"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, but to create something that will."
- Chuck Palahniuk
I had finally decided to train the warriors with Evander, completely forgetting that I was supposed to take the day off in my haste to get away from Cian.
Now I can't go back, I didn't want my warriors to suspect that I am vulnerable, I had used a pad that masks smells for creatures to not smell that someone is on their periods which is honestly disgusting in my opinion that they can smell periods too, but that isn't their fault. Besides that doesn't work on Cian. I would have to damn him into being far away from me so he wouldn't smell anything.
Guess that is 7 days of not seeing me or even interacting with me,
And I wasn't even sure how to tell him,
I have to just keep avoiding him and that will be hard,
Evander stood next to me looking as stern as he tried to be, but his freckled face had just made him look like an angry child and it was adorable to me, as for the warriors, everyone was tense, not sure how us being the leaders would turn out for them, we were with them just a few weeks ago, now we are higher ranked than them and I imagine that may not settle so well till we prove ourselves,
Everyone had been assigned as pairs, they were each a female and a male for this session, we had put everyone into position to fight. To teach the new techniques that we have experience in and specialize in, Evander and I had demonstrated the ideal way to use the techniques,
A cramp had hit me, but I had made sure to keep a stoic expression, yet to my dismay it showed in my actions when I had bent Evander's wrist a bit too hard where it left a bruise, he had let out a small hiss but he tried to play it cool as he explained that he was just acting out how your opponent should answer, so for the next 30 minutes or so, there were hisses here and there where the warriors had taken it way too seriously to act it out like Evander, I tried to take it easier on Evander for the rest of the day,
After we were done in the fields, we had made our way to the laboratory where we had taught the warriors each and every poison to coat their weapons in starting with weapons that were sharp like swords, arrows, knives and etc. Bullets were for another day. The laboratory was equipped with many different poisons and their effect on the victims. Those of the warriors that were witches were taught to heal or make antidotes for each poison in case their own partners got injured, the witches were split into two sides, the white practicers and the black practicers, the white practicers were healers, the defensive side, but the black practicers were those that were on the offensive side, more like those that could create the poisons at hand in case there are not any left in war. And on daily basis, I would oversee those that were physical, those that wanted to fight with their swords and guns, anything with a sharp edge besides Archery, that was Evander's job, he was a Centaur and they were known for their Archery skills, I had fought beside Evander many times and he has been very brutal despite his adorable appearance,
Along with Archery, Evander also oversees the witches and those that are more spiritual. Evander was also a great healer even though he wasn't a born witch, he had great Botany knowledge, he could whip up some herbs and it would work wonders on wounds and anything of sorts.
After finishing up, everyone was tired, arguably even we were tired, but we didn't show it,
As I had went back to my room, I saw Cian on my way talking to one of his ministers, his eyes flickered to mine as the scowl still visible on his face but softness was swimming in his pool of brown eyes. I widened my eyes subconsciously remembering that I'm on my periods and I had looked down and ran towards my room leaving no space for Cian to realize what's going on,
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Once in my room, I hadn't realized that after my shower I had toppled over my bed and fell asleep right there, completely missing calls, some letters that had been slid under my door and also missing dinner with Cian and Evander,
I groaned as a sharp cramp had hit my lower abdomen,
it's a struggle being a woman,
I got up looking into my drawers for some snacks, I couldn't risk being seen outside right now by Cian, he would question it all being the worrywart he is, so i had to skip dinner these few days,
I slowly picked up the letters with one of my hands on the heating pad on my stomach to not drop it while I looked like a pregnant woman who was about to go into labor, don't get me wrong, I think those women are stronger than me for giving birth to children, that's a very hard thing to do, and I don't know how I would see myself doing that
Once I opened the letters, I saw that most of them were from Evander, as they were official work it couldn't have came through text messages, it had to be done by letters officially,
I put them aside as I filled out some of the other paperworks while nibbling on some biscuits,
I heard my phone light up with another notification,
I took a look at it with an unknown number, and the other being Evander, I opened Evander's messages first to make sure he was okay, because he had left 14 messages,
"Signy where are you"
"Signy his majesty is asking me about you with a very scary face"
"Please answer, I've been held hostage"
"Signy he is coming your way, don't say I didn't warn you"
"Now he is back and demands if you had told me anything today that was out of the ordinary"
"With all due respect, I think your mate is respectfully not doing well mentally right now"
"it's a few minutes till dinner"
"I think you will make your mate look around the whole continent for you"
"He said he could smell you being in your room, so he won't look through the whole continent for you"
"Signy, you really need to get here, dinner has started"
"I'm truying to text yuou under te table"
"He is glaring at me I'm pretending to look at my plate and I've turned on auto correct so there could be no type anymore"
"Typo*"
"Dinner is finished and he didn't tell me anything like the other time he did to us, I think he didn't want you to miss out"
I groaned in realization, this is worse than I expected, I decided to text him back quickly,
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make either of you worry, I just don't feel that well right now, common cold I believe, you know the human body haha" I cringed at my attempt to play it off,
"I'm okay now though, please if you see Cian again, tell him that I said there is no need to worry, I just need a week away from everyone till I recover but I will be continuing my duty of course"
I swiped away and looked at the unknown number,
But it disappeared, it just disappeared like that,
An eerie feeling settled at the depth of my stomach as my heart sank with it, but I decided that it wasn't worth my worry right now as I was in way too much pain and very sleepy at the moment, I will look into it tomorrow,
Hopefully it's nothing worrisome.