Chapter 43 Green rivers response 5 (2/2)
Mars reached her his hand a pulled her up to the branch he was sitting on were she sat down next to him
'well it sure is a nice view...'
Mars looked out over the forest, a near endless carpet of green spread out in front of him while the sun was dipping down over the horizon bathing the sky in a orange glow, as Mars admired the view Chloe had caught her breath and asked
”...you are having bad dreams right?”
Mars kept his eyes on the setting sun for a while before he answered
”yeah... but they don't feel like dreams, to tell the truth the bruises i had this morning also came from my dream”
Chloe gave a small nod and also looked out at the sunset for a while before she spoke again
”my mom once told me that last light of the day have special powers...”
Mars looked over at Chloe and saw she had a dissent, slightly nostalgic look in her green eyes and kept silent while he watched her face
”she told me that the last light of the day was the purest, and that it could burn away evil demons and... nightmares”
”i see”
Mars stopped watching her and also looked at the setting sun until it disappears behind the horizon, dying the forest black in only a couple of minutes
”should we head back?”
Chloe still had her eyes on the horizon gazing after the sun that had just set for a little while before she gave a nod and began to climb down while Mars summoned his flame to light op their descended down into the dark forest, when the 2 of them returned to the camp they both received warm looks from the other elvers causing Chloe to turn a little red, however Mars was move interested in Victoria that had her head stuffed into his bag, seemingly trying to get something inside it
”Victoria what are you doing?”
”I... want... the cores...”
”the cores? you mean the ones we got earlier?”
”yeah... to get... stronger...”
Mars was a little confused for a second before he remembered Victoria had told him she could eat cores of the darkness and fire element to get stronger some time ago
”sure... but you need to get your head out of my bag first”
Victoria stopped moving for a second before she raised her head, with the pack still attached and started to shake her head for a few seconds before she began to move backwards a few steps before she stopped again
”Mars... help I'm... stuck...”
”yeah I can see that... hold still for a second”
Mars spent a couple of minutes getting Victoria's head out of his pack, witch was hardener then it seemed as her sharp horns was stuck inside the bag
”and there... now did you learn something just now?”
after Victoria was freed from the pack she shakes her head a few times before she tilted her head and looked at Mars while her horns flashed
”lean... something?”
”yeah like not sticking your head into tight spaces?”
”okay... but the cores... can i have... them now?”
”...sure”
seeing Victoria was so fixated on the cores Mars gave up teaching her and took out the small pouch that contained all his cores from his bag and took out the 8 newly obtained cores and showed them to Victoria
”you mean theses?”
Victoria looked quite agitated when he showed the cores to her, like someone had dangled a nice treat just outside her range
”yes... can I... have them... please...”
Mars considered teasing her for a second but changed his mind when he felt the need she had for the cores form the contract that bonded them together and simply gave them to her and watched her quickly eat the 8 cores before she laid down on the spot as her horns flashed again
”thanks.... now... I'm.... sleepy....”
Mars was a little amazed at how quickly she had fallen asleep and walked over to her and poked her ears to cheek and was a little surprised by her lack of response
'she really is in deep sleep... i just hope she's awake by tomorrow'