Old Dragons whisper

* chapter 14 *

* Marcel:- « Back at that time, Everyone was happy with the agreement, as number of the best healers joined the laboratory, but their number got soon decreased!

The King's first volunteer was a great healer that since after they sent him, they expected that the king would not need another healer for at least a hundred years or until the healer's retirement or his early death but immediately after his entry to the palace, No one ever could hear about him! While the worst of all, After a week, a request was sent from the palace, asking for another healer!! The shock was overwhelming for everyone, as none of them could ask the king what had happened to their colleague, who was as a brother for them!, But the worst had came afterwards, when one of them had forced to volunteer after the first healer, who also got lost, and another request was sent again and again and again...

There were many questions among them about whether all the king's healers who were volunteered were alive or dead! But it has been so far hundreds of years and no one ever returned, so the answer is already clear!!

For this reason, after those years, no one wanted to join except those who had volunteered because of their strong desire for the continuation of the laboratory! While volunteering to that lab means sacrificing in order to save a number of those other innocent lives, And thus, the harm remains on themselves... », once Marcel completed his talk, Hana looked around her with great astonishment mixed with shock and happiness, as if the God has prepared everything for her since hundreds of years!! A great way that Hana will be able to pass easily once she join the lab and also to volunteer once the palace asks for another healer!!

The nights that passed in the King's world were heavy on Hana because of thinking of a way to get to the palace and how would she do it and to search inside it!, but what she had just heard was like removing a mountain from some one's back!! and according, Hana looked at Marcel happily and said: « I want to join them!!! », What made Marcel to feel very strange, as his eyebrows stuck together and said: « what are you saying?!!!! », then Hana took her deep breath while smiling to him from her happiness which blowed his mind and said: « I know it seems crazy but i had always dreamed of that day!!! The day i walk inside that palace and to be near the king himself!!! I must to go volunteer now!!!! », And as expected, Marcel was stunned of what she had said and vehemently refused her volunteering, as after that, the discussion had turned into a great argument, In which Hana tried to explain the importance and necessity of her going, but the real reason was difficult to tell, Therefore, Marcel did not understand the point and became angry, And after few moments of arguing, he said furiously: « DO YOU KNOW WHAT!!!, Acceptance of volunteers opens in the morning, Go volunteer and die there as the rest, I won't ever stop you again!! », And then he left the room and closed the door hard, to then appear Hana's reflection on the glass of the door, which showed her weakness, sadness and shock over what had happened and said to herself: (I've never seen him that angry before!!) she closed her eyes after in pain of a broken heart to start her tears falling bad, crying and crying, she opened her eyes tiredly after moments , as she felt a great emptiness inside her, when she looked at her reflection again, in which she appeared in the weakest moment that she had ever seen before, and at moment she was looking at herself, her brain began to say: « I have never seen you this weak before! Your plan is clear, your desires to be with him are clear too but tho, it's clearly won't ever work too...

On that way, no doubt the plan overcomes desires , Hana! Isn't that enough to get yourself together? Tom needs you!! He's DYING!!!!), and for that, she wiped her tears madly, as she turned to take her stuffs from the office, and left headed to her room, where she lied out on her bed and covered herself completely under the blanket!! But she couldn't sleep no matter how hard she tried!! She was angry as sad, her thoughts scattered, and her heart was empty, as she began to see things in front of her, as Tom on the cross getting tormented, Adeodatus groaning in pain in the floor, and the anger face of Marcel that brokes her heart, that then she said with crying, (This is too much to be hold!!), And at that moment, the door got knocked, three quiet knocks, as she opened her eyes in shock of who might that be, and little after the door got knocked again!!, so Hana stood off of her bed and wiped out the tears as much as she could, then she opened the door!!

It was Marcel with his mad face expression, he looked at Hana little sad and said: « may i enter?! », and so, Hana opened the door more that he entered while scratching his head, and when Hana turned to close the door, He hugged her tightly from behind, that she looked at his hand that was around her neck in astonishment, when Marcel said: " Do you really have to go!!?", at time Hana kept looking at his hand for awhile then she shook her head as yes so, he raised his hands from her and said warmly: « sorry for what i have made!! your request just broke my heart that i couldn't hold it!!!, You will leave as those who left before you!!! », but Hana stayed standing, looking at the door silently, just listening, trying to be strong while give him no action, what made him to feel little rage that he grabbed her shoulder and turned her towards him so he can look at her eyes, and at that moment Hana noticed his swollen eyes that were filled with tears and anger, and his breath, as if he was running, When he raised his both hands and put them on Hana's cheek while drove her towards the wall behind her, That's when she began to breathe his exhausted breath, to feel his nose on hers, and looking at his eyes that were move between looking into both of her eyes, as then, he looked at her lips and begun to wipe them by his thumb and getting closer each second a bit, until he turned his head a bit, and put his lips on hers...

His kisses were so warm, that took Hana away when he said that moment « I'm sure there is a reason!! But I couldn't find!! Maybe a reason that you're trying to hide!!!! », As he got his lips back on her, while his hand was descending around the parts of her body, towards her belly, her chest and all over her body, with the tip of his finger, gently.

And after she regained consciousness a little, she pulled her hands on his chest and pushed him away from her as a shock expression was fill on her face, when she said: « stop!!!!», then she opened her room's door and said: « please i need to be alone!!! »..

* Marcel:- « i will leave but you must know that i loved you!! deeply from my heart!! », as his words were pouring into Hana's heart.

He left while she kept standing behind the door looking at where he was standing in astonishment and raised her thumb, touching her lips unbelievably and timidly, she closed the lights after that in a hurry and ran into her bed, under her blanket, looking at her thumb in the dark without smiling when she started saying repeatedly: « I will go to rescue Tom and Aduodatus!!! I will go to rescue Tom and Aduodatus!!! I will never leave them and will never let them down!! », As the night passed on that way..

And when the sun shined up, Hana was already siting under the falling water in her bathroom, taking a hot shower since an hour while thinking, and when it was time to volunteer, she stood in front of her mirror, ties her short hair tightly back like a tail, checking her uniform and finally got out of her room headed to the laboratory. Walking down step after step until she realised someone sitting at the end of the stairs at the door, And of course he was Marcel, who was looking at his hands that was rubbing them together in nervous, and when she saw him, she stood a bit looking at him, then she completed her walking! And when she stepped the last stairs, Marcel stood and looked at her and said: « you're late a bit!!! »

* « i was having a shower!!! », she said it while looking at the floor, trying to not make any eye contact with him, so he replied in a dim voice: « so... It's time to volunteer!! », that's when she raised her eyes, looked at him and said: « yes!!! This is it!!! », so he kept looking at her deeply, a look that was full of talk and feelings!!!

He extended then his hand and opened the door for her and said: « let me show you the way!! », he started walking inside towards a door at the end of the place, that was the only wooden door with the entry one, not made of glass!!

He nocked it, opened it and only gave a look to the healer inside, then he looked back at Hana so she entered and stood.

The healer then got two papers and put them next to each other on the desk in front of Hana, then he left the room, at that time Hana looked at the papers weirdly as both of them were volunteering agreements so, she said on her head: ( should i sign them both!!!), at time the door got closed quietly so, Hana looked back at it!!

Marcel was standing there, Looking at her with passion and enthusiasm, when then he started approaching her until she couldn't move any more, surrounded by him and the desk while feeling his breath on her cheek and neck, as she turned her face, looked at the papers with a broken breath and a quick heartbeat!!

At time then Marcel turned his face too towards the papers, extended his hand, pull out a pen and signed one of the agreements and looked back at Hana while his nose was on her cheek, She looked at him in a great shock, her mind was blowed up, when he looked at her eyes and said: « I will stay next to you for the last breath of my life!! I will protect you where ever you were and when ever you needed!!! » at time Hana's tears just fall down while her eyes were full of shock when she put her hand on his chest and pushed him back a bit and said: « what have you done!!! », by now, he made her mission goes harder!! By now, her escaping from the palace won't ever be easy!! She must to think of her steps more and more!! She walked towards the door and thought on her mind: ( should i just leave him and go to the palace alone!! But then he will have to go alone and die!!! Should i tell him my plan or should i just take him and escape together! Or should I just escape alone!!! ), and many other thoughts that Marcel then had put his hand on her shoulder and said: « Are you okay? », she looked at him with tears and approached him to hug him when she said: « why did you do that?!!! », she started crying on his chest while hugging him tightly when he raised then her face and looked at her eyes and said: « I'm an old military, from a great past military family!! I guess that will let us live more!! », he laughed to her when Hana laughed back a little then she walked to the desk, signed her paper and wiped her tears when he said: « so, it's time to heal new people!!», he extended then his hand to Hana so they go together and start their journey so, she caught it, and once she did, he straightly approached her and gave her a quick deep kiss with a joyful smile!!

He approached to open the door after that very happy and amused, but at that moment none of them thought about the moment when the palace would send a request for a new healer, and that was what shock them most!!!

When Marcel had opened the door, all the volunteered healers were standing in the middle of the place when the healer who had put the agreement papers on the desk extended his hand towards someone between them to appear after that he extended his hand to take a letter from a soldier!!!

Marcel's shock was overwhelming at time Hana was confused, Especially after seeing the shock on the soldier's face after seeing Marcel, And after the healer saw him, he looked at the letter and walked towards marcel with sad steps and extended the letter to him while saying: « I think it matters to you most!!! »...

At moment the healer gave Marcel the letter, Marcel kept looking at it in fear on his eyes but he grabbed it and gave it to Hana with no even a single word, so Hana opened it and after reading it, Her feelings got overlapped between joy and fear, between finally I'm gonna look for Tom and Adeodatus and how would i do that?. Heartbeat increased when she gave it back to the healer and said: « I will volunteer!! », and with dim voice Marcel said: « me as well!! », so the healer looked at both of them and shook his head a little in sad agreement and said: « The soldier is waiting for you to go, you must bring your luggage quickly!! », then he looked at Marcel and they hugged each other very tightly as they won't ever see each other again, then Marcel looked at the soldier and smiled to him and said: « it's been very long time, my old friend!! », and they hugged each other and walked out the laboratory together!

And while Marcel was busy packing his belongings with his friend, Hana had prepared hers and preceded them to the army horses outside, where there was a medium-sized carriage with the golden royal palace sign at its top and was pulled by two giant coffee-coloured horses. They were dragons, which each of them supposed to be with his guard, and in this as it seems, their guards are roaming the hospital, but the weird thing was How can the army deal with charms' people to change the look of their soldiers' dragons when it is f*******n to live other than their people's nation?, And the answer seems to be s*****y!

Moments later, three soldiers came with Marcel, in which Hana looked at them with a question in her head, (Could one of them be a wizard?) The three of them were Marcel's friends, talking and laughing. They all got into the carriage and set off to the palace, where the journey was going well, especially with the guards, as It didn't take very long, they soon reached the iron entrance of the palace. It was huge with its sharp edged from the top, and when they got in, the road was surrounded by trees on both sides, and leads to the palace that in front of which there was a circular road in the middle of which there was a giant tree, around which the wagons revolve. The palace looked old, dark and miserable. Its rooftop colors were darker because of how worn it was, and the features of some of its details had disappeared and others in the aspects of its disappearance, as the marble carving appears around the palace door, which is offset by a marble banister and staircases on the right and left, With the spread of the guards around, a skinny man in a formal suit came out of the door, Holding his hands together behind his back, He walked out to the banister and stood looking down at the carriage and everyone who got out of it, He was a man in his sixties, with many wrinkles on his face, a miserable smile on his mouth and sharp eyes.

However, after Hana and Marcel climbed the stairs and stood in front of the man, he kept looking at them and their baggage with his creepy eyes for a while and then he said: « come with me! », Then he turned and entered the palace. And as soon as Hana entered behind him, she was amazed at the entry room, where the room was a circular entrance surrounded by mirrors with a golden frame along its walls that were spreading the light around and the floor was decorated with ornate marble not warn as the rest (decorated in the middle with black and gold and then a decorated circle around the edges of the room), and opposite the door there was a staircase with a red carpet and a golden banister that leads down.

However, the man walked them down and from hallway to another, from room to another until he reached them to their rooms where he said: « Put your luggage and arrange your rooms. about an hour from now, i will come back to take you to the king! he needs to be treated! », then he left. As their rooms were in one divided room, so that it was like a suite, a sitting room with a window looking out into a forest at the middle, a little room on the right for Hana, and a little room on the left for Marcel. And as soon as they finished packing their luggage and arranging the room, the man came again and immediately took them to the king's room where there were a huge window covered with a curtain opposite the door, a huge closet on the left and a large king's bed on the right. And while the king was not there, the man stood and said: « Start preparing the room for the king, he's on his way to here! », and therefore, both of Hana and Marcel have begun to sterilize the room, prepare the bed, and opening the windows to ventilate the place. It was a beautiful day outside, beautiful view, gentle winds, and perfectly diffused light. And once they had prepared the room, Hana stood looking out the window and how amazing the view was, at moment she noticed that there was old stings of fire on the wood of the window, the thing that let her notice the other stings around the room and on the wooden floor. So, she approached the one on the window and began to touch and to feel it, when she tried to read its past, she saw the fire that was suddenly thrown at the king who could hardly avoid it, a fire very bright and strong, which prevented the king as it seemed to her from committing suicide, by jumping out of the window, but suddenly the sound of the coming of the king cut her off from afar so she looked back towards the door and approached and stood beside it with Marcel when suddenly the king entered with all his might and energy with two men, he stood opposite where he looked at Hana and Marcel very sharply as did the other two men, then the king turned and removed his golden cloak hanged on his back and then sat down with his armor and lay on the bed and closed his eyes, at that time the two men left the room. So, Hana looked back at the King again, as if she were looking at another man, the sharpness was completely gone, his shoulder was sagged, and he was completely unconscious on the bed.

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