Adar

Chapter 12 : Arrival

Adar was sitting up, his back up against the side of the cart. The Sun's rays shone onto him between gaps in the tree's shade. He looked around to see the trees already losing their leaves. It was fall already. The grass was turning a light brown color, the air getting a bit colder.

The cart had stopped, John and Nathaniel were both stretching out their stiff limbs from the long travel. They stood a few yards to the back of the cart.

"We should be there in about an hour." Smiled John.

Nathaniel sighed," I won't be there long. I most likely will leave today."

"The Willis's won't be to happy about that."

"Tell them I wasn't happy about it either."

John shook his head in disapproval, walking  off to the front of the cart. He went to the saddle of the horse, that was pulling the cart, and pulled out oats to feed it.

Adar looked over at Melanie. She was still sleeping, her hair was spread out over her face. One of the blankets that she was using was the one given to him. He was not cold, but Melanie had been shivering with only one blanket. He thought she might better use it than he would have.

It would be best not to bother her right now, thought Adar. She is asleep and it still early

Adar stood up and went to the side of the cart, grabbing the sides and making his way out and down onto the ground. He started toward Nathaniel.

"Good morning, Adar." said Nathaniel, seeing Adar walking towards him.

"Good morning, Nathaniel." Said Adar, stopping two paces from Nathaniel.

"You must be feeling better, you're out and about now."

Adar nodded,"I over heard you talk to John last night."

Nathaniel raised a brow. "What did you hear?"

"Everything." Replied Adar, his voice monotone. " You plan on going back to hunt Langstrom... And you stated that Melanie told you she was his niece. Was that true?"

Nathaniel sighed, "Adar, eavesdropping is a childish thing to do. And Yes, I do plan to hunt Langstrom. Also, Melanie did state she was Lansgtrom's niece. She told us helpful information, believing she could help further our chance of success."

Why would Melanie risk telling them such valuable information? Thought Adar. They could have been heartless mercenaries that would have used her as a hostage to get Langstrom. I guess I should repay her courage with a bit of information of my own.

"The base where I and Melanie escaped from was burned by me. I suppose Melanie told you that?"

Nathaniel was surprised, his lifted eyebrows giving a clear sign of it. "She failed to mention the 'miniscule' detail that it was you. She did mention the burning building and how you escaped." 

Adar clenched his fist."  I suppose she told you how my mother was..."

Nathaniel saw Adar's eyes redden, his jaw set in a hard flex.

"She did not mention to much about that, for fear of it offending you." Said Nathaniel. "She told us the things she decided were important to us capturing Langstrom."

"Now that the base is burned down. Where will you go look now?"

"Hopefully there are still clues at that the burned down base."

"There was another building located near that base. I over heard a few of the guards speak of it while I was in the cells. That would be my guess for Langstrom's next possible location."