Chapter 250: Mad Dog
On the night of her father's death, she was called to his side for the last time. Her father still smiled at her www.biquge.info and when he read aloud her childish poems mysteriously, when he listened attentively to her gently humming ballads, and when he obediently asked her to put on the garlands she had knitted, only now he was lying in bed and could not get up again. His face was thin, there was not a trace of blood on his face, but the smile was as serene and natural as before. Ezona wept into tears, tears streaming down her flushed cheeks. Father gently wiped away tears for her with his withered fingers, though it was a futile move.
He talked to her about many things, about her beautiful mother, who died young, about her lovely every move when she was a child, which was very clear and vivid to him. In the end, he smiled wryly and expressed his guilt to Asona that he had failed to give her a good childhood and youth, and that she had to take on the whole country while she was still so young. Asona shook her head desperately, but couldn't speak. "Believe in your people, my daughter. The father gently put his hand on her forehead, and after the last sentence was said weakly, the hand quickly and permanently slipped down, and the room was full of crying, and Asona listened to the cries of many people, but felt that it was a scene woven out of illusion.
Trust your people, and she often remembers what her father told her. She was ready to believe and could have believed. However, it was not until that morning that her father's life had just passed away, and his face was still full of worry, for the sake of the country and for his daughter. Aisona didn't close her eyes all night, tears left mottled marks on her cheeks, and she didn't know if she was strong enough in addition to longing and sadness, as well as nervousness and fear for the whole country. When the morning came, and the light was still so gentle, clear and quiet, and when she had finally made up her mind for her father's sake, her family, the imposing Uncle Haraus, rushed into her apartment with a detachment of sergeants, and without even leaving her time to wipe away her tears, they announced that she had been disqualified as an heir. Before the words could form a vivid meaning in her mind, she only remembered that many violent and brutal forces dragged her out of the room, and then she was thrown to the ground, and her long hair, which she was proud of, loved by her father, was dragged out of the city like a dog, and her eyes were so dusty that she could not breathe. She remembered that there was no one on the road to help her, and that her father wanted all the people she believed to be hidden behind the buildings, behind the abusers, whispering something. Then she disappeared into the dark and gloomy woods. In fact, no one knows why Haraus spared Ezona and the future Harlaus's own gravedigger.
An old servant of her father's braved his life to go out of the city to find her when martial law was under martial law. He searched for two days and two nights, and thought of the worst from the bottom of his mind, imagining that he would see her broken limbs, clotted blood, or torn clothes, so that he was overjoyed when he saw that Isona was only scarred and dusty and fainted motionless in the bushes, and he strengthened his conviction that the king and his descendants were blessed by the omniscient and all-powerful St. Grendil. He took her to Vecchia, where she lived in a small village called Mazen, where he cared for her like a father for two years, and then was killed by a group of snowy robbers on the way home on a bleak cold night, the hot blood cooled and solidified on the snowfield, the body was taken by the beasts, and the last thing Aisona recovered was a few gray hairs.
After that, Asona left Mazen, taking with him only a horse and a noble robe, and no one knew his whereabouts for a long time, until there was a new rebellion in the kingdom of Swadia, which was a common occurrence during the war, but to Haraus's trouble, many of them were under the name of Esona, and her new nickname was Lady Esona of Suno. Her name appears by the steep and winding promontory of Paraven, in the gloomy forests of Suno, in the desolate expanse of Dehrim, in the quiet and serene fields of Uxhall. However, the kingdom's army never found her, and the suspicious commander could only conclude that she was a false name. But there are more and more legends about her, and in fact her character does not seem to have changed much from the perspective of the story, and she still seems to be so willing to listen, patiently and sincerely obeying everyone's requests, and thus loved by all around her. And what her father, the former king of the empire had told her: Believe in your people, seems to have been confirmed, riots are becoming more and more frequent, but the kingdom has never been overturned.
To this day, Aisona has not been able to figure out why she was able to set off so many riots everywhere and hide her tracks so well, and finally it was simply attributed to her innate talent and the ruthless persecution of fate. She wanted anyone with the same fate as her to survive, and she probably had to have some kind of talent. She remembered the famous "bastard", the bastard Prince Vidim, whom she had met in the halls of Viruga, and whose temperament and fate had drawn them to each other: the same loss of both parents before they were yet mature, the same salvation by the faithful old servant, the same escape from the betrayal of their family. They were in fact the same resolute, and when the time came, Vidim departed, leaving nothing but a verbal goodbye, and Lady Esona only allowed herself to remember it. They never saw each other again, and when Asona went to Kudan's hall, she met another man who was so similar to her.
Thinking of this, Mrs. Esona pulled her hair, it was time for her to get up, and she should leave today. Ellen should have been on her way, she thought of this, and thought of the man. Yes, she had thought countless times that the only difference between her fate and Vidim's fate was that she had met the man named Leonxiro.
The midday sun was blazing and hot, and the air was full of languidness and drearyness. Alleyne wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead with one hand, and looked at the towering castle in front of him, the solemn stone buildings were old and old, and his body was covered with the wounds of war, but he still stood proudly, staring at everything that was happening on the earth without moving. Alleyne closed his eyes and imagined that after passing the castle he would see a small sparse woods, then a large grassland, and then finally the barren desert battlefield. He couldn't be more familiar with this place, or rather, he was familiar with many places in this land. He vividly remembered that the castle stood on the border of what had been the kingdom of Calradia, and that it was alert and resolute as it watched the Kujits on the steppe. Alleyne raised his right arm, and the slow-moving army suddenly stopped, as if the slow river suddenly stopped rushing and froze in place. Immediately afterward, the army slowly entered Fort Reddian, obeyed Alleyne's orders, and set out on the expedition early tomorrow morning.
The castle belonged to no one for a while, and that time of no blood, no fighting, but even more terrifying and terrifying suddenly came to Aren's mind. Aren, an upright warrior, didn't understand this, and he only had a vague sense that something was more frightening than bloodshed than death, but he couldn't tell. He didn't know that once the despicability of human nature is exposed, it can extinguish people's hope, and this hope is the foundation of people's existence, and once people have lost even the hope of love and trust, then how can people live? He doesn't think about this, on the one hand, because he thinks that it is not in line with his duty as a warrior, but more fundamentally on the other hand, he is trying to escape, to escape from these facts, which are contrary to the teachings he received since childhood, but the reality of what happened.
"It's Fort Reddian up ahead. Machiko's voice was hoarse and tired, as if he was even a little tired from the scene in front of him, "Let's go in, if your father has already set off, then he should have arrived here, he will definitely rest here for a day first." ”
"He, is he a lord?" asked Fellians, timidly.
Marchko turned his head and nodded, his expression a little indifferent.
Baska was unexpectedly excited: "Fairians, isn't it worth rejoicing that your father is a lord?"
Feljans smiled faintly, but did not seem to be happy, and he looked at Marchko again, as if he had mustered up his courage, and opened his mouth to ask him, as if he had been asking this question for a long time.
"Uncle Macchico, Queen Asona, is she a good person?"