Princess Amara

Chapter Twenty-Five

Irian found me first, by stepping on my hand. 

I shot him another glare as he led me and Kade through another grand room. 

After he had found me and woken me up by breaking my hand, I found that I landed in a patch of daisies, and everything around it was dead. 

Like really dead. 

The grass was black, trees were twisted gnarled and grey, no animals made sounds, no birds chirped, nothing. 

It was like a graveyard. 

Which is literally the opposite of Liese. 

Liese is a dreamland, where the grass is sweet enough to eat, the trees bloom in all different shades and colors, they say you can get drunk just looking at the place. 

But really you just want to get drunk after looking at the place. 

It was horrible. 

Dead. 

And something was killing it, draining it, or had drained it. 

Because as I had looked back at the patched of daisies I had fallen into, they had already wilted away, gone. 

And as Kade, Irian, and I marched through the castle of Liese, where Kronos was apparently waiting for us, something inside of me sank. 

What did Kronos actually believe I was going to be able to do here? 

Kade turned her eye to me as Irian stomped before us, my foot print still visible in the back of his shirt from where I'd beamed him with my shoe for my maimed hand, the fatass. 

She narrowed her eyes at me, "why did you not portal with the rest of us? Where did you go?" she asked, a lot less fucking aggressive than the last time I had seen the bitch. 

I shrugged, "not sure", as if I was going to tell her that I had met some random Khan and maybe had gone to their homeland. 

The shit didn't even sound right to me and I knew it was true. 

She sighed, pushing some of her hair out of her face, "I didn't mean to upset you. I-I've never had any girl friends before, and I- Kronos saved my life more than he or you will ever know. But he told me how important you were to him, to all of us, and I-I well I-" she stuttered. 

The sea witch stuttered. 

I'm not a heartless bitch.

I smiled, "I've never seen him smile or laugh as hard as he did when he saw you, Kade. You mean a lot to him too" I whispered over at her. 

Her face lifted with so much joy, I felt it was only right to keep my shit-eatting smile to myself, Kronos said I meant a lot to him. 

Something in me stumbled. 

That Khan's face flashing through my mind. 

I shook it off. 

It was a weird experience, one that still had my heart hammering in my chest even now. 

I blinked it into the back of my mind, focusing on how Irian stopped ahead of us, moving slightly just enough for Kronos' eyes to collide with my own. 

Something in my shoulders relaxed. 

He was fine, in one piece. 

I stopped next to Irian, my eyes never leaving Kronos' as I stopped an arms length away from him. 

His eyes swept over my form, before finding my eyes again, he shot me a hard look, forcing me to try to clamp down on my dirty smile that was climbing to my lips.