“I am glad I could help. The witch thought she had managed to put me to sleep, but she forgot that Centaurs do not fall completely to the effects of witchcraft and magic. We are magical creatures, and magic hardly works on us…” “That’s right, I was beginning to imagine how you were able to escape from her…” Lucy said with a nod that showed that she had fully understood what had happened, and her curiosity settled. “This isn’t right…” Dwayne whispered to the hearing of everyone as he looked at the map he was holding with both hands and looked down the cliff where the water flowed down to the other side. “What is it, Dwayne?” Sierra asked with a whisper, but he was silent while he tried to figure out the strange occurrence he had witnessed at that time. “This can’t be right, this must be a mistake.” “What is it, Dwayne? What did you see?” Lucy asked curiously as she drew closer to him, and peeped at the map to figure out what he was worried about. Seth drew closer almost immediate

“I have some friends among the guards, they agreed to help us get into his cell. With a price, of course. They insisted that it was going to be the night before the day of his execution because that was the night he was transferred to a private cell where he was prepared for his final breath.” Dwayne paused for a few seconds before he continued with a low tone. “We weren’t able to get so much information from Charles Oliver as our time was limited, and he wasn’t really willing to talk. He insisted that he was only going to speak the next day before his execution, but we pleaded with him. Eventually, he decided to tell us where to get the map, but he still told us to be aware that we weren’t going to be the only ones looking for the medallion.” “Charles Oliver warned us about Lord Rasmus, saying that he could never be trusted, even Humans who happened to be the ones who betrayed him and got him arrested. At the end of our visit, he warned us not to tell anyone that we had spoken to h

“There is only one way to find out. We will stick together while we check it out. Dwayne?” Jack turned to look at Dwayne who was already staring at him, waiting to hear what he was going to say. “Point us in the right direction. Everyone, brace up for whatever lies ahead.” Jack gestured to Dwayne who sighed heavily before he looked into the map. He stared at it for a few seconds, and when he was able to confirm his words, he lifted his face and followed the trail of the river. “That way, we will follow that way. We should be able to get to the seven mountains before sunset if we move really fast.” Dwayne pointed to a path that was close to the river, and everyone looked toward that direction at once. “Alright, guys. We heard him, we need to move now.” Jack gestured to everyone at once, and they slowly started going through the path close to the river with Dwayne leading the way with his eyes on the map in front of him. The other elves followed suit at once before Seth unsheathed h

“I am sure about that, Jack. A human once helped me when I was almost eaten up by a rogue wolf when I went into the forbidden forest to fetch some flowers for my beloved.”“What? You went beyond the boundaries, Seth? What were you thinking?” Lucy asked with so much shock on her face, but Seth was silent for a while before he eventually responded with a smile. “My beloved said she loved the smell of the flowers, and I really wanted to get them for her. I went to the local markets to get them, but I was told that they had finished, and the only place to get them was across the boundary. I spoke to my beloved about it…” “Let me guess, she demanded that you go across the boundary just to get her the flowers?” Jack cut in at once, looking at Seth who was a bit embarrassed to admit what truly happened. “Is that true, Seth? Is Jack correct?”“Not really, Lucy. You see, I was the one who insisted that I wanted to go beyond the boundary to get her those flowers. She didn’t want me to go, bu

“That’s good, Seth. I think you should hurry to make the fire. Run along.” Sierra said calmly without looking at Seth who nodded and walked away without looking at Jack who stared at him, puzzled at how almost everything about him had changed, how he switched from the Centaur who saved them from a witch to a coward who couldn’t stand up for himself. “That’s really strange…” Jack whispered to himself while he returned his eyes to the river, and looked at one of the fish swimming close to the surface of the water. With a strike, he hit it hard on the head with his blade and grabbed it with his left hand. “Yeah, you shouldn’t have moved through this path.” He chuckled softly while looking at the fish that dangled in his hands, struggling to free itself from his grasp with the last strength it had, but Jack held onto it tightly without any attempt to let it go. After he had become the second person to catch a fish, Jack continued to while the others eventually caught some others which