The Binding Fates SEASON 1: The Past

Chapter 33: The Secret Alpha

The Capital City of the 1st District is huge. There are people riding carriages and some flying with their gadgets or broom like the witches I saw earlier. Some even use teleportation scrolls and magic spells. Capital City has everything every person needed. It has malls, small and huge shops, an amusement park and a people's park, a public and private market, and last but not least — a place where lower-ranked people live.

Both me and Arbor went into the place and to my surprise, it felt warm and beautiful to see people smiling and laughing. From what I can remember, the Slums were originally where the people who were abandoned by their Gods lived here. They hated the Gods because of it but Tina, as the Lady of Prophecy managed to give them a hand — helping them overcome their poverty and it became a place where normal people can live.

I froze, wait. This is another world. Why did I have another memory of another world? I am getting confused. Which world is it? Olympia?

"Elyse, are you okay?" Arbor stopped his tracks and glanced at me. I nodded my head and just smiled.

"I'm fine." Right, I forgot to mention Tina was also known to be a dimension traveler. But I have a feeling that the memory I just saw right now came from the old ancient world — Olympia.

And from what I know, Tina didn't really manage to help the poor because of the interference from Aniya.

I am getting confused. For a moment I feel like I am not Elyse but someone else. For a second, I have Lucia or Tina's memories and for another second, I have another person's memory that I couldn't get a clue of whose memory it is.

Am I really just Lucia's Descendant? Or there's more to it? I badly want to know. But my first priority is my Family. I'll find answers about myself after I finish my mission. Right. I came here to personally investigate Arbor.

I took a glance at Arbor and he was walking beside me with his straight face. I really couldn't read him, unlike Arrow. She's a bright and friendly one while Arbor seems to be distant and uninterested.

"You've been staring too much." He spoke and I flinched. I quickly look away and blushed.

"Oh, I'm sorry. That wasn't my intention." I replied.

"Is there something in my face?" I felt him leaning towards me and I turn to look at him and to my surprise, I was indeed right. He was leaning closer to me and I couldn't help but blush at the sight of his handsome face.

Wait, he just asked me a question. I couldn't just answer him that he is handsome that's why I've been staring at him! Or maybe, I can say to him that he's unreadable or something along the lines?

"Hey, Arbor." He arched his eyebrow and I gulped.

"Please don't get offended but... why do you seem so distant?" I noticed him freeze and he smirked later on. He stood straight and sigh, "It felt like ages since I've heard that comment." He speaks.

"Oh! I don't mean to get you offended! I just want to know. Why do you seem so distant?" Right. He seems so distant. Even the first time I saw him he looked so mysterious and uninterested but after I spent some time in the Club trying to master the bow for the contest, it felt like I knew another part of him.

It was also the first time I saw his genuine smile under that tree in the Academy's Garden. But I didn't see that smile after that.

And then I came to a conclusion, why does it look like he's avoiding people?

Whenever I am beside Arrow, Eli, Chad, and the others. Arbor is not there. He would sometimes appear but he doesn't stay that long. I would find myself curious about his behavior. Is he avoiding someone? Or is he simply scared of conversing to people?