Omega's Rebirth-Chapter 169: Never Again ()
"My wish is..." Neveah began, glancing up so she stared King Jian straight in the eyes.
Neveah searched those mismatched orbs, the three dragons waited on her words but somehow,
A look in King Jian’s eyes and Neveah could already tell how this would end, hence even before she said the words, she had no expectations whatsoever.
"Let me go, let me leave Dragon Keep." Neveah breathed slowly, her tone thick with exhaustion and despair.
Neveah had thought it over again and again.
Leaving the Dragon Keep was the only way she could truly find herself, yet leaving only to be hunted down and chased after for the rest of her life was not true freedom.
If the dragons could just let her go, Neveah could pick up the pieces of her life and at least try if perhaps she could build a life of peace which she had been denied of.
"Scales! Veah!" Menarx exclaimed in dismay,
Neveah’s wish left an ache in his heart but he did not dare move knowing if he made any sudden movements, Neveah would retreat.
The cliff was right behind Neveah, she had no more allowance to retreat. Any step she took backwards would send her plummeting down to the crashing waves beneath.
King Jian was completely silent, just staring back at Neveah with narrowed eyes.
"No." King Jian finally replied with a one word answer, exactly the way Neveah had thought he would.
Neveah’s heart sank at King Jian’s outright rejection, he had not even considered her words for a moment which only meant he had no intention to let her leave dragon keep... ever.
"The word given by a King cannot be broken... These were words you said to me yourself." Neveah reminded disappointedly.
"I can grant you anything else...but that." King Jian replied.
"I do not want anything else! There is nothing you can do for me! I just want this... this is all I want!" Neveah snarled, rage surging through her veins.
It was not King Jian’s call to make, her freedom...her life and death, Neveah believed it should always have been her own choice.
Yet the only thing Neveah had never had all her life was the luxury of choice...all that had happened to her so far was by the will of another.
Even when Neveah decided to leave the Eclipse Domain for good, it had ultimately become the will of another.
All along, she was merely the pawn on the chess board and everyone else were the chess players.
"No." King Jian asserted in a tone that left no room for arguments.
"Why? You cannot afford to lose the weight of dragon gold given in exchange?" Neveah scoffed beneath her breath.
Neveah had not expected anything, but even so, the reality that she was now stuck in Dragon Keep was too bitter a pill to swallow.
"Get over here... that is enough said." King Jian ordered in a firm tone,
Neveah let out a low chuckle, that commanding tone with which King Jian addressed her grated on her nerves and stirred her wolf’s dominance. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂
"No." Neveah said back in the exact same manner King Jian rejected her wish.
"If I cannot chose how I live... I should at least get to choose when I die." Neveah murmured to herself.
And then, that one step back that would bring a close to it all... Neveah took that step.
"Veah!!!" Neveah could hear Menarx’s horrified scream as she tumbled down the cliff’s edge, her body plummeting at blinding speed.
For a moment, the world seemed to grow still and Neveah felt as though everything else had been frozen in time and she was the only one still moving.
A painfully slow motion, a journey to an ultimate end.
There was a melancholic expression on Neveah’s face as the wind surged all around her.
Her heart felt heavy as though a heavy weight was laid over it and somewhere just beneath the forefront of her mind, the mate bond pulsed, reminding Neveah of it’s presence.
Neveah had to believe it would only be a short time now, in a short time...all the pain and despair she felt would not matter, what would matter was her own fate.
They said one could not outrun his own fate, perhaps it was true... Neveah had tried to live against her own fate but just look where she found herself again.
Right at the beginning, with her death staring her in the eyes and her heart burdened with the reality that she was one who was born to die.
But it was fine...it was all okay, Neveah felt if death was her only path, then running would do her no good.
There came a time in life when one had to confront his own fate and for Neveah, that time was now.
’I fought so desperately to live...it was not because I feared death, I just did not believe another could decide my end by himself...’
Neveah thought to herself as she watched the cliff’s edge grow farther and farther from view.
It was a pity that this was how it would all come to an end, swallowed up by the waves after surviving all that had been thrown her way from the Eclipse Domain and even to Dragon Keep.
There were many other ways Neveah could meet her end, Neveah knew this was not her only choice, but in all those other ways, she would only be a pawn in another person’s game.
Was it pride? Was it silly of Neveah that she would much rather meet an uneventful death such as this than to be connived against and killed by someone else?
’I do not want to die, yet if I must... then I chose to die on my own terms. If the Creator seeks my life... I offer it now...with no regrets, take it...’
’For if I survive this day, never again will there be a chance.’ Neveah vowed within her heart, her eyes fluttering closed.
