Sword of TimeUpdated at Apr 9, 2024, 15:15
They called it a tradition, the wedding was to hold when the moon was half its soul, and the couples were to make love under the Scarlett moon. Faye cared not for their tradition nor fate if the wedding had not been carried out accordingly. She cared not for the people who made her wedding a joke of the century when they had snatched her away from the altar where she was about to marry her dream man. When they had tried to kidnap her, her groom had stood like a solid shield in front of her, and he had ended up with a gash on his face. She knew he would be traumatized, after all, Jacobs had put a lot of effort into maintaining his beauty. Their kind she had never heard of, the flat scaly crystals on their face and chest glistened as though it was calling upon their prey, and she told herself not to be lured by the charades. She had lost her consciousness in those moments of chaos, and had only recovered it when she stood before their prince, the man they had abducted her for, the man they claimed she belonged to.
A spy in one of the subordinate kingdoms wasn't anything special after all, he had his spies embedded in all the kingdoms on the map be they large or small, but a few hours ago a message had been delivered from one of Jamie's spies in Oria, they had found her; the prophecy. As he stood concealed in the darkness, he knew it was her, it had to be, and he had been waiting for centuries, they all have. An earth-quaking roar echoed in the darkness, and he watched those fools cursed with disunity plunged into disorientation. Before the hatred-filled eyes of their prince, he stole their bride and left the way he came. As he studied the defenseless girl in his arms, he confirmed it, the girl in the prophecy was a human.