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“You never listen, do you?” he argues as he comes to a halt next to me, “always placing yourself in danger, you are going to be the death of me.” He squats down next to me to look at the wound on Beasts body before grunting. “He is going to need stitching, but I don’t think it’s a good idea to move him.”
“Dream went to find help,” I reveal as I continue scanning the rest of his body to find any further wounds. “Something must have happened to Love, Beast would never have been here without her”.
“As soon as someone comes to help, I will go out and scout for your sister,” Trek promises as he raises his hand to my cheek.
“Hope, Hope” I hear Mom call from behind beast as she rushes towards us. Rising from where I was, I step around Beast to see Mom, Dad and Dream coming to a stop near Beast. “Oh no, what happened to him?”
“I don’t know, but he needs help, he is bleeding a lot.” The concern on my parents’ face is evident as both of them know thatif Beast is injured it means that something must have happened to Love. Everything that has been happening is taking a toll on my parents, I can see how pale Mom is from the magic that she had to exert to stop the fire, and now she finds out that one of her daughters is missing. My Dad is standing next to her, a strained look on his face from his recent illness and the worry of the threat on his people and family.
“Let’s see how he is,” Mom says as she walks around to check on Beast, Dad steps forward leaning down and kisses my forehead before following Mom. “We can’t keep him here in the woods, we need to clean out this wound and stitch him up.”
“Trek, go get some men to help carry Beast up to the mansion,” Dad orders.
“Please also ask someone to start boiling water and find my medical bag.” Mom calls after Trek, I feel Dreams hand on mine as she stands looking down at an unconscious Beast.
“Does this mean that something has happened to Love?” Dream asks in a whisper.
“We will find your sister,” Dad promises from where he is now standing near Beast’s head. A low growl suddenly emits from Beasts chest. He starts to raise his head, a whine rumbling from him, which has Mom placing a hand on his fur to calm his restlessness.
“Calm down Beast, let us help you.” She says in a gentle voice which has him whining again as if he wants to say something. “I know, you want to help Love, but you can’t if you aren’t okay.” A deep sorrowful whine emits from deep within.
Just then I hear approaching footsteps, looking in their direction I see Trek, Shok, Drez and Darius running towards us, in the far distance is two servants carrying items that are necessary to help Beast.
“My sovereign, where would you like us to take him?” Trek asks when they are standing in position around Beast.
“Lay him near the pool, under the canopy” the males get to work as soon as the order is issued. When they raise Beast he roars in pain, the birds in the trees take flight at the noise. I feel so bad that I have to lay my hands on Beast to try and appease his pain, my heart is constricted with the pain I feel coming from him.
I envision a bright green healing light sending it into Beast, I feel him start to relax as sleep takes over. I might not be able to heal him, but I can take his pain away at least for a little while. Beast growls just before his eyes close and he is out.
The men carry Beast up the embankment towards the mansion, they lay him down under the canopy. Mom starts working on him as soon as he is in place to try to heal him. “Trek, I want you to take the men and find Love” Dad orders, “take Hope and Dream with you, they will be safer with you then here where we don’t know who our enemies are.”
Trek inclines his head in agreement, “wait here, I will be back with the men.”
I turn towards Dad to see him talking to Darius, an angry scowl on his face which indicates how angry he is. Dad takes a while to anger but when he does it is prudent to keep away. “Come Hope, they are calling us” I turn to see Dream stepping towards where the men are standing now waiting for us.
“I don’t need to tell you to be careful, do I?” Dad suddenly says from next to us, “listen to your guards and bring your sister back.” I raise up on my toes to kiss his cheek and smile.
“Don’t worry, we will be fine” Dream says as she hastens on her way towards the men, I follow tensing when I see Trek frown as I approach.
“What?” I ask, my hackles rising at his look.
“This isn’t a joke Hope, you need to listen to me when we are out there” I nod at his statement, knowing that he is right but if anyone is in danger, he can’t expect me to cower away while I see them getting hurt.
“Shall we go,” Dream calls from the edge of the group, Trek grunts in annoyance as he waves his hand for me to proceed him. The men flank out as we start walking down the embankment towards the trees where we found Beast. Love has a pure heart and always believes the best in people; she has always tried to help beings that she has found are hurt, or in need. She is the last of us that should have been taken by such evil. I wish Beast could talk; he would have been able to tell us what happened.
Trek kneels a few steps ahead to look at the ground, a frown adorning his face. “What is it?” I ask.
“These tracks have become deeper here, which means that whoever these belong to started carrying more weight from this point.”
“You think it was Love?” I ask looking at the marks on the ground. “Those aren’t shoe marks, what does those?”
“A Centaur” Trek replies as he stands and glances around, his head is slightly lifted which tells me that he is scenting the air. “And yes, I think he is the one that has Love, but he’s not the only one.” Centaur’s have always been a problem, they are wild by nature, their human upper body not strong enough to fight their wild half horse bottom half, but they have never done something like this. Whoever the mastermind is behind this attack, I am sure it’s not a Centaur as they are too wild to plan something like what has been happening.
“Do you see more Centaur tracks?” I ask looking around at the ground to try and see what he does.
“There are two more Centaurs but there is also two with feet, by the size of the feet I would say they are Troll’s.” I gasp, that means we are looking at a group of five. My heart races as I think of Love, Centaur are wild, but they aren’t mean, but there is a faction of Trolls which are mean to their very core. We are at peace with the Trolls, but they have a group of them that have been banned by their leader from their community as they wrought havoc constantly.
I know that Love can take care of herself like my other sisters can, but we are talking about a group of five strong beings that are holding her captive. “How did they get to this realm, the humans will panic if they see them on the road” I say pensively, the gates to Eternity Fae are closed, no one can go in or out. How did these beings manage to move between the two realms?
