Suikoden VI

Chapter Eleven: Part Five

Part Five

Daunte quickly looked at Keiran and Mihr with Indigo's revelation, but they were both looking at Indigo. Daunte looked at Indigo but she didn't look vindictive. "It was for the best," she said plainly. "Lord Keiran and I didn't love each other. We would never have been happy together. I'm glad he broke the engagement, as it allowed me to meet and be with Trofim."

"Trofim?"

"My husband," Indigo said. Her expression became pained. "He's in trouble. My parents, they—after the engagement was broken, they tried to arrange me to marry someone else. An elderly cleric named Hile. I didn't want to marry him, but my parents wouldn't hear anything about it."

Hile? Daunte thought. That name...vaguely sounds familiar—

"Hile is a good man who would take very good care of you. Do you think that child out there can provide for you in any way?"

Daunte lurched and pressed a hand to his mouth. Oh. Oh no. Did she...was Indigo engaged to the same person who Tidur was engaged to as a child?!

"I married Trofim in secret," Indigo said. "Trofim, he—he's a foreigner from the Northern Continent. Naturally my parents did not approve but I love Trofim and I only want to be with him. I ran away with Trofim and we've been living Barakada, but we were found. Trofim took on the soldiers my parents sent and told me to run away." She exhaled sharply and rubbed at her arms.

"So they took him?" Mihr asked. "They didn't kill him outright?"

"They don't know where Lady Indigo is, so killing him would be counterintuitive," Caesar said. "They'll keep him alive so long as they don't have her. Once they get her, though..."

"Then they will kill him," Keiran said grimly. "I have caused you a great inconvenience, my Lady. Please forgive me."

"You're not at fault, but I do need help," Indigo said tearfully. "If I surrender to my parents and submit to this marriage, then Trofim will die. I d-don't want him to die. I..." she collapsed to her knees and moved into kowtow position before Daunte. "I beg of you...please save my husband!"

"Of course I'll help you," Daunte said. "You said you were ambushed in Barakada?"

"Yes, but they're transporting Trofim to the capital," Indigo said. "The escort should still be in the western part of Winter Hill."

Daunte stiffened. The western part of Winter Hill?

That was the area where the Battle of Winter Hill took place. Daunte wasn't exactly eager to return to the area of Winter Hill where thousands of his soldiers died.

But if that's the current location of Indigo's husband, then I have to go there.

"I'll assemble a party now, Lord Daunte," Caesar said. "Who would you like to—"

"I will go," Keiran said, stepping forward.

"As will I," Mihr added.

"I will be coming with you but I have no combat experience," Indigo said.

"Then you can be part of the support party," Daunte said. "As for the rest of the active party, I would like to add Sloan, Nian, and Evarr."

"You're bringing the Djinn with us?" Mihr asked, his eyes widening.

"A Djinn?!" Indigo exclaimed.

"Don't worry, she's not a threat to us," Caesar reassured her. He looked at Daunte. "I'll call everyone now."