Chapter 135 Trus (1/2)
”Let's go,” Snowcloud said ”The others have set up a new camp, about an hour from here While alk, you can finally tell lance, then added, ”It certainly took you long enough”
”You knew?” Arran asked, startled
Snowcloud let out a weak laugh ”We've been training together for weeks You think I failed to notice how your injuries healed in hours?” She shook her head ”Of course I knew so happened I just didn't knohat”
”Why didn't you say so before?”
”I trusted that you would tell me if it became necessary,” Snowcloud replied flatly ”And it seeht”
It was not an answer Arran expected, and briefly, he found himself at a loss for words
For years, he had anxiously guarded his secrets fro to always have lies at the ready for those questions he could not answer But now, Snowcloud had sih not to pry into his affairs
He did not completely understand why she put such faith in hihtly uncoan after a eon…”
As Snowcloud guided the way, Arran told her what had really happened at the fortress There wasn't much to tell — like Snowcloud, he had been unconscious for hly unpleasant
When he finished speaking, Snowcloud reht as she considered his words
”The creature,” she said finally ”It said it had a debt to repay What was it?”
Although Snowcloud's show of trust had put hi that had happened in the Empire Not yet, at least And even if he did, he suspected she would have trouble believing the events involving Panurge
”Back in the Empire, I escaped froht ”When I did, I also set free the other prisoners The creature was ah I didn't knoas there until I opened its cell”
Snowcloud gave hi how he had ended up in an Academy prison Yet she seemed to understand that he didn't want to discuss the matter, and to his relief, she didn't ask about it
Finally, she let out a sigh ”You couldn't have known about the creature,” she said, although there was a hint of a question in the statement
”I couldn't, and didn't,” Arran replied ”If I'd know about that thing, I never would have freed it”
”Then you aren't to blame for its actions,” Snowcloud responded
Arran felt some relief at her answer He had worried that she would hold hily or not, he was the one who had unleashed it upon the world
”Do you knohat happened to me?” he asked ”What caused the bloodlust?”
”Blood ic,” Snowcloud answered immediately ”It has to be The Blood Crystal in the fortress, it's soh never in detail Supposedly, it gives great strength, but at a terrible cost”
”What kind of cost?” Arran asked worriedly
Snowcloud took so, and her expression turned troubled