It's almost nighttime when both Vulcan and Sedna came out of their chamber. They didn't see Cara and Gabriel the whole time while Neo made a quick visit to give them clothes.
Sedna cursed herself in her mind when she thought of how she suddenly fell asleep and ruined the opportunity to talk to Vulcan. She was still confused as to why she fell asleep and remembered the intense pain she felt in her head just before she fell asleep. Whatever she still failed to talk to this man. She was still sulking in her mind, not noticing how the man beside her had a big smile in his eyes even though his face remained blank.
Vulcan laughed in his head when he thought of her cute snores and how she slept on his arm.
He never felt the feeling that he had while watching her sleep this whole afternoon. The feeling of just watching her has tickled his heart gently, filling the void in his heart with an unknown pleasant feeling.
That felt so good that Vulcan didn't mind feeling it for his entire life. The feeling of her in his arms. It was similar to the one that he had in his dream with the bluish-white haired woman.
Vulcan felt his head throb with confusion thinking about the connection between the two women.
He was still thinking when he felt the woman beside him halt. He quickly looked at her and found her pouting and sulking herself.
Amused, he asked, "What's wrong?"
Sedna heard his gentle voice and raised her head.
"Nothing!" She pursued her lips and grumbled.
After thinking for a second, she opened her mouth to say something when she suddenly felt her heart stop for a second. She felt her arms and face itch and burn slightly. It was bearable but Sedna still felt something rip her from inside as a thin layer of sweat coated her forehead. A wave of dizziness hit her as she stumbled and nearly fell on the floor.
Vulcan watched Sedna's face pale and frowned. He quickly caught her in his arms when he saw that she was falling on the floor.
" Hey! What's wrong?" Vulcan panicked.
Sedna waved her hands and said " Nothing! Just head rush."
Vulcan looked at her pale face and suddenly carried her horizontally taking her back to the chamber. Sedna looked at him taking her back and protested " No! No! I don't want to go back! Put me down! I can walk."
Vulcan halted and said, " You look pale!"
" That's nothing. Put me down. I wanna attend the ceremony."
" Are you sure?"
"Yes now put me down!"
Vulcan sighed at this woman's stubbornness but didn't put her down.
He carried her to the ceremony and received all kinds of teasing stares from the people present over there. Some gazes were quite heated too, especially that old priest. That old priest looked at him as if he wants to butcher him and feed his flesh to sharks.
Sedna blushed looking at Vulcan from this close. His skin was so flawless. He looked even more handsome from a close distance.
She felt her cheeks heat up with embarrassment when she saw that all of them were looking at her and Vulcan.
Vulcan ignored all their gazes and placed her softly on a chair. He looked at her still pale face and asked, " Will you be alright?"
Sedna nodded her head and quickly looked away as she felt her cheeks scalding hot.
Cara quickly rushed to Sedna when she saw her pale face " Oh my God! What happened? You look so pale!" Cara asked worriedly.
Gabriel who followed Cara also raised his brows at Vulcan who looked worried about Sedna.
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Roose saw Sedna's pale face and sighed in his heart. The ceremony will bring a lot more ahead and she had to go through it. Sirena nodded at him and approached Sedna.
" Are you alright?" Sirena asked and Sedna smiled at her and nodded.
"The ceremony is about to begin. Please come with me."
Sirena took them to the ceremony place and they all sat around a huge flame-like thing 🔥 which is encircled by a thick rock-like substance.
" This is a very ancient deity revival ceremony. It makes the one who is being punished by the gods revive from the hellish abyss and awaken their supremacy." Roose announced and started saying some spells along with Sirena.
"This is for the deity to awaken its powers and we request all of you to keep your mind, presence soulfully involved in this prayer that we were about to start. If it's successful, the deity will bestow us its blessings to fulfil our wishes and gives us prosperity." Sirena then cut her finger slightly and poured few drops of her blood into the flame.
"Now, please close your eyes everyone and pray for the unknown deity to have a successful awakening," Sirena announced and everyone closed their eyes except Sedna.
All this while, she sat near the flame 🔥, Sedna felt an immense pain began to envelop her again as she felt her insides being ripped and torn apart. Her skin and face started burning as she hurriedly got up and staggered walking away from the ceremony.
Sedna felt it difficult to breathe and her mind also started fogging as she didn't know where she was walking to.
She groaned in pain as she felt her blood and body burn making her break into a cold sweat. The burning intensified as time passed by and all this while, Sedna is staggering and walking away from the ceremony to an unknown place. She didn't even know where she was heading as she couldn't register anything going on around her apart from the pain that's tearing her from inside.
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Olen looked at Sedna staggering towards the cliff and followed her stealthily. This evening, Sirena came to him and stopped him from meeting Vulcan saying that he had to do something more important than meeting Vulcan.
She instructed him to keep an eye on Sedna in the ceremony and asked him to make sure that no human is around the mountain area.
"Where is that Sirena? She is supposed to be here by now." Olen thought when heard a groan from Sedna.
He looked at her face and arms shining under the moonlight and moved a little closer to get a clear view, but not close enough to feel his presence. He narrowed his eyes and frowned when he saw bluish transparent scales on her body as Sedna groaned and whimpered with pain.
"What the hell!" Olen cursed under his breath when he saw her hair slowly changing its colour.
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