"Dad! Stop!" I mustered all the energy I could to stop him from going manic. He was about to mobilise the whole Royal Guard into his safe haven in search of Arina.
I could not blame him though. The fear in his eyes, the reflective sweats on his forehead and the worrying mutter because his baby girl had run away in the middle of the night. Into the deep forest!
Dad was absolutely frantic! It was almost a Deja Vu seeing Dad behaving like this.
My arms that were already on his shoulder, was pushed aside as his breathing turned raggedy.
"Did you hear yourself speak? Your sister is running into the wild. UNSUPERVISED! What if she's taken??"
My old man was literally shaking from top to bottom. Even his voice was shaky and his eyes were starting to water. Between the two of us, one had to be the rational one.
"She won't. She's not married yet. You said that—"
