Lionheart. (Coming Soon.)

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"Do you feel that, Pax?" Arizza asks turning to me with dirt-stained cheeks and a face that was lit up with a grin.I scrunched my brows in question and fell silent to feel what she's referring to.My light eyes searched around for something but all I see is the worn out buildings, dark gloomy sky and the ghost road below me that used to be the highways of Paix city.

"I don't feel anything." I huffed silently, and raised my hand up to tuck the stray dark hair behind my ear.I turn to her once more, her raven locks danced with the whip of the humid, polluted air and a content smile still gracing her lips.

"It's a breeze you idiot, can't you feel it?" Breeze? If that's what she calls breeze, then the stinky musk from the palace must've gotten to her head.I'm surprised that these parts are still inhabitable by humans.

We are just buildings away from the palace that spews an awful odour and the strength of the dreadful smell is horrendous enough to choke a child.This has gone on for milleniums and the reason for the putrid air is still unknown to peasants like us.Heck, I bet only a handful of officials know what's going on in there.

"What are we doin' here again?" The dimpled kid asks after a few moments.

"I'm trying to see if that light appears again.Over there," I pointed due east.I remember it clearly, a fortnight ago, I sat atop of this skyscraper, scavenging for pieces of bronze to sell to the palace and as I was about to head out, a glimmer of orangy-yellowness appeared.It was brief and dissapeared as fast as it came, but I felt it on my skin.

It felt very warm, comforting even ; I was drawn to it, in fact.I came back a few days later at approximately around the same time as I was there before and it appeared again but it was almost just a fast flash.

I have a hunch.I think I know what that was though.It was sunlight.

I know it's an absurd thought but... I just know that something beyond the smoggy horizon, there's a place where the real breeze blows and that there is a sun.Unlike here, which is filled with gloom and a stomach-wrenching stench.

"Light? What light? If you're talking about the patrols and their glowing torches, then we should've just went at the barricade, they've got tons of light there." She steps down the concrete seperating us from the edge and a sure fall.Arizza has always been fond of heights, I think she got that from me.

"No, no, that light was- It wasn't white and blinding like the torches.It was an orange, a bit yellowy kind of light, and it was warm." I tell her with certainty. She scoffs at me and rolls her eyes as though I was talking crazy.Which I think I'am.

"Warm, orange light?" She shook her head and chuckled, "If I didn't know better, I would've thought you were talking about the..." She looks around the rooftop to check for listening ears, though I know we were the only ones here, "Sunlight." She whispers quietly.

I shrug in reply and her eyes widened, her mouth falls open.

"Wait, you aren't talking about that, right? You're just messing with me, because if you aren't then you're a real idiot, Pax.You could get arrested or patroled or something, with all this talk," She points out what I already knew.I don't care for being patroled, as long as I could confirm that the sunlight did exist.As long as I have a sliver of assurance that my tomorrow existed.

"Shush, I'm not even sure it is... The you know what." Here in Paix, the queen has forbidden anything that has nothing to do with getting her blood and good metal.The blood, they say, was for her because she had this... Unknown sickness that constantly drains her body of it, though the elders of our district knows that she was a creature of the night.

So was her officials.The metal was for weapons of some sort that she's trying to build.A defense tower was needed for some reason, though no one knows who we're defending against.A big percent of Paix despised her.And the hatred of that percent could've been enough to throw her out the palace but unfortunately, an enough amount of fear is also enough to prevent that.

She created a law that whoever mutters the word Sunlight and dares to know what it was, shall be arrested by patrolers and killed or tortured by the queen herself.Not only that, she has also forbade going over the barrier.No punishment was matched for this law and no one dared to break it because she had warned us that beyond was nothingness and most likely 'unknown' danger.

As if the queen wasn't that already.

Our queen isn't that great at all, she starves us all and kills humans often, her faults go on and on.I stand firmly by the insurgence that has fromed against her.I despised her more than anyone here for some reason.Though I've always kept silent about it,

Not out of fear though, I know that even though she is something beyond the balance of nature, she has a weakness.Everyone does, no matter how mystic and strong you are, no matter your wealth and power, there is a bigger force out there and you are weak.

I keep my boiling rage towards her silent, for the sake of my sister, Arizza, and my Aunt J.

Aunt J was an apprentice by the wisest elder in our district.They were the only rebels alive and has knowledge about what's beyond that lived so close to the palace.Now Aunt J, Arizza and I are the only standing.

Our mouths were shut and Arizza and I were not allowed to take action to anything, no matter what the queen does, no matter how we disapprove,We will keep our mouths shut.I was okay with that before, when I was younger, but now, I feel like I should do something about my discovery.I feel like I should fight for this light and follow it towards my tomorrow.I know that there's something out there.

That sliver of light holds something more and I know it.I feel it in my bones.It's my escape, and it might also be Paix' too.