Chapter 121: Missing
The days passed by, and Mineah was just getting ready to sleep when another message came to her from Ebodia. Already, she was dreading just looking at it even as she did her best to be optimistic about things. Surely, this was good news. That her brother was finally free from the curse he had inadvertently gotten and that things were going well with their war...
"I’m just overthinking things," she told herself as she held the unopened letter in her hands. "This will be good news. Surely, I’m just overreacting."
Taking in as much courage as she could muster, Mineah let out a breath before opening the letter. Almost immediately, her courage evaporated as the contents of the letter made itself known to her.
"No... Surely, Brother wouldn’t just disappear like that..."
She couldn’t believe her eyes at what she just read. But the more that she read the letter in her hands, the more the reality of things started to settle in her mind.
Ezekiel had gone missing, and it was during the same day that the dragon had appeared over the battlefield.
"Maybe it was just a coincidence," she quickly reasoned even as her hands trembled with how tightly she was gripping the letter. "Maybe he was just outside that day... Or maybe he was off doing an undisclosed mission to prevent information from going to the enemy..."
Her mind was abuzz as she did her best to rationalize such a coincidence. After all, it had only happened once so far. So long as it didn’t happen again, the chances of such an event merely being happenstance was higher than him truly being the dragon.
But the letter did state that he hadn’t returned so far...