The Demon King's Paladin

Chapter 79. Goals

                                                                 Jaime Wilkin's Point of View

" Laura it's been a day; you need to eat something!"

Ashley spoke softly to Laura who has been unresponsive since realizing what has happened to us. It's been 2 days since we lost our battle against those strange demons who stopped us in our journey.  Since then, Luke has been unconscious and being healed by the best healers of the logistics group. Laura would most likely be able to heal him in seconds, but she isn't in the state of mind to do anything. Lucy, Ashely and I are currently sitting with Laura in her tent, trying to break through to her.

" Laura. We need to focus on what's next."

Lucy spoke to her. It seemed she just said what came to mind. To this Laura had a response. She spoke for the first time since waking.

" Next? What is next Lucy?"

Lucy seemed to not be expecting Laura to answer her. She stumbled and couldn't string a sentence together. I decided to speak for her instead.

" We need to head back to Promethia and regroup."

To my words Laura reacted ever so slightly. She began to speak.

" Regroup? For what? Luke was struck down by the Paladin! Jessie went to save him! Look at Jessie! He was beaten back that badly! By people we didn't even consider! We lost! We were ignorant! We thought that this was like a fairy tale or a game and now because of that!....."

Laura stopped speaking and just looked... Well defeated. Ashley was the first to approach Laura.

" Laura what do you mean when you say. " Now because of that!" tell us, please?"

Laura looked away from Ashley. Instead of facing her, Laura looked at the roof of the tent we were in. Ashley didn't lose her nerve and waited for Laura to respond. When she noticed Ashley was going nowhere, Laura began to speak with tears welling up in her eyes.

" I wanted to end this as soon as possible! He's getting farther and farther away from me! I can feel it! The nightmares don't stop! Even when that damned woman knocked me out! When I lost consciousness, I saw it! John, he was bleeding! And moving farther away from me! No matter how I called to him! He simply faced away from me! That purple sky in my dream! It was like it was looking at me! Dismissing me! Then evaluating me as if I was the one to be tested to reach John! I need to get back to him as soon as possible! But instead, we're stuck here!"

We all were shocked by this. Laura had collapsed and started bawling. But wait! Why does this sound familiar to me? I feel like I've heard something like this before! Wait was it that book!?

" THATS IT!"

Everyone including Laura were shocked to hear me yell. Laura even stopped crying. I ran to my tent to grab a book on Job Classes my teacher Ethel gave to me to read.

" Look! This book! It has something to explain your dreams, Laura!"

They all looked at me with interest. Luara began to speak again.

" What can it tell me Jaime?"

I moved quickly to the Cleric section of the book. I searched the page for the information. I found it!

" Right here Laura! Look! A Cleric will receive messages from their god about subjects they hold dear! For you it must be in your dreams!"

" So that's why I keep seeing John in my dreams? Even so! None of the imagery says anything good about it!"

" Yeah, I guess so."

I slumped down a little at Sarah's response. I began to scan the page for an answer. Wait! This is it!