Chapter twenty
Song recommendation . Say you won't let go by James Arthur
Vi knew what he had to do.
He got into a sitting position if it could be called one . He crossed his legs above the other , tucking the left one over the right .
He readied himself . Let his mind and his body unite. He took a deep breath and allowed his mind to roam freely on its own . Not trying to dictate to it .
Let it chose it own dimension and he'll simply follow and try to expand more on the dimension chosen .
He closed his eyes and exhale through his mouth , puffing out the warm airs and breathing in the cold one . Darkness engulfed him , and he welcomed it together .
Because he knew, there's always light at the corner of whichever form the darkness took place .
He could feel himself floating about , roaming freely and trying to make form of things . A few minutes of just welcoming the darkness and allowing him to take form .
Suddenly , the darkness gradually faded away revealing a world with bright and beautiful colors . Long ears , tiny legs and suade and pretty skin .
It was the dreamchasers village !
Little children roamed around , and they all were playing and having a lot of fun , evident with the pretty smile on their faces .
The elders watched with great love and admiration in their eyes . Teachers and mentors trying to get them to understand certain things .
Vin adjusted his sitting position and shifted a bit . This looked like what the dreamchasers world was before his very own existence.
Suddenly the perfect and harmonious atmosphere turned sour. The bright sun dulled and turned dark orange . Emitting dangerous and harmful rays .
The once beautiful flower petals and butterfly meadow had dimmed to nothingness . Just a bars ground with dry leaves and twigs and hardly a two or less green .
The children running outdoor were no where to be seen , Vin felt himself walking around the village and observing. The tall buildings that once had more beauty to the city had been dismantled and left with just a few houses .
The teacher and mentors were teaching and learning with heavy hearts and minds . Their once vibrant eyes had lost all it light and it was only replaced with a look of lifelessness.
What happened ? What changed!?
Vin knew this was the question that mostly all the present elders and mentors in the dreamchasers land are afraid of answering . They never answered and this left the likes of vin to be totally confused and more question filled mind .
An oppressing feeling came over him in large torrent , Luke holding him captive from his own mind . Everywhere was in agony and sadness .
Vin tried to reason and the only plausible deniability he could come up with was that this was the very first time when the Lord ruler started his reign .
Many lives were lost and the evil ruling drove the dreamchasers into hiding .
The Lord ruler sent his armys to destroy them . To kill them all .
And that was the last he saw , before his eyes flew open on their own .
Why did the vision end there ? Had he gone through a vision at all ?? It looked like he was one of the present living in that era .
That era before the dreamchasers were driven into hiding.
But what happened after that ?
What could the meaning to the uncompleted vision be ?? He tried to join everything in him together. To see if he'll be able to come up with a befiting conclusion .
And then the most important question is that , how and what did all this apply to him in the situation that he was in ?? How was he supposed to put this vision into use??
He sighed . He was just getting more and more confused by the day .
He brought out the jiggling clock from his inner pocket, suprised that it was still there . He tried to check what the time was but he was confused and his face ended up getting scrunched up together
What was this use of this now ? Is it finally not working again ?! .
The swampyth voice sounded in his head again , "the time is against you . "
"Yeah but I'm still stuck in here . Can you believe that ?? " He said to no one in particular . He stood up and scratched his neck . When the swampyth had suggested the idea of meditation he had been happy
At least it was something he was used to . But he hasn't expected it to complicate the already complicated situation.
"I just wanna go out of here . " He scratched his neck and tugged at his own hair .
The space begin to spin , making him loose balance and thanks to the no gravity thingy he had at least manage to deflect a fall .
He had not fall but the space did not continue spinning . It spinned so hard that he was feeling dizzy .
Suddenly the spinning motion stopped and he started diving deeper into the black abyss .
Vin wouldn't lie , but all those experience was totally something that he had not think about on that very night that he had volunteered .
He hadn't sign up for all this .
The diving came to an end and he gaped when cold air kept hitting his face but either side . He rubbed his eyes together and his arms too
He opened his eyes and looked around . What just happened??
He was back in the .....the where ??
The buzzing voices and many people completed his thought . He was back in the market .
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He stood rooted to the ground and was simply staring around with a loose mouth . What had happened ?
Was his wish granted ?
"Out of the way . Out of the way buddy . " He was pushed to a side when two big men carrying a heavy sack came on the the road
He could see it . People were milling around , trying to steal something to buy something or just came for nothing .
He was part of the latter category . Yeah , he was here , but he had no idea how . Or what he was supposed to do here .
But whatever , he knew standing on the road and by the risk of getting info a fight again wasn't what he was here for . Was definitely not it .
He couldn't risk getting himself tangled in another fight and going through hell all over again .
He walked away from where he was standing , having no idea of his destination but he kept moving.
His stomach, the organ he hadn't taken note off for the past three days made its self known by letting out an embarrassing growl .
Yeah he was aware of that fact . He was hungry .
He walked down the street , where the stalls are built in a more secure manner , roofed with iron sheet and nails . The traders here are probably more well to do than those from where he was coming from .
Clothes store stood out the most , with different display of clothes . Clothes that looked kinda weird and nkt normal if one should ask Vin .
Some of the lady's clothes had no sleeve , some was tore in places that made Vin shook in head in wonderment .
This place was surely different from what he knew .
A small crowd of murmuring people caught his attention and he decided to have a look . This time , careful not to bump or step on anybody . He had learnt his lesson the hardest way possible .
He got closer and moved to stand behind a lanky man who had a basket full of roasted yam and apple to his chest . He held the baskets too close to himself . Very close that it certainly looked uncomfortable .
But how ?
Vin couldn't blame the poor man . Many other people behind him are drooling over the delicacy . The man seems to be a trader .
They all were staring at the poster that was on the wall and the murmuring increased .
Vin tried to see what was going on in the front but he couldn't . He did not see what was written .
"Excuse me , what is on there , if I may ask ? ." He tried to sound as polite as possible .
Once beaten , twice shy .
The man gave him a once over with a slight suprise .
"You're new here , no ? With your accent and all . Coupled with the fact that you're a dark fae and your kind ? Your kind never speak with respect whatsoever. So I'm guessing you just came ?? . " He looked slightly interested and tried to act indifferent .
Oh no ! It was the gossipy type that he had met today . What could he say ? Traveling in and out of the city isn't hard not easy but the people fairly prefers to stay here .
"Ahh . I live in one of the small village . It's very far from here . But what's written there though ?? ." He asked the real question that was much more important to him . He desperately hoped the man wouldn't ask him anything again .
"Small village eh ? I see . You see the poster there ? " He pointed his dirty fingers to the black and white paper that was glued to the wall in front .
Vin nodded and waited for him to continue .
"That poster is talking about something that's quite unheard of . In my whole existence , the Lord ruler's son was never much seen in the society. He never dined with the higher class demon of his status . Many people who had been lucky or should I say unlucky? To meet him had talked and talked about his behaviors. He was said to look down on everyone as if they were nothing more than a fly . "
The man demonstrated by holding up the tip of his pinky finger to tell Vin the way he views the people .
This man sure Luke's to talk a lot . And Vin didn't like that at all !
He didn't need all the details as long as this . He simply want to access the situation and see if it could be of any use to her own mission .
Not to start talking about someone who he had never met before .
"So ?? . " Vin probed the man who had gone quiet over time .
"So ? You were saying something about how he view everybody . " He tried again . Trying to lure the man back into talking .
He got nearer to the man and his stomach did that thing again . That long and loud growl .
"Ah yes . You see Lord Cian was his name . The fella that the demons and non demon ladies loved even without seeing him. He had never participate in any political or social gathering and now he decided to drop the two bombs together . He would be doing something drastic and the city would be in turmoil for a while now . The ladies would be all over the place and won't let us rest . ". He shook his head as if tired before nothing even started .