Soul Interaction: Chain! (ENG)

06 • Sorcery?

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The next day we decided to take another carriage back to Tenebria. Eimin had already fallen asleep.
Lunim looked at me, as if to ask my opinion on the evolution of the situation. Too many factors had come together in a single great chaos. We were both confused.
I looked at my sister.
«I can't tell her that I'm doing it for her. But fighting is the only thing I want to avoid for her. She must become a kind and responsible woman for her children, I do not want her to die even before becoming a mother. This will be the nation where they will live.» I answered. I was satisfied with what I said, because it was what I thought, but...
«Are you sure that's what she wants too? That it's not just what you want?» He invited me to reflect.
Then, suddenly, a flame struck one of the two horses. Both of them, mad, began to splash in every direction, making the carriage turn over. Lunim and I, with my sister in my arms, jumped down before the wood would go on fire. I was afraid that, beyond the three of us, no one could have survived. We saw a silhouette in the trees. Quickly he showed his face. He was a man perhaps in his thirties, with long black hair, a white and long robe. It seemed to be a pharaoh, his whole robe, which started from the head and ended at the feet, was adorned with jewels and gold.
«Did you hit the horse with the flaming arrow?» I asked in a tone of defiance and arrogance.
«Arrow? Where do you see it?» He answered with a mocking tone.
I turned to the carcass of the fallen horse. The skin was burned, but there was no arrow.
«What did you throw? And why? Give me a reason.» We were on the alert. My sister, meanwhile, had woken up. As soon as I got out of the carriage, I made her hide behind a tree away from the hearth.
«What you saw was pure fire, thrown by my own hands and created by my mind.»
He said. Shortly afterwards, he noticed the presence of Lunim, so he decided to back off. Perhaps he was not strong enough to fight both.
«You'were talking about sorcery, weren't you?» Asked my strategist.
«What would it be?» I had to ask naively. I had never heard of it before that day. It was a strange discovery for me.
«It is something supernatural. Thanks to it, the form of energy can be changed, for example by turning heat into fire.» Answered Lunim, looking for some kind of confirmation from our opponent.
«If you want to call it that... That's exactly what I did.» Said the figure turning and returning to the forest.
«Wait a moment, how can I believe in this "sorcery"? And then who are you? Where do you come from?» I shouted to call him back. After all, he increased the length of our journey by killing the horses and burning the carriage. I should have had revenge somehow.
«If you want to believe it is up to you. I can't tell you where I come from, but I can tell you my name. You can call me Meta. If you want to stay alive, Goldora, ponder the meaning of justice.» He replied bored.
«How do you know my name?»
He went away, disappearing into the shadow. I began to run after him, then heard:
«I'm not strong enough to face the three of you together. But if you don't want two of you to die, you better stop your advance.»
I stopped, letting him continue on his path.
My sister was taken into my arms and we spent the night with Lunim in a nearby hospice, hoping that the next day a carriage would pass by on our way to Tenebria. We all slept in the same room. Eimin had fallen asleep again. We, however, still discussed what we should do; by the voice that had reached us, three days later (including tonight), the king would announce, in the usual square of Tenebria, the next attack. We should have come back quickly.
«Goldora, are you sure you want to continue?» Said Lunim again. He used to fill me with questions that would make me think. But I was too distracted from my goal.
«Even if we give up now, it would be too late. By now many warriors of the army of Avaloria have been defeated. The king should deploy his next army to take Triosa. But unlike Cromelia, Triosa has an alliance on the continent and a much larger army. Attacking it means giving up completely his own army».