Chapter 20: Obsession
Thorne rubbed his hands together, sighed, and took a fruit out of his pocket and stuffed it for Cassiu. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ Info Cassius was hungry and thirsty, he didn't ask, and when he took a bite, the juicy flesh was a little sweet and sour, which stimulated his appetite, and he greedily sucked the juice and ate the flesh in a few bites.
"You'd better sleep again, sleeping more is good for your health. Thorne covered Kashu's robes, "It's safe here, I've been here for more than two months? β
Cassius was dazed and fell asleep. This time he slept soundly, and he dreamed that when he was a child, he attended his sister's wedding at the Platinum Chapel. Baron Osbel, who married her, loved her and was willing to convert to the Seven Gods with his bride, so the two had a sacred wedding at the Platinum Chapel. Cassius was still a child, running around the sanctuary, attracted by the white tiles of the floor and the colored glass of the roof, and was shocked by the gray statues of the seven gods.
When Cassius woke up again, haunted by the dream he had just had. After leaving his hometown to study magic and become a swordsman, he went through a year of war, and then served in the military headquarters of the imperial capital, and did not return to his hometown for many years. Time passed, and Sebastian, who designed the Platinum Chapel, became Prime Minister, and the boy who ran in the Sanctuary became the Rangers' vice-captain.
"You want to go home. Nora sat down next to Cassius and suddenly said, "The big white house is beautiful. β
Startled, Cassius frowned, turned his head, and looked at Nora, the Son of the Forest's fluffy hair that smelled of it.
βprofetenγ The Son of the Forest spat out a word and pointed at himself.
"Sorry, I don't understand. Cassius shook his head.
"Drom, Besog" The Son of the Forest waved his hands and stared at Cassiu.
"She's speaking the old language. I spent a long time learning the old language from her, but I couldn't learn it well. Thorne came back at some point, bringing a dead rabbit, "but unlike her, she made quick progress in learning lingua franca, only sometimes she didn't bother to speak lingua franca." β
"Oh my God, my parents asked me to send me to the school city to be a bachelor, and I took my sword and coiled and went to the long bridge to learn from a swordsman. Cassius wanted to shrug his shoulders, but the pain in his body made him give up on the move, and he smiled self-deprecatingly, "This is called the book to be used when you hate it." β
"She says she's a prophet and has visited your dreams. Thorne translated, skinning the rabbit and the smell of blood came out.
"Skrid!" Nora sizzled, glaring at Thorne.
"Okay, okay, I'll stay away, you hate me for killing small animals. But if we don't eat, we'll all starve to death. "You try to speak the lingua franca as much as you can," said Thorne as he departed. β
Kasiu smiled, he turned his head, and asked, "You visited my dream, and how?"
"The sons of the forest are not all warriors, but scholars, warriors, and craftsmen...... "Nora changed the lingua franca to say, "They lived happily before the conquest of the earth." β
"You're a prophet?" Cassius looked at Nora, her green eyes blinking.
"Yes, every Prophet of the Children of the Forest has a unique gift, and I wanted to kill Thorne when he fell into the cave. I touched his head and found me in his dream. Nora nodded, "He had nightmares when the forest giants tied up his companions, knocked out the marrows, and cut out the brains. Nora said softly, as if afraid that Thorne would hear, "I smell danger in my dreams, and the forest giant has woken up again. β
Kasiu was puzzled, he carefully recalled the previous nightmare, and asked: "I haven't personally experienced the scenes in the first two dreams, for no reason, every time I want to scream, I am pulled back." You did it?"
"There are many kinds of dreams, some from your own experience, some from hearing and seeing, some from the revelation of the gods, and some of them are your soul traveling into time and space. Nora spoke divinely, her voice childish, but like an old witch muttering, "You are on the verge of life and death, and your soul has traveled through time and space. β
Kahew whistled, and in exchange for pain in his armpits and ribs.
He frowned, gasped, and said, "Fortunately, I didn't have a spring dream. And what does what I see on the verge of life and death mean?"
Nora stroked her weedy hair and replied, "Information." Dreams convey information, you travel to the past, see things you don't see, what do you find?"
Cassius closed his eyes, recalled, and said, "Book, by the way, Holland said that Howson burned a book, and the name of the book is ...... Damn, I forgot. β
"Humans and Magic. Nora said lightly, "Just burn a book." β
"No, it's important. I had never heard of this book when I was studying at our Academy of Magic. Cassius thought for a moment, "Maybe the Council of Magic was hiding something from us at the time. What about the second dream: the polar people were treading on the icy river, and I saw a huge giant. β
Nora's green eyes showed a look of confusion: "I don't know. Maybe it's the future, maybe it's the past, maybe it's happening. The huge humanoid creature didn't look like a forest giant, I hadn't seen it. β
Cassius braced himself up, and he asked Nora to hold his back: "They're polar people, from the north of the empire, damn it, that guy looks like the King of Giants." What kind of prophet are you, little ghost, I thought you knew everything. β
Nora gave Cassius a blank look and put Cassiu back on the ground, she stood up, looked at Cassius condescendingly, and spat out a word as she left: "Skrid." β
Kasiu smiled, and he guessed that the word meant "get out of the way."
I have to go back to the Great Wall. Cassius thought that I had to tell them the truth: Grant begged me to give him pleasure so that he would not be poisoned by the giants. I need to warn the Council and the Council of Magic, an ancient enemy is coming.
He struggled and tried to get up, but found that he had no strength, and sighed that he had to give up.
"What are you doing? Damn, Nora's wound for you to stitch up, don't break it. Thorne returned, holding a piece of red meat in his hand and stuffing it into Cassiu's mouth.
"Bah!" Cassius reflexively spat out, "It's raw." β
"It's raw meat, but you can't eat the dead. Thorne picked up the meat and wiped it on his sleeve, "We are in the sleeping land of giants, we can't make a fire, although this underground space is large, what if the flames burn the roots?"
Cassius looked at the tangled branches in the walls, and he remembered everything in the Giant's Fruit. The Giant Fruit Tree is not afraid of fire, but if there is fire and smoke that attracts the Giant or that disgusting green bug, it is too dangerous.
He grabbed Thorne's arm and said, "Thorne, we need to hurry back to the Wall." β
"We?" Thorne shook his head desperately, "No, I'm not going back. I am a deserter, I gave up on Otto, and if I ran back, I would die. It's safe here. With Nora here, we were safe. β
"Damn, you're a ranger! We sacrificed most of the advance party and found this place, only to have to retreat. If you could have come back early and let me know what was going on, we would have assessed the situation carefully. Maybe none of this will happen. Kasiu snapped. Under his hands, the arms that touched Thorne were full of wrinkles.
Thorne took away his crumpled hand and said, "No, once I go back, Marlon will cut off my head, he is cruel and selfish, and he is using this to target Captain Aldington." I was going to join the Rangers, and Captain Aldington was out of the question, and Malone wouldn't let go of the opportunity to step down. β
"Don't be so noble! you're a coward!" Cassiu roared, coughing violently.
Thorne sat down on the ground and shook his head, "Yes, I'm a coward! Neither will Nora. We are here, living for a few months, and no one wants to die. β
"Captain Aldington shouldn't have ordered the advance party to come to you. Cassius sneered, he shook his head, "Anderson, Grant, Gagliardi, they're all dead. β
Thorne shuddered, and he was silent.
"You coward, coward, do you remember the Rangers' oath?" Caxiu asked, taking a deep breath and enduring the pain, "We are Thor's spear, lightning in the dark, and we are all brothers, and we will never leave ......"
"Don't say it! Don't say it! I won't go back, you didn't see how Otto died, I don't want to die!" Thorne hugged his head, he shuddered, threw Cassius a piece of raw meat, and crawled away.
In the dark, Cassius wakes up and falls asleep, his dreams intermittent, mostly from his childhood. He dreamed that he was learning swords at Longbridge, and at first he was beaten all over the ground looking for teeth. He dreams of the water of the Academy of Magic, the water is crystal clear, he fishes, Hugo makes a fire, and Walter yells, disgusted that they are disturbing his practice of water magic.
Hunger stirred his stomach like a meat grinder, waking him up. He was the only one around, and he saw raw meat on the ground, with dirt on it, and he didn't want to eat it. He moved his arm and found that it was free to move and the pain in his armpit had lessened.
"I have to go to the Wall. He supported his elbows and thought about it, the pain in his ribs, waist, back, and legs kept stimulating his brain, he broke out in a cold sweat, his body trembled, crawled a little, cried out in disappointment, and had to give up.
The pain in his stomach made him curl up and keep him awake from sleeping, because he didn't eat, he was exhausted. He saw the piece of raw meat again, red lean meat with white flowers.
I have to live. He grabbed the piece of raw meat, took the dirt, and bit it down. The cold, slippery raw meat was full of toughness, making his gums sore, and the flesh smelled fishy, with the bitterness of sand. He swallowed with difficulty.
After eating the raw meat, he fell asleep again. He decided to sleep more and recover early. But not long after, he was awakened by the curling pain in his abdomen, and he curled up and his stomach turned upside down. He had diarrhea and threw up. He is not used to eating raw meat.
He cried. "White Demon" Cassiu, the hero of the war of a year that scared the polar people, caught a cold and fever when he arrived at the Great Wall, and he was not accustomed to the water and soil, and now he even bullied him with a piece of raw rabbit meat.
He smiled. He remembered that when he was a child, his wet nurse always protected him, and even dug out the pits of the fruit herself when he ate the apple, saying that he was afraid that he would be choked by the pit. The pampered young master, after learning swords, magic, and going to the battlefield, thought he was a man. As a result, when everyone knew that I was crying because I ate raw meat, they would laugh at me.
He was stunned. No, I've been wrong all along. It's not me who is really powerful. Behind the "White Devil" are countless ordinary soldiers and magicians, and together we won the War for a year. They took good care of me. I've never been alone.
I need to go back, I'm going back to the Wall, Captain Aldington they need help, the Wall has too little garrison, I have to go back.
He picked up half a piece of meat on the ground, which was stained with dirt. He took a deep breath and bit down with all his might, the bitterness of the earth, the coldness of the raw meat irritating his tongue, and he swallowed the raw meat along with the vomit that remained in his mouth, without hesitation.
No crying, no vomiting! I have to get used to it, I have to be really like a man.