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19 Ryus & Kehan the Nameless

_Ryus & Kehan the Nameless_

Ryus slowly woke, groaning at the fiery ache that burdened his side. He opened his eyes slowly, blinking the blurriness away as he sat up with great difficulty, to look down at his side. His sore, callused hands ran fingers over his bandages lightly, inspecting them. There was an intrigue about his wound that had him wanting to look under the bandage, but he did not allow himself to do so.

He looked up now, eyes moving about the room slowly, taking in the dark stone walls of the place, until his eyes landed on the barred doors. He was a prisoner now. The thought made his blood boil. They were supposed to be on the road south of here, yet they had been picked up by guards so soon? All of their hard work- days of suffering- all of it for naught. The ache that tore through every muscle in his body was all for nothing? He clenched his jaw.

Brown eyes scanned the room before him, looking over the floor till it landed on his brother. At least the gods had left him his best friend, together they would be fine. He let out a small sigh of relief and a moment later, Kehan was coming over to his bed side- well it was more of a bench.

"Ryus! You wake," He said with a smile.

"Aye, brother, I do..." He admitted. "How many days was I out?" He asked.

"Nearly a week,"

"A week?!" He said with the surprised raise of his voice.

"I slept for two- it was the exhaustion that had us, brother." Kehan told him.

"I suppose," Ryus said, laying flat on his back again. "How had they found us?"

"A girl," Kehan started.

"A girl? We had been found out because you let a girl see us?" He said now, covering his face with a calloused hand.

Kehan looked a bit conflicted, perhaps unsure how to say the words that were needed to explain. "The girl, she is a witch-"

"A witch? You are joking-"

"I am not! She says she saw us in a vision- that is how she knew to find us- she said she heard the warning bells rining in a vision from days before our arrival- she saw us escape- saw us run from Pentila Ve-"

"She saw us run from the military? And you believe all of this?" Ryus asked him.

Kehan seemed to debate it in his head before he spoke. "Do you recall on the boat when I said that we were blessed by the gods?"

"Of course. I said I did not believe it but I would accept your words."

"I have come to the conclusion, brother, that the gods guided us here for a reason,"

Ryus sighed out loudly. "Kehan," he complained.

"Listen, listen," the man urged, and Ryus motioned for him to continue. "She was told to find the seven,"

"She was told? By who? The gods? There are only two of us!"

"Her visions- visions from the gods, Ryus, you may not believe me but she was there first- she knew where to find us- faster than the guards had! There must be others besides us-"

"Others? There probably aren't others, brother."

"You don't know that," Kehan said with a sigh. "The gods are looking out of us, perhaps they have some greater plan, and this is where we are meant to be,"

"In a cell?" Ryus asked the man.

Kehan shook his head. "With the girl- to find her- she did know we were coming," He pointed out.