Chapter 83 - Seventy-Nine

After Seiroe left us alone once more I sit beside Leonel, receiving an inquisitive look from him.

"What?"

"What was that? You were fine with the kid before…"

"You mean Seiroe?" He nods. I quickly look behind me, giving a little peek at my surroundings with my third eyes, and making sure we were all alone as I whisper to Leonel:

"I don't trust him. Actually, I don't trust any of them except maybe Aeglos and Ragnur."

"Why so?"

"Don't you find it strange? The so-called safe hidden place, with such powerful magic protecting it, to be discovered and break down so easily?"

"Wait, don't you mean that…" I nod, both of us carrying a very heavy serious expression.

"Yes, there is a traitor among us." When you think about it, it makes sense, otherwise how could they have planned such a trap and kidnapping plan with such a high degree of success? How did they know where to attack, and who to kidnap?

That seemed slightest suspicious to say the least…

At that Leonel narrows his eyes, the same line of thought passing through his mind as he looks at me than towards the building.

"And yet you send him to such an important mission. Why?"

"Because I'm not sure who betrayed us." Nor if there was really a betrayed at all, but I did not live for this long trusting strangers blindly. "Plus if they really are a spy they will want to keep us believing in their facade, so they are due to go out and "help" us, and right now we can't afford to refuse it."

That's right, what we need is to get moving and get information out of this mysterious puppeteer, we could not fight against someone we did not even know of.

And those creatures that he used… were quite peculiar, similar in some way to the ones the necromancer used, and yet no usual or common so there was bound to have some information about it too.

And I knew the best place to look for that.

Since Isaac and the Templar were already looking after the sick and had their hands full I pull Leonel up by the hand and bring him to a more secluded place.

He follows without asking, making me a little happy that we were getting this close, not needing words to convey that we wanted.

I liked that.

I just could not enjoy it at the moment.

After we get into the woods and farther from the house I see that there are signs of destruction everywhere, including my own scratch marks.

We will need to leave this place soon.

"Ok… so…" I start to put my thoughts in order while speaking. "Let's see what we need to do… search who attacked us, of course, find out why Aeglos is not waking up, find out why they attacked us, and keep up with building our free nation too."

Leonel frowns, not understanding the last part, saying:

"We can continue it later on, right now we have more important matters to attend to."

"I understand, but if this turns out to be bigger than we think we might want to have a safe place to return to when this is over."

He seems to think my words over, but I continue thinking out loud:

"So what we need the most is information… And Leo, you are far better in that area than me, so I'll leave it up to you." He nods, probably with some ideas already in mind.

Even though Aeglos situation bothers me there was nothing I could do right now, I needed to search for some healing magic or mind magic… But where? Both were super rare treats.

Something I could ask Isa later, I suddenly think, since he is able to use healing light magic he may know more about the subjects then I.

I could only hope.

"Ok, Leo, I'm going to take us into my Shadow Dimension now. There you are unable to see, but I can, so stay close ok?" Since it was a Shadow Dimension no light was able to reach there no matter how much it evolved, and even I could not perceive the surroundings, not with normal means; only with my Third Eye I could see there.

"What for?"

I explain to him that, inside there, is an ancient library; though I do not say the exact contents, only that it has a lot of historic ancient books talking about the past that could contain information about the magic and creatures used to attack us.

And you may ask… weren't you up to keep it a secret from everyone? And I would not answer that it was because I trusted Leonel with my soul and heart.

No.

I would say that it is to test him. Tempt him. See his reaction when receiving such golden information, if his mind would perceive the potential this place held.

I would love to say that I did not take him into account, but…

Someone may have betrayed us.

And anyone could be that someone.

And who's best than the one trying to gain your trust and love?

Even though I wanted to believe him, and knowing that if he was the one who betrayed me it would create a void inside the deepest part of my heart, my instincts were sharper and better than my human mind, and now they were screaming at everyone.

And it would stay that way.

Until I have my brother back.

"Shall we go?" I ask, moving my hand sideways, but my eyes were glued on his face to see which kind of expression he would show in front of such an invaluable source of information.

Nations would rage war for this.

And yet he doesn't seem any different, only nodding and tightening the grip over our hands as I move us inside, disappearing on the outer world, only a deep shadow remaining eerie were we stood before.

And I was glad for the darkness, because it hid the satisfied smile that I had on my face.