- Kira -
I squinted my eyes at him."What are you doing here?" I asked."I am here to see you," he shrugged casually. "Why else would I be here?""What do you want?""Can you relax with the questioning? Why are you acting like I have no right to be here?" He said, seemingly annoyed. He walked away from the cupboard towards me. "I have missed you so much. And since you decided to stay away for so long, I had no choice but to get to you.""I am still asking you what you want," I maintained."You are my woman," he said. "You cannot ask me that."I chuckled bitterly."Me?" I placed a finger on my chest. "Your woman? I did not realise that.""Don't talk like that," he tried to brush it off. "I know a few things have happened in the past days that make our relationship unstable. But we cannot pretend not to be, and that is why I am trying to rectify i- Kira -"This here in my hands was given to me directly by the Shadow spirit," he said. "I travelled long hours to get this."My mouth fell slightly open in shock."You will go to any length because of your desires," I commented. The Shadow has been a mystical story to the ears. I would never have imagined anyone would ever find it until now. Well, I shouldn't be very surprised that Xavier did."Kira I...," he stopped to rephrase the statement. "We have come too far to drop this. To far to give up. So no matter what it takes, we will have to give it up.""Xavier let it go," I said gently shaking my head. "Have you thought that this desire will consume you someday while you are trying to get it to consume others? You are so hell bend on getting Franklin and Giselle when they don't even bother about you, and everything you do proves abortive. Yet despite everything, they don't hold it against us. Have you thought maybe that's why life favo
- Kira -"Oh my goodness Kira," Father exclaimed with so much excitement in his eyes. "You cannot imagine all the reports and praises I have been getting from your last presentation. You have made me so proud my darling. I have always known there is a potential in you.""See?" Gissele nudged me gently with a smile. "I told you so, didn't I?" I blushed lightly, lowering my head for a brief moment before looking back up."It's all Giselle's hand work, Father," I should give credit to whom it is due. "She is the one who put me through everything. Besides, it is her project. She was the one who started it in the beginning and gave me to finish it up.""What are you saying?" She shook her head. "I barely did any work on this. You did most of everything. Don't try to push all the praise to me.""Now you two don't have to argue about that," Father stepped it. "It is so wonderful to see either one of you succeed. That is why we are one and love e
- Kira -I squinted my eyes at him."What are you doing here?" I asked."I am here to see you," he shrugged casually. "Why else would I be here?""What do you want?""Can you relax with the questioning? Why are you acting like I have no right to be here?" He said, seemingly annoyed. He walked away from the cupboard towards me. "I have missed you so much. And since you decided to stay away for so long, I had no choice but to get to you.""I am still asking you what you want," I maintained."You are my woman," he said. "You cannot ask me that."I chuckled bitterly."Me?" I placed a finger on my chest. "Your woman? I did not realise that.""Don't talk like that," he tried to brush it off. "I know a few things have happened in the past days that make our relationship unstable. But we cannot pretend not to be, and that is why I am trying to rectify i
- Xavier -"Now we have gone to the depths of the lands to find that man," I said to my mother. "He has told us all we need to know, and you even made sure he left us something to help us achieve this. Now I have just one question for you. How are we going to go about this?""Relax, son," mother said, sitting calmly on a chair. "You worry too much for nothing. You should rather think of solutions instead of stressing the brain.""Oh, you sounded so positive and confident over there," I reminded her. "So I am thinking you have a way out?""Listen to me, Xavier," she said with a serious look on her face. "I am not a woman who is easily shaken to deterred. Whenever I say I will do a thing, I will make sure to see the end of it. And I have no regrets about desiring what I want. You are my son, and I desire only the best for you. When I was much younger, I tried to have the throne, but it was not working. I am Franklin's elder sister and should be the
- Xavier -I shot my head up and looked at her."What are you saying?" I said in a harsh whisper, but she was not paying attention to me."I must warn you," the shadow man continued. "There are repercussions that lie ahead. If you try to do this and it fails, you will wish you never even thought of it."I looked at my mother, and she looked like she was trying to measure the worth of going through it."What could be the debt of the repercussion?" She asked him."Deadly," he said with no more details."Great one, if there is one more thing you can do for us," Mother pleaded, and I wondered what she was up to."Go ahead and make your request," the shadow said."Can you give us something to hold on to that will make this easy for us? I know it is none of your business how we go about this, but I also know you to be a rewarder. When a man has a strong self-will to achieve anything, you make his path easier.
- Xavier -The winds blew heavily on my face and were almost as strong enough to throw someone off their feet.The more we climbed up the hill, the heavier it got. We have journeyed for several hours, I wondered what ends of the world we were going to.Finally, we got to a small house which was lit by just a small candle."We are here," Mother said, and barely finished the statement when we were welcomed by hysterical laughter.We looked around, but there was no one in sight. It sounded like the laughter of a couple of people, and I turned to my mother with a questioning look on my face."Didn't you say were were going to meet one man?" I asked her."I know of only one man here," she replied."And you are sure we are in the right place?" I could not imagine that the journey would be in vain."You are in the right place," a voice answered, and I turned swiftly to see who it was, but there was no one there."Show yourself," I yelled at the top o