The man drinks a cup of cherry plum wine as he communicates with his thoughts 'Is it alright with her taking the boy along.'
The man on the other side didn't say a word but the man understand that his silence this time means that he allows.
....
They both stop by a tree surrounding by shades. As they sit down and enjoy the snacks, she remembers she doesn't know the boy's name. He's been with her for a while now and she hasn't asked for his name or he hasn't told her his name.
"Um... What is your name?" she asks politely, not wanting to annoy the child.
The child has experienced losing his mother and his sister. She doesn't desire him to be more unhappy than he already is.
He didn't answer her. He only kept chewing on balls of rice one after another.
Drizella really wants to sigh and laugh at the boy's pathetic self but she didn't. She got to respect and show self restraints against a child. She handed him a bottle of water: "If you won't talk I will then. You, brat, isn't that woman's child are you."
Drizella watches his action. He paused when she said those words and kept on eating.
She smiles inside as she continued, "That woman is the girl's mother while you are just a freeloader in their house. However, the people that came by isn't looking for the girl or her mother but... you. From the conversation I have with that bastard of a man, the girl must be of royal blood. What will you do now boy? You can come with me or you can go your way? Your choice. Your fate."
He throws the rice ball in his hand into her talking mouth which she caught her in surprise.
He answers with determination, "Do I even have a choice. I need to become stronger to take her back."
Drizella munch on the rice ball and smile: "Good answer. I like the way you are right now, full of life and determination. By the way, since you won't tell me your name. I'll come up with one to my liking... hmm... you have obsidian hair, eyes as dark as the night sky... almost like it contains the whole [abyss]..."
This is so sad, I don't know any name, to add a Chinese name that has to do with abyss! I wish those two girls (Xiao Mimi and Xiao Lizi) are here to help me!
He looked at her in disarray, not understanding why she suddenly caught herself off.
Drizella shifted her gaze at the boy with sweat forming inside her mask: "Boy do you what the word [abyss in chinese]?"
Drizella looks at his questioned expression. She realizes the words she spoke out weren't spoken out in their language. Even though the world is sort of different from what she has seen in Chinese movies, the language spoken were still Chinese. She has made it this far using the language that Xuehua knows... so how come the word abyss is different?
AAAHHH! She screamed inside her head as she messes with her hair. She quickly grabs a stick from the ground and found a spot with little to no grass. She motions the boy to come where she is as she began to draw circles on the ground and cover the open space with black lines.
Even though she wanted to draw the universe she knows of, her hand seems to stop moving not allowing her to. In the end, she can only draw what she can however, the boy still doesn't understand her. She took two deep breaths to settle down the frustration swelling up within her. She finally tries to communicate in a different way using the picture: "This is the [world] place you live in and what do you call all the things outside of your place which can [stretch forever] go on forever."
The boy: "Shenyuan?"
Drizella: "O.K! That will be your name from now on. You can spell it any way you want."
She doesn't care anymore! Even if that doesn't mean abyss, it sounds and looks good so let's just go with it! Naming really is too hard. Now that she thinks about naming; her slime named Coco for coconut is really lame. It's more of a silly pet name than anything else.
"Miss, we finally found you!" Xiao Lizi shouted out as she descended from the sky with Xiao Mei.
Huh! Drizella can't be happier than she is right now. The two people who she first saw since she came to this world. She made a run towards them as they landed on the ground without a sound. As she reached them, her eyes begin to become blurry and her strength slowly fades away from her.
Before losing consciousness: "Care... Shen Yuan and... snake?"
...
A handsome man was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed on a rock stone. The sounds of footsteps awoke him as he slowly opens his eyes. But he didn't talk or anything. He just sits there like a statue, looking into the mind of the person with those footsteps.
"You're wondering why I let her go?" the cross-legged man questioned, "She's a woman whose power is even lower than you and everyone there... yet she was able to hold her own against everyone... She saw right through the disguise."
The handsome man is, in fact, the person who Drizella fought before and the person making those footsteps are the sect master of the Sky Sword Sect or leader of the group who wants to kill the children.
"Grandmas..." the sect master said.
Grandmaster: "Let's wait and see what the future hold for her who defy orders. "
The sect master of the Sky Sword Sect clunches his hands into fists as his hands also tremble. Still, it only lasted a second, as he gives his respect and left the place.
The handsome grandmaster didn't miss any of his action from large to small. With a distal glance at the back of the leaving silhouette, a shadow can be seen following him.
...
Leon's cough of blood didn't end. His face was getting paler by the minute from the loss of blood. Francis can't do anything but watch as Leon's situation isn't getting better. He can only wait for the letter to reach her and for her to come. With Leon in this condition, he can't imagine the situation is like for his stepdaughter, Drizella.
A gust of wind blows into the room and what appears from the gust of wind is an old woman in blue. Seeing the distorted face of her grandson, with a twinkle of her wind the old woman in blue turn into a beautiful blonde haired woman in a navy blue dress with florals.
"True to your message, my great-grandson does seem to be in his death bed," Francis's grandma said as she hovers her hand over Leon's head.
To her surprise, she turned towards Francis which Francis give her a nod and came over to Leon's side.
"A puppet?" she finally said as she looks towards Francis.
...
"Why snake?!!"
Drizella woke up with those words. She stares openly and cluelessly at what is in front of her 'there's a weirdo and a pervert here?!!"