Staring at him, I make an attempt to get eye contact, not knowing what to feel right now. I feel embarrassed, and angry, and.. Helpless.
When he finally decides to look back at me, I give him the death glare.
“How can you laugh at this?”
“It’s not that serious.”
“Ector, we almost died.Ialmost died.” I scream with pain in my voice as the panic hits me all over again.
“No, we didn’t almost die, I told you that I wouldn’t let anything happen to you.”
How can he be so sure of that? He can’t control my fate. Everyone has their own and if I’m meant to be shot just like my sister.. Then he can’t do anything about it. Nothing will change if I’m meant to die.
“Sweetheart, everything is okay. There is no need to cry.” He says while putting my head against his chest and strokes my golden curls. “Shhh, everything is okay.”
Him reassuring me feels pleasing. It feelsright. I could stay in his arms like this for an eternity.
I push myself off of him, “We can’t do this.”
“Do what?” He asks with a confused face.
“This, you-reassuring-me-thing.”
“What if I want to? What if I never want this to stop. What if I really like you and want to spend all my time with you?”
“These are allwhat ifs. It’s not you being sure about it, you being sure about how you feel.”
I want things to feel clear. My emotions have always been so strong compared to other fairies and I just don’t want to get fooled because of false hope.
“Should we continue to that waterfall?” I ask him quietly, still so full of all these mixed emotions and thoughts.
“Yes, but we need to be careful from now on. I hope you understand that. Now that we know that Ollie, Castello, whatever, isn’t who he says he is.”
“Yes, I understand.” I like that he’s protective over me.
“Good girl. Let’s go then.” He says, my cheeks turning pink the second the sentence leaves his mouth.
We step out from behind the bright blue tree as quietly as we can, Ector making sure that Castello is really gone.
I notice something in the corner of my eye, it’s one of the arrows that Castello just shot,but missed. But only because he couldn’t see us.
The arrow blade is completely covered by the tree and the feathers at the end of the shaft are in the color of deep velvet red.
Following Ector as he walks through the blue woods, he still won’t let me hold the map for some reason I still don’t quite understand. It’s not like he’s holding me against my will and I’m going to escape. I chose this, I chose to do this with him. And I want him to be able to trust me.
I have no idea what this blue place is and where we’re going, and it makes my body feel uneasy.
Chapter 16
Ector
We’re almost there, the deep blue trees and the bright blue grass around us confirm it.The Blue Woods. From what I can see on the map, the waterfall shouldn’t be too far away.
“We’ll be there soon, Genevieve. Don’t worry.” I say, wanting to reassure her. I want her to know that I care about her well-being, even if it will take us longer to get to the well.
I’m great at reading maps, a secret talent of mine. My mother and I used to play a game when I was a child, she called itMother’s map.
She would draw different maps of the house, or of the woods, for me to find a treasure that she had hidden at the end. It could be a crystal, a seashell or some kind of magical herb.
