Crease ford on his forehead. How co only fifty soldiers were coming? Did Eltanin think that he was so powerful that he could take him with just fifty soldiers? Or was he mocking him? No, that couldn't be. This wasn't the ti to mock anyone.
The soldier continued, "There is a carriage with a wagon that is traveling right in the middle of the group."
Felis left his eating and got up. This ant that Lusitania was in the carriage. What was the wagon for? He didn't have the ti to think over it. "Get ready!" he ordered his n. He turned towards the soldier and asked, "When did you see the group?"
"I saw them, a little over two hours. It took an hour to reach here, so they should be here in an hour or so," the soldier inford. He was patrolling the woods of the ivory forest.
A servant ca to help him wash his hands. Another ca to ready him up with armor and sword. If only fifty n were coming, then he would be more than enough to take over them.
As soon as he marched out of his tent, he commanded Alphard, "Take two units and hide in the forests in a way that when I order you, you are ready to ambush them."
"Yes, Your Highness," Alphard said, placing his hand on the hilt of his sword.
"Also do not touch, and I repeat, you will not touch the horse or the carriage she is riding in."
"Yes, Your Highness!" Alphard really wanted to see her but now he wouldn't dare touch her because Felis was interested in him. Saying that Alphard strode to where the soldiers had camped. He ordered five units of twenty n each to hide and co with him to the forest that surrounded the dirt path which led to the border.
In less than half an hour, all of them were in their positions, hiding in the forest and waiting for the group to arrive. Felis was standing with his army at the border. He was admiring nkar that the man had so negotiation powers. If it had not been for him, Eltanin would have never agreed to co to the Hydra border so easily.
Anticipation built inside him as and as he heard the distant rumble in the ground. They were coming and soon all his problems would be taken care of.
He waited for an hour when he saw the first flag of the royals. There were four soldiers bearing the Draka flag. His lips lifted into a smile. He knew that Eltanin must be right behind them. He was now sure that the carriage contained the fae girl.
As and as the group ca forward, Felis pulled the reins of his horse, ready to release him the mont he saw Eltanin. He was laughing at the Draka King for being so cleverly maneuvered by the High Priest of Cetus. He knew that nkar was now ousted from Cetus, but that was just the plan. Now he was going to co to Hydra with all the secrets he had gathered so far. And then, together they are going to make the perfect strategy to bring the world Araniea to their feet.
Excited at the thought, Felis nudged his horse to move ahead a little as soon as he saw the group approaching him.
The soldiers of Draka ca to a halt in front of the Hydra army.
Felis was surprised that all of them were standing absolutely still. It didn't matter. He opened his ntal link with Alphard and said, "Surround them now." The mont he said that, every Nyxer of the army ca out and ambushed the whole group. Yet not a single soldier flinched or looked scared.
Felis's eyes scanned the whole group. Eltanin wasn't there. Was he in the carriage? He didn't know what to do now? "Where is your king?" he shouted as he saw the flags of Draka flapping in the wind.
But oddly there was no answer. Instead, the soldiers parted and made a way for him. Felis wondered if they thought he was such a fool that he would enter between them, then they were mistaken. He had to reach the carriage because he was certain that Eltanin, Lusitania and nkar were inside it. So, he signaled his n to follow him. As he rode towards the carriage, his n followed him.
The Draka soldiers further gave them space to enter, but none raised a sword.
Alphard was a little wary of the carriages. The last ti, when he had gone near a carriage, he had co across a man with golden eyes. So he opened his mind link with Felis and said, "You have to be careful, Your Highness. Don't open the carriage, but ask soone else to open it."
As soon as Felis reached the middle of the group where the carriage and the wagon were, he yelled at the coachman to open the door.
At the sa ti, he nudged his horse to go towards the wagon. "Open it!" Two soldiers of the Draka opened the wagon and Felis jerked his head back in complete surprise. A very shriveled up rman was lying inside a cage. He was hardly four feet in length.
The rman had a very long white beard and white hair. His listless tail was flapping feebly against the cage. The rman coughed and said, "I— I am nkar…"
Felis stared at the rman. His frustration rose pretty high. He was expecting a healthy priest with Eltanin and Tania, but who was this? The rman whispered sothing that sounded like "help" and "save" and spat blood. It was as if his body was… rotting without water. Felis was getting agitated by the minute. He turned back to the horse.
The coachman jumped and opened the carriage. A woman was sitting inside with her hood over her face in a way that her face was hidden completely.
"Who are you? Co out!" This wasn't the fae girl. Where were her wings?
The woman got out of the carriage and pulled her hood down. Shock blasted in his chest at the unexpected.
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