chapter one <3

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After naksu's fight with park jin and the other songrim's mages, when she escaped under the ice with a bleeding shoulder and came into the capital, we found each other thanks to some enchanted compasses given to us by the danju a while ago. We each have one and thanks to them we will always find each other no matter where we are. 

I gasped when i saw her bleeding shoulder and said "Please don't tell me you just ran and fought with a shoulder in that state ?" while pointing at her shoulder with a worrisome look 

"Don't start lecturing me, it was that or my death so can you heal me now, before they find us" she answered as she was pushing back my pointing finger while heavily breathing due to the pain

"Well, i would gladly do it, but the problem is that, from what i can tell right now, your wound is way too deep and if i start healing you now, knowing how well trained are songrim's mages, the chances are they will be there to kill us before i could even finish" 

"Oh okay... well i cannot keep running away in that state or i will probably die since as you can see i'm losing too much blood. That damn leader... The only option i see right now is to practice the alchemy of souls..." she said with a complicated and thoughtful look on her face

"Wait, you want to use the soul ejector the danju gave us ? Are you sure because that would mean you would never be able to return in your actual body and it could be dangerous you know. Plus, when the Danju explained to both us what the alchemy of souls was after giving us the soul ejectors, you later in the day told me you would never do it, because it would mean take an innocent life and we always agreed on this..." i said to her feeling more than conflicted about having to perform the alchemy of souls

"Well it's not like a have a choice here, it's the only solution available at the moment... I hate the idea of taking an innocent's life but at least my shoulder will be healed and the leader won't be able to recognize my new body so it's my only way out of this chaos"

"I guess you're right..." i muttered still feeling conflicted

"Ok then, we have to search for a girl who has the same or almost the same facial and body features as me but also in the same age range as me" 

So we started searching for someone who met the criteria and found a girl that was almost perfect, naksu quickly grabbed her wrist and entered a room who was near us with me following them closely. 

She performed the alchemy of souls, but when she woke up she wasn't in the body we chose but in a blind girl's body, a girl that we had already seen when we searched for the perfect body but the most bizarre thing was that she didn't had the blue mark either. 

We didn't understood why she wasn't in the body we chose, and why she didn't had the blue mark but we decided to ran away from there as fast as possible since her former body was still there and songrim's mages could arrived at any time now. 

Some time later, we ended up to the other side of the capital "I think we can walk for now and in any case i think your new body won't allow you to go any further" i said while looking at her panting like crazy 

"Yes, you're right, i feel like my lungs are burning in hellfire or something" she said as i chuckled to her answer 

"I think you should put back the blindfold over your eyes, in case we come across someone who knows you, or rather someone who knows your body" 

"That is not a dumb idea, but in this case you will have to help me walk if we want to make people believe i'm the blind girl... " 

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