Lance was leaned against the wall while his face was red. Balin climbed off the bed and got dressed. "You getting yourself dressed, or shall I?" Balin asked. "I-I've g-got it." Lance said barely managing to speak. Balin walked over to lance and grabbed his chin. Lance was speechless. "So pretty.." Balin said as he leaned in. Lance covered his lips, "hmnm" he shook his head. Balin nodded and kissed his cheek instead. Balin grabbed some clothes from lances bag. "Here, you might need these" he said tossing them to lance. Lance caught them and stood after a moment passed.
Lance dressed himself as Balin waited outside while getting something to eat. When lance walked out balin had some bread crumbs on his face. Lance saw this and his mind went back to last night, his face in turn became red. Lance walked over and wiped the crumbs from Balin's face. "Geez, you eat like a kid.." lance said. This time Balin didn't hold lance nor kiss him. Balin didn't because his fathers were just around the corner. Lance grabbed the remaining apples from his satchel and placed them on a counter. Balin's parents were amazed at the apples. "Eh. You don't need them?" Balin questioned. "No, I have other fruits, and I have stuff to drink as well." Lance responded. "Like what.?" Balin asked curiously. "Hehe.. some water and uhm… the other doesn't matter." Lance said nervously.
"What is it?" Balin asked persistently. "Alcohol.." lance muttered. "Hmm? I didn't catch that.? Mind repeating.?" Balin said sarcastically. "A-Alcohol.." lance said slightly louder. "Balin chuckled at him. "Hmmm." Lance voiced as he looked at the floor. "I wanna show you something before you leave! Come on." Balin said while walking towards the door. "H-Huh?" Lance said as he followed. They walked for a bit until they were enclosed by trees. "W-what did you want.?" Lance asked. Balin walked closer to lance, lance backed up until he hit a tree. "Hmph—!" Lance made a noise when he backed into the tree.
"God, your to cute for your own good.." Balin said as he got closer. Balin grabbed lances wrists and pushed the against the tree. "Ngh—"
Lance looked at balin with his honey eyes. Balin kissed him with tenderness, Lance kissed back. Balin grabbed lances chin and asked "may I explore more?" Lance figured he wouldn't do it if he didn't want to. Lance nodded and said "just a little alright—!" He was cut off mid sentence to Balin's tongue inside his mouth. Lance let soft moans escape. Balin and lances tongues met. Balin pulled away breathing heavy. "I really didn't want to show you anything." Balin said . "I figured." Lance said back while panting. Balin chuckled and kissed lances neck. Lance was shocked and moaned out of pleasure. "Sensitive there?" Balin asked. "I- I didn't k-know… about t-that." Lance stuttered, balin grabbed lances waist and pulled him close. "Nothing more, right? You aren't ready for anything's else are you?" Balin asked lance "R-Right!" Lance said nervously.
Balin moved and grabbed lances waist. "So..your the grammatical one, what are we?" Balin asked. "Uhm… well that's up to the writer of life isn't it?" Lance said. Balin still holding his waist kissed him. "You taste good." Balin said. Lance had gotten a little used to the compliments but he still turned red. "T-Thanks." Balin let lance go, lance took a step back. "I guess I should uhh go.." he said while looking at the ground. "Hmm I guess so." Balin said. Lance looked at him, he went up to him and kissed his cheek. "Goodbye. For the time being, thank you." Lance said. Balin grabbed his wrist, "You call that a kiss?" Balin gave lance a kiss upon his soft lips. "Goodbye, oh and have safe travels." Balin said as lances face go red.
Lance walked off while screaming internally, meanwhile Balin thought of lances lips and lances eyes. Lance found the path and he continued on it. Balin went to the bookstore, he grabbed the newer volumes lance had brought, he sat and read them. Lance walked away still thinking of the way Balin had kissed him. Lance shook his head. "Jeez, your down bad." Lance sighed and decided to clear his head. He was thinking of what he would have to tell his father, he wasn't going to tell his father about Balin or the book shop.
Lance walked until it was nearly dark. He found a nice tree to sit it. This time he saw no birds but a snake. It wasn't but a baby, it looked worried. Lance scooted away from the small snake and he took notes on the snakes feature's. It was a green snake with red and blue spots along its back. Lance described the snake very detailed in his notebook. Lance finished and went to sleep.
Balin read volume 5 and he was almost done with 6 when he had to go home. It was rather late when he left, he noticed none of the normal guards were in their places. He brushed it off because they might be getting new places to keep guard at. Balin went home and got something to eat then he went to his room an undressed, laid in his bed, lances sent was still there. He submerged himself in the blankets.
In the morning when lance woke the small snake was no where to be seen. Lance checked his notebook to make sure it wasn't a dream. He looked and it was there. Lance was confused but presumed that the snake had moved until he had went away. Lance sat on a branch before getting down, he admired the nature surrounding him. He looked at the path to see there were some footprints, he edged over the branch and saw a dried red liquid. Lance got curious and edged over more. In shock he stopped. He saw the small innocent snake laying on the ground lifeless. "H-huh?" Lance got down and got a closer look at the body of the small snake. It had been trampled to death "H-hey little guy, your ok right?" Lance closed his eyes "you poor thing, you weren't spared any mercy, may you be safe and warm in your next life." Lance said as he dug a small hole. He lifted the small snake with a few leaves he had found. He didn't want his sent on the snake. He carefully placed the snake in the hole, he double checked again to make sure the snake was lifeless before he buried it. It lay completely still in the hole. Lance was hoping it had died, he didn't want it to suffer anymore. It didn't move, lance covered it with dirt he dug out of the hole it was laying in. He grabbed a small flower and placed on top. "Rest well little one." Lance said while getting off of his knees.
Balin awoke in the blankets, he wasn't able to smell lance anymore . He sighed, he got up and dressed. He went to the kitchen, to his surprise his fathers weren't there. "Papa?.. Father?…" he said while checking the rooms. "Maybe they went to work early today." He reassured himself. He went into he town, and found a crowd of people gathered in the center of town. He looked up and saw his fathers being pulled towards two ropes, they were noose's. "Papa? Father?" He muttered in shock. He nearly broke down crying right there. That's when the queen came out. "These two men broke a law, a law that mustn't be broken under any circumstances, They harbored a human." The queen yelled so everyone there could hear. "So now for their crimes they must be extinguished." She said. Balin was fighting the urge to go up there and slap the queen. Balin's parents saw him and they nodded. As if telling him to go and to be safe. Balin knew that he would be next if he didn't go now. He snuck back into the house, people were inside. He was quite, he grabbed a good sized bag, he grabbed the apples Lance had left, he grabbed a photo of his fathers, he also grabbed a few other things like a knife and stuff for survival. He managed to escape the people in his house. His mind was a mess, he tried to make things right in his head as he went to the book shop. He had a key to the place, he went in because the owner was watching his parents get hung. Balin grabbed a few books. He grabbed volumes 6, 7 of lances books. He also grabbed a few books to keep him from boredom, he grabbed a few survival guides and maps. He left enough chips for all the books on the front desk.
He ran towards the woods. As he ran he didn't stop. His sides were aching and he was looking for lance. Lance had made it to about 30 minutes from the kingdom when he smelt smoke. Lance looked up and the sky began to turn dark grey with smoke. He ran to the kingdom and made it there in half the time it would have taken him. Balin was fast, in fact he had made it a little over half way before stopping to breathe. The guards had been chasing him, he lead them off by running off of the path and he came back on the path after losing them in the trees and other things like bushes and vines. He stopped and rested for around 5-7 minutes before he got up and ran again. He ate an apple and drank some water from an Owak [This is an plant that holds water in for use later, it is one of the only plants that filter the water before using it.] Balin gets up and runs again, this time his sides hurt less the owak water has healing properties.
Lance made it to the entrance of the kingdom from the forest when he dropped to his knees. The castle and his town was shrouded in flames and smoke. Citizens were crying and running to a hill. There was a crying kid not to far from lance that he had spotted. He stood as an shadow like figure raised something behind the kids head. Balin had just arrived as lance was darting into the flames, he had dropped his satchel and cloak. Lance raced to the kid and grabbed them. "Shh- shh- —!" Lance was whispering to the small kid before his arm was sliced by the shadow figures blade. Lance ran back to the entrance of the forest. He saw balin and grabbed his bag and cloak before he signaled balin to follow him. Lance ducked behind a large bush and hid. Balin followed his lead. Lance then whispered to the kid. "Hey hey hey. Where is your mom? What happened here?" Lance asked as the kid stopped crying and answered.
{I made this one really long aka why it took longer to come out}
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