There’s a mystery going on here… lol. But relax. We’ll unravel it soon. For now, Ciril is saved… but then there’s the Ivanka hazard… See yA!
{Ciril’s POV} “Damn, Anne. You almost broke my neck!” Landon yelled.“How did you even move like that— move like an animal?!” Landon yelled again.He has been stroking his neck and yelling his complaints at Anne for the past few minutes while I just stood speechless.I didn’t know what to say as I stared at Anne. We were outside in the open surroundings of the Palace ruins and I used the light from the setting sun to take in Anne’s appearance. She appeared weary, bruised, and rough— she looked feral… only that she wasn’t. I stared at her and I felt bad— I pitied her. She had gone through stress while we were gone and it reflected all over her guise now. “My senses are a little impaired. I didn’t know it was the two of you.” She told Landon dryly now. There’s that too. She was so stressed that her perception was affected. I was saddened by this.“Shit.” Landon cursed under his breath now while I called Anne’s attention to myself.“I’m sorry, Anne.” I said to her now, growing emotio
{Ciril’s POV} Tears…Tears bathed my eyes… and this happened without my permission and out of my control.The moment I set foot inside the Palace and caught sight of the bloodied surroundings, my body started to react without my conscious supervision.I started to pour out tears and my fingers started to tremble to say the least. I had wanted to be optimistic and strong about our return since I had a cure— a solution that could help solve the problems created. But then my emotions had taken over and now, I was a weeping mess.— and you can’t blame me.The sight I caught was too bad…The Palace was gory, smelly, rotten, and everything else you would expect from a battleground graveyard. The Ferals who had been injured but alive at the time of my departure were dead now— most of them, and the surroundings reflected signs of intense suffering and brutality— signs that some Ferals had fought and eaten some other Ferals since there was no normal being they could hunt, kill, and eat. It
{Ciril’s POV} We ended up not stopping for the night.Yeah. That’s right. We journeyed all through the night until daybreak… and all this was for a reason.As my relief for Landon waking up and being healthy started to fade away since I knew he was okay now, my panic for my family started to grow.Anika, Princess Anita, Anne, Clord, and my mother were my family and I realized the urgency to return to them on time— now that I had a cure.Honestly, I had been stalling earlier— dreading to return to the Palace because I knew I wouldn’t be able to do anything helpful but break down in tears.. That had been the reason for my subconscious hesitancy, but now that there was a cure, our journey was hasty as ever.Sorry, Landon’s journey was hasty as ever. He was still the one carrying me so he had been the one who had done all the trekking and traveling, but then I had soothed his journey by being entertaining and sweet. You can tell he still had an amazing night from the look he had on his
{Ciril’s POV} Why did Landon suddenly heal and wake up?Before the topic was unimportant because I had been more concerned about him being awake and hearty, but now that he was clearly healthy, I couldn’t help but think about it. What made London suddenly heal? “I don’t know.” Landon responded to my question. It was rhetorical but then he responded to it since I wasn’t saying anything further. “Is that what you’re still thinking about?” He asked me now when I still didn’t say anything. “It’s you, Ciril. Your presence cured me. That’s my belief and that should easily be yours too.” He told me now and this time, I responded.“No, Landon. We actually have to question this to know for certain.” I said, still in thought. I started to conjecture. “I bit you— In my outburst, I bit into your shoulder area while you had been growing unconscious and I shook you up, leading to me creating a messy wound.”I was narrating it as I was recalling it.“With that, I let go of your body and stood ba
{Ciril’s POV} I love you.I didn’t know when those words poured out of my mouth, but I couldn’t take them back now.But even more significantly, I didn’t want to take them back. Yeah. There was a feeling that wrapped around my chest, as if tightening my heart a little so that it beat faster than it normally would. This feeling came about when I said those three words, and it came with a crazy rush… but then it wasn’t an uncomfortable feeling.In fact, it was an exciting and relieving feeling— and this made it strange to me. Thus my heart was beating fast now but it was as if a weight had been lifted off of me. I didn’t quite understand the entire concept of what was happening to me… but one thing that I was sure about was that I wanted to say those three blissful words again.Saying them had made me feel blissful, and that bliss multiplied when I drove my gaze back to Landon’s face and caught the look he had on. He looked broken… but remade at the same time… He looked at me like
{Ciril’s POV} Landon was conscious.I had heard his low grunt and seen his eyelids twitch, and was very sure of it. “Landon?” I called his name hopefully now. Even though I had seen signs that he was conscious, I was still hopeful and wishful that he was actually conscious.‘Cause it was one thing to see signs and another for those signs to mean something tangible.I got no response with my first call so I called him again. “Landon?” I said again and this time, I also thought I wasn’t going to get a promising response, but just then, he shifted his head from one angle to the other. I tensed.And then I motioned to speak but then his following movements cut me off from that. I had forgotten my right hand on his right chest so now, he slowly and randomly placed his hand on my hand that was resting on his chest. With that, I was made aware of the contact, but I didn’t mind that now.What mattered to me was the fact that he was fully conscious, and I thought my relief couldn’t be more