Chapter 153: Snake of a Man
Rafael blinked, as though he was confused. He cocked his head to the side like a curious child. "Princess Nessa, you know who I am."
"No, I don’t!" Nessa nearly screeched. "If you’re a humble landed knight, I’ll eat my whole foot. No commoner could have such a powerful type of magic! It’s too distinctive!"
Or more accurately, no royal family would let a commoner with such a terrifying power live to tell the tale.
"No commoner you know," Rafael corrected placidly. He held out his arms. "But here I am. Living proof that commoners can have incredible powers. You’ve already met Orion. He was a commoner and he slayed a dragon. As it stands, our existence is rare, but it’s not an impossibility."
Rafael reached down and purposely drew their attention to Orion’s condition. He was still in his cell, barely breathing.
"If we stay here any longer, he’d die from infection. We need to rescue him and leave before the guards realize what happened," Rafael said gravely. He turned to Princess Nessa with a faint apologetic glance. "You can ask your questions later."
Nessa’s eyebrow twitched. This was such an obvious attempt at changing the subject! However, she couldn’t deny that his words weren’t false. She had seen too many incredible things in the span of one night. Orion Elsher’s deeds were well-known, Sir Ralph commanding blood the same way she commanded the waves and Soleia’s nullification ability.
God. That last one was more shocking than anything she had witnessed. But that made it all the more important for her to figure out ’Sir Ralph’s’ true identity.
The three of them tried to move him, and he shifted weakly. His eyes opened just a crack, and a low, weak groan escaped his lips. It was more a breath than an actual vocalization of sound, but Soleia was relieved that he hadn’t died yet. She touched his head and found it was boiling from a fever.