Anna's brain froze for a second. She had been up in her head thinking about the possibilities of things for a moment now. The first thing that came to her mind when she opened her mouth was to try and ease herself of the pent of emotions she was feeling. She had set out trying to vindicate herself and not be run into the corner by an emotional blackmail but all of a sudden, things changed. When the brain regained its pace, all Anna could do was just stare at her father with no words. The man was not looking at her. He was staring at the front. Her gaze had tuned to the extent that, if there was a way, her eyes would have drilled holes in his face. At a point, it would seem as though the side of his face was an outlet where Anna could comfortably plug her eyes. She heard Lord Theo sigh very heavily. Then he turned to the door and pushed it open. He climbed out of the car. Anna's eyes suddenly turned red again. She couldn't even count the number of times she had been forced to get

Irmais was taken off guard by what Cory had just said. Irmais took two steps closer. He turned his ear towards Cory. He was a little bit clueless on top of the load of confusions he already had. He didn't know what to decide. He couldn't tell for a fact whether Cory was asking a question or making a conclusion. "Huh?" He further tried to ask the question. He was not ashamed to ask a question when he was concerned. It seemed like he knew whom he was talking to. He wasn't looking at the body of the man in front of him. He was looking at the essence of the man standing in front of him. He was looking through the eyes of Cory and was seeing his master. "My parents are dead." Cory continued. Cory didn't seem to care that Irmais did not have any clue. He didn't care that he wanted to get the answer to the first question. He was not here to please Irmais. He was here to get this over with as soon as possible. Irmais could also read the reactions on his face. He could tell that much th

Irmais collected the gem and tossed it down his throat. He had a hard time swallowing it at the first try, so he pushed it back out and chewed on it for the next few moments until it was safe to swallow. Cory didn't stop or wait for him after he collected the gem. Cory was walking away with an urgency. Irmais quickly picked up the pace and started racing after him. "Master." Irmais called eventually. Cory stopped in his tracks. It would seem as though he had just been shocked to his core by the title with which Irmais had just addressed him. He turned around slowly to look at Irmais. Irmais still looked as confused as ever, but this time, there seemed to be a ray of hope lighting up the corner of his face. Cory didn't want to read any extra meaning to this unless he had gotten the exact information he could work with. "Do you believe now that I am your master?" Cory asked, turning fully to face Irmais. Irmais let out a deep sigh. That was a very good question. He was still hav

She freaked out at the sound of the voice and almost rolled over her face to the front. She couldn't have imagined that there was someone else with her in the room. She was sitting by the nearest wall. The two windows of the room were up ahead of her. She could see them far away from where she was seated. The door itself was several steps away from where she was seated. Naturally, she could have thought that someone might have jumped in through the windows, but those were the windows in front of her. In fact, the swan chair was the nearest to the extreme area of that corner of the room. But right now, not only could Lila hear a sudden voice behind her. But there was also a very imposing and ominous presence towering over her from behind. She didn't even know when she fell on her face and tried to roll over. She clutched the scroll to her face as she slowly paved the way in order to give room to her eyes to make the mental judgment. When she eventually looked, she saw a man dres

She couldn't even begin to process what she had just seen. She didn't know what to make of it and how to make any sense of it. It seemed like it was a form or sort of magic. It didn't sit well with her mind. She could swear with everything she held dear that she saw Cory charge at the monk. In fact! It wasn't a charge! It was more like what the wind could do. He had skipped like the wind and had gotten to the monk before the monk could even lift a hand. If that was right. If what she had seen was true, then what the hell was this in the air?Her eyes still lingered on the pieces of olden skin-like paper flying in the air and landing on several parts of the room. She knew what this meant. It means that the monk had just torn the scroll. But how? How the hell did that even happen?Lila was very confused and lost. She had done a lot of crash projects and even important assignments in college, but she had never accosted something so mind-boggling and ridiculously out of tune like somet