Mahnu, An Immortal's Journey

CHAPTER 16

During Mahnu's travel towards the north east, the King was trying to wonder how he should feel. Due to this, Mahnu could feel his suffering.

He was mostly worried about how he should act, so not to chase her away. He had no doubt there were many sorrows that she had come across, that he may not be able to help with.

Would it be asking her too much for her to stay beside me? Especially when I know that she is immortal now...She wouldn't grow old and die, like me...Is it a completely selfish request? Maybe...I should let her go...But...I don't want too!

He didn't know what it was, why he felt like he needed her in his life now, but it was something he didn't want to go without. He had a strange amount of fun making her talk and found it satisfying every time she has opened her mouth since then to speak!

Wanting to coax her into his bed was a little harder, but it was all that more challenging! Of course, he had never really admired the fact that there hadn't been a lady worth chasing...Well, until now...All the other women would only be too happy to do whatever he wanted and it was nice that one of them had said no and does whatever she wants!

Sometimes...He felt like she was the King, instead of him...Only because she was so...

Sighing, yet again, the King wondered if he should completely let her do her thing and come back to him when she was ready...But what if she never comes back!?

King Richard became conflicted with his thoughts and, sometimes, they overflowed into his actions and people became aware that something was making him unhappy.

He had travelled back to Conrella, after finally getting in the reports from the Loyal Royal Knight travellers, but spent much time alone and rarely spoke to anyone outside of his duties. Marcus was sure that since the King had become aware of The Siege, he had changed. He decided to simply watch him and make sure that nothing embarrassing happened to the King, just to stop him from doing something that he may regret afterwards.

Having so much news become known to His Majesty might have been too much and Marcus wanted to make it up to him but was unsure how. It was true, when Marcus first heard of The Siege from his grandfather, he had not believed it to be the real history of Kralaide! At least the King seemed to accept the past as truth, making Marcus feel somewhat at a loss towards his past self, in which he had needed more time to come to terms with this exact story...If the King can accept it so easily, why hadn't he!?

He watched as the King continued his duties and noticed that he was drinking more wine then he used to. Marcus was unable to tell whether he should try to ask His Majesty to confide in him, or to hope that the King might confide in him himself. But as the days went on, the King persisted to remain temperamental, making people start to feel awkward and uncomfortable in his presence. Not only that, the King was starting to get scary when something went wrong within Kralaide...

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Mahnu finally arrived at Brackan, nearly a week later, and stared at the mindless people walking around.

How had she not have noticed this drastic change!? The humans might not be suffering but surely why didn't I notice the whole town becoming like this?

She hated herself for spending her time in other areas. Her opinion of the other towns needing more help than this one...Was very wrong! Had she not come here to get meat at some stage recently?

No, she thought, after a moment of retracing her steps in the last few years.

When she had been at Nowell all those years, she had decided against meat and got rice and wheat instead, thinking it would have been better for the skinny humans in Nowell...