Chapter 530 - VACATION

"I don't know if this is the right decision to let her come with us." Kace pushed away a strand of hair from Hope's sleeping face. The girl used his laps as pillow for her to sleep, apparently the trip to get here had taken a toll on her.

Hope could barely open her eyes when they were inside this carriage, despite her strong will to go on this long journey to the sacred land, to meet with the priestess.

Inside the carriage, there were only Kace, Hope and Lana while Lidya, Ian and Ethan were in different carriage behind them.

This realm was something one could only imagine, even the carriage was pulled by two strangest animals that some of them had never seen before. They were like horses, but white, with fat yellow stripes.

The first time Hope saw them, she scurried away behind Kace's back, even the twins jumped and hid behind Lana.

Kace chuckled when he watched Hope widened her eyes, drowned in between curious and scared.

Only when Kace reassured her that those animals wouldn't bite, Hope took a step forward to observe the strange animals, yet she still didn't want to touch them.

Maybe, having Hope in this boring journey was a great idea. At least, his focus wouldn't be distracted by thinking of her every seconds of his breath.

He liked it when Hope was close to him and he could touch her rosy cheeks or played with her soft dark hair every time he wanted.

Hope was surrounded by many shapeshifters and despite the fact that Lidya was not a pure blood witch like Serefina, she was quite reliable. Kace had known her for years already and she was the only witch friend that Serefina had. Even so, it was rare for Serefina to talk about Lidya or what she was doing the last time she came to visit her.

"If she's here to help, then it is the right decision to keep her here." Lana propped her chin with her fist as she stared at the trees along the road outside the carriage. The sky started to turn bright as the sun, surely yet very slowly, rose at the horizon.

"We don't know what we're about to face," Kace muttered. "I just don't want see her to get hurt."

"She won't. And you don't need to worry about it. Because there are many of us here will protect her." There was this thick sarcasm detected in the way Lana answered him.

Since they set off in this journey to the sacred place where the priestess lived, Lana turned a little bit cold towardsKace. Almost like she wished she was not there.

Kace could feel it, but he knew her reason, thus he tried to act as if nothing happen. Initially, Kace suggested for Lidya to be in the same carriage as him and Hope.

However, Lana didn't want to be in the same carriage with the teenagers or to be in the same place with Lidya. Facing a witch like Serefina was enough for her to have to deal with a witch. She didn't wish to face another witch. Because for her, to deal with one witch was enough experience of a lifetime.

Therefore, the only option left for Lana, was to stay with the couple. It was really a tight spot for Lana to have to deal with the situation and her own feelings too, but Kace couldn't do anything about it. It was her battle, she should have known from the beginning that her feeling was forbidden.

Along this journey, it was so quiet, either in Kace's carriage or in Lidya and the siblings'.

The witch had fallen asleep when they were inside the carriage, Ian followed after that. It was only Ethan who was still awake until they reached their destination.

They arrived at a place similar to a harbor with many big sh.i.p.s were moored to the pier. People roamed around with loud of yowl and yell filled the air.

The noise from outside their carriage brought those sleeping people inside back to the reality.

Hope rubbed her face as she wandered her eyes sleepily. "Where are we?" she yawned. "Have we reached the sacred place?"

"Of course not yet," Kace tousled her hair and made it messier, "We have to take a ship to go to the other land."

The candlemaiden told them the raw directions, but she couldn't give the exact location, therefore, the candle that Raine brought with her, would tell them where they had to go.

Hope yawned and stretched both of her arms.

"My neck is hurt," she complained. With the way she was sleeping in this small carriage, of course she would hurt her neck.

"Don't be such a baby. You will be fine once we are out there." Despite what he said, his hand rubbing her neck softly to lessen her pain.

After Kace said that, the carriage stopped.

Hope still couldn't understand how these strange animals worked. Those animals could actually know where to go without anyone guided them and they didn't get lost at all.

How these animals could be smarter than her? As someone who would often get lost in direction, Hope was slightly irritated.

And when Kace helped her to get down from the carriage, the animal turned its head and gave Hope a smirk.

Hope wasn't sure if that was the right term. However, one thing for sure, she was quite interested in them.

But, there was another thing that picked Hope's interest the most, it was her surroundings. Ian and Ethan joined her when they had gotten off their carriage.

"I have never known that there's such a place like this exist," Ian murmured and Ethan couldn't stop himself from observing his surrounding too.

There were shops along the front-shore that were just now opening for the day.

Hope practically squalled as they walked along the displays and sitting in the front of the stores with Kace beside her and Ian was on the other side.

However, in their excitement, Ethan dampened their mood by saying. "We have an exam in four days."

"Oh, please, shut up!" Ian growled.

"Don't spoil the fun, we are in vacation now!" Hope grunted.