Chapter 174 - Spread Your Wings

"Momma told me not to waste my time, she said spread your wings my little butterfly…"

"Oh, that's got to be my target!" Miss Nabi muttered to herself and hid in a corner after seeing a little girl hopping around the checkpoint headquarters while singing a song.

She turned into a corner and as soon as Miss Nabi read the nametag in that corner, she immediately knew she had come to the right place.

"When will they come back here, daddy?" the little girl asked the commander who was seated in front of his desk while manipulating his stuff.

"Tomorrow, most likely. If they'll follow my instructions," he said.

"And if they don't?" the little kid asked while trying hard to climb on the commander's seat.

"Then we'll have no choice but to arrest them," the commander said which almost made Miss Nabi gasp from the surprise of it all.

"They're going to arrest the princess and her team?!" she thought while preparing to leave the room now..

But unfortunately for her, the little kid saw her flapping around and decided on catching her instead of nagging his father at work.

"Look! A butterfly! I want that butterfly daddy!" the kid whined while pointing at Miss Nabi who was now panicking due to her fear of being seen and caught.

"Oh no, I can't let her have me. I need a way to escape this place! Fast!" Miss Nabi said to herself while swallowing the bile that accumulated in her throat.

She quickly looked around and flew as high up as she could to be unreachable to the child, but the moment she made contact with the ceiling, an opening to the vent suddenly hurled her up, sucking her inside the vent and almost shredding her into pieces if only she didn't maneuver herself to the other side of the vents.

There she saw an escape from the vents and quickly went there, not knowing that the young teenagers, who were still in detention were as bored as the little kid she had met earlier.

It didn't even help the fact that because of the sudden meeting, Miss Nabi accidentally opened her mouth and screamed in a very high-pitched voice, which made the two guys assume that it was the teenage girl who did it.

But knowing each other for too long, they quickly disregarded the thought and stood in a defensive stance instead while looking wearily at each other and their surroundings inside the storage room where they were locked in.

"Did you hear that?" the girl asked her buddies.

"Yeah, is that you?" the boy with the glasses asked her which made her look at him indifferently, almost as if she wanted to kick his ass at the moment.

"Seriously? You think I'd scream like that? F off!" the girl said and finished it up with a strong punch to the elbow of the young man in glasses.

The other young man, however, looked more serious than the two of them, which made Miss Nabi nervous and scared of making eye contact with him.

"I need to stop making those random noises! Especially now that I'm surrounded by humans and not my animals who could understand me!" Miss Nabi reminded herself before spotting the open window on the right.

"That's my chance!" she whispered to herself and made her way from the vent in the ceiling to the open window on the right walls.

But as soon as she perched in the window, Miss Nabi was frozen in her spot as she heard something from the kids who were still in a defensive stance.

"Didn't we also heard something like this when the ice bullet incident happened?" the girl said.

"Yeah, something about an itchy woman's voice."

"Do you think it's the witch?" the big guy suddenly said with his deep voice which raised all the hair in Miss Nabi's butterfly body.

"Why would you say that?" the girl said while relaxing her stance and turning her face to the big guy.

"Because what else could it be? A weird female's voice when clearly there's no one here? And how else would my aim be so accurate if it weren't tempered with by that witch? What if she's actually just using us to get to team Leviathan because she knows that we're upset by them?"

"That's a hard accusation right there, Gonder. How about you, Lorenz? What do you think about Gonder's accusation?" Karizze said to her friends while recoiling the rope that she sloppily grabbed by the confiscated items from the shelves earlier.

"It's not entirely impossible. Since the witch has been living in this place for so long now, right? And everybody knows it, although no one has seen her yet," Lorenz, the one with the glasses said and sat down on the floor like everyone else.

"Heize had something to do with Petunia?" Miss Nabi wondered to herself while flying away from the checkpoint HQ's tower.

"But I thought Petunia came to our place to look for Heize? Why is Heize doing this to her?" she added to her train of thoughts while landing on the highest point of the HQ.

"Maybe Heize doesn't want to go and see Petunia, that's why she's doing this. And besides, Heize isn't known to be friendly either. Hearing about her making friends is going to be even more shocking news to us compared to hearing about winter leaving our forest."

"Anyway, I should get going now. These people know Petunia and I think bringing her here would be the best way for her to reunite with her friends later when they come back. I should hurry up by then, I don't want Petunia to waste her chance on seeing her friends again. Although that would be goodbye…"

"Ahh! I don't want to think about it! And if she even asks about Heize, maybe it'll also be best to just tell her that Heize didn't want to see her anymore, even if they're friends. Okay, I know what I'm going to do now!" Miss Nabi said and glided down the tower and straight to the location of her animal village through the winter forest and as fast as she could.