Omega's Rebirth-Chapter 702: Mount Edar ()
Neveah stood on the edge of the rickety bridge, struck to a standstill by the familiarity of this spot and the memories it brought along with it.
Mouth Edar...
Neveah had spent most of her earlier days in the stronghold right in the heart of that very mountain, nose deep in a gigantic volume of Asvarian history, and the rhythmic snores and warm breaths of a wild dragon for company.
And there were other times when her company was his intense amber orbs, piercing right into her soul...he would just watch her, with a depth of adoration and a certainty Neveah had never witnessed before meeting him.
And it was at those times Neveah would spend hours only to realize at the end of it all that she had remained stuck on a single page of the history volume all the while and she had no ways to explain herself to Lord Rodrick and Davina.
Yet Neveah recalled she had never once complained or bothered to, his gaze was so intensely captivating, so gripping that deep down in her soul, she craved it, more than she would have ever been willing to admit.
Neveah always wondered, how he had been able to tell from the first moment he laid eyes on her back in wolf territory, that she would one day be his...
How had he known from first sight when it had taken Neveah so long to realize the obvious? That there was no version of life in which she was willing to exist without him?
Neveah was drawn out of her daze by the first sound of a creaking wood, and the familiar treacherous swaying of the rickety bridge.
For a moment, she had let it slip her mind that she was in the company of the dark fairy, and the momentary pleasant feelings disappeared just as quickly as they had come.
"I am not inclined to watch you reminisce..." Celeste was saying, leaving Neveah’s guidance and storming onto the rickety bridge on her own,
And then the bridge tilted precariously, Celeste’s words trailed off as the bridge was just a little ways away from throwing her off,
Neveah moved swiftly, steadying the rickety bridge with a balance in weight, in a manner she was already so accustomed to...a manner Xenon had taught her, as he strode across in his imposing manner, yet each step calculated.
"Careful now, your wings are restrained and I do not have one of those...if you fall off, it can be considered your own fate." Neveah warned.
Celeste shrugged off Neveah’s hold on her arm and Neveah rolled her eyes, stepping back slightly, but she did not get off the bridge.
"Go on then, your freedom awaits." Neveah encouraged the now hesitant Celeste from behind.
This feeling of being a jailer of some kind was not the most pleasant and Neveah glanced up to the skies, reassured to know there were eyes closely watching her.
If Celeste did cause them to tumble of the bridge with her clumsy steps, Neveah knew there would at least be someone to swoop down and rescue her before she fell down the unending canyon below the rickety bridge.
And Neveah hoped on such an occasion, Celeste would be left to her fate and she hoped even more that fate was an excruciatingly painful smash to uncountable pieces.
Despite her darker thoughts, Neveah maintained a calm countenance and a small smile as she gestured with her eyes for Celeste to go ahead.
Celeste righted her stance and continued across the now steady bridge whilst Neveah trailed behind her, keeping a balance to Celeste’s weight which had been made heavier by the chains on her wings and hands.
Soon, they had gotten across the bridge and it was almost Neveah’s instinct to seek a handhold and begin making the short climb to the cozy entrance of Xenon’s cave, carved out into the side of the mountain.
But Neveah would be damned before letting some dark fairy anywhere around Xenon’s private space.
"The path to your left." Neveah said. Hinting at the thin, treacherous ledge that led around to the back mountain. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎
Neveah glanced up once again, this was as far as the eyes in the skies would go, though they would be watching from the best vantage points, the instructions had been to ’come alone’,
But Mount Edar was a vast mountain and the open skies were easily seen from hidden spots, the black network were experts at watching for dragon flight, it would not be hard to tell that Neveah had been followed.
They could not risk failing their end of the bargain and endangering Zephyr.
’As Menarx said, we only need to secure Zephyr on sight. The moment Zephyr is in our hands, they will swoop in.’ Neveah’s wolf reminded her of their mission.
Neveah followed behind Celeste who navigated the treacherous path slowly till they had come up to the rocky mountain range.
Celeste glanced around, most likely horrified to see how vast the back mountain was and the fact that despite how high up they already were, the top of Mount Edar was still a long way from this point and one could not even tell if they were meant to go higher or descend to the lower ranges.
Celeste then passed a glowering look at Neveah.
"Do not look at me. I am not the one who set the exchange location." Neveah said with a casual shrug.
Neveah had known Mount Edar was even more vast than the mountain into which the Dragon Keep was built, but she had only been to this mountain range which was Xenon’s cave and the upper mountain range of the back mountain, both of which were barely a fraction of the mountain’s true extent.
Most of Mount Edar was not even accessible except by flight. And only Xenon knew the entire layout of the mountain, no one dared approach Mount Edar since it had been bestowed on Xenon.
"It will take months to get all around this mountain!" Celeste hissed.
"We have come to the location. It is time for your liaison to play their part and find us or let us know which way to go." Neveah replied, taking a seat on a boulder.
