Conner grumbled as he was surveying the surroundings,
"Damn these muddy walls, we cant get out of here like this"
Conner was calmer in this situation than I thought, If it was the usual him he would have been agitated out of his mind and started screaming at everyone around him,
Maybe sending Damian by himself was not the move we should have made,
"Conner, your reaction and judgment were quite quick back then .. " I said with a solemn voice,
"hmm .. you mean cutting the rope around Damian ?
..
you know, .. sometimes I act on pure instinct, if all of us fell down here it would be our end at least the boy can go get us some help"
"Do you think this pit is a coincidence ? .. "
"what do you mean ?? "
"So many things are too convenient for our assailant, but the one thing I overlooked was .. how did it get so close"
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As Damian was holding the horse reigns he heard a faint splatter coming closer to the camp, footsteps,
'Someone is coming,'
He pulled his bladed bow out and cocked an arrow, pointing towards the misty unknown,
Slowly a young silhouette became faintly visible until the colors of their ginger hair became visible,
Damian opened his eyes wide,
"Chris!! is that you"
"Thank goodness Damian, I Finally got to the camp"
"what happened to you where did you go, do you know where Milo Avian and the rest disappeared to ?"
Chris seemed to not be able to keep up with Damian questions, and looked a little flustered,
"I .. I don't know .. , I woke up in the middle of the Misty mud plains alone, I did not sense anyone and just backtracked into the camp,
..
where are the rest ? "
'Should I tell him, or ..
ugh.. I might regret not leaving already'
"While we were looking for you and the rest the ground caved in, and they are stuck in a mud pit,
I came back to look for rope and get the horses to pull them
you too help me out"
Damian went back to the carriage to further look for some ropes,
As he was searching, Chris observed him silently,
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"What do you mean how did it get too close ? "
Conner had an inquisitive look on his face as he replied to Vincent comment,
"Chris should have sensed something no .. "
Conner Sarcastically retorted,
"he was asleep when avian was gone isn't that right ?"
"But not when Milo was gone ..
since we were not hypnotized I strongly feel that our assailant power is limited there is no chance it could have hypnotized Chris that easily.
and .. if its avian we are talking about, aside from Chris He is the one with the most sensitive senses .. "
Vincent looked at Conner with a smirk
Conner had a troubled look on his face and hesitantly asked Vincent,
"So .. you are saying that .. uh
Chris betrayed us and got rid of Avian first as to not blow his cover ?"
"I am just theorizing here but there is one caveat .. "
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"It should be around here somewhere"
Damian continued to look for the rope within the luggage, his frustration grew visible, then he heard Chris calling for him,
"Damian ..
were you thinking of running off .. "
Damian halted his movement as an Acute pain hit his left waist,
He looked to his left and saw Chris sinisterly smiling while his Dagger penetrated His rib cage into his kidneys,
"wh .. at .."
Chris started laughing hysterically his grin stretched inhumanly across his face and his black eyes seems to swirl in a whirlpool of madness,
Chris voice was slowly becoming inhuman, as if two people speech were overlapping, one of them was of the youthful lad, and another one was horas deep rough voice
"For sure you would be running away at this point ... hahaha ...
Do you know how surprised I was when I found out ..
That pig would not talk, no matter how I tortured him, all he would do is just keep wheezing,
I had to flay his soul, hahaha, I ruined a treasure trove of information on the Black Brigade just so I can find out his partner,
who would have thought .. that it would be you ...
now tell me ..
where is the scroll"
Damian observed his assailant with his hazy murky eyes, biting his chapped lips in pain,
"you .. you are not Chris, .. what are you .. you smell like .. rotten flesh"
Chris slowly wiped off his smile as he stared into Damian's eyes, and sighed,
"that's quite the observant remark, after all the only thing I could not get rid off is this stench, That is why I needed to get rid of the dog first"
Damian's fingers reached down to the frets on his wrist where his arrows were fastened and broke the head of the green arrow,
Green smoke filled the surroundings and a sizzling sound was made when the smoke made contact to Chris's clothes
Chris quickly took a few steps back as his clothes and flesh started to decay visibly where the smoke touched, the eerie cloud of green gas hampered his vision and he lost sight of Damian,
Damian voice echoed through the mixture of mist and Green smoke weekly but unhurried
"You see, if you were the real Chris you would have found me out already in this heap of gas and mist .. I don't know who you are but you got rid of Avian first since he can catch on your stench, but the thing is .. you could have taken me by surprise but when it comes to Avian .. "
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"Caveat ?? ..
what are you trying to say here Vin ?"
"Yes Chris is my number one suspect but .. he cannot kill Avian, more like could not .. "
Conner sighed he had a forlorn look on his face as he picked up his Ax from its hoist, with one swift move he decapitated the rest of the Caravan people in the pit,
Vincent widened his eyes,
'I could not Keep up with his movement'
"CONNER !!"
Conner eyes glowed with with greenish hue as intricate black markings like cobwebs covered his whole body,
"And boy I liked you Vin, I really did .. I thought if we were stuck here my friend would deal with Damian and we would be on our way ..
those poor people also got caught up with this fiasco, They could have been saved.. "