Chapter 19: Magical Western Movie Chase Scene
I’m seriously considering suicide. I went through all that trouble for nothing? Just for the entire court to explode into little pieces, for Ravenna to come to my ear, call me her love, and for us to just leave? Honestly, I don’t even know if it was really the right thing to do, or if I actually got her attention this way.
I only know that, seeing this show unfold around me like a New Year’s Eve gone horribly wrong, every plan on the list went down the drain.
The ground beneath me loses weight. Ravenna makes a series of strange gestures in the air, and for some reason, we both start floating upward at high speed.
Wait, this is where you die, you crazy woman! The protagonist is going to get you!
Huh? Why is the space around us distorting? Ravenna wraps her arms around me as if she’s holding the most precious thing in the world, I can even hear her smacking her lips with delight, and to top it off, her nails snap with black lightning.
Did you want to kill me in the end, you lunatic?!?
The purple clouds gradually dissipate, finally revealing the somewhat-ruined hall, but the most important people are fine. My father’s face, in particular, makes me feel pity. Now I really wish he would just punch me in the stomach and carry me away, so I wouldn’t be in this situation.
The lightning in Ravenna’s hands turns into flames, I can feel the heat almost burning my face. We pass through the hole up there and now we’re floating in the air, spinning while clinging to each other.
"What are you doing, Ravenna? I thought we had a deal!"
"What deal? Oh, the favor? I can do it after we escape; your life is not dependent on the favor."
"What do you mean, not dependent? I need to be alive to ask for it!"
"Shhh..." she whispers, pressing her mouth to my ear. "Trust me, my little fig sweet. It’s going to be beautiful."