Warrior - The Weeping Monk

Part 29

"Advance" The weeping Monk demands as he looks at all of the surrounding red paladins as they all stand in front of the entrance to the cave that the fey had been hiding in. The monk could smell them, the whole place just smelt like fey, he couldn't even smell all of the beautiful flowers that covered the whole place

The red paladins all rushed down the hill quickly and ran towards the entrance of the cave while the monk slowly mad his way down, the paladins made sure not to brush against him as they ran past him.

They ran in and started to look around, they were confused and annoyed. It was empty, not a single fey in sight

"there is no one here" One of the older paladins calls out as his eyes survey the room 

"there is nothing. No one" Another paladin calls out and then finally the weeping monk makes his way into the large cave and he looked around the cave in wonder as his eyes landed on the roof which was covered in light blue flowers. He smiled sadly as he recognised the type of flower that they were blue hydrangeas, they were Adiras favourite type of flower and when they were younger lance often picked a lot of them for her, putting one in her hair and then making small bouquets for her.

But as he looked at them again, he noticed that they were slowly dying just like all of the other flowers that surrounded the place, though the place was still absoulty beautiful

"She would have loved it" Lancelot whispers under his breath slowly and by now all of the red paladins were staring at him, waiting for him to tell them what to do next or explain to him where all of the fey had gone. 

"Find them" The weeping monk says to the paladin that was in charge, he stood next to them as they watched the rest of the paladins run around the cave like chickens with their heads cut off as they called out how there was no fey in the cave "Scour the woods, they cant have gone far"

The weeping monk stares up at the ceiling for a little while longer to admire the light blue flowers and he felt a certain comfort as he looked at them, it was like a new sign of hope, hope that she would come back to him. Hope that they would be reunited and he will see his one and only true love once again.

"there is no sign of them" Paladins call out

"no one" another calls loudly and the rough voices of the men echoed through the cave and lancelot reached up and grabbed one blue flower and held it carefully in his hands before turning to the paladin behind him

"Burn it all" the weeping monk tells him softly, the happy memories disappeared as they were taken over by the pain of not having her

"torch it, burn it all" the leading red paladin called out to the others and they all nodded and the weeping monk quickly made his way out of there and didn't let anyone see his face as he stepped out because if they did see his face, they would have noticed the single tear that ran down his sooty cheek

Gawain holds onto his sword tightly as he slowly and carefully makes his way through the woods, reading lightly to make sure that he is quiet and no branches snap under his feat. the smell of death wafted around as Kaze and Gawain separated ways, trying to cover more ground and get this over with quicker and find any survivors as soon as possible.