Must Read: A Broken Destiny: The Sword Of Vengeance

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Must Read: A Broken Destiny: The Sword Of Vengeance

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KIERAN
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Her words really got to me but I didn’t want her to win the day so I returned to my bed and pretended to be sleep. I have always been in control of my emotions, I knew when to release my feelings and when not to but my encounter with Vanessa changed all that. I was unusually careless and wild and yes I have been thinking of myself lately. I should be going after the men that killed my loved ones but I know that will be futile at this stage. I don’t have the means to get them; my only hope will be the so-called gift I have. Regardless of the fact that I can’t enact my vengeance immediately, I shouldn’t be playing the love game when we were quite far from safety. I trust that no one is tailing Vanessa because she is well trained and organized which Claudia doesn’t know yet. Still, I could harm her without such intentions if she uses her magic on Vanessa which will cause her to believe I was dining with the enemy to probably get to them. I have to be more observant because it seems Vanessa has a way of tailing us even without our tracks.

I am still unable to explain why I always fell the strange need to protect Vanessa or is it to be around her. Whenever she is close, I just lose myself to some forces I can’t explain. That has to stop because I am certain I am not in love with her, I don’t even like her. I will not be a slave to some magic or whatever; I must be in control of my feelings and mind. That’s what makes me the leader of my home and wherever I find myself, I must never discard the teachings of my father. For now, I will see it to it that I and Claudia get to her place where I can finally get answers to my questions, no more Vanessa and her strange pull.

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I woke up just before dawn to find Claudia still reading, what’s in those books that won’t just let her be. I stood up and did the regular washing and all. I changed my clothes and set the bags on the horse. I wonder why she didn’t get another horse, we are putting quite some weight on this one and if we are in a situation where we are being chased, it might put us at a disadvantage. I decided to ask her why when I got back inside.

“I noticed you have avoided getting another horse which would have helped in reducing the load, why is that?” She stopped reading and faced me. For once, I actually looked carefully at her face and it surprised me that I didn’t get to see just how beautiful she is , up until now. She has a round face with red, plump lips. Her hair was brown and her eyes took the same colour, her nose was small but straight. The light from the candle seem to illuminate her face in a strange way which made her brown eyes very bright. She is slightly thick but it only added to her beauty. I wonder why I am just seeing all this now. She seemed to notice I was staring at her and that brought a little smile to her face.

“Well, I was firmly warned by Anna not to let you out of my sight because you are unpredictable and both times I have done that, you have done something silly. There won’t be a third time, I will watch you day and night till we arrive at our destination which shouldn’t take more than a day,”

“I am not a child that should be watched, I am a grown man who had a family till some days back. You are getting a horse at the next town.” She smiled yet again after my outburst and simply walked outside to mount the horse.

I mounted on the horse too and followed a narrow path at the back of the house. I felt like turning back but I didn’t and continued down the path. We rode for quite some time before we entered the main route that leads out of town. All that time, Claudia didn’t say anything to me, I thought of bringing something up but I changed my mind. When the silence was becoming unbearable, I decided to start a conversation,

“Where exactly is this place you are taking me?” I asked.

“It’s the forgotten lands.”

“I know, why is it named that way?”

“It’s a place reserved for those who have decided to serve humanity with their gifts. It was once called the home of the guardians but as men and women of magic decided to serve themselves instead of the society, the once bubbling place become a shadow of what it used to be. Now, the persons there are so few that the number of houses are even more than the people living there, it’s because of this it is now called the forgotten lands.”

“ I take it that there will be more women than men there.”

“I am sure that’s where your mind will drift to. Yes, the men are quite few.”

“I thought I would be the only male. So, what made decide to serve humanity rather than yourself?”

“Well, I think it was because my gift was unique. I see visions once in a while and I tend to be able to read and Interpret prophecies but I do not write. The gift of writing prophecies hasn’t been seen in anyone in a very long time. My gift itself is very rare and most powerful wizards will kill to have what I carry as one can make a lot of gold interpreting prophecies from books and whatever materials they have been written on. I was attracted to the forgotten lands because of the huge number of books they have on prophecies there. That was the only place that could satisfy my thirst for what I wanted.”

“ I take it that you never had it in mind to settle down and raise a family.”

“I have never really liked the idea of raising a family. There is no fun doing that, all you do is repeat the same things over and over again till the day of death. I don’t know how to take disappointments very well; I tend to lose myself to my emotions all the time. If I am with a man who has no gifts or even my children, I fear that I might harm during one of my outbursts. I almost killed my mum one night and when it happened a second time, I knew I had to leave.”

“I am sorry to hear that. I noticed that your journey routes seems to be taking us round the midlands, why can’t we go north, instead of going round?”

“We can’t because the route to my home through the north has been sealed off a long time ago. Don’t ask me why because I do not know myself. i…………..”
Claudia was cut off by the screams of a woman.