The Kingdom of Havila.
"Get the fuck off me."
Tzu said, meaning to hurl Jim away from him if twas possible.
Jim fought himself free. He started pressing his hands to his robe as though he had lost something.
Few of the market fellows took interest in them in the first place, but seemed to had lost it.
"Do they have a thing for strangers too?"
Tzu asked Jim. Jim wore him out with the how-would-you-expect-me-to-know kinda ogle.
"Aiiieee"
They heard from behind them. A man was pushing a wooden barrow behind them trying to pass through. They hopped off the road.
Jim to the right, Tzu to the left.
They had been standing in the middle of the road. They could see the huge gate of the city several metres away from them.
Still Havila. "Get the fuck off me." Jim struggled in vain as some guards from nowhere grabbed to restrain him. He was quite strong enough and was able to yank himself off the two. He had no idea where the strength came from. But then he heard Tzu calling, "Is that what you want? Is this how you want to get the revenge?" Jim slowed down and stood before Lailah. He was fueling but what Tzu had said seemed to have the best of him. Tzu hurried to where Jim was and whispered into his ear, "Amongst what you heard deep in your consciousness, was there such thing as ambush?" Jim shook his head free and eyed Tzu with detest. He hated Tzu. Tzu was always the coward in the name of observing some godforsaken rules and probably ethics. Ethics for such crazy lady.<
"Who are you three?" The Roman Emperor's voice was husky, refined and polished. His accent wasn't all well spoken of, but at least, even the deaf could make a meaning of it. Jim looked at his two brothers who were by his right and left. The three of them were kneeling before the throne. Jim thought that one of them should speak to the Emperor. Even though he knew not what to say. "I'm sure you do not want that repeated?" The Emperor's voice came again. Ja cleared his throat of the lumps of confusion. He was going to speak when Jim snatched the medium, "Nymph hunters." He said. Ja looked at him. More of a are-you-insane kinda of gaze. Tzu had his eyes all glued to the Emperor on the throne. Behind the three of them were numerous chiefs who had come
"Is it Lailah?" Ja called at Loe who was quite faster than the three of them. Loe had caught up with the warriors as soon as they all alighted from the chariot. There were few other warriors already circling the lady who was threatening to hurl the Helmet of Jin inside the water. She was quite close to the lapping waves. Majority of the warriors had their legs dipped into the waves without looking behind. Even if the crazy lady hurl the helmet, some of them would make sure to catch. Ja and his siblings, alongside the other fellows got to Loe who was staring blankly at the lady. Ja looked at Loe's face before looking away to the lady. Twas the look of surprise on his face. He looked towards the lady, twasnt Lailah. That was a relief, but twas that lady Loe had been betrothed to in Ikpala. Twas
Somewhere in the depth of the ocean. "Hui hak hajan a" That was the gibberish one of the three guys heard. He wasn't sure if the two others rolling alongside him in the hollow meant to say something. They had been like that since goodness knew when. They had been rolling and screaming down the hollow. The torrent of the depth of the ocean was tuning and twas becoming suicidal. The warrior who thought he had heard a thing tried to hold unto the person next to him, but he couldn't. He missed the catch. It seemed as though his hand came out at the other side in the fellow's body. Then suddenly, the turmoil began to subside. The tumbling and rolloing hollow which seemed to had been crashing against huge rocks knew sanity. There was peace and quiet. But the h
"We've searched all through the waters as much as we could, yet nothing to show for." The leader of the warriors who was bowing before the Emperor said. His face was down, but you could tell that he was very sensitive to any call about to be made by the ruler. "To what depth of the waters did you delve?" The Emperor asked. The fellow hesitated for a while then said, "I can't be sure. We didn't have a means of measuring it, but we did all we could." He kept emphasizing that point. He knew quite well that the Emperor was never satisfied. He always would find an excuse to owe their incompetence to. Well, they weren't incompetent, twas simply that, the Emperor was never satisfied. "Did you go over to the other side of the sea? That which we came through?" The Emperor's voice was becoming stiffen
In the depth of the ocean. "When the mortals and the immortal meet, to what do we owe that." A very husky but quite rich voice came from ahead of them. The warriors couldn't figure out whose voice twas. Who was to blame that they were caught in such claws? Of course Aojen. Three ladies remove the sacks covering the heads of the three warriors. They looked up at the ladies. They were extraordinarily beautiful. They hadn't seen any sort of ladies ever. "Who are you and where are we?" Aojen shot at the lady standing beside him. The lady didn't say a word. He looked up at her. She was barely naked. What she had on was a strap of linen reaching across the two shoulders down the path of the boobs. The linen cupped the boobs, but left every other parts open. Of course the waist down to the rise of the t
"What's this place?" Ja Lia muttered. Twas more of a statement than a question. He had been there before, some whiles ago. Okay! Probably some weeks or probably month back. That was where he had met Loe in the first place. That same place had the Raven led him too. Since he didn't have the guts to return empty handed to the Emperor, thus had the persistence been supplanted. He either got the bird or remained a wanderer. Though the fear of being killed immediately by the strange Emperor who surely had no regards for life, prevented him from manning up to go and tell the Emperor that he couldn't catch the bird. "Okay, now! Raven, enough of the hide and seek. Come out already. I do not have the strength for this drama." He said, standing few metres away from the door of the hut. The hut was in no good shape. But that wasn't really the point. The point was
The Palace. Kingdom of Havila. "Who's he?" The Monarch said standing up as the tattered man walked briskly towards the throne to lay his hands on Ja Lia who was being resrained by guards. Ja had wanted to run to the throne and hug the Emperor for safety. "Hold him back." The husky voice of the Emperor. A stern order. At that, two attendants ran towards the man to hold him back, but he was much more stronger than they were. He flung them away and kept on walking towards the throne. The more guards who went to restrain him, the easier he threw them off. What he kept muttering was the, "Where is Lailah?" Ja had no faintest idea where the bird was at that moment. One thing he was sure of was the fact that the bird didn't enter the palac