Chapter 430: Crossed the border
"Is this your first time?" Cedric asked, his gaze fixed on her as she attended to his wound, completely focused. "It is my first." She answered. He was impressed at how she didn’t flinch at the sight of the blood and did everything with steady arms
"The burns have healed but the cuts are very deep." She mentioned thinking that was the reason it wasn’t healing. Cedric knew there was an abnormality. His entire body felt like he was going to collapse from pain but he hid it.
"We should start moving." He said. They started moving immediately after Abrielle was done. Cedric had to take Evelyn’s horse while she chose to ride with Axel.
Their horses raced non-stop in the cold night, they had to cross the border before dawn, and luckily, Vesper shared a land border with a coastal kingdom. The position they had been teleported to was in the middle of a forest close to the kingdom.
It was a route rarely used to travel since the waterways were more accessible.
They didn’t consider fleeing through the ports of Dacronia. Cedric was certain Lucian had men searching for him there. Abrielle felt Cedric trembling, she knew he was in pain but she didn’t voice it out. She could only pray that Cedric wouldn’t collapse.
At the back, Elias’s eyes kept on glancing in Evelyn’s direction. She was also injured, although it wasn’t as severe as Cedric’s. He was still bothered. Why did she choose to ride with Axel instead of him? He wondered if that was her type after all. Evelyn had once mentioned that if she ever had to choose a top knight, it would be Axel.
Evelyn could feel Elias’s gaze on her back but she dared not glance at him. Close to dawn, they crossed the border and arrived at Litoralia, a coastal kingdom close to Dacronia with a neutral relationship.
Cedric was growing weak, his body numb but he didn’t stop. Abrielle noticed how his breath became heavy, she noticed he was getting drowsy all she could do was hold onto him.