Burning Soul

“Now what happened to the dragon!” Aeneas asked in an irritated tone,

“Well, you’ll see for yourself!” Dimitri replied while hurriedly walking, he looked worried as well.

Before coming to the Yvaine’s chamber, Dimitri managed to gather everyone who was travelling with Theo except Lumiere and Herald.

“What’s going on!” Nuae asked Aeneas to which he nodded as he didn’t have any clue.

Also, there was someone missing, Naomi wasn’t anywhere around, maybe she was already out of the building.

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The sector outside the Cathedral was vast and was kept quite clean. The area was embellished with dwarf trees which were planted in sequence, pots containing flowering plants were kept around trees, and few benches were erected. And the air outside was as holy and pure as it was inside the Cathedral.

Noticing so many people who were ranked outside the Cathedral everyone was astounded. After grabbing a look at the situation and the atmosphere it was mandatory for everyone to remain patient and alert every single time. Taking precautionary measures they stepped out of the Cathedral. They had surrounded someone.

“Isn’t that!” Nuae who was a bit taller than everyone else was able to glimpse at the person that people had surrounded.

The faces of the people were not identical to Yvaine. Even the people present there were not normally dressed, they all were dressed in the same way, like they had a dress code. They were wearing rather loosen, dull black colour outfits. They were differentiated only by the badges and emblems on the lapels and collars of shirts. These outfits had an identical emblem on their headwear as the uniforms of the Castle Guard.

Ember!

“What is going on!” Aeneas asked Dimitri in an angry tone! His eyes were wide open seeing the crowd outside.

“Even I have no idea! I just came here!

I was told that something was off with someone among y'all so I came myself!” Dimitri

Everyone rushed to the scene to figure out what was going on.

Ember was surrounded by guards and people as she was tied up with heavy coil chains, which were made from straight metal bars that were bent to an oval shape, looped together, and welded shut. These were traditionally made of wrought iron. As for Luna, she was hissing back at the guards who were trying to capture her. As she saw Theo and others she jumped in Theo’s arms and hissed back at guards.

“Hand her!” A guard came rushing to him to grab Luna,

The guard which came to grab Luna was tall and had a ruddy complexion. He had a broad chest and big powerful muscled hands. His eyes were beady and his nose was oval, ears were sticking out. He had a wide mouth in which he had all the discoloured terrible teeth and they looked unhealthy.

A gust of wind blew him away from Theo, “Keep your hands away from my brother!” She wasn’t ready to back down a bit creating a moment of stress.

“Enough! They are my guests, and that is how you are showing our hospitality?” Dimitri stepped forward, raised his right hand up and volumed his pitch of the sound in order to scold the guards there.

“My Lord! These are the orders!” One of the guards came forward and made a little bow to Dimitri while replying to him.

As a Ruler, no one would have dared to speak back to Dimitri that way yet this guard did!

Looking carefully at the guard it looked a bit different from other one’s they had seen till now; their crest had a Woman with her arms away from her and a globe in her palms. As if she was a blessing or something!

It was way too distinct and on the metal armour the coloured crest was standing out as well.

Looking at the Guard Dimitri understood right away who’s guards they were, “what are you doing here?” He asked right away.

“My Lord!

Finally, you came!” A voice came from the crowd. As people moved away a guy appeared who seemed to have called out.

“My Lord! I believe you know why I acted on my own!” He continued.

“Who the hell is he!” Aeneas asked one of Dimitri’s guards about him, “Sir, Lord Flynn is the head of councils! He is the elected representative of the people!

Don’t you have them at your place!” He had heard such a thing for the first time!

“Is this kingdom Democratic?” Theo asked Dimitri in a whispering tone.

“No, but it’s a bit complicated!

I’ll explain!” He replied before taking a step and greeting the guy who came walking to him, meanwhile Theo went ahead to tend to Ember,

“Master! You came!” Even though she was shackled with heavy coil chains and there were almost 4 huge guards holding her back, she pulled them all and jumped at him hugging him tight! Her eyes became slightly wet.

“Hey! You are squeezing me so tight!” Theo almost ran out of breath. And he blinked his eyes too fast and smiled tenderly holding her.

“What man ties up a kid like that?” Merida stroked her hairs back which trembled over her face, had vexed expressions and her face had become little red in colour, eyes were vicious as she shouted loud and clear at the guy who walked at Dimitri to greet him.