Blossoms on fire

Chapter 8

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TheLucy13

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Sitting in the bed left in the thoughts.

I am looking around and my sight is directed to the bookshelves. I want to read so much but I can't read even one letter.

I hope my future husband Sian will teach me.

Sian? My hope went up so much. I already am believing that Sian would win.

Yes, he will! I do not want to have anybody else for husband, for sure.

I am still staring at the books. After the next five seconds, I cannot hold it down so I leave my room with a decision that I am going to have a walk around the palace.

I go through the corridors and each I came through are for me the same as the previous one. I am turning right and then I am turning left and go straight but still, I am feeling like I am going into the circle.

I am going straight and then I turn right and I see a glimpse of the place I never have seen before.

I turn around and even the four corridors which are heading from this unknown place for me I do not know.

I got lost! But how I get back without anyone to help?

I choose one of the corridors except for the one I came here and I go through it. It was quite dark and scary. Most of the places were covered by webs of spiders. I am still going without stopping and I can feel the wind a little more freezing to me.

I start to run. I can see the light. I am happy so I speed up. When I am outside  I can see some silhouette. I come closer silently.

'Who is here?' I ask.

The someone just turns around and I know who is it.

BEN.

 'What are you doing here!' he yells at me.

'I got lost and somehow got here. I am sorry. I will leave.' I say.

'Stay.' he whispers.

I try to leave but he yells again: 'I said stay!' 

I turn around.

'Yes, I will.' I say quite scared.

He comes to me and by the second he holds my wrist. He leads me to the place he was working at. There is some table with different herbs on it and liquids.

'You know all these herbs?' I ask.

'Yes. I learned to beat my brothers.' he says.

'Why would you want to beat them?' I ask.

'I knew that if you came, I mean Maria. I would not be strong enough to get you. So I prepared in another way on of the chance.' he starts.

'If I am not strong and I am the youngest. I do not have experiences to win in this case. So I look after something which will take away from your strengths. Because if I erase strength from my brothers I can beat them with mine. And then I can win!' he continues and he smiles.

'I look for this for years and before two years of the long searching, I found this book about the herbs(he points on it) and I browsed through it and found this skull symbol and in the legend of this book I found that it is a symbol for death. I found poisons. There came the idea. Took the plants which are poisoned for humans and mixed them all to make some delicious mix to unarm someone from the fight and then let him drink it!' he says.

 'But after you choose Sian and have encounters with Ren and Luca. It is simple. You can choose two or three. If I poison Sian or Noor I will get into the turn two. So now I am changing my plans. I will poison them with this. ( he points on some plant) Its poison just gets you ill. And that is even better! You just crush its leaves and pour in the glass of Sian or Noor.' he says.

I got furious. He wanted to hurt his brothers just for me.

'What is so special about me!' I ask.

'With you, I become a king, but I got pride. I would be the one who got fame from all Rouka and Micao. I will be famous for earning pride. I will cross the final tape and accomplish my dream.' he says.

'Just dreams are leading you to be so cruel?' I ask.

'For fame, I will do anything. I can kill them all but I am not that cruel!' he says and he starts to laugh.

With these words, I throw down everything at the table by my right arm. I got a few bruises on it from the jars.

He got angry but he has quick reflexes so he is fast enough to pick his precious plant now just powder in a small jar before I throw it on the ground.

The ground is a big mess right now. Liquids are poured and powders mixed. The shards of glass everywhere.

'This plant is very rare. It has very special effects. It slowdowns the heart rate. And it is very painful to move. You are healing for the whole week. That is so powerful. And so rare. In our area, I hardly found one.' he says.

After he ends his final sentence I took the jar with powder and all of it I eat.

He gets even more furious. He gets his hands on my neck trying to make me cough it up. But the powder takes hold on throat I am coughing but then someone makes me drink from a glass. It is from Ben.

After a few minutes, I can speak.

'Thank you, Ben.' I say.

'I do not thank you!' he yells.

'You broke my dreams apart. I hate you!' he shouts and he wants to leave.

'So why did you help me?' I ask.

'I cannot win. But I cannot lose.' he says.

'What? I cannot understand...' I start.

'You are dumb as Luca and Ren said.'  he starts

By this sentence of his, I went silenced.

'If I will not help you everyone would accuse me of losing Rouka ' s pride again. They would hate me! I would be famous but for the hatred of others. And this I do not want. Go and marry my brothers. But even if you do anything I will not forgive you for breaking my dreams. I will not stop hating you, Leonora. That is promise!' he says and with these words, he leaves me alone in the place I do not know.

I inhale and exhale multiple times. I do not feel any better. I slowly get up and start walking to the direction Ben went off. 

I hope here would be way out of this. Of everything!

End of chapter 8

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