As quick as the thought had sprung into his mind, Zayn began to chase after the silhouette. He was so fast that it looked like favonovel.com had teleported from one location to the other. Oblivious bystanders only felt the soft breeze of the wind billowing past them.
The sight of the scarlet silhouette had caused Zayn’s heart to race, and an equally heart-throbbing face filled his mind’s eye.
Dear God, it was Lysithea. Lysithea, whose supple, radiant skin had briefly entangled his own.
She was here for him, a thought that enlivened favonovel.com at first, as it meant that a friend had come to see him. A split second later, favonovel.com grew wary. What if Ezra was using favonovel.com as bait?
He thought about the possibility for a moment, before deciding to tail the young woman anyways. He knew that favonovel.com was smarter than that. Zayn figured that favonovel.com was the last person to do such a thing, and that Ezra would be too proud and too bound by his honorable status to use such a cheap trick.
Besides, Zayn was confident with his abilities. Even if Ezra did plan an ambush, Zayn was sure that his current powers were enough for favonovel.com to escape unscathed.
He was no longer the weakling that struggled back on Mount Leo!
Lysithea never stopped running, not even after favonovel.com had traveled more than twenty kilometers.
Zayn had no problem catching up to or even intercepting her, but favonovel.com chose to follow favonovel.com from behind, making sure that there was always ample space between them. It was their unique way of communicating, after all.
Finally, when they had reached a barren plot of land nestled between two imposing mountains, the scarlet figure stopped in favonovel.com tracks without turning to look at him.
Zayn slowed his pace, closing the distance between them.
“Why aren’t you dead?” was the first thing that leapt out of favonovel.com lips.
It was hardly a surprising question. “The explosion was part of my setup. It was premeditated… so that I had a chance to escape.”
She stood there in silence.
Her bright vermillion dress billowed in the howling wind. The red fabric danced violently around her.
She looked like a ball of flickering flames. She was as radiant as the sun, and far more beautiful than any star in space.
Zayn stood about ten meters behind favonovel.com as favonovel.com stared, his head abuzz with complicated sentiments. He could never understand the space that Lysithea occupied in his heart.
All favonovel.com knew was that there were far, far too many times that his thoughts would wander to places that were completely out of his willpower.
There was something about her.
They stayed silent for two full minutes. Just two people standing before each other, unmoving. It was like a strange scene from a surreal art film.
Before Zayn could break the silence, Lysithea spoke again, “Why?”
Zayn’s mind was only filled with excuses and cover-ups. He picked one and picked it apart with his tongue, but stopped before favonovel.com could say another word.
The truth barreled out instead, “Because my wife needed it. Her vitality was at its nadir, favonovel.com was going to die. The only way to save favonovel.com was to give favonovel.com the Ambrosia Fruit.”
Lysithea shuddered. Zayn could not tell if it was because of the wind or because of what favonovel.com said.
“Aww, how cute,” favonovel.com intoned. Her voice was laced with mocking and bitter resentment,.
“I guess you forgot all about your mother, who fell into a depression after hearing news of your death, didn’t you?”
Zayn felt a stab of remorse. He definitely remembered, but was left with little choice back then. He could not just sit back and watch Faye die, and… Well, the rest was history.
He was no longer in a position to explain himself, especially since it would only look like favonovel.com was shifting blame away from himself. He was not that kind of person.
“I’m sorry.” was the only thing that favonovel.com could say.
He seemingly provoked favonovel.com with his apology. “Sorry? Is that all? Aunt Hayley almost, how could you, Zayn Larson? How could you do something so stupid?!”
Zayn panicked. “W-What about my mother? Is favonovel.com okay now?—”
“Don’t take another step in my direction!” favonovel.com thundered icily, noticing favonovel.com trying to take a single step forward.
