The Chronicle of Aurelia Aurelius

Chapter 26

After the event, Adel walked toward the carriage with some blood stains in her clothes, and Cassius followed behind her..Her face was straight as hell, there was no show of remorse, guilt, or anything, just as usual. Unlike Cassius, before he followed, Adel went to the carriage, he went to all the corpses. He seemed to show some respect toward the dead bodies, he crouched, and liked to pray to all the dead bodies.

Adel let Cassius steer the carriage, and she sat in the corner. The carriage continued the trip, and passed through all the dead bodies. I even felt it, when the carriage ran over the bodies, shook the carriage. I asked Cassius to stop by a nearby river, so Adel could clean herself, and change into another outfit.

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In a few hours, we stopped at the riverside..Adel took some things from above the carriage, it seemed like another outfit and towel. She walked toward the river. I opened the door of the carriage by myself, and followed her to the river..

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While Adel washed herself, I started a conversation with her,

"This is my first time seeing you like that, Adel.." I said to her,

"Does my lady feel scared of me, now?"

"I don't...have feelings like that...I just find it surprising...I heard from my mother that you are a former assassin...so what had you done back there...not surprising for me...but...Are Martia and Livia the same as you?"

"Their paths are different from mine, they are former guard and mercenary...but for skill and prowess, we are the same..."

"That's more relieving then...it is assuring that those two will be safe.......take your time to wash yourself, Adel.."

I excused myself from there...

At night after dinner, I felt uneasy and not well...I thought it would be coming...I immediately came out of my tent, and went to Adel. I grabbed her clothes, and she turned her head toward me. Immediately, it was coming..

*COUGH* *COUGH*

She saw me coughing, and instantly brought me back to the tent..While she was carrying me back to the tent, I could see Cassius and Valerie's faces' stagger to see me coughing blood. At the tent, Adel laid me down on the mat, and she immediately went to the carriage to take something from Sofia. While she was gone, I kept coughing blood, slowly my vision became blurry ... .and in a second, I lost my vision...it was blank...there was nothing...there was no hallucination like usual...just blank space.

The next morning, I woke up by myself, but Adel didn't wake me up. I left the tent, and I saw something surprising...Adel was in a bad state, she had bruises on some of her face and her arms..I quickly went to her, and asked what had happened..she just kept quiet, and silent. I turned my gaze to Cassius and Valerie. They like Adel kept quiet and silent about Adel. I quickly realized something and remembered it, and said,

"IS IT ME? WHO DID THIS TO HER?"

They lowered their faces and didn't say anything to me..

The first time I did this to Adel, was when I tried to help the four children from the street. I managed to take down Adel and Lady Octavi at the same time, unconscious. In the past seven years, the same things have kept happening. When I was unconscious because of the crap that Gena planted on me, sometimes I managed to wreck everything around me...After I regained my consciousness, I tried to ask everything, to my mother, Adel, even Sofia. Yet, they just kept silent and quiet, and didn't give me a single word of explanation... I told Cassius and Valerie to lay Adel down in my tent..They carried Adel to my tent, and laid her down on my mat.