RED EYES
Victims for the Swea Bridge

"I want to rest!" I complained and they ignored me.

Eric opened the leaf that covered the mouth of the urn, not a drop of water came out. Medium-sized jars are a source of water reserves that we have. The jar was just one and Eric took it. Disappointment was implied from our eyes as we watched Eric flip the urn.

My throat felt very dry, I was even afraid that the blood vessels in my throat would rupture. My skin is not only dirty because it has not cleaned the body for two days, my skin also looks clearly dry. I was afraid that my skin would turn into rhino skin. My lips have bled several times. Even saliva is not able to moisturize my lips anymore.

My head was dizzy, either because I was too tired, hungry, thirsty or sleep deprived. We've been walking in the woods for four days. My knee joint started to ache every time I stepped. Want to rest, but time chased us so that Wiender was not destroyed.

I didn't even think that for days I was just swallowing a decoction of leaves I didn't know the name of or a burnt fish. No wheat, bread, oats or rice complements my meal. I really live like an ancient man.

They may be used to living without electricity because they are part of nature. They never complain about every insect approaching them. They may be very used to it if mosquitoes attack them. But not for me. My heart grumbles a thousand times because of this civilization. Living without electricity, eating food without taste and often approached by mosquitoes is a very annoying thing for me.

"I want to go home!" Complaints again. Complaints that always come out of my mouth every mosquito bites me or again eats a decoction of leaves. They ignored my complaints.

The only thing I see is the forest. Every step I look at the tree, every step I look at the grass, every step I see the pestle, every step I look at the bushes, every step I see the red soil or puddles. I'm tired of seeing trees. Again green, again yellowish and again brown.

"Where are we?" Erasmus asked Eric.

Eric's steps stopped. He did not turn to Erasmus who was asking him. As I approached her, I saw the worry from her pale face. The sunlight helped me to see the wide open window of her eyeballs. I feel like he's scared.

"Why?" My toot.

"Maybe we need to rest before we cross that bridge." Erasmus answered as his eyes looked in the same direction as Eric's, as did Cassie.

I followed their eyes. I just saw an old bridge made of wood. The bridge looks very old, but I'm sure it will be safe for us to cross. Why do they feel afraid?

"You're scared of that bigot?" My toot. I gave a smile that underestimated them.

All eyes started to look at me. Is there anything strange about my words?

"Mozag Bridge, not all witches were able to cross the bridge and not a single Garde made it over the bridge. Maybe I'm the only one who's gonna try to cross that bridge."

Whahuh? Cassie is human?

"You are human?!" I asked because I was too shocked by what he said. He nodded without rethinking his words.

"Satamu-"

"Didn't all humans have different eyeball colors, not just Garde like this. I'm sure if you've ever seen a blue or light brown human eyeball. Even humans are like witches for being able to change eyeballs." Reply Cassie.

I forgot the fact that all 'normal' humans also have different eyeball colors. I was swept up in this world because I was always with Erasmus and Eric. Can you change the color of your eyeballs like a witch? I'm sure he meant a lens attached directly to the eye.

"How long have you been stuck in this world?" My toot.

"What do you mean this world?" He replied with a question.

"Wiender, Dark Point and Kangel." My reply. He smiled again.

"It remains on earth and time here is equal to time on earth. How could you call it like the other world?" I know that Cassie's holding back the laughter behind the answer. I still don't accept that I'm in the real world.

"Enough! Let's take a break and talk about who should be the victim." Erasmus spoke again.

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Only Eric and I are left. It feels lonely because it's just the two of you. The atmosphere was calmer, but many parts of my life were missing. Things I never imagined I'd lose Erasmus and Cassie.

If we walk on the ground, the grasses and the dried leaves that fall, I always hear the voice of Erasmus. I'll also hear Cassie's voice playing the part of being a blanked woman, I hate women like that. There's always a discussion every step of the way, not this time. It feels quieter, it feels sad.

"Stop!" Pinta Eric with a firm.

I stopped my steps. He sits on the ground. I also sat beside him. Just five minutes ago we had a rest, it was impossible for Eric to feel tired.

He removed a rope from his wrist. The rope is quite thin and brown. He also gave me the rope. Wh-wh-what for?

"Follow your hair!" Eric's orders.

I also tied my hair. He understood that my hair was making me feel hotter when the sun hit us.

"Come on!" Ask me to continue the journey.

"You know if I like you?" Ask Eric. He was still sitting on the ground.

Is he expressing his feelings at the moment? In forests?

My eyes meet his. I quickly shifted my eyes. For no apparent reason my whole body was trembling. There was a feeling that made my face red. Taste that is hard to explain. I wanted to smile, but there was a sense of ego burying it. What's wrong with me?

"Come on, we're going to Dark Point!" I switched the conversation.

An arrow passed me, and a second arrow followed. What the hell's going on?

Two strangers came up to us, they had red eyes. I immediately pulled Eric's hand so we could escape as quickly as possible, but it was Eric who blocked my move. He kept me quiet and held me away with his hand holding me tight.

What the hell is going on?

"You want to kill me, Eric?" I asked while looking at him with a sharp look.

"No way, Claire! This is your home and we are your family." Reply Eric.

I tried to take my hand off this traitor. I was obviously very angry and hated him. It destroyed Erasmus and Cassie. There should be something really bad, if he can help me cross, why he does not help others.

I took my hand from him, but I couldn't. The longer it felt like my hands were starting to numb. I can no longer pull my hand. Eric has bewitched my hand.

"If you let them take me to your Queen. You're gonna destroy Wiender and everything. Eric-"

"If I don't take you, both my parents will be wiped out! The witches will be destroyed. I'll be wiped out, too, Claire." Eric cut my conversation.

Eric touched my head. I feel like there is no more energy in my body. I was weakened and completely helpless. I can't make a sound. I also fell because my legs seemed unable to support my body.

I'm trying to get help. But no one was on my side. I also saw a tree. Can the tree help me?

If I'm Garde, I beg you to take out my current strength. I beg. I kept staring at the tree and trying to control it. I know it's out of logic, but that's the only way I can get away from them.

Eric's magic is getting stronger. He started trying to keep my eyes closed. I tried to resist and still hoped that a tree would help me.

Eric hasn't let his hand out of my head. However, I began to be able to move my legs and hands back. My body is not weakened anymore. I forcefully removed Eric's hand from my head.

The roots of the tree pierced the chests of the two witches around me and Eric. I began to know how I could control the tree, I just asked the tree to do what I imagined. It's as simple as it looks.

Now there's only Eric in front of me. I want to do what he did to me. I want to bewitch him. It made him weak and helpless, sick or asleep, but there was a feeling that prevented me from killing him.

"I'm going back to Wiender and back to my place. I took my life so that I could help Erasmus and I quickly set foot from this place. Both of our friends sacrificed their lives for Wiender. We are doing everything for victory! You ruined everything, Eric." I just said that sentence.

I can't forgive Eric. Perhaps it is my fault that too much hope in a witch, however she is like a human being, is not always good and has a vile side. I was wrong to have believed and hoped in him, perhaps this is the reason that started to build up his disappointment.

I stepped away from him after I asked a tree branch to tie Eric Eric's legs and hands together. He's silent. His eyes seemed to be begging me to stop the branch of the tree that was causing him pain.

I don't see him anymore. Turn around to back him, then walk to the path I went through earlier. Just step. Not knowing where to go and where to go. I tried to hide my trembling legs with quick steps. I hid my fear by raising my head.

"Hey, pretty boy!" I heard a woman's voice from behind my body. The sound stopped my steps.

I also looked. Women have red eyes. She's the woman I saw when I crossed the Swea Bridge. Her crown and staff were the most striking thing about her appearance, other than her beauty.

"My son must have known me. I don't have to introduce myself anymore." Said the woman.

The kid?

A crow landed on the woman's shoulder. I saw a short-bodied man standing next to the woman, black-colored eyeballs, he was also wearing a thick black beard. I saw that there were a lot of red-eyed people escorting him.

"Queen Vei, that's me. Does my son not want to hug me?"

He started approaching me.

"Your right eye has a green eyeball, like that stupid guy. I'm happy if our left eye is very similar.-" he said.

"Don't you miss your mother, son?" That question again.

Whahuh? Mammy? Is he lying? I want to laugh, but I also want to cry because of this annoyance.

I also pulled out a dagger. I really don't want to be a killer, but not this time. He claimed to be my mother? Just be right! I don't know if his words are right or wrong. I'm trying if that lady sedanc is lying.

His slow steps kept approaching me. One step closer, I took one step away.

Honestly, I was so upset this time that I couldn't hold back my tears. Even the man I like is betrayed. The woman I wanted so badly to meet, committed so many crimes. The pain in this heart is really felt even though it is not spoken. If someone asks, when did that very piercing thing happen? Maybe I'll answer this time.

"Something's wrong." Said the woman.

Maybe he knew from my eyes that I was angry. Of course I'm angry! I lost both my best friends, I lost faith in Eric and I was disappointed that Queen Vei was my mother. I sacrificed my life to get out of this remote part of the earth! Not only defeat, it feels like disaster is happening to me as well.

He also issued his whistles. And all dark. I-i

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