C L (First Version-Complete)

8: Unknown Wounds

"Lucian, why are you so emotionless?"

We were currently heading north with Caleb still nude. The area here seemed unaffected but I could see a black smoke coming from the east. "It is done to preserve my purity," I replied. "But now I am no use to my parents. I doubt that they will take me back in when they realize that I am showing manifestations of a normal being."

Caleb let out a confused "Eh?" and stopped in his tracks while I continued to walk. When he finally snapped out from his confusion, I felt a dash of wind pass by my side and a naked werewolf was now blocking my way. "Shouldn't they be happy that you are starting to feel normal things?"

They would be extremely furious. They might even put me through the training again.

"I was made to be different. I was locked in the castle for 18 years and I just recently got out," I stood silent for a minute when I reminisced the day when I first met oniisan. I did not have any knowledge of his existence at all. I did not understand his anger when he found out that I was trained like the stratiotes.

"You have grown otouto!"

"I do not know you."

I was made to be emotionless. I was made to be different. I was made to be useless. I should feel nothing yet now I was starting to feel everything. Lucius had taught me how to be normal. He overwrote what was already written and infused in my principles.

Be cold.

Help others!

Feel nothing.

Feel everything!

Be nothing.

Be anything you want!

Stay inside.

Open your eyes!

Never be touched or even touch.

Come here and let oniisan hug you!

Lucius had really been a huge part of my life even when his presence was gone for 18 years. He was everything that my parents could never be. Otousan and Okaasan never talked to me that much even when I was still a child. The one time that they showed supreme emotions towards me was the day that they replaced my old trainer.

I did not know the reason why they replaced him but Otousan was very much in rage and Okaasan was crying and embracing me. What happened those days when I was just 5 years old will always be a mystery for me. The trainer that replaced him taught me to avoid that activity at all cost. I never questioned him. They never did ask any further and so I let it be.

It didn't matter anyway.

"You're so beautiful your highness. You were always so beautiful," he said breathlessly.  "Your next lesson would be...be silent even when in pain..."

"Lucian?" Caleb snapped me out of my thoughts. His golden eyes held worry. "Are you okay?" He questioned.

"Yes, why?"

He laughed sheepishly. "You seem to be thinking something really deep."

"It's nothing to fret about. I was just thinking about how I was trained to be what I am."

And how I've changed in a span of one week.

He pursed his lips but then showed a bright smile. "As you wish then!"

My compagnon (companion) was very loquacious. Even the sun stopped shining its rays and hid behind the comforts of the quiet clouds. After a long time of walking, the grasses were becoming longer and longer that they even surpassed Caleb's height. We had to make a detour and went around the field in hopes of not going through them which only cost us to waste time since it seemed endless.