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“What do you mean?” Tyrone asks, finally taking an interest in the conversation.
“I mean she is en route to the fae kingdom as we speak”
“WHAT DO YOU MEAN” Tyrone exclaims
“I think we need to expand your vocabulary”.
“Shut the f**k up i***t! Why would you know this and not f*****g do anything about it?”
“Do you wanna go round in another f*****g circle or you actually want to do something about it”
“We should tell Jupiter, he…”
“He nothing, Myra. I told him already and he says if she dies then they would start again… that she wasn’t worthy”
“That f*****g piece of overpowered s**t”
“Where is she? She doesn’t know her way around this place”
“Alexander”
“What about Alexander?”
“He’s helping her”
“This just gets better with each f*****g sentence that leaves your mouth, doesn’t it?”
“They’re in the apartment” Myra interrupts their bantering.”Let’s go.”
“Where do you think you’re going?” Avalon asks, seeing Naheem trailing behind them
“To the Princess”
“No, you-”
“Vee. Drop it” Tyrone butts in, being the.voice of reason.
“Let’s go”
They had quite a quiet journey to the apartment and met them coming down the stairs, Alex sporting a scowl and a duffel bag and a
blank face on Reiss.
“Reiss! Reiss!“ Myra shouts, breaking off in a sprint engulfing her.” You’re still here!”
“What are you guys doing here? How did you know where I was?”
“Guilty. Hello Brother!”
Grunt
“Love you too bro”
“You can’t do this Reiss, it’s too dangerous” Avalon says.
“So Vee… I mean Avalon, you, Tyrone and Myra are okay with letting that child die? Huh? You know, I was trying to convince myself that you guys are still the same people and all that lying meant nothing”
“It did mean nothing, we were given orders and it was to protect you”
“Were you given orders to cut your hair with me cause I needed to go short and I was scared that I’d look weird Myra? Were you given orders to beat up those dudes that were teasing me for being overweight Tyrone? Were you given orders to be my best friend Avalone? Because you, three of you, have been the only things I could hold on to… ever, you were the only three things that stayed and I was proud of that, proud of the fact that I had people that stayed, but they were just orders”
“No…”
“f**k it! Jupiter told you guys to come after me yeah, protect the valuable asset?
“N…”
“Yeah, he sent us to protect you” Tyron cuts off Avalon, the truth isn’t always what’s needed “He said we should convince you to
come back, it’s too dangerous Reiss”
“The Ty I know wouldn’t think twice about doing the right thing. Let’s go Alex”
“Bu…”
“Just leave. I’m not coming back, without the kid”
They start walking away but she hears footsteps behind her.
“Why are you following us?” she asks exasperated.
“Since you’re so hell bent on going, we’re not going to let you die out there”
“No, I don’t want-”
“As much as I have been enjoying this touching moment Princess, we have a much better chance of rescuing the girl if we have help. How do they say it? The more the merrier?”
She seems to be contemplating it for a few minutes and finally grunts in acceptance.
“Good Princessa. Now there is a passage somewhere around here. Is there a 24 hour bakery close by?”
“Yeah, Macy’s about 5 blocks down, they have the most amazing coconut bread” she replies with a slight moan, thinking about buying a loaf of bread right now.
“How did you not know that you were unnatural? No normal person likes coconut bread”
“She shoots a glar at him, he runs to hug his brother. “Lex, Resiss is bullying me” he whines in a babyish voice.
“Get off me before I make you”
He huffs in annoyance and releases him from his embrace “You never want to hug me, you don’t care about my feelings”
***
“Can we go now? Avalon says, walking ahead not waiting for a response.
“Good evening, how can I help you?” the salesperson asks
“Do you have griffin bread?”
“Yes sir. How many servings?”
“Enough to feed a griffin”
“Right this way”
“”They are led to the back of the bakery, where there is a door identical to that in the one in the abandoned building.
“Is this another portal?”
“No, she is taking us to their toilet”
“You could just have said yes”
“Now where is the fun in that?”
“Both of you! Move” Everyone else had already stepped through the door. They follow.
It takes them to the middle of trees, trees in every direction, as far as the their could see.
“Where are we?” she asks looking around.
“Not every door leads to our town” Tyrone answered the question she didn’t voice yet. He had always been good at that, knowing what she was thinking, now she wondered whether that was as a result of familiarity or another ‘power of his’.
“We make camp tonight and move in the morning.” Alex said, taking charge. “We are going to take the shortest possible route, passing thtough 4 towns, the west elven village, the west fae village, the west forest and the west shitter village. One week if we have little to no interruptions, but we will have interruptions, this is still human territory. The border is 2 hours west, for those who have never been to other territories, just keep ypur head down, don’t do anything, don’t say anything. Different species, have different towns and different traditions. Waving in the elven village is a sign of disrespect. Speaking english without asking if the listener understands is a sign of disrespect in the west fae village. The elves in our town have different traditions. Don’t assume you know anything or you might just get us all killed. We leave a day break” he finishes his speech and walks away leaving the rest of them in that spot.
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