Luna Felix

61 | Of course it would happen to me

Last few to go hopefully, I wanted to at least surprise you guys before New Year's.

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REI'S POV

Such is the reality of life that it doesn't stop if you are a mess. It continues its flow, crushing everything in its paths to ever running parallel time.

As the love of my life lay in hospital recovering after she fought for her life and mine, I am duty bound to serve my people. To bring peace that was tarnished. And to bring about order, once again.

In the weeks leading up to Felix's recovery. I would spend my day slaving away in my office, reading investigations, hearing testimonies and trying to piece together all the information that Felix already had. I even held a public trial of the main offender. Letting the public hear their crimes.

But I didn't declare their punishment though.

Each evening I would retreat to our bedroom in the west wing where I had insisted she be rested. I asked the nurse about the day's improvement. And every day I hear the same thing. She is resting, recovering.

Each day I would dismiss the nurse and sit there staring at her. Observing her healing wounds. Grieving slowly. Somedays I talk to her as if she was aware of me. Most days I would fall asleep on the makeshift bed next to ours.

Today I pack my belongings as I dread leaving the castle for the first time in my life. I need to go and personally seal the labyrinth and the area around which the entire ritual was initially meant to happen. And I don't want to see that palace again. This lifetime is too early for me to face that place again.

"I am going there again..." I whisper to a resting Felix, her body hooked to various monitors and a dripping IV.

I sit down next to her and gather her hands into mine. I rest them against my face, "I don't want to go. I don't want to be away from you. I am scared." I finally voice my thoughts in the quiet room.

I place her palm on my cheek. Revelving in her slightly warm temperature. I had been terrified of her getting cold. So terrified that the first time I found her hands cold after the incident, I lost my temper and yelled at all the nurses. I made them shift her to our bedroom.

Since then I make sure to keep the room slightly warm. At all times. I always put on her socks in the morning. And take them off before I sleep. So she is not cold. So she is never cold.

I pack reluctantly, hating and dreading every step. But such is the reality of life, it doesn't care whether you are ready or not. The sun will rise and the sun will set. And you have to accept it.

So with a bag full of clothes, a lot of guards stationed around the castle, and the last muffin she made, I sat in the car that I was driving back to that forest. I had run my throat dry by giving instructions. So much so that even Mum looked relieved that I left.

I drive out of the capital, knowing damn well that she will wake up. Of Course, she will wake up and I won't be there. Because I was sure, the universe hates us right now. And that it likes to see us suffer before giving us even any scrap of relief.

Promising myself that I will try my best to complete this final task once and for all. In addition to that, I will seal the entire forest as well. I don't want it to turn into some weird tourist attraction and set an alternate route to the Temple of Goddess.

And just as I had anticipated, by the time the team and I had set a camp near the labyrinth, waiting for the group of ambassadors and priests to arrive, I got a text from Huxx.

→ "She is awake. Currently being examined by docs, will keep you updated."

← "Did she say anything?"

→ "Yaa, she said the room is too damn hot."

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