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XIV | 'up'

HELENA REYSDOTTIR

"Shh, quiet."

That was both the first thing I said to Adryan, and the first thing I've ever said to such a crowd of army men. I was floating downwards so my feet could meet the ground in I don't know how long - I do, actually. Approximately two hours and fourteen minutes. I could feel Adryan's nervousness from a mile away, and that's a bad thing. I suppose I have to handle everything myself after all.

"Wh- Kasdeya?! You- You killed our detectives!" Someone ran towards me and hit face-first into the barrier, I chuckled at the stupidity and pushed him away from the barrier before it burned him - which was helping him, but I knew Adryan couldn't bear more sharp screams from the boys.

"Did I now?" Negative, I didn't, actually. Perhaps I was right, everyone William had picked out is very much dumb. Glad to know Adryan joined by choice and not by force - which presumably means that he's smarter than them.

"Of course you did! Sir William had been murdered and everyone agrees that you're the culprit! Sir Adryan had been burnt to ashes in that building! You're a monster! And I'm so sure that everyone agrees, right guys?!" He yelled while raising his hands up in the air. I huffed with a smirk tugging on my lips, raising my brows when everyone agreed rather loudly. "See! We have no leader because of you! But we will all get to you because of your lack of men! Right everyone?!"

No leader? Sounds wrong. He seems to be leading everyone already. Leading everyone to yell "yeah!"s that is. This was hilarious, and I heard Adryan whisper a tiny "I am so not dead," in the back of my mind.

"And I'm somehow weaker than them," I responded to him, shaking my head at the men with spears, ready to throw them at me when I take the barrier down - but I won't just yet, which reminds me of something else. "Hm, really. What's your name, little one?"

"I am Ansel Kane and I am no little one!" He said, making me roll my eyes. A Kane, really? I heard people from the Kane family were worthless, not sure why it has gained such a reputation around the universe.

"Pathetic, the one who's wrong in a conversation is a little one," I leaned closer towards the barrier. That was before he quickly threw a spear towards my head when he got the chance. Fortunately, it didn't even reach out from the barrier and fell straight on the floor. I let a dark chuckle erupt from my lips and grinned, "and you're wrong."

"No! I'm not, and everyone here knows I'm right!" He reached down to pick up the spear, presumably ready to throw it at me again, but I could tell it was burning hot - which was why he instantly dropped it before he even held it up. Yelping and hissing back in pain, he screamed at me, "piece of shit!"

"Now, now, little one. Since you're so bold that you're right, take a look at who's alive and who isn't," I grinned. "Adryan, you're up."

"Down," he responded almost immediately, causing a small giggle to erupt from me. Ansel squinted his eyes and eyed me cautiously, and I raised my brows in amusement. Within seconds, a figure jumped down from the tree and out of the barrier I'd set up. He made the leaves fall from the tree, and I wondered about his weight. Ansel gasped and pointed at him, which was disrespectful, I know. "Hi."

With a quick wave of Adryan's hand and an awkward smile on his lips, everyone inside the barrier started to gasp and point along with Ansel - as I said, he was a leader. "You-You're alive?! What the-I saw you burn!"

"No, you didn't," both me and Adryan said in unison. Before I got the chance to shoot him a look, he was already looking at me.

"I didn't burn, I disappeared before the bomb even reached the building," he frowned suspiciously, "how did you see me burn? There wasn't a fire when I left."

As I said, worthless. Everyone else seemed to be gasping more than Ansel than at Adryan's presence now. Funnily enough, he backed away in embarrassment - which I'd also do in this situation. "He wanted to seem smarter than he is."

"If he saw me burn then I wouldn't be here, this is unlogical. I am so confused."

"Anyways, now that Candy Cane has shut up, I'd like to put on a show for all of you," I put my hands on my hips as if I was their ally, but all I received was a silence and an awkward smile from Adryan. "Sharpe, what the hell are you doing."

My words to him sounded more like a demand rather than a question, and he frowned and gave me a look, "I'm obeying you, you told me to stand here."

"I told you to stand there, not seem like a complete idiot!"

"Anyways," I announced, again. "Make sure you don't have any loved ones or belongings in that village, you all. Oh right, you can't."

"You wouldn't dare!" Another one in there yelled straight at me.

"She would, actually," Adryan put his hands in his pockets - presumably to fidget - and I felt a sudden urge to hold it, though I couldn't, especially here.

Before another one, or that person would part their lips to speak, I continued, "I'd love for you all to see your beloved houses - and the villagers along with it - burn, into ashes. You've seen how your little buildings burnt under one big blow of a magic grenade, so let's see how many grenades I have to throw in order for your village to die."

And now everyone was throwing spears and whatever they have on them towards me - but they all burnt into ashes or liquid right in front of their own eyes. Spitting words too - and I had to resist the urge to snap a grenade into the trap. They were shitty words that revolved around 'you're a monster!' and 'you are reckless!'. Nonetheless, most of them 'demanded' me to let them go and set the villagers free.

I chuckled. The villagers weren't trapped and they never were. They could run away whenever they could, but the people who were really trapped were right in front of me.

And I wondered if they were stalling to let the villagers flee by acting dumb... Right.

"Do it," I heard Adryan whisper by my right ear as if he already knew what I was thinking. His psychology may not be the worst, I suppose. Or did he just figure out the same thing I did?

"I am," I grinned. With a snap of my fingers, three grenades were conjured on top of the village land - and they fell down. I heard millions of screams that were ringing in my head but I was sure it was just the boys screeching. "You have approximately ten seconds to yell out whatever you want to say to your loved ones, it's not like they'd hear you anyway. I'm just gonna set up a soundproof barrier. Goodbye darlings!" And with a cheerful smile, I walked backwards and slowly turned to walk away. I knew Adryan was following me because his footsteps were so damn loud just to ensure that everyone thinks that he was confident while he was truly nervous.

With a loud snap of my fingers - again, all the yells went away.

"What the-" Adryan immediately looked back towards where we came from. "Did they suddenly calm down or something?!"

"And I thought you were getting smarter," I rolled my eyes, stopping to turn back at him, "did you not hear what I said to them?"

"Oh. I have hard times processing things when things are escalating quickly," he reasoned, continuing to walk to my side rather rapidly whilst I resumed walking so he couldn't be able to catch up - I liked hearing him yell at me to slow down. "I have a very random question in mind, though."

"And what is that?" I responded before he could even finish his sentence.

"Why did you kidnap me that day?" And that was the only word he needed to say to make me stop in my tracks.

Why did I kidnap him that day?