"My lord!!" one soldier shouted but his weak voice could barely hear. Arthur heard it but still couldn't recognize who it was. He could only see someone ran from the darkness of the wall and shouted his name, "Lord Arthur!!,"
He came closer and there was the young soldier, he was panting just to catch Arthur before he leaved the Maria wall area.
"What happens kid?" He tried to remember the name, "Edmund isn't it?"
"Yes, my lord." He still tried to breathe, "I-I'm here to tell you something,"
"Easy, easy. Take your time, there's no need to rush." Arthur tried to calm this young kid. "Now, tell me what happens?"
This young soldier stared at Arthur, straight in eyes. "Sir, I have an important information." He paused for a moment and there's short silence between them. "My friend was guarding the wall with me, but he has been killed."
Arthur shocked and stunned when he heard it. He couldn't believe what he just heard. The word "killed" was really struck him in his heart. Arthur was really speechless, he also didn't know what reaction should he gave. He just knew that it would lead into something.
This young soldier eyes were dark and hopeless. "Edmund, what your friends name? I need you to tell me the detail."
"I will my lord but I can't tell this right now. Not right here," He whispered all of the sudden and his eyes scanned all over the place. It was really dark and he couldn't feel safe there. "I was too afraid my lord," His voice became slow and teardrops dripped down his eyes.
"This people killed him, I know for sure but I can't say it here," again he repeated what he said.
Arthur nodded because he understands the situation, "Come, follow me! I'll take you to the safe place, then you tell me what happened."
Both of them walked out from the Maria wall and Arthur was fully guarded to make this kid alive. Not only because he has some important information but also the sadness came out from his eyes and Arthur knew what he felt. He knew how it feels to lose someone that he love and friends he really wanted to protected.
'Just calm down, kid. I'll protect you because what happened to you is something big. It will explain what happen inside this kingdom. I sense something bad, it's really bad until it blurred my vision. I can't really see what will going on in this kingdom. I just pray that God will protect Reverie from the evil hands.' Arthur said it to himself while both of them moved faster through the snow that poured down faster than usual. It only few hours before the sunrise and they wouldn't afraid in the darkness.
They moved faster to came the Ellia's bar. The kid walked as fast as he could while his eyes scanning everywhere to make sure there's no one followed them. Arthur also walked with anxiety because last time he didn't pay attention, an arrow came towards him. He thought it was his fault and Ellia was the one who saved him but right now, Edmund life's on his hand.
"Where are we going my lord?" Edmund asked because he couldn't feel safe anywhere.
"Just follow me, unless you want to risk your life out here." Arthur answered without even look at him. His eyes still stared into the darkness and place with no light in it.
Almost 15 minutes they walked then they arrived at the district two where some people had already wake up and do their activities. Some of them were looking at Arthur, bow at him and greet him but Arthur only nodded at them.
"Here we go," They arrived at Ellia's bar.
***
Right after Ellia, Johnathan, Maximus, and Kenric were wondering about Arthur, the door opened slowly and all of their eyes were looking and wondering on who it will be there. They stunned when Arthur finally showed up.
"Where the hell have you been?" Ellia was the one threw the question. Arthur hadn't fully come in and he looked at the whole room been staring at him. He let Edmund came then closed the door.
He smiled. "What a luck everyone is here," He let Edmund sat down with his eyes scanned the room. He couldn't believe that he's in the same room with the legend. All of the four horseman with Arthur as their leader. It was like a fairytale to be in the same room with them, most of people will only see them together in the battlefield. He just regular people inside that room and couldn't even imagine how they be as a person.
"So, who is this person?" Kenric wondered why all of the sudden Arthur brought someone from outside.
"Hmm, that uniform. Are you one of the Maria's wall soldier?" Johnathan recognized him from his uniform.
"Y-yes sir," Edmund was trembling there. The atmosphere really different because the legends of Reverie were there.
"What's your name?" Maximus asked.
"Edmund, sir…"
Arthur took of his coat while looking for drink, "Just relax here, we're all human. No need to worry. El, give him a drink,"
Ellia nodded and gave Edmund a glass of whisky to make him relax, "Here's your drink." She walked back again and whispered to Arthur, "Why you bring him? He looks so confuse,"
Arthur took one shot vodka before he continued, "Okay, maybe you guys wondering why I bring Edmund here," He took a moment before the next word, "I will come up with the topic, there's been someone died in the Maria wall."
All of them were shock when Arthur said it. "Someone attack our wall?" Johnathan tried to guess what happened there.
"No, no attack at all in the Maria wall. Just one guard missing from the army, I noticed it because there's a blood stain on the wall. Then I checked up in the other side of the wall, there's also blood stain. I guess he was died not long ago before I come to Maria wall."
Edmund and four of them were shock when Arthur knew that information. There's been a lot of things happen in the past few hours. But this one was big to them, Arthur didn't finish yet. There's still something missing there.
"But the odds were no one told me someone missing from their army. This one man wasn't even on the list. I also didn't recognize if Edmund wasn't rush into me. He's the one who told me that someone missing from the army."
"So, do you want to tell us that our man betrayed us!?" Ellia was full of rage when he explained all those things.
"I don't know, I won't to jump in any conclusion yet before he tells us everything he know." He pointed at Edmund, even though he knew Edmund wasn't ready to speak in front of those legend. Although, Edmund was understood it now or never.
"Mmm, so I what I want to say is…." He thought about it for a second, he didn't know where to start, "This missing man is my friend, we guard this wall together."
Edmund stopped again, it felt so hard to say what he knows. He was witness something terrible happened to his close friend. He sipped his drink slowly, hope the alcohol would help him through this story. They're waited for Edmund to take his time, the only sound in the room was only from the fire burned the log.
"We were upstairs when it all happened, we guard together. I leave him before midnight to checked something in the second post…." He breathed again, and his eyes stared at the ceiling. He nearly cried but he still hold it, "When I came back, someone murdered him right in front of my own eyes…" Finally, teardrops running out his eyes just like the snow that suddenly pouring down in the outside.