Chapter 23 - Getting Lost

Jason raced on his horse ahead of everyone. Riding at a fast speed with the wind kissing his skin was the only way that he could handle the scene he witnessed before they left the kingdom. 

It was his first time riding a horse but it came naturally to him. Like something he had been used to doing. He could get used to it. 

It was hard to believe that the girl he liked had placed him in the friend zone. A kiss in the cheek always meant that we are friends, he was so foolish to have read too much into it. 

Seeing Sashina kiss Davion on the lips brought him back to reality. The male and female leads always find their way to each other no matter where they were or what stood between them. 

The faster he rode the more his heart ached. Trapped in a world that wasn't his home, and having to watch the love of his life embrace someone else. It was all too much for him. 

He was so caught up in his thoughts that he didn't realise when he had taken the wrong turn. He just kept going, his vision blurry from the tears that were brewing in his tears. 

"You are a man Jason. A man shouldn't cry," he scolded himself. 

"Neheheheghraaahhhh!"

He came out of his thoughts hearing the panicked sound from the horse. He looked around, sweat trickled down his forehead noting where he was. He was just about to fall off a small cliff.

One more minute and he would be toast. "Come on boy," he patted the horses and changed direction. The horse stepped on soft ground and down they went. 

They stumbled down and landed harshly on the ground. "Awww," he groaned. 

Jason got up, he looked around. The place he had stumbled into was giving him the chills, there were weird thorn bushes growing everywhere. Some even took a piece at him. 

The horse was fine so he had one thing to be relieved about. "Crown Prince," he called out. 

"Yes."

Jason's face brightened hearing a reply. He was just taking a chance at calling his name and didn't expect the man to appear there. 

"Can you help me up?" He asked not giving it a second thought. In that moment, he forgot about the thing he was so upset about and also forgot that the crown prince hated him. 

Davidson looked down from above and scoffed. He was beginning to rethink even attempting to hurt the prince. Fate seemed to have that covered for him without him having to lift a finger. 

"How do you expect me to do that?" He questioned. He didn't even put his mind to it to try and think of a way to get him up from there. He just stood there and watching the scene. 

"Aren't you going to be king one day? Use your head to think of something?" Jason snapped at him. It was unbelievable of him to behave the way that he did.

"Okay then, wait until I become king and then I will use my head to save you," the crown prince uttered coldly. 

Jason gritted his teeth. He kicked a rock on the ground thinking it to be the crown prince. What he wouldn't give to have a piece of the cocky crown prince. The man was starting to get on his nerve. 

He just needed to find something to pull him up that too was hard for the lazy prince. He had his elemental powers, he could lift the ground by controlling the earth and get him and the horse up but no, the man has to play dumb and pretend like he was stupid.

"Will you quit joking around and help me," he said. "Hello," he noticed the crown prince was gone. 

He kept calling for him but there was no reply. 'Did he die out of stupidity?' Jason thought. 

The man had just left him there and went away. He would be glad, the prince would no longer drag him to the Seam if he wasn't sure of how to get out of there by himself. 

"Pity," he jumped hearing the crown prince right beside him. "I have heard stories of your exceptional skills in manipulating nature to do your bidding. Was that just a rumor to give name to the prince of Xeris?" He asked to him. 

Jason frown. When did such rumour ever spread? He was sure that it has nothing to do with him. 

"I'm starting to think that the prince of Xeris is nothing but a fake," the crown prince let out unimpressed. "But there is no smoke without fire and your father fears you enough to send you away from home. So there must be some truth in it," he added. 

Jason stopped trying to understand what the crown prince was trying to say. The man was making no sense at all.

He watched the prince examine the weird thorn plants that were around. There was a flower nearby that stood out from the other plants. Unlike the other plants that were black and had a dark aura to them. It had bloomed and had green leaves. 

"Where are we?" He dared to ask. 

Davidson didn't reply him. He had been to that place several time before and that was his first time seeing those weird plants. Even the green flower plant wasn't there before, all of it had seemed to have grown out of thin air. 

There was no way that anyone would be stupid enough to come there just to plant seeds. To get there one needed to cross the old bridge, he was surprise when Nedryn dared to ride his horse at a fast speed across the bridge that was barely holding. 

He touched the flower with his finger, the flower opened and pink pollen sprayed on his face. Davion wiped his face clean with his shirt and glared at the flower. 

To his surprise the flower was gone and the thorny plants started growing even bigger. 

"Ran," he screamed to Jason.