Battle Scars || Soren - The Dragon Prince ||

⚔️ 5 ⚔️New Ally

Looking for Soren most of the night was proving to be fruitless, to the point that they had to release the dragons since they had grown tired. Enya was already starting to worry, what if something very terrible happened to him? What if the drake riders found him and dragged him back to the pit with an even less friendly dragon that wouldn't hesitate to kill him? Or what if he crossed paths with Claudia and she did something horrible to him? What if-

"Hey careful!" She hears Kasef yell before feeling his hand grab the back of her surcoat and yank her backwards. "You nearly walked into a tree just now!"

"S-sorry, I was just...you know...him?"

"Worried sick about your idiot?"

Enya nods in confirmation as she starts nervously playing with her hands. Ancients, she would kill to have at least a piece of cloth with a nice sharp needle and thread just to distract herself right now, that would ease her anxious mind.

"Look, he should be fine, this is Soren we're talking about." Kasef assures her as he gently grabs her hands to keep her from fidgeting. "He's gonna be fine when we find him, I promise."

"And what if he's not? What if he's hurt or something worse?" Enya asks as tears are starting to come to her eyes and she tries to wipe them away. "Aaravos threatened to hurt my husband, I can't lose him and I still don't understand what he meant that I have something precious of his in-"

No, no he could not mean that, could he? But that would explain her morning sickness and some of her peculiar mood swings that happened from time to time, along with the fatigue.

"Kasef, what were Reyna's symptoms when she was expecting Utu in the early stages?" She asks and Kasef blinks in surprise.

"What brought this on?"

"Just tell me!"

"Well she was tired a lot, threw up in the mornings, at some point she even didn't eat vegetables because they tasted weird and the smell made her sick to her stomach, and this was when she was two months along. Why?"

"I think...nevermind, let's keep looking for Soren. I'll explain later."

Kasef gave her a confused and concerned look, but said nothing as they continued their search. After what felt like hours of searching, Enya was beginning to lose hope and now worried something bad did happen to her husband like Aaravos promised would happen. Was this her fault? Should she have left with Cici and Utu back to Katolis? So many worries and questions were swimming around in her head and she was now thinking it was a bad idea to even come to Xadia in the first place. What if something now happened to her friends like in her dream from two years ago but worse?

"What the- there he is!" Enya is snapped out of her thoughts and looks over to see Kasef pointing somewhere. "That damn idiot! What's he doing so far out here?!"

"S-soren?" Enya asks as she followed her friend to find her husband sitting on a log by himself looking at a glowing butterfly that was on his fingers. "Soren!"

Her husband looks up and turns, his eyes widening in surprise. "Enya!" He exclaims as he jumped to his feet.

"A mhuirnín!" She yells as she rushes forward to tackle him in a hug. "Don't do that again, you really had me worried! I got scared something awful happened to you!"

"I'm sorry, I should have woken you and Kasef up but I was in a rush to catch up with her."

"Her?" Enya peeks over her husband's shoulder to see Claudia laid against a tree, thick vines wrapped around her arms and chest to keep them tied in place and sporting a very annoyed frown on her face. Her eyes widen in surprise when she sees Enya, before looking away. "Wait how-"