Cursebreaker [Dreams - I ]

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Aislin was happy but her joy was dulled now. Two days has passed since she won the decathlon, Anthony considered her just a friendly nod worthy and she was even given a certificate and gold medal. It turned out that one of the Symons brothers was checking her out and even tried to flirt with her.

Since she was not committed she had to come up with some serious excuse...well as serious as she could get.

"Albie, I have a boyfriend and we are in a long distance relationship." Yeah, a very long, in another dimension long relationship.

And he was not even her boyfriend, she would not allow for her feelings to go to the point where it will endanger Ayduin.

And two days have passed since Ayduin contacted. She saw him leaving the palace. She saw his mother, strikingly beautiful, statuesque lady, his army general who was very handsome and then an extremely model pretty girl who was eyeing him in a way she didn't like. Now she was dying to know how Ayduin looked.

She also saw a pure white horse with silvery tail and a weird pair of cloud grey eyes. It neighed happily when Ayduin sat on it clearly in love with his master. Folred looked even paler than usual or maybe because a long ride on the horse was scaring the wits out of him.

They both have talked for the longest time till he left for the place and she even accompanied him to a dark yet beautiful forest that had trees but of ice blue and rose pink in colour with dark brown branches. Unknown set of flowers blossomed on it and thought it was all cold and frozen, Aislin absolutely loved all of it.

But as soon as they went into darker part of the forest Ayduin introduced as the forest of Congelfos or frozen flowers, she was sure there was some meaning behind it, there was utter silence. She tried talking loudly, screaming in thoughts and even trying to think about him before going to sleep in hope like the other time he might come in dreams but nothing happened.

It was the third day and Aislin was worried, was her feelings out of control and curse started working already? No, No Ayduin was just a friend to her. She had gained the idea that Flames of Vita was dangerous else Ayduin would not have broken contact. Or was it like Ayduin said, there might be magic barriers that broke their bond.

She struggled out of bed and dragged herself to school. She attended classes in a daze doodling on her copy all the while, realising she was drawing an image of a desert, widespread like in her dreams.

Now she had no idea how to contact Ayduin, she was terribly missing, again!

This time she was not as sad though, this time she felt angry. Why did this keep happening? She herself has wasted so many days trying to stay away from him and now when she was in need of a friend he had gone silent. She realised how Ayduin must have felt when she vanished.

She was in no mood to go back home so she decided to go to the library and divert her mind by reading something good. She loved walking through the library and caressing books as she walked by. It was a little game she played with herself, the one where her fingers stopped would be the book she would read.

I sincerely apologise for the delay. Her fingers stopped as the voice filled her head.

What the hell happened? I was so damn worried, first, you tell me it is a dangerous place and then you go MIA on me. I had so many weird thoughts!

Ayduin was smiling now, happy to the point of giddiness almost feeling the shards of ice melting into warm water inside him. He never had someone so openly and unabashedly care for him, never had someone scold him out of worry and use so absurd words to do so.