𝔖𝔬, ℑ 𝔊𝔬𝔱 ℜ𝔢𝔦𝔫𝔠𝔞𝔯𝔫𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔡

ℭ𝔥𝔞𝔭𝔱𝔢𝔯 47 - 𝔄𝔩𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔞

"I will even defy the Gods. I swear to you, my sun."
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Once again, I dreamt of her. Only her voice. Everything was just a misty feeling...a strange memory.

"Give up, rebel," right by my neck, a sting coming from a cut. It was the Black Summer. Who is this woman? Why does she have the Black Summer?

No. Why am I fighting her?

Whose memory is this?

What is this feeling?

"I do not find it necessary, Princess."

Ah, hatred. I want to kill her.

"This war will kill all of you. Cooperate now or I'll chop off your damn head, demon."

War. It wasn't us who started it. It was the humans. It was your King.

"You stole our land," a blade was at her neck as well. A normal one. We're aiming to kill each other. "Now whose fault is it? You can behead me anytime. Another will replace me. Even after my death, you will not stop the anger of our race."

Thunder soared the skies and lighted the whole place for a second. Followed was the sound of it. I can't see her face clearly. But I can feel her cold gaze.

"Do you not care for your people?" she asked in anger.

"I care," I said so in a tired and lifeless manner. Just like how I usually speak. What's there to give life to it anyway? Why does she care so much about such tiny thing?

She grabbed the collar of my cloathing and forced me near her.

"Then act like it. Your face does not show anything. What the hell is wrong with you?"

"No. What is wrong with you? Do you care for us? Well, too bad. It's late," I sent a slash at her but she managed to evade. Still, her lower abdomen is bleeding.

I fought her. In that plain. In a battlefield where banners of two forces are scattered. A land full of corpses and filled with blood of the same color, but of different kinds.

Then came a different scene. It was cold. But her scent provided me warmth. She was standing right there, by the Willow tree that grows in the North.

"You attacked the nearby villages, they say."

"I have not. Why are you here?"

"Is it wrong to check up on my enemy?"

What is this weird feeling. I can't breathe in front of her. It's hard to see someone whose presence I have not felt for two years.

Slowly. Her face started to become clearer.

"What is this... I thought you got better?" she sounded confused.

The scent is getting strong.

"I gave you a chance, Summer."

"Shin—"

"Void! Gising! Kanina pa kita tinatawag!" sunod-sunod na pag-iingay ni Engim sa pintuan.