Chapter 2860 Cruel Lesson (Part 2)

Chapter 2860 Cruel Lesson (Part 2)

"Narso!" Bodya screamed as tears streaked down his eyes.

The water hit the ground with a hiss due to its reaction with the acid that still permeated the area.

Tista put her personal feelings aside and turned into her full size to be able to embrace the Nidhogg and console him.

"He was my best friend." Bodya managed to say as the shock settled. "I was supposed to introduce him to you right here. We grew up together since we were the only two human hybrids of the tribe."

"I remember." Tista kept caressing his giant head.

"He had over 2900 years left to live. How could he die like that? This must be some sort of sick joke. A punishment for disappointing the patriarch." n.-O./V.)e))l)-b.-1)/n

'It indeed is a punishment.' Lith thought. 'But this is no trick, this is reality. Now I understand why the Jiera Council didn't oppose our colonization plans and Fenagar even helped with the first expedition. Things must be even worse than we expected.'

While Lith mused about the dangers that Orion's expedition was likely to face, Tista let her fury simmer but didn't let it show on the outside. Not a single tongue of fire erupted from her scales or feathers.

'What a cruel bastard! Forrn sent us here to make Bodya feel guilty and break him.' The Hekate cursed Fenagar and all the members of his bloodline with one single exception. 'Yet I'm no better.

'I was about to tear him a new one for letting the patriarch speak to him like that and for not taking my side immediately. In my fury, I hadn't considered how painful it must be to Bodya to cut off his family.

'This isn't a fairy tale. Love doesn't conquer all and we are not even engaged. If he gives up on his family for me and things don't work out for us, he's going to end up with nothing.'

"I said shut up!" Her seven eyes flared with as many streams of elemental energy. "I've been quiet in respect for your loss but now it's my turn to talk and you will listen. It takes two to make a relationship and I have the right to say my piece.

"If when I'm done you are still of the same mind, I won't bother you anymore. Is that okay for you?" She asked and Bodya nodded for her to continue.

"I was going to keep this to myself until you felt better, but you need to hear this now. Your patriarch is a manipulative, heartless piece of s-and!" The Guardians' auto-correct struck again yet Bodya's eyes went wide in outrage and he would have retorted if his word hadn't bound him to silence.

"Look around. Do you really think that a single Nidhogg can cause this kind of destruction? Do you really think that the rest of your tribe let Narso fight alone? Because if they did, it wouldn't be your fault, but theirs.

"You were thousands of kilometers away when this happened, but what's their excuse?" The Nidhogg froze for a second, this time it was his own voice and estimates that echoed through his head.

It had taken hundreds of liters of acid to do something like that. Which meant that a whole group of adult Nidhoggs if not more than one group had fought and lost there.

"If they didn't, it wouldn't be your fault either. Or are you so egotistical to believe that you alone could make the difference and save the day?" Tista's words stung, especially when Bodya shook his head to answer without interrupting her.

"Good." Tista said with a snarl. "Now comes the manipulative, heartless part. Don't you think it's strange that your best friend was the only one to die in the fight to protect a place that was dear to you?"

'Is she insinuating that my people killed Narso just to teach me a lesson?' He thought in a horror that was born from the possibility that it might have been true. 'It's too much of a coincidence.'

"It's too much of a coincidence." Tista gave voice to his thoughts. "Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty sure that your friend died in battle and that the members of your family did everything they could to save Narso.

"Yet I'm also pretty damn sure that this is a farce. How come Narso died here and why there's not a single other corpse? If you ask me, more than one Nidhogg died here but I bet that your friend wasn't among them.

"I bet that those who died here received a proper burial in the family tomb or whatever your tribe uses to honor their dead. I bet that Narso died in some other circumstance and that they planted the body here for you to find it."