[HAWI]
"Coming from the girl who watched her best friend died unjustly and is still playing hide and seek with the stupid warlock we should have all killed, you sure have a high horse to be in," Mbali growled at Rukiya.
She was so done with everyone trying to keep the woman she wanted to know more about, away from her.
Granted, there was a chance that Amina herself wasn't even here to being with, but goddamn, the hostility they were showing her because of the possibility of Amina being around was not good at all.
They needed to put themselves in her shoes and understand that she wanted this, even if she was never going to admit it out loud. She didn't want to be in a position where shit went down and sideways and they blamed her for it.
However, at the same time, she felt that it was unfair for them to be treated her like shit when they could just choose to be happy for her, and embrace the fact that's a truly like Amina, or the thought of Amina.
Fuck, maybe it was the magic and the poison that was messing with her mind, but was that the only reason she felt like exploding at her friends who were only looking out for her?
"Careful, you're walking on thin ice, Lihle," Hawi warned, and Mbali just groaned in pain.
She knew she couldn't challenge Hawi, because Hawi was her commander but damn, she was a desperate person who just wanted her Amina. Was that too much of an ask for her?
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"If you're listening, step out and let us see you," Malika called out to Amina when she realized that her sister was growing more irrational and would probably do something that would cost them all their lives.
This was not going to be easy no matter how they wanted to look at it. Their lives were already messy enough that they didn't need to fight Mbali too.
The man was in so much pain that he wasn't even thinking straight. If there was a time that Malika could break into the man's head to see the identities of the other seven four shadow warlocks, this would have been the perfect chance for that.
Nik was not even in a state to fight anyone from invading his mind because he was so focused on the pain he thought he was going to go nuts.
The fire right above him was agitating him and making the poison do things to him that he would never wish even on his worst enemies. Well, his worst enemies were here with him and they were the ones doing that to him.
All he had to do was tell them what they wanted and they would consider letting him go, but he wasn't as stupid, yeah?
"Someone shut him up, please," Ruru said when she looked at Nik who was religiously screaming from the pain of the heat. The poison in his body had long spread and he was a mess from it all.
Maybe he would find a way around this time, right? Well, that was a huge maybe because compared to the pain Mbali was feeling, the Savasci Knights gave no shit about Nick's pain.
Hell, if they could intensify it and make the man lose his mind, then they would gladly do it without a second thought.
It was always that simple so there was no point in pretending that they wished well for the man who was their greatest foe... at least one of their worst foes anyway.
Malika looked at Nik, wondering what the fuck the man was yapping about when all of this was his doing.
If he hadn't tried to kill Mbali with the black locust poison, they would have been closer to their destination on the west, but then he just had to open his mouth and be a nuisance to them.
He had made their lives ten times harder by creating the one nuisance that the Savasci Knights wouldn't dare lay a hand on. Nik had given him something that they wouldn't kill or even wish ill on and boy was it frustrating.
They loved Mbali too much to let her suffer, but the same couldn't be said for Nik. Maybe that was why Malika decided to be the devil's spawn this time, surprising even Hawi herself.
"And you all said I am the devil," Hawi asked amusedly.