The Rage Of The White Dove

Chapter Two

Hezekiah's p.o.v

Teleporting was the most horrible thing I've ever experienced. It felt like being turned upside down and shaken.

As soon as we were on steady ground again I began puking like I've never done before. When I was done I looked around to see where the Mage was but I couldn't see her. Had she taken my Deforqaere and then teleported me somewhere else? Rage began filling up my body when I saw a trail of blood, smeared against the dirt road and into the ditch beside the road. I hurried down into the ditch where the bloodtrail ended and saw the Mage lying there on her stomach. I turned her around and was met by her seemingly lifeless face. Her platinum blonde hair was covered in dirt as well as her own blood and her fair skin had also specks of blood on it. 

"Mage" I shook her shoulders, before I leaned down and held my cheek above her mouth. She was breathing.

I picked her up in my arms and saw that in her left hand she was clutching my Deforqaere. Even through her armor I could feel how she was freezing cold. I saw a house a bit down the road and began walking towards it. As I approached the house I saw a young boy working in the field on the side of the house. When he heard the sound of metal clinking together, he looked up and his eyes instantly filled with terror. 

"I need to speak with the head of the house" I spoke in my mother tongue, Rai'wdaiquix, so the boy would understand. 

He ran towards the house and I decided to follow him. As I approached the house I could hear the boy speaking in Rai'wdaiquix with his mother, he said that a High Knight is here and he wants to speak with her. His mother dismissed it and said the High Knights are just a legend, and nothing more. The floorboards creaked as I stepped into the house.

"They are real" the mother said in horror when she saw me. Could what the Mage said be true? That people are terrified of us?

"What can I help you with, O Great High Knight?" she said in her best Valoorich as she dropped into a low curtsy with the young boy hid behind his mother in fright.

"I need to get to the closest inn" I said in Rai'wdaiqiux to make her feel more confortable, but it only scared her even more.

"Down the road to the left, it's a very short walk, O Great High Knight" she said still in a low curtsy but glanced up at the Mage in my arms.

"Thank you for your kindness. Here, it is a gift" I adjusted how I was holding the Mage so I could get my pouch. I reached down and picked up 20 coins. 

I reached out my hand with the coins for her to take them but she didn't. Is she really that scared of me? When she didn't take them I placed them on a nearby chair before I left the house and walked back onto the road. Just as the woman said there was an inn right down the road and I could hear the laughs and chairs moving as I approached it. When I opened the doors to the inn everybody went quiet. The children on the floor stopped playing and whispers filled the room. I walked up to the front desk where the sign "Inn" hung above it.

"A room, some medical supplies and a set of clean clothes if you have any" I was beginning to get stressed about how long this was taking.

"Right this way, O Great Warrior" the man behind the desk bowed before showing me to a room upstairs. He opened the door and placed the key on a small table inside the room.

"I will be right back with the medical supplies and a set of fresh clothes, O Great Warrior" he bowed again before he hurried away.

The room was simple with a double bed, dresser, nightstands, a table and a couple of chairs.

I walked up to the bed and gently laid the Mage down before I took off all of my equipment and placed it on the table. 

"O Great Warrior, thank you kindly for your patience" the man knocked before he bowed and gave me the supplies.