Chapter Twenty-Four: Emma
"Your Highness, Miss Riley has sent for you to come over. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info" The guard knocked on the door of the executive hall and walked in to pass the word. The guards had been brought from the royal capital and had always been loyal to Leon, so he knew who Riley was.
"Okay, you go down. Leon hurriedly packed up the things on the table and went out, Riley let him pass, and at this time there was only one thing, and that was that the mysterious woman had woken up.
Seeing the guard standing in the doorway, Leon breathed a sigh of relief, at least the situation inside the house was stable, and the mysterious woman didn't do anything crazy.
Opening the door, Leon saw Riley sitting on the edge of the bed talking to the man.
Since returning from the hunt, no one has been here except Riley and York, including Lyon. When he saw her now, it was completely different from the first time he saw her, her face was bloody, not so haggard, there was no dirt and scars, and she looked younger, maybe only two or three years older than Riley.
"Your Highness, here you are, her name is Emma. Riley turned around and saw Leon standing in the doorway, she got up and walked over and whispered in his ear, "She's a witch too, she just told me." Riley wasn't sure what Emma would do when she heard her identity was revealed, so she could only remind the prince to be careful, whether Emma was friend or foe, or unknown.
Leon nodded at her.
"You're a prince?" said Emma, who could only be called a prince.
"Yes. Leon admits that some of the reasons for this are not necessary to be stated.
"Miss Riley told me this is Ravenwood, why is the prince here?" Emma didn't seem to be a savage, and knew a certain amount about the situation in the town, otherwise she wouldn't have asked such a question.
"It's hard to explain this matter for a while, you just need to know that I am now the lord of the town, and I will tell you if I have the opportunity in the future. So, Miss Emma, can you tell me why you're in the woods?" Leon had to figure out why, the archers were still patrolling the woods, and only after knowing the truth did he have his next move.
Emma clenched the cup in her hand and whispered, "I'm asking for help." ā
This may not be wrong, according to her injuries at the time, if she was an ordinary person, she would definitely not last long. The way she was dressed at the time showed that she had lived in the mountains and forests for a long time, and it was a miracle that the hunters had never discovered her to infer that her dwelling was deeper, and that she had been able to hold out for such a long distance.
"So you didn't throw the javelin to kill us, but in the hope that we would find you?" Leon temporarily believed her claim. At that time, if the javelin was even slightly off, one of them would have been seriously wounded.
"Yes. I didn't have the strength to go any further, and if I hadn't met you guys, I'd have died in the woods. Emma looked up at Leon with anticipation in her eyes, hoping that the prince would believe her.
"I want to believe you. It's just that you're so far away and so badly injured, how did you do that?" Leon wanted her to tell herself who she was a witch. If he had spoken out, Emma would have doubted and resisted in her heart, and maybe she would have done something.
Emma didn't answer right away, but after a moment's hesitation, she said, "That's a skill that I practiced in the mountains." ā
Emma didn't tell the truth, and being a witch made her afraid of others and being burned at the stake. The person in front of her was a member of the royal family, and she didn't dare to say it.
"Emma, you can tell him that His Highness will not hurt the witch. Riley said for her that it would be difficult for the two sides to get to know each other further without breaking the barrier.
Emma looked at Riley in disbelief, she felt someone treating her in her sleep, and when she woke up, she saw Riley's abilities and told her who she was, after all, it was a happy thing to have one of her kind by her side.
"Is Riley telling the truth? Don't worry, she wasn't burned at the stake, and neither will you. Leon still wanted to hear her say it in person, and this was the key to mutual honesty.
At this point, Emma could only nod.
She originally lived at the confluence of the Endless Mountains and the Forest, but was seriously injured in an accident.
One night, there was a sudden rainstorm.
She hid in the treehouse, and when she was asleep, she suddenly heard a loud noise, and she woke up from her dream to feel the earth begin to tremble, and the treehouse crumbled, followed by a strong wind, and the treehouse collapsed.
She clung to the trunk of the tree, and in the darkness she noticed something emerging from the ground.
The wind grew stronger and stronger, and something like a blade appeared in the wind, cutting wounds on her body.
Emma tried her best to persevere, but the wind steadily increased, and the pain of the wound became more and more obvious, as if she was about to be cut to pieces by the wind.
There was a roar, a roar that almost shattered the rocks, and stunned her. The last thing she saw before she fell unconscious was herself floating in the air with the wind.
After a long time, she woke up and found that she was scarred all over her body, and she was lost in the forest, so she could only helplessly parallel to the mountains and try to get out of the forest.
Eventually, she meets Leon and them.
Leon and Riley couldn't help but admire her experience after listening to her experience.
Heavy rain? Leon felt tightness in his chest when he thought of these two words, that is, the town encountered a mysterious creature flying in the sky that day, and now Emma has encountered something that came out of the ground, and the safety of the town is not optimistic.
"The rainstorm was more than half a month ago, which means that you can still live in the forest for more than ten days after being seriously injured, you must have had a hard time, right?" Riley realized that she was alone in the forest after enduring the pain, and the process was shocking just thinking about it.
"I'm used to life in the woods. And there are a lot of berries along the way, and occasionally you can hunt a rabbit, so that you don't go hungry, but sometimes you can't sleep when the wound hurts. Emma will never forget the experience, and looking back on it is incredible.
"In that case, you can still hunt?" Leon did not underestimate others, how could she hunt if she couldn't even walk steadily.
Emma thought for a moment, and a smile appeared on her face.
She handed out the cup in her hand: "Your Royal Highness, for you." ā
Leon wondered if there was no water, and he reached out to take it, but there was still half a glass of water steaming inside, which made him look puzzled.
"Your Royal Highness, try to throw the cup up. Emma said with a smile.
Leon didn't understand why, but he did it anyway. The cup gently left the palm of his hand, and he was about to catch it, but he didn't expect the cup to fly up and not fall off.
Not only did the cup fly up, but it also smashed a hole in the beam, and it was firmly stuck in the beam.
Is this what she is capable of, to make an ordinary object hard?
It's not quite accurate to think about it, just now he just threw it lightly, and the cup flew out directly, that is, to make things light and hard?
If you think about it, judging from the distance of the javelin and the results caused by the cup, it still has a lot of destructive power.
Leon didn't know how to describe it, the witch's abilities were too useful to him anyway, and he had to find a way to keep her.