Chapter 221: Uphill (Ch.221)
"The stables?" Neveah asked narx with a raised brow, recognizing the direction they were headed in.
Through all the ti it had taken to leave dragon keep and walk out into the courtyard, Neveah and narx had been the center of all attention and narx was visibly pleased with it.
His usually gloomy expression was nowhere to be found and what Neveah knew to be a rare smile since narx rarely smiled had graduated into a large grin,
This grin had been set on narx’s lips since Neveah erged from the audience hall and as rare as narx’s smile was the fact that this smile truly lit up his eyes.
narx’s every expression was honest and genuine and Neveah could not even begin to figure out what she had done to be awarded such a brilliant smile.
Was having her acceptance truly enough to make soone so happy? Neveah did not think so... even her own mate had thought otherwise.
Yet it played out right before her eyes and Neveah just had to wonder exactly what narx saw in her.
"Well... yeah. It is not so great a distance but walking would take quite so ti." narx replied, passing Neveah a mischievous look.
Walking was the last word Neveah expected to hear from a dragon and she blinked in astonishnt.
"Walking? When you can fly?" Neveah murmured to herself in bafflent as she struggled to keep up with narx’s large strides.
"Dragons do not always fly Veah. We have legs for a reason you know." narx pointed out, chuckling in amusent.
narx was so genuinely happy that it showed in his every action and Neveah found narx’s mood was infectious as she could not help a small smile.
"No, I did not know that." Neveah replied with a roll of her eyes.
"We could fly there if you want...but then, we would be high above ground level. You do not get a chance around the Keep much, you should get to know the terrain better." narx explained.
"Is that truly your reason?" Neveah asked with a raised brow.
narx only smiled in response and said nothing more, letting go of his hold on Neveah’s hand.
"I’ll be right back." narx assured as he ventured into the stables.
Neveah stood outside the stable, patiently awaiting narx who had gone in to fetch them horses.
Neveah had said nothing of it but she found narx was truly considerate of her, leading her to the stables without saying a word.
Now that Neveah had chosen to be narx’s rider, it should have been okay for narx to give Neveah a ride himself but it seed he was waiting... till Neveah approved it herself.
Neveah sighed quietly, it was only a day and Neveah already felt narx was too good to be true.
The thought of that left a lancholic feeling in Neveah’s heart, whenever sothing good stared Neveah right in the face like this... doom had followed not far behind.
It was the sa with Alessio, the sa with Luna Colleen and the Eclipse Hunt Pack, the sa with Xenon and now narx.
’I do not even dare to be happy now... what has beco of ?’ Neveah thought to herself.
It was the unavoidable truth, Neveah regarded narx with wariness and she believed this would not change anyti soon.
Neveah shook off her thoughts when narx returned with a single horse.
Neveah raised a brow, staring behind narx to see if a stable hand would bring with him another horse but there was no stable hand in sight.
"How is it just one?" Neveah asked and narx shrugged casually.
"The path is steep... I will not be rest assured having you far from ." narx replied in a sheepish tone.
Neveah humd in response, narx knew the terrain better so he alone knew where he would lead Neveah to.
narx offered Neveah a hand to help her get up and Neveah passed him a look.
"I can mount a horse just fine by myself." Neveah reminded.
"I know...but I’m here, so you do not have to." narx replied easily, waving his hand around for emphasis.
Neveah sighed quietly as she took narx’s offered hand, placing her foot on the stirrup, she climbed up to the horse and settled in while narx got up behind her.
narx’s hands took hold of the reins on either side of Neveah and he stirred the horse into a fast gallop out of Dragon Keep.
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"Where are we?" Neveah asked narx curiously as he stirred the horse to a stop.
"We have to go uphill, we can walk the rest of the way." narx relayed as he got of the horse and reached up to help Neveah down, lifting her by her waist.
"narx!" Neveah exclaid in surprise, finding her footing when narx placed her down, a small smirk on his lips.
"You should eat more...you hardly weigh anything." narx advised as he secured the reins of the horse to a tree.
"How about you try lifting
in my other form? I could also lift you with ease in human form." Neveah countered begrudgingly.
"Co on." narx replied with a shake of his head as he lead the way uphill.
They walked in silence for a while and narx suddenly turned so he was facing Neveah and kept walking backwards.
"What are you doing? You could miss your footing and hurt yourself." Neveah asked with a raised brow.
"I just feel like staring at you." narx replied with a casual shrug.
Neveah cringed visibly at narx’s ridiculous statent, while her heart constricted in guilt.
This side of narx was so unfamiliar, Neveah knew she just did not deserve it... most especially since she was not certain what she felt for narx yet.
"You have completely lost it." Neveah decided with a shake of her head as she hurried past narx, walking on ahead as though she knew the way.
narx’s laughter followed Neveah all the way.
"Wait up! You’ll get lost!" narx called out, while he hurried to catch up with her hastened strides.
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