Anya

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Eleven

   They say that family is everything, that without a good support system at home you will not do well and Dimitri could somewhat understand that. In fact, he knew that was true as he would never be the man he was today without his family.

   His mother and father were more in love than anyone he had seen before and although he never wanted that one person who he would one day love for the rest of his life, he knew that he and Clarissa would always be friends and that was good enough for him.

   As he slept that night, Dimitri had a recurring nightmare that Clarissa was killed whilst demons were looking for him and each and every time Dimitri would wake up covered in sweat just to have the same thing happen again.

   He had less sleep than he had in a long time and he could not shake off the sense that he was being watched. In Anceps, he had the luxury of having someone look out for him but here there was not anyone and what Darya had said in the afternoon the previous day had shaken him somewhat.

   He was a dangerous individual and he knew that. However, he was not an executioner. He did not kill humans unless he had a true purpose and he hadn’t found that reason yet and because he was sorcerer he was labelled with that word ‘killer’ and when Darya had called him that it had taken him off guard and had offended him.

   And that was because his father and mother had raised him to be better than that and he respected them.

   But he could hear Anya’s soft snores as she lay underneath her own cloak that had dried a few feet away from him, curled up into a ball and he could tell that she was lost and that her actions today just showed that she was just bobbing above the water.

   He had only known Anya for two days and yet he felt like he knew who she was and what she was about. She had come to the cave to seek refuge from wherever she was from and whoever she lived with previously but he had caught her staring off into the distance and knew that there was something holding her back.

   When they got back from the walk they did not discuss what they needed to, they had put it off for tonight and when Anya was huddled around the fire she didn’t utter a single word apart from when she laid her cloak out and told him she was going to sleep.

   He did not know the time but he knew it was still dark out and he could not stop the pictures of his family lying dead out in the battlefield. This whole nightmare was just the start and he was starting to become anxious.

   Although he was here now, he could just go up to a fairy and throw a bit of magic around and he would be straight back to Anceps where he not only belonged but needed to be. Seeing the Zafiro faction and the way everything was built was an eye opener to Dimitri.

   The green blades that he first landed on he discovered was called grass and he had been around a girl who did not even know how to defend herself, or he assumed and it was refreshing but staying in Daighte was not an option for him.

   It was not but an hour when Anya stirred in her sleep and flickered her eyes open, as she first acknowledged Dimitri’s presence she smiled and stretched before wrapping her cloak around her and sitting up. Dimitri noted how she sat with her back upright and not slouched in the slightest bit.

   “Good morning,” she spoke with a wide yawn.

      Dimitri chuckled, “I don’t even think it is light outside yet.”

      “The dark clouds will be concealing any sunlight,” she guessed. “Besides, when did you wake?”

   He shrugged his shoulders, “Not long.”