Arya's eyes opened with a surge of pain through his legs; before he had proper consciousness, there was pain from the exercise on his body. He got himself up from the ground and found himself on the ground.
The stench of blood and dead beasts of gone, but the feeling of dread didn't. Arya didn't care where he was or who got him there; Arya touched his neck and face, and the solidified blood of the mice came on his hand.
"..." The blood on his hand disguised him, he had drunk this very blood to survive in the situation of gore. The feeling made him feel sick; he wanted to vomit it all out and die.
The pain was too much to live with, and the cost of getting strong was too much to live with. The breath was getting deeper and deeper; he wanted to choke himself to death.
"NO! I don't want that." He touched his neck and felt the air going away from him. The nerves and skin twisting inside and more and more. He'd never want to feel like that again.
"Shut up!! Idiot."
The Arya looked to his left to see Reva sitting against a tree, looking at him with drunk eyes. Arya looked at her side to see three bottles of beer kept on the ground.
"Reva, what are you doing here? Why are you here drinking?"
Arya looked at her with stunned eyes. "I was just living my easy time drinking and all, but you just has to scream for help while being attacked by nothing. Did you just fall of a tree and started crying for your dead mother?" Reva gave no heed to Arya's words and kept functioning on her own.
Arya felt weirded out; what was Reva doing outside drinking in a tree root in the morning. She sitting in same outfit as the night, but her eyes had a bit of dark circles and her hair looked messy.
"Reva tell me that is going on? Where is Sera? I know she is somewhere here."
"What are you talking about..gulp.. Sera is sleeping in the house. She doesn't do things at this early in morning. I brought you out from that trash pile you were screaming in."
"I didn't scream at all... I was choking for air. Could I have done that? I know is Sera who came to save me, I would have died from that damned blood..."
"'One last time... I can't help you anymore.' She said this and saved me, I don't how it happened."
There was a second of confused looks at each other, but Reva's was due to her incapability of processing the information just received. "Sera is good girl, surely she must have come and saved you. She is a good girl, would make a good warlord hunter...gulp.. just like me."
Arya stared at the drunken and wasted Reva from another world. Not like the mix of cold and sarcastic words and actions with her beauty, but now she was just a poor drunk trying to run away from reality.
"Reva, which one is the real you?" Arya got up from his position and stared at Reva.
"..." She gave no response and turned his eyes away, Arya was left to make whatever assumption he wanted. But he knew what to make to it.
His feet had not recovered from the fatigue of the staircase climbing and neck was still aching from the twisted due to lack of air, but there was something else he wanted to know.
"Reva are my eyes blue once again like yesterday?"
"They're not. Just the normal pupils at there place."
Arya's lips curled in anger at that response, he drank a whole bottle and did not see the effects of it. "I took a less potent version yesterday, why did I not gain them this time?"
"Because the version you took was less potent than yesterday." Reva raised a vial of blood in her hands. "The more potent you make anything, blood or poison doesn't matter. The thicker it should get."
Reva flicked the blood vial in her hands, and the blood moved around like water. "Yesterday's blood was barely moving, this one is flowing around like water."
"That means..."
"Either this blood reacts differently with potency methods, which is doesn't I am sure of it. Or, maybe you were walking around a with the blood of vampire lord's son in your pockets. A death wish from what I think." Reva looked at the vial with a smile.
"River tried to kill me?" Arya took a deep breath after that, it was impossible no matter who much River hated him, he wouldn't have the courage enough to go against Mercy's words. He need more proof of it.
"How did you know about that increasing potency of blood only makes it thicker not more... whatever the word is?" Reva needed to be tested, she had a fall out just hours ago, could she be framing him for a crime?
"I just know, just like my mother. I saw this in the past, grasslands at the edge of the forest. I and the ravens killed 5 vampires that for coming for us using Evelyn and Alfyn, some silver bullets and few men acid bottles. We tried to make some potency on them in after breaking into a small herbalist shop just 100 meters into the village nearby." Reva described the words as she had done just yesterday.
"You people tried vampire blood potency transformation earlier?"
"Not just us, there are people called researcher in this world, go ask Ana or his bastard husband that what not they have tried before. Blood potency is small thing, although you people at the capital destroy any writing that comes of potency."
"What happened after you tried making the blood more potent? Did anyone drink it?"
"The soldier died. The one Dynasty send on the Ravens, he took and made him drink the potency potion, he would've died a far slower and painful death from you if we didn't kill him. Oh, I forgot we found little River near a grand library of Desert near the grasslands too. I wasn't even born yet." Reva scoffed.
"....you weren't even born yet. Reva what are you talking about?" Arya came closer and closer to Reva, looking at her eyes. "A four days ago, when the when we were scouting the forest I saw something of a glow in your eyes."
Reva looked at a smile at him, she was hiding no secret like before about Sera. She was vulnerable and easy to break into right now, Arya wanted to do that.
"Those silver eyes and your words just now. Reva, can you see through time into events of the past."This was the only answer, she was looking back in time to find information about things."
"Although not exactly you're half way right." Reva nodded.
"How can this be true? There has not been a warlord how can reverse time. The closest we have ever achieved to time control if Lord Mathers himself. What kind of magic are you using?"
"See it for yourself." Reva moved herself around and turned her back towards Arya. She loosened her shirt buttons and lowered it down. "What are you doing?" Arya was surprised at first that she was trying, but then he noticed something.
On her chocolaty skin below, there was no vest just her skin. As the clothes laced down to middle of her back a symbol slowly became visible. Finally Reva stopped losing her shirt.
"Do you see the source of my power?"
"Is that a orb of power painted on your back?" The sphere was painted golden and with a numbers on a clock inside rotating all around. Reva wasn't a warlord, she couldn't be this was some other sort of spell.
"This is my mother legacy she gave to me before dying, her memories and experiences. I look back in time into her thoughts, visions and experience. I am with her even when she is died. I know she felt about me, how she left the world for me. I know she died for me... I am very fortunate person." She smiled while turning her face at him.
Arya kept moving closer and closer as Reva said her words, confused and pitiful at the same time. Things were different now, that was in front of him was mess of things he wanted to understand more than anything.
He stumbled near Reva and sat on his knees, looking at her symbol drawn on her back. His hand moved closer and closer, trying to touch it.
"?!" Suddenly, Reva turned around and grabbed Arya by the shoulder, pushed him down, and moved right on top of him. On the ground, Reva laid on top of Arya.
"..." Reva's excited smile was near Arya's eyes and her chest touching his. She moved her hand right close Arya face, "Lets forget about all this, Arya. Lets forget all of this, you are a special person in my eyes, not so fortunate to born like I was. You and I are the same, why don't be together and enjoy this life. Did you know I am still a virgin?"
Before long, Reva's hand was moving below his waist very soon, but Arya could allow it. He overpowered Reva by catching her hand and turning the situation on her. In a second, the lower was up, and up was below. Reva tried to move, but her hands were too grabbed by the
"Reva... listen to me, We are same in our goal of revenge and our hunger for power to get it. But what is not the same is what we learn from our mistakes. I have already learned that, don't let someone you care about take advantage of you, and I am not a virgin either." He moved over from Reva. His heartbeat was fast, and he could feel himself aching in some parts of his body.
The mood was quite weird, Arya was looking at the bare body of Reva lying on the ground. Who turned her head around to him with a smile and the sun's shine.
"You are good man in this cruel world, Arya."
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