Chapter 5

I can’t help but feel bothered about what she said.  It is true that I speak ill to her before.  Still,  it is not that I feel bad saying those words.  It is just like what my mother always told me…  I shall hold responsibility for everything I say and everything I do…

    

    

    

I saw Lhana pick up a piece of rock. She clenches it tightly as she smiled. I wonder what will she do about that rock. To my surprise, the rock fly in the air till it hit the old and shaky bridge. 

    

Tak, Tak, Tak

    

That sound can be heard all over the woods. I look at her with questioning eyes.  Why did she do that? I do wonder. 

 

    And before I even have a chance to ask her those questions, the sound of the bridge falling apart while making creek sound can be heard echoing all over the woods. That is something that I expected to happen the moment I hear the sound of the stone hitting the platform of the fragile wood bridge. And soon after. it collapses leaving nothing but an empty grip between two rock forms. 

    

    

    Clapping her hand, she tosses away all the dirt that is left in her hand. 

    

    

    "Now where should we go next?"

    

    

    She asked me with a simple yet lively tone in her voice.

    

    

    This is also one of the reasons why I hated her. She asks as if all the things she does will benefit others. Maybe she herself doesn't know or isn't aware of that fact but... her actions... it makes me be reminded of my father I hated so much.

    

    

    Looking at the other side on where the bridge is connected a while ago, it makes me wonder what lies beyond that path. 

    

    

    "Hey what are you looking at do you want to go to that place? Although I won't advise you to since it is very far and there's no way we can get in there"

    

    

    Yeah of course there's no other way to get there especially when you make the bridge collapse who's the only way that we can have our way there.

    

    

    "Don't tell me you really have that kind of courage in your mind. Do you even know that what we are doing right now is against the rules? Going out secretly like this is unacceptable and yet you want to go that far? What would you do if they look for you but your presence is nowhere to be seen?"

    

    

    

    I hate it when she speaks at me like that. Indeed, we haven't talked so much like this before but still, it makes me be amazed by the fact that what she is doing right now truly is what the elders say to her. 

    

    

    She is cold to others but she has a caring nature.

    

    

    "It's not new for them to have a hard time looking for me so just think of it as an ordinary day"

    

    

    Lhana looks at me with a disgusted face as if I said something that is not nice.

    

    

     "No wonder your name is always in the mouth of the council"

    

    

  What she said is indeed true. I won't have the chance to deny the fact that I have a few...  records in the council. Yes, I am the son of the best Alpha in this  wolvendom but maybe that is the reason why I find it boring to attend those classes. 

    

    

    Every time my father tells me that there are new things to learn in the classes he offers to me, it always makes my hope in vain. 

    

    

    Interesting? new?  Things that I don't have a knowledge about? I doubt it is. 

    

    

    

"Wait, Emric did you see that tall mountain over there?"

    

    

    What she said caught my attention. Indeed, it is a dead end over there. The path that lies beyond the area is something that I can't measure with my own eyes. Even if I now have the power to use the skill on where I can see things that are for on me, I still can't reckon how tall and how wide that mountain is.

    

    

    

    Lhana heads in that direction. I rush to catch up to her. Now, who is it who is speaking to not get 'that' far?

    

    

    

    I make sure that I remember clearly the path that you're taking so that we won't get lost in this unknown forest part. 

    

    

    She stopped and said why it is the dead end. Looking up our site was welcomed with a measurable height of the mountain. I wonder if I can touch the sky.

    

    

    Our place was full of trees of the erhelena. It covers almost all of the wolvendom area. The only place where there are few were around our village.  Since there are houses on it, it is no surprise that the trees don't fully cover that area. 

    

    

    

    Now I know why we never notice that there is a massively large mountain in this part. I look at the map that is in my hands. 

    

    

    

    Mountain... ah I now saw it.

    

    

    

    'The Fabled Heights'

    

    

    

    Looking at the big mountain, I can't help but be at lost. It was Lhana who wake me up from my unconscious state. 

    

    

    

    'Did I zone out?'

    

    

    

    "There is water flowing in that area. Maybe there is a lake or pond nearby"

    

    

    

    She mumbles pointing in the direction of the small hole on the rock wall. I nodded. 

    

    

    

    "Let's check where it came from"

    

    

    

    I mumbled. Lake... 

    

   

    

    I again look at the paper. It is true, there is a lake behind these rocks. It is just nearby. 

    

    

    

    'Invisible Lake'

    

    

    

    That is the name it says. I wonder why it is called like that. Invisible... I wonder if it really is invisible. A small laugh escape in my mouth. 

    

    

    

    What if the lake is truly invisible? How will we know it exists? Does it wet our clothes even though we can't see the water? I laugh in my thoughts.  As of something like that would even exist. 

    

    

    I stopped and halt as I feel something weird.

    

    

    "Lhana"

    

    

    I called her to make her stop.

    

    

    "Yes... I think something is not right-- Ahh!!"