𝓕𝓵𝓪𝓶𝓮 𝓞𝓯 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮

𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓹𝓽𝓮𝓻 𝓽𝓱𝓻𝓮𝓮

As night fall was approaching the next day, Jaemin was ready to take his horse and go see the phoenix, and promised.

"Where are you going?" asked Jeno out of the blue, making Jaemin jump.

"Oh, just to take a walk, I need to breath" Jaemin lied, wanting to get out of this situation.

"Can I come with you?" asked Jeno, ready to also take his horse.

"I want to go alone..." Jaemin said a bit heavy hearted for declining his best friend. "I need to clear my mind" he said, so it wouldn't sound as if he didn't want to be with him, but just wanting to be with himself for a bit, out of his royal activities.

"Alright then, be careful! And don't come back too late" Jeno said, smiling at his best fiend and his eyes smiling too.

"Thanks Jeno, for understanding" Said Jaemin already on his horse. Jeno nodded and let him pass.

Jaemin trotted toward the same place they met the day before. He tied his horse in the same tree and walked towards the tree. Not long after, the phoenix arrived. She smiled at seeing that he indeed, kept his promise.

"I thought you wouldn't come" said the prince to the fire girl.

"Well, you promised you wouldn't come with anyone, so i wanted to trust you on that" said HeeSook. She sat on the floor, the red, orange and yellow wings glowing as the sun set was happening.

"Your wings not always burn?" Asked Jaemin, being curious about how her phoenix anatomy worked.

"No, they are warm all the time, they only burn when I get scared, protect myself or attack" she explained, passing a hand through her black hair.

"That's cool" said Jaemin. "I've never met a phoenix before, not even my grandfather met one" he said, remembering the stories that the old passed king would told him when he was young, how he once found a phoenix feather but never found the phoenix themselves.

"I've never met another phoenix either, I know many other creatures, but not my own species" she said, a bit sad about that.

"Wait then how were you born...?" Jaemin asked. "An egg?" he asked again, really now being curious. He knew phoenix rea forms were birds, but he didn't know how could they turn into winged humans.

"nope" she said laughing a bit. "We are born from a special flower. We are born like the form I'm in, but as far as I know, turning into a bird is another whole level" she said, not really knowing the whole version, but only what other old creatures and her friend had told her.

"seems cool, I'm just a prince. Normal people would think it's cool, but it's actually a lot of work. My mother is the Queen and I'm the hire of the throne, I have a you get brother too, but he's been a bit ill lately" Jaemin said. He though of her life as a free one, a life he would like to have.

"Oh, I'm sorry about your brother" she said looking down. She knew she could maybe heal him, but she was scared, she wasn't about to get herself exposed to a stranger.

"No worries, he'll probably get healthy again soon" he said, hoping he was right. His little brother Jisung had always been a cheerful boy, but he was know feeling bad, since winter. He had only turned 16 years old, and Jaemin was a bit worried for him.

They continued talking about their extremely different life styles. Both were intrested in each other, curious of how they were raised and how did they lived. They agreed to meet each other the next day too, at the same hour, both being excited to see each other again.