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Without hesitation I take it. The spectators hardly register to me anymore. I can’t see anything besides Aria and the hand that is on her shoulder and the spear on her neck.
With a war cry I throw the spear. My uncles eyes flashes and for a split moment he sees his fate. He is too late when he tries to move out of the way and it goes through his eye. My feet carry me to him. I grab him as he struggles to pull the spear in his eyes, writhing like a snake in boiling water.
I pull him to the center. Langa is trying to find his way up, feeling the ground, cursing my name.
“You didn’t have to do that.” I growl, angrier than I’ve ever been as I pummel my uncle to the ground again, then I hold him by his head. His end having arrived.
My hands tighten solidly around his neck.
“I d-d-did.” He struggles.
The one eye opens and he looks at me as his life slowly slips from him. When he wheezes his last breath and all light leaves him, I don’t feel peace.
But my work isn’t finished, I find Langa attempting to get out of the pit. Picking up the spear, I limp after him. Zod comes closer and kicks him back inside. Our eyes meet for a brief moment and he nods at me.I just killed his father.
Langa is a pathetic kill. I have him on his knees as I use the spear to finish him by strangling. When his body drops to the ground, an eerie silence falls on the arena. Their eyes behind me. I turn to find Aria standing in the middle of the circle, Gremlo a few feet from her.
I limp back to her. She looks fine except for the little blood and dirt of her shoulder. And she stands there so beautiful, so regal.
Maybe a kingdom under a Queen is the change we need, I think to myself. I find a small smirk tipping my lips. If this is what the ancestors meant, then who am I to deny a Queen?
I remember that first time I saw the lump next to the bank. The first time I saw her face and my world stopped. The same feeling visits me now. And just like then my knees will bend for her, I know it.
Her face widens as if she sees my thoughts. She shakes her head. “Don’t do that, orc.” She says not loud.
I stand a few feet from her. We are standing on opposite ends of the line and we face each other. In the end, it could have only ever been meandher.
“Why not, Queen?”
“Because I will kill you if you do.” She says through closed teeth.
“So, this will be the time you kill me?”
“Yes.”
“They would enjoy that show. Want the spear?” I tease.
The world forgotten. I only realise when I hear boos over us and stomps. I look at the crowd who are waiting to see what we do.
She forgets herself and she rolls her eyes and I almost laugh loudly. I love this woman.
“Let’s get this over with. I want to leave. My breasts need to be alleviated of the pressure.” She says in a low voice only for me to hear and I frown. My concern for her overtaking the humor of the moment. We need to finish this.
She lowers to the ground. The whole world disappears to this very moment.
“Me and the Sokos submit ourselves under your leadership, Okrar.” She says before her forehead touches my boots.
I hardly hear Hettar say, “The Gods have chosen. Every knee bow to The Okrar. Igor.”
I feel the aura changing but my eyes are still on Aria. I bend down and I lift her up. I pull her to my arms, my hands finding her waist. Her eyes lift to mine glistening with what I can only describe as pride.
She mouths anI love youand I can only smile back, letting my eyes tell her exactly how I feel. Her eyes turn to the crowd and my eyes follow hers. Every knee on the ground. I turn with her in my arms.
After all the sweat, the struggle, the setbacks, the fights, the loss, it is done.
It is finished.
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