Incompatible Interspecies Wives

Chapter 171: The Flow of Time (3)

Arwin left the capital alone.

As if running away from the unbearable pain of parting, she moved without explaining to anyone.

She took a horse from a Celebrien family soldier and rode endlessly westward.

She tried not to think deeply as she traveled.

Whenever she started to think, thoughts of Berg would come to mind.

All she wanted was to escape from the unbearable pain.

She felt like she would cry if she stopped.

She felt she would be tormented by the unchanging reality.

So, she moved to catch her breath.

Arwin was free.

The freedom she had waited for her whole life was finally hers.

Out of her 170 years of life, she had lived 160 years in torment.

No shackles could hold her back anymore.

...Her relationship with Berg had ended, and now she could travel as she had always dreamed.

That might be why she was running west.

Instinctively, she was heading to the place she most wanted to visit among the many travel destinations she had read about in books.

A place where elves traveling the world always visited.

She had dreamed of this moment for so long.

It was said to be a place where the lake and high snowy mountains created a beautiful landscape.

She wondered if being there could soothe the pain in her heart.

Suppressing her desire to collapse and rest, she kept moving.

Feeling like she might really die, she pushed herself to act.

Arwin camped every night, lighting a small campfire.

An inappropriate action for an elven noble.

But it was something Arwin had always wanted to do once she gained her freedom.

"..."

If there was one thing different from her expectations, it was that starting a fire was harder than she thought.

And the nights without Berg were scarier than she imagined.

Without his warmth by her side, she felt cold, and without his voice, she cried.

-Sob...

Whenever she wasn't conscious of it, she found herself always thinking of Berg.

Arwin wiped her tears roughly and tried to change her thoughts.

Thinking of Berg was so painful it was hard to bear.

...But when she forced herself to think of something else, when she didn't think of Berg, she felt empty.

There was no excitement about heading to the place she had dreamed of for 170 years.

-Siiiiik...

As she sat there blankly, hugging her knees, the neglected fire started to die out.

Only then did Arwin realize how cold her body was.

On a night filled with starlight, sitting alone in the vast plains, she battled against the overwhelming loneliness.

...It was a loneliness that she did not feel when Berg was with her.

She remembered the nights she had camped alone with Berg.