Dreams in the Distant Sky

Chapter 21 - Home

Kaya pov:

"Aldora and you, human, you may leave. Kaya, I have to talk to you." Lord Silas finally said after several minutes of tense silence.

Prof was about to refuse but I put a finger to my lips and shook my head, telling him it was okay. I pushed him towards the door and smiled but he glanced warily at Lord Silas for a moment before leaving after Aldora. When I was left alone with Lord Silas, I swallowed thickly and took a deep breath, waiting for him to explode. Things had got better between us just this morning but I had a feeling that everything had fallen back to square one because of Prof's unexpected appearance. I bit the inside of my cheek desperately hoping that this didn't affect the slowly progressing trust and emotions between us – I didn't want Lord Silas to push me away when I had got my hopes up so much. Besides, I knew that more than my feelings of love being returned, Lord Silas himself needed someone he trusted by his side to quell his loneliness and the darkness around him. I didn't want him to suffer alone anymore.

"Come here, Kaya." He called making me tense.

I looked at him and saw that he had stood up and was now standing near the bed. I took another deep breath before walking closer to him. When I was close enough, he took a painfully tight grip on my upper arm and brought his face close to mine. He narrowed his eyes dangerously and they flashed red for a moment making me flinch.

"I assume you know the consequences for lying, Kaya."

"I know." I said after taking a deep breath.

"Then I assume there is something you have to tell me. What is the real reason that human is here? Who is he and what does he want with me? What were you planning to do to me along with him?" Lord Silas hissed out.

I stared into his narrow eyes for a moment unsure of what to say. Did he still think that I was lying to him and doing things to earn his trust only to betray him in the end? Honesty, how betrayed did he feel? Was there really so much of darkness around him that he couldn't escape it even after how I had opened up to him, and he to me?

I looked to the side with a long sigh, no longer nervous at his slightly hostile demeanor. I touched his hand that was holding my arm and looked back into his eyes calmly, composedly. That seemed to catch him off guard and his grip on me faltered for a moment. But he wasn't about to give up so he narrowed his eyes even further and let them turn red and stay that way.

"Lord Silas, the first time we met and we traveled in the same carriage, Consul Aiden was with us and you had given him the responsibility of getting me acquainted with the whole humans-Supremes deal. I remember he had asked me about my past then....who I was, where I was from and why I had not been seen or captured by Supremes until then. You had dismissed his question though, saying it was unimportant to know about my past and it was enough if I understood my place and followed instructions from then on." I said and Lord Silas's expression turned to one of curiosity and suspicion. "Despite what you said, haven't you wondered even once about why I'm so different from other Arts? Where I came from, how I hadn't fallen into the hands of Supremes despite my blood being so 'powerful', as you put it, and why I don't look malnourished like the other humans?"

"What are you trying to say, Kaya?" He demanded, the red of his eyes fading back to their gorgeous pools of lavender.

"I have never spoken to anyone about my past and when I came under your wing, I don't know what Arts did. I had told you that I had never served as an Art, never had my blood sucked out of me by someone and I'm the only human who can read and write. Didn't you ever think that it was all strange?"

Finding truth in my explanation, Lord Silas let go of my arm and straightened up. I rubbed my arm, trying to ease out the soreness from his tight grip but I didn't break eye contact. I was determined to prove myself to him, to prove my existence, my affection and my loyalty. And the first thing to doing that was to look him in the eye, without a hint of hesitance, and tell him everything I had been hiding till now.