Journey to a Better End (An Add x Ara Story)

Chapter 25

Guess who finished another book? Yup, it was me! Now I can do more chapters for this one! Sorry that it's been so long since I last updated.
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"Should you have left him like that? I know I said you should do some investigating but I didn't think you would do that right now. Won't they ne suspicious of you?" Eun said. "They're already suspicious of me and I have no doubt that they'll be watching my every move. They said that I'm the only varying factor so if that's the case, I need to prevent my own death so that Add doesn't have to worry," Ara thought as she finally escaped the crowd. The first person she saw there was Owen but before he could say anything, Seris called to Ara.

"Hey, Ara come over here!" Seris called from where she was leaving the crowd. "Amusing. They seem to ne keeping an eye on you. You're the only wild card in whatever they have planned," Eun said, noticing that Seris had been looking for Ara. "Oh, hey Seris. Where will Add and I be staying? I'm a little tired and I want to rest a bit before I go exploring. I'm sure Add will be a bit busy for a while," Ara said as she glanced at the crowd, mentally apologizing to Add again. He was going to be so annoyed later on.

"Where you'll be staying huh. You guys are right near our tent area so...that would be this way," Seris said, pointing off in a direction away from the crowd. "Come on, I'll take you there," Seris offered. "Sure, thanks," Ara said and began to follow behind Seris. "I was also thinking you should start your training immediately. If you learn those skills that my power allowed you to use, you'd be able to perform them without the help of my power," Eun was saying.

"Sound like a plan but right now, we need to focus on keeping Add safe. I don't think these people have his best interests in mind. If anything, I think we're being used and I don't like that," Ara thought. "Hey, Ara, did you hear me?" Seris said. "Huh? Oh, sorry. I was talking to Eun. You know Eun right?" Ara said with a bit of embarrassment. "Yes, of course I know Eun. She's your fox friend isn't she," Seris said. Ara simply nodded. "You two must have been through so much together for the two of you to be so close. I don't really know much about her myself though. You never really told me much about her," Seris said.

"Really? Raven said we got along pretty well so I thought I would have told you more about Eun," Ara said thoughtfully. "Can't you see that she's trying to pull information out of you? Throw her off or redirect the conversation," Eun growled. She was obviously uncomfortable with the details of her life being shared with someone she hardly knew. "I will, just calm down. I need to play things off as cool," Ara thought in reply just before speaking. "Oh, well then I'll just have to tell you some other time when we hang out," Ara said with a smile.

"Cool. We're here now. This is the area where we've set up our little tents and just behind it is our base of operations. We don't sleep inside the building because we want to be immediately available if there is ever an attack on this village. Don't worry though. You and Add's room is actually on the inside of the building," Seris said with a slight laugh. "It's okay. I wasn't worried about any of that. I'd actually liked it if we were outside. Last time we stayed in a building in a foreign area, things didn't go so well for us," Ara said.

"Oh...I'm sorry to hear that. Do you want me to show you to the room or do you think you can find it from there?" Seris asked. "I actually don't know where this is so I don't think I'd be able to find anywhere to be honest," Ara answered with a laugh as she scratched her head a bit. "Right. I forgot. You don't remember anything," Seris said as she playfully facepalmed before leading Ara ro her room. The building was a simple inn but it was obvious that the place had been turned into some sort of headquarters rather than a simple bed and breakfast.