Eternal

⭐Showtime⭐

Chapter 5

Showtime

I kept pestering Lance, interrogating and bombarding him with questions. At some point, he got tired of it and since then his favourite past time was sulking and grumbling.

'When did you first meet my uncle?'

He stretched his fingers and started counting with intense concentration for a couple of seconds. 'Long ago.'

'Umm... So how did you escape from the ship?'

'Humph... lifeboat.'

'Oh! Why did you help me?'

'Grr... big men.'

'Hmm... Why should I come with you?'

He looked at me with amusement in his eyes, 'You don't... you just followed.'

'Wow, a full sentence! So I guess I'll just go then.' I stopped in my tracks holding a branch away from my eyes amidst the woods.

'NO!' He grabbed my arm and pulled me with him through the thick vegetation.

'Where are we going?'

'Warehouse... grr... inside the kingdom.'

'Yeah, actually there was something I wanted to ask you-'

'I see... you were talking to the trees a moment ago,' Lance snarked, tightening his grip on my wrist and started pulling me through the woods.

'What!? You saw that! Were you following me or something?'

He looked at me with a puzzled and irritated expression and suddenly exploded with laughter, 'God! Dyana, that's what you were doing before they captured you?'

He relaxed his grip on my hand and I yanked it free.

'Anyway, how old are you? I've always wondered that.'

'Seriously? That's what you wanted to ask me?'

'No, but answer the question.'

'I don't know. Which year is this?'

'I don't know.'

'Then I'm afraid I don't know my age.'

'Approximately.'

'Shut up!'

'Okay.'

Lance's face changed drastically from grumpy to extremely relieved. I laughed at the sudden change and fired away my next question grinning like the devil. Annoying Lance sure was entertaining.

'So Lance-'

'Shut up!'

'I wanted to ask you-'

'Shut up!'

'-if you escaped by boat-'

'Shut up!'