"Larishazza..." I muttered quietly as I stared at my sister's mutilated body. She was still alive, yet, for some reason, they weren't doing anything. Her wounds had been cleaned and sealed. But they had not healed her...
Wasn't the magic of everyone withheld for things like this!? Why weren't they pumping her full of it!? It could not have been because it would have been too much for her... I could see pressure devices right now!
"Come on... Speak..." I cry as I start to tightly clutch her hand. I wanted to try and look at her while avoiding the injuries. But, she was covered in them. Stab wounds, bruises, cuts and broken bones...
There was no escaping the horrifying sight of what had happened to her. Yet, the quiet I had woken up to quickly disappeared and a fight could be heard. But, I knew who it was the moment I heard him howl. Nin had come to see her...
I wanted to be left alone with my sister... But, it could not be helped. I was not the only one whose heart had been touched by her smile. There were so many out there who loved her for the sweet dancer she was.
Yet, I could not muster the will to go and tell the hospital to let Nin in. If someone had been this vicious to my sister... There was no way that they were just going to let it slide. I needed to make sure she was safe...
I had to...
"GET OUT OF MY WAY!" Nin roared so close to the door before his natural strength broke the locked door. And, he became quiet the moment he saw her. Just like I was...
"It's alright... He won't hurt her..." I tell the angered hospital staff as I stare down at my tear-covered hands.
"Why is she still...?" he asks me once the doctors and nurses go away.
"I don't know..." I barely get out as I move closer to her head. Stroking her hair carefully before placing my face near hers. And it only made me cry more because she was still alive! There was no reason for her to be like this, still!
How was I going to tell Dad about this...? Larishazza going on that trip was enough to make him threaten war. What was going to happen if he found out about this!? I needed to tell him!
But, I did not want my friends to get hurt as he led a crusade against her attacker. It was an unavoidable escalation that I feared so much... I tried to keep her safe just so such things would not happen. I did not want to see more places lost to the violence our family's love created.
Maybe, the politics of it all would allow this place to survive. But, I did not know... Dad was so high up in the kingdom's hierarchy that he could probably...
"Don't worry, Lari, I'll find him... I'll find him and k-keep you safe..." Nin cried, interrupting my thoughts. And, I was shocked at how intense his reaction to all this was. I know they were close but...
I had no idea he would weep to this extent. Yet, I guess it was to be expected. Back at the party before Larishazza was ill... They spent it all together.
Did that mean he...?
"Nin... What is my sister to you?" I ask him as I could not see him letting this down.
"She... She... Is... She is the hope that made me want to keep on living... And now she's..." he started to say in tears before his rage boiled to the front again.
"What're you looking at?" I ask him as his eyes lock on the window all of a sudden.
"Him... It's his fault... It's all his fault..." he growls through the ceaseless tears as his legs start to crack in his grip.
"Smiling Jhurack..." I mutter in remembrance of what those guards had done. That laughing man... They used me as bait for him... But, he had no interest in me at all.
Then why did he go after my sister...?