She couldn't couldn't explain why but she just knew that Sasha had been standing in this room a second ago. She peeked outside to see the darkness start to creep in to shade everything dark and blue. She heard a banging in her door.
'who was that'
Must be her Sentinel. She must've been gone for too long and they thought to wake her up. She went to the door to open it to meet a sharp look from her Sentinel who just barged right in after he established that she wasn't naked nor was she busy.
He sniffed the air a couple of times as if trying to assure himself before concluding anything.
"Who was here"
"Someone was here?" she was lost for a second before she thought that maybe her dream wasn't just in a secluded spot somewhere and that Sasha was actually here . . . "oh uhm, it was Sasha but only in a dream"
At the mention of the woman's name he stood alert. He knew a thing or two about weaknesses and he had already registered that this particular women was a weakness and a huge risk to Dana's life but she seemed oblivious to that particular detail . . . infact, it seemed as if they had done a round of retail therapy together but he had been in the front of the cabin all this time so there was no way she would've slipped between his fingers. What is going on?
"And she left you untouched?" now he was legit confused about the intentions of the woman? Was she trying to lure her in? But as he stood there wondering, what she said next made him stand frozen, "She had come to kill me".
The Sentinel stood rigid, if something had happened to the Princess...
He couldn't even bring himself to think about the meaning of that and its implications to him. His eyes flashed with cold fury before he blinked to soften them up. All of this was strange, he couldn't sense any death in the air so he knitted his brows and sniffed again, the only thing permeating the air was something that the Princess wanted to do...
"What?" she looked at him for an answer
"Pardon?"
"You are staring at me like you're dissecting an estranged alien plantfor a lab experiment" Only then did he realise that he's been staring for too long.
"You seem... I don't know" he trailed trying to find the right word for it "determined to do something urgently" was what came out of his mouth, his face still giving nothing away.
"We need to go back home... to the park now! Where is the old man"? she questioned her Sentinel who seemed puzzled from the brooding expression in his face. I just left him there and went in search of the old man who was miraculously on my way as soon as I stepped outside the cabin.
I was nervous, fidgeting even. Time was ticking by and I know I have to get to Sasha and save her.
What was I thinking making such nonsensically huge promises?
"I need to go back home... I have to fix things with Sasha and I have less than an hour to get there and make things right" she was nervous and her blabbering had always given her anxiousness a pedestal for others to see her state of mind, not that the old man would've had a hard time dissecting her emotions anyway.
"What use could you possibly be to her, frantic as you are?"
Did he always have to state the obvious?
"What good am I if I let him take her again, this time sending her soul to an endless dark abyss... what honor do I have if I can't even keep a simple single promise" she knew her anxiety was sky rocketing and she was losing her grip on its leash but she didn't know what else to do. Every second mattered right now.
"Rest assured Princess, there is nothing simple about your promise and might I ask... how exactly do you intend to help her?"
This man must have been a demon in his previous life with an inkling to rub people in frustration the wrong way. Kind of like those people who find you hanging in the balance and tell you to just let go... to just end your miserable life instead of telling you stuff like 'you still have a lot to live for'.
"Help me" was all that she could say sensing that farmiliar feeling of helplessness envelope her.
"There are always two sides of the coin Princess... however, situations like these are far more perplexed than just flipping a coin to see the other side to it. This one is like rolling a dice, there always will be an outcome without ofcourse the assurance that its the anticipated one"
Oh-kay...
He took her silence as a sign to go on, knowing that she heard him without full comprehension of his words.
"Are you sure this is a gamble you are willing to make? What I mean is, will you be able to love with the outcome... favourable or otherwise?" she averted her gaze to look at the old man and his gaze was a furnace that seemed to be dancing too close for her comfort. There was no promise of life beyond the flame.
"I don't know if that is such a hard decision to come to... I don't think I could ever live with myself if I did nothing at all"
She sighed heavily trying to see past the helplessness and the guilt. Trying to see beyond the pain that threatened to sear her heart to pieces. The old man nodded once.
"I have one last chance to save what was left of her humanity and this time, I have run out of the luxury to make mistakes. I have absolutely no room for errors"
The resolve blazing in her eyes could no longer be shaken, the old man had no choice but to do her bidding and so was her Sentinel.