faes sky and other six people were currently in the forest eating the prey they caught for dinner. they had been travelling whole day and it was finally night.
"your highness we will set the camp, you should rest" eli said as he and sarah got up but faes shook her head with a smile.
"no need we are not sleeping here" faes said
"are we not staying here for tonight? are we travelling?" emma asked
"no and no"
faes answer confused everyone but sky only giggled.
faes had been with them for the past year and few months now and knew that their total loyalty lied with her. even if they were tortured they wont tell anyone about her or sky hence she decided to tell them about mystic fog castle. also it will be a troublesome if they spent so much time in just to set a tent for the night and sleep on ground with gray and ethan stay up as a lookout.
they can sleep peacefully in mystic fog castle without any worry!
"then what are we going to do?" sarah asked
"we are going to sleep at my place, though you guys need to take a oath that you wont tell anyone about it or anything related to it" faes said, just to make sure they wont tell anyone.
others believed her and knew that she wont harm them and hence they took a oath.
don't look down on these oaths. an oath sworn on lore is very effective and can directly kill anyone no matter who they are or how powerful they are.
"then close your eyes" sky said giggling but everyone did as they were told. faes quickly took them into mystic fog castle and appeared in front of the fountain.
"we are here" faes said as she smiled at everyone.
others opened their eyes and gasped.
"welcome to mystic fog castle, my own spiritual space that only sky and i can control." faes smiled at them and led them inside.
"baby, you are back? i missed you" kai appeared in front of faes and picked her up hugging her tightly.
"what? who are you? how dare you touch her highness like that?" gray asked taking out his weapon while others did the same
with grim looks but were also confused as their princesses only smiled in return to this persons greeting.
"don't worry, he is brother kai and we know him for a long time. he always takes care of me and sister faes and tucks us into bed after you guys leave" sky said.
hearing what sky said gray and ethan exchanged alert glances. someone had been around them this entire time while they didn't even know?
"oh you brought them here finally. let me introduce myself then" kai said placing faes on the ground but still holding her close. faes didn't mind as it was now normal for her and sky. kai would often pick her up, hug her, make her sit on his lap and even hold her close most of the time. faes felt like she was dating him but she was also confused, can one date a soul piece?
"this seat is called lord kailial white" kai introduced himself with a mild smile.
kai had known who there people were as he amd faes shared same subconscious space, he can sometimes see what faes was seeing through their link, though its a shame that he cant read her mind yet.
"lord kailial white? the one from the prophecy?"
"are you the one who fought the god those centuries ago? but you were supposed to be dead?"
everyone were confused after hearing kai but they quickly recalled who kai was but it only confused them more.
"let me clear your confusion, kai here is just a part of his soul which somehow turned solid due to the magical space of mystic fog castle. according to papa and kai i am the person which the prophecy is about and hence now i am tasked to collect all the parts of kai's soul and help him defeat the god once and for all!" faes summarised but it ended everyone's confusion. they finally knew who and why this person was here.
"we greet your excellency! lord kailial white" everyone knealt once faes cleared the confusion but kai just smiled
"get up! no need to kneel, you guys are my baby's friends hence you are free to call me kai" kai said
"now come on let me give you all a small tour around our place. there are many things here!" sky said and then took everyone to go and see the whole place only after faes assured that no one is going to enter this space. faes also told them to choose a room for themselves.
now faes and kai were left alone as kai took faes to the living area and made her sit on his lap before feeding her some dishes he made. kai knew faes was going to altai and is on her journey as faes had told him before hence he began to cook for her again.
"it tastes better than before!" faes said surprised as she glanced at a smiling kai. though she just had dinner it wasn't enough to fill her stomach. when kai first came here, his cooking could be said to be edible but now it tastes better.
"thanks" kai just smiled before placing another bite in her mouth.
he had been practicing to cook food even though faes didnt ate it.
"i was thinking of going to nadar through the forest and spend some time there buying few things. i can also hunt on the way and sky can also practice, while we can also sell the beast we hunted to get money" faes told kai as he fed her.
"its a nice place, you will find many things there" kai agreed with faes.
"then its final, we are going to nadar first then we will take a ship to the kingdom altai. there we will continue on foot going around before going to the capital" faes decided and then made a route along with kai while others joined them later telling her excitedly about what they liked in this place.
"well then good night everyone we will continue our journey tomorrow again and go with our plan" faes said as kai carried her to her room to tuck her in bed as sky was already asleep long ago.
"why do i feel weird but calm after watching them?" eli asked turning to others. faes and kai behaved as they knew each other for a long time and were in a relationship but they maintained their actions to holding and feeding and talking behaving like close best friends for years. this fact confused the six people but they didn't know how to express their doubts to either of the people in question.
one was their master while the other was legendary lord kailial who fought with a god. if either of them got angry then their lives will be on line. hence the six people can only watch them filled with questions and curiosity.
their questions will be answered in the future.
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in kingdom altai
king augustus was relieved but anexious too. he had been trying to contact faes for a long time now but she refused to talk to him. a while ago she called him only to tell him that she was coming back with sky and their six attendants but she was going to take a long route to look around the world on the way.
king augustus didn't had any time to argue before she ended the call saying she had to go. he only hoped that faes can come home soon as now he didn't had anyone who he can contact to ask how she was doing!
king augustus had a feeling that faes was deliberately taking her time, but he cant do anything about it, hence he just relied the message to his family and decided to wait for faes to come back first.