Chapter 137. You Know Nothing

Translator: Atlas / Editor: Regan

She had a wierd dream. It was a easy dream of struggling, burning ache, extremely vivid. She puzzled if that may have been the feeling she would have felt if her physique was burning in hellfire.

If there had been a knife in attain, she would have stabbed herself within the coronary heart. The ache was so insufferable that each one she might was cry and beg for dying.

Somebody held her, continuously whispering to her. She didn’t bear in mind what he was saying. However his mild heat and affectionate whispers had been nice. She clung to them by way of the limitless ache, and when it lastly stopped, she handed out.

It appeared like a while had handed. She wasn’t positive how lengthy, however she had wandered for a very long time in the dead of night, at the very least just a few days, earlier than she lastly got here to her senses. Leah awoke with a slight headache, frowning.

“……”

Dumbfounded, she appeared round. She was in an unfamiliar place. It was not Estia. It appeared she was in a barracks. The ground was lined with unique patterned rugs and the mattress Leah was mendacity on was lined in a elaborate patterned material. She pushed apart the blanket and stood up.

Or she tried.

A pained sound escaped her. She remembered consuming a potion and dropping her sanity, and feeling as if her physique was crumbling aside.

Leah sat up in mattress and appeared round once more. There was a cluster of branches hanging on the wall over the pinnacle of the mattress. In a single nook of the barrack was a big brazier. She was accustomed to the scent it was emanating; it was the odor of the tobacco Ishakan typically smoked. She sat, dazed.

A shudder wracked her. Recollections appeared one after the opposite, as disordered as if somebody had reduce them into items. There was a pointy ache in her head, and Leah clutched it in each palms. It felt as if her cranium was going to crack.

“Ahh…!”

She curled up with a groan of ache. The canvas door of the barracks cracked open and daylight illuminated the dim area.

“Oh, Leah!!!”

A heat enveloped her physique like a stable protect. Leah clung desperately to it till her labored respiratory calmed and her headache slowly subsided. After an extended whereas, she raised her head, and earlier than her eyes stood the person that even in her desires she at all times needed to see. Leah’s lips parted.

“Ishakan…”

Startled by her personal cracked voice, she shut her mouth. Ishakan poured water from a pitcher on the bedside desk right into a glass and introduced it to her lips, and he or she shortly drank. She felt refreshed. Even the slight, lingering headache was utterly gone.

It was then that she mirrored on what all of it meant.

“How lengthy have I been asleep?” That was the very first thing she needed to substantiate.

“It’s been three weeks.”

Three weeks? Was that doable? Seeing her shock, Ishakan’s eyes narrowed.

“After all, usually an individual would have died,” he stated quietly. It was sorcery that had saved her alive. Leah’s lips parted.

“So, that is…”

“It’s the desert. We’re on our option to Kurkan, and it appears to be like like we’ll be there in three days on the newest.”

Leah checked out him, shocked, however stated nothing. With issue, she pushed him away. She needed to substantiate it along with her personal eyes, however as quickly as she tried to get away from bed, one thing pulled on her left wrist with a metallic sound.

There was a thick leather-based cuff on her wrist, lined with comfortable material inside. A skinny chain related it to the mattress to limit her motion.

“…What is that this?”

She was so bewildered by this barbaric therapy that she was virtually speechless. Leah bit her decrease lip exhausting.

“Launch me instantly and ship me again to Estia,” she stated calmly. However Ishakan ignored her request. He solely laughed shortly.

“The place to? To Byun Gyeongbaek’s territory?” His gaze was flat, and he spoke coldly. “Even when the kidnapped bride returns, she received’t have an excellent time. Absolutely they may say that you’re not pure and they’ll stone you mercilessly. Isn’t that how they behave in Estia?”

His sarcasm angered her.

“That’s none of your online business!” Leah shouted. She noticed that his golden eyes had darkened, however she couldn’t cease herself. Her voice stuffed with distress. “You realize nothing…”

It was how she had felt when she had determined to die. It had no been a straightforward choice, however she had chosen dying as a result of there was no different manner out. She lined her face along with her palms. She felt like crying. Ishakan had by no means left her, which made her so pleased and so depressing on the similar time. As a result of she knew what might occur.

It wasn’t too late. She had to return. She was about to beg him to ship her away, when she heard his low voice.

“I don’t know what, Leah.” His tone was unusually quiet. Leah lowered her palms, her shoulders shaking.

Ishakan’s eyes had been icier than ever. He was barely controlling his anger.