see you"
My chest tightened and I felt like crying, a lump formed in my throat with fear, but I had to stay calm.
I nodded and turned back to the window.
"Your Highness" She approached, two steps away, it was as if I could feel her presence more than the others "What are you going to do with me now?"
"I don't know, are you good or bad like Camila?" I looked over my shoulder "Something inside me says that arresting you is a mistake, but you worked for my enemy and I don't trust you!"
"I was working for King Octavian because Camilla trapped me with black magic, I must have been devoted to him so even when I heard about you, in that room where I wanted to tell you about what would happen, I couldn't, because as soon as I did I would die and you weren't ready to free me."
"Tell me something that costs you your freedom"
She nodded.
"I can help you, but more than that I'm the only family you have alive" Her words made me turn to her "Alexia, I'm your cousin"