Beyond The Veil

Chapter 10

Freeing The Trapped

Later in the night Elizabeth wakes up and notices her wing isn't in much pain anymore and her arm has a lot more pressure on it than before. Elizabeth slowly sits up and looks at her left arm and sees that it's wrapped and then looks at her right wing. She is shocked that someone had removed the branch and bandaged her wing along with taking care of her arm. Elizabeth uses her magicks to take the bandages off and heal her wing fully, she looks down at her arm and was about to heal it but Esmund formed in front of her and shook his head in response. "Fine I won't heal my arm" Elizabeth whispers and then looks around for her bag, forgetting she had brought a sword with her. In the darkness of the small fire she found her bag and tied it on her back then quietly made her way to the entrance of the cave.

She looks back at the man sleeping against the cave wall, she gently plucks a feather from her wing and blows it towards him. The feather gently lands in his hair next to his ear, she smiles softly and then takes off. Elizabeth flies back to the castle, tears forming in her eyes "no... don't cry" Elizabeth says as she wipes the tears from her eyes. She didn't want to cry anymore, she had found the man that she was looking for and was happy she found him. "He really does look like papa... maybe he is his reincarnation" Elizabeth thinks as she flies over groups of wolves that try to attack her even though she is too high in the air for them to reach her.

Elizabeth gently lands in the entrance way of the castle, Garroth, Laurance, and Malachi outside already, Malachi was shocked that Elizabeth could fly. "You're back early, I thought I would have to go out and find you... did you find what was calling you" Garroth asks as he walks over. "I didn't... it disappeared while I was out flying so I couldn't find it" Elizabeth lies to try to keep the man a secret. "I see, well at least you're back but where is your armor?" Garroth asks and motions to the clothes Elizabeth is wearing.

"Come to find out when you don't pay attention to where you're flying you can fly into a tree and then fall into a pile of snow" Elizabeth says as she smiles and rubs the back of her head. "Are you okay" Laurance asks as he walks over "yup I'm fine, I had to get rid of the armor because it was starting to stick to my skin so I used my magicks to form these clothes, they are like the clothes the guards wore to Donna's and Logan's wedding. Remember Garroth" Elizabeth held up a small bit of her skirt and smiled. "So that's how you made those clothes with Cadenza. Also you should have called me when you flew into a tree... and what happened to your arm" Garroth says as he motions to Elizabeth's arm.

"I ran into a few of the wolf tribe members. I was forced to kill them and the leader of the small group decided to slash my arm" Elizabeth says as she raises her left arm slightly. "But I'll be fine, I bandaged it up but now I'm going inside to get warm" Elizabeth says as she walks past Garroth and Laurance to get inside. After a few minutes of being next to the fire Elizabeth walks out and sees Aphmau had returned with a man. Elizabeth could sense that the man standing next to Aphmau had a lot of magicks, so she stood up straight and went to grab her sword, only to realize she had forgotten it in the cave with the man that helped her. "Damn it..." Elizabeth thinks to herself as she stands there, worried that the man isn't just here to exercise Malachi from the castle.

A bright flash of light comes off the man and Elizabeth senses the ties that keep Malachi bound to the castle is gone. Elizabeth gently touches the golden star necklace her mother gave her as she listens to the conversation "mom... did you really free them from a curse..." Elizabeth thought as she looked at the man, still touching her mothers necklace. Damian looked at the group and when he saw Elizabeth he quickly took out the ten blocks of diamond Aphmau had given him, and gave them back to her. "I didn't know I was helping friends of the Divine Messenger. Anything she or her friends are needing from me is free" Damian says as he bows to Elizabeth.