Omega's Rebirth-Chapter 485: Intrigue Or Envy ()

Neveah rode at a steady pace through the bustling city, fast enough that she would arrive the City Guard’s base in time to see to her duties but not so fast that she interfered with the activities of the citizens or run the roadside peddlers over.

And also, to allow herself and Xenon the time to take in the sight.

"Even back in wolf territory, the human settlement was just an arm’s length away and while I would go out there from time to time...in an attempt to feel some form of normalcy, there was always this... irreconcilable gap."

"There was something about them that intrigued me and it was just difficult to comprehend."

"The life they led always felt just out of reach. Even when I walked through their streets, right amongst them, I would still feel like an onlooker, watching from the other side of some great canyon, looking in at a life I could never understand..." Neveah paused at that.

"How could I understand the lives of others...a completely different specie, when I barely understood my own life? The reason for my own existence?" Neveah shook her head slightly.

Thinking back on it, she found it silly how she had always contemplated so much on the humans when she should have spared all the thought to her own pathetic situation.

"I would always go out into the human settlement whenever I needed some time away or a moment to think, and this habit never changed up until I left wolf territory...but even then, I never did get to understand what it was about them that intrigued me so much."

"What was so interesting about them that I could always forget my troubles and place aside my sorrows in their midst, forcing a smile to my lips if only to blend in and not stand out too terribly." Neveah continued.

"And then, back in dragon keep, each day was more eventful than the last and I completely forgot about it... about this curious question that I had never been able to answer." Neveah paused, glancing around the city.

"A few days in Dune City, and I finally understood... I finally found an answer to my question." Neveah said quietly.

"The people...humans and others species alike who live under our protection, I could never understand their life because it was just so... simple."

"Most of them hardly care for who is in governance, or if the dynasty is in the hands of this specie or the other. Either ways, their daily routine remains unchanged...they live with the basic thought of earning the next meal."

"From this day to the next, they carry out the very same activity, with the very same vigour and positivity as they had the previous day, with smiles just as bright and little goofy actions to spice up their routines." Neveah shook her head slightly.

"Their lives are so predictable...so limited, and yet their joy is the truest I have ever witnessed. Yet they find happiness in these... mundane things, yet their hearts are full and an entire lifetime is well lived to fulfillment...it was all just too simple." Neveah’s tone betrayed her astonishment.

It was clear that even up until this moment, it was still difficult for her to wrap her head around the things she said.

"They had witnessed so little, experienced so little, how could their lives still be so fulfilled? How could they give and receive so much love? Experience genuine happiness, day after day?"

"How could they be so free of worries even when trouble surrounded them on all sides?" Neveah asked in genuine confusion.

The Dune City was a lively city and at this time of the day, most of the citizens were out and about hence the streets were decently crowded but not overly so.

"Even at this moment, we walk amongst them. They see us and they know with just a snap of our fingers, we could completely overturn their lives."

"Burn all they know and love to the ground...but just look, they couldn’t care less." Neveah chuckled quietly as she watched a group children run around, shooed away from the streets by the vendors and other well meaning passersby.

"It is not that they do not care, it is that they have learned faith...to hold unto the belief that each day would be a better dawn than the last, even if everything seems to be falling apart." Xenon said,

All the while, he listened to Neveah with a small smile on his lips, his heart warmed at the marvel in her tone.

"Indeed...it must be their own supernatural ability." Neveah murmured.

While most of the Dune enforcers did not have to go through this route to see to their duties, other than the obvious ability of flight, Neveah was the only Dune enforcer who dealt directly with the citizens. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

The nature of her duties demanded her to be a mediator between the dragon ranks and the non dragon military forces, it was a duty Neveah took very seriously and so she made it a point of duty to be a present figure for the citizens.

Familiar enough that they could feel assured to report their troubles and know it would be appropriately taken care of.

"The answer to my question was that I was wrong...all along, what I mistook to be intrigue... what I thought was a strange interest in them was in fact...envy." Neveah chuckled quietly..

"Their simple lives, and the joy they derived from it. The familiarity of a memorized routine, the fulfillment of an earnest living by your own hard work..."

"I who lived in the mighty castle, besieged by troubles on all sides, drowning in the darkness of my own mind... I realize I had found them enviable..." Neveah admitted.

"And you know what is even more silly, Xenon? I still do." Neveah admitted.

"I know their lives can never be mine, but if only to witness the beauty of it from a distance for the rest of my existence... I found I was willing to commit myself to protecting it,"

"To keeping these beautiful people and this beautiful life they know and love, safe... till my

last breath." Neveah said with a deep, heartfelt conviction.