RED EYES
Plan

"I feel like I want to laugh amusedly at the sight of a palace guard who is so foolish as to carry out your duties." Eric sounded annoyed from his tone.

He pulled my hand very hard. His quick steps forced me to go faster. I didn't see his face and just looked at his back, but I knew he was holding back his annoyance.

Our steps led us to my room. He let go of my hand after he managed to ask my lady to go and lock the door. He ruffled his own hair, took a deep breath and immediately took it out. He looked at me with an annoyed look, the same gaze Erasmus had before.

"What are you doing?" Eric asked who seemed to be holding back his sense of regret for me to answer his question honestly.

"You look at it and you know the answer." My reply. I threw my face away from him.

To be honest I was scared right now, I was just trying not to look scared in front of him. I'm still trying to accept the fact that if my guess is wrong, now the facts force me to deal with Eric's anger.

"Do you know the Queen's plan?" My toot.

"I'm sure your nature is like this because Erasmus came, right?" He didn't answer my question but said a more startling sentence.

"When did you know?" My toot.

"Since Erasmus met you. I stepped towards your room, my intention was just to wait for you in front of your room. Then, I saw the bodyguard with a limp leg. I know all the guards here and I've lived here longer than you, there are no limping guards in this palace. I also know what you're talking about."

"Then, do you also know about the Queen's plans?" My toot.

"He knows." Eric did not answer.

I want to laugh at this madness. Everyone entered my room in a hurry. I didn't expect Erasmus to be standing in the corner. Erasmus and Eric threw hateful gazes at each other, while I tried to control my mind so I wouldn't go crazy.

"Your goal is to kill us, right? You're the one who initiated this plan. The portal guard told me I was taking Claire, and then you were getting ready for Wiender. You're starting to steal our trust slowly. After that you helped the witches enter Wiender to attack us. I admit that I was a foolish king because I agreed to a pact with a witch and followed all your plans. I'm the one who took Claire to Dark Point, I delivered your weapons. You know, every time one Garde dies, there's gonna be a million feelings of guilt in my mind!"

This room is full of hate. I had no idea what Erasmus was saying. We're all stupid here. Be caught up in lies and no one directs the truth.

"Eric, why are you quiet? You know the Queen's plan?" I asked with enlarged eyes.

"Sorry, Claire." Said slowly.

"I want to kill you right now. However, Garuda forbade. I don't know if I should believe his prophecy or not, he asked me to trust you because you're the only one who can help us." Erasmus' words along with his sharp gaze.

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"There's only one way we can succeed, that's what Garuda says." Erasmus.

Eric ignored Erasmus' words. He just stared outside the palace and didn't see us for a second. Eric was no longer vocal, he had been quiet ever since Erasmus opened his card. To be honest I was also too lazy to talk to him because he was such an incredible traitor. However, we had to devise a plan so that my mother wouldn't make a mistake.

"When did you meet Garuda?" My toot.

"He saved me when Cassie and I fell into the abyss. I can't believe it, apparently he's been waiting for me in the abyss all this time." Questions I didn't ask were answered as well. That's the way he survived.

"What did he say?" Ask again.

"Eric knows all plans. We just have to wait for him. I-"

"I'm not going with you guys." Eric cut off Erasmus's talk.

He stepped up quickly to leave us. Unknowingly I immediately chased after him and pulled his hand.

"I beg you." My speech. Our eyes meet.

"You know what you asked for this time? You asked for my life!" Eric yells at me.

"I ask for your life to live the whole earth. If I were you, I'd do anything." Erasmus Reply.

"No." Eric replied briefly.

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It's been two days that Eric and I haven't greeted each other. Our eyes haven't seen each other since he snapped at me. He was silent and did not complain to a single witch about the events of that day. I also kept on playing as if I didn't know anything. I don't see Erasmus anymore either. Maybe he left Dark Point. This place is too dangerous for him and Wiender.

Eric played his arrows more often and I looked at them from a distance, like now. If Erasmus were here, he would probably scold Eric for sticking arrows all day.

"Playing arrows again?" I asked just to open a conversation with him. He didn't look.

I took all his arrows, and he started looking at me.

"Give it!" The tape with a soft voice. I shook my head and smiled at him.

"I'll give you after you drink all the honey water I brought." I said, pointing at the five bottles of honey water that I carried in the basket.

He sat down and did not look at me anymore. Without thinking long, he immediately drank the honey water I brought. I hope the honey and warm water are balanced with his taste.

"I beg you to save Wiender and my place." My love. He was busy drinking honey. The first bottle is almost gone.

"I haven't enjoyed my place for a second. I stayed too long at Aunt Renata's house and became a prisoner. Having just wanted to enjoy the beautiful world, Erasmus forced me to live in this foreign world. I enjoy living in Wiender and Dark Point, but not on my earth." I explained my heart until the second bottle was opened by Eric.

"Can't you sacrifice just once?" My love.

My question stopped the gulp. He took off the second bottle that was almost finished. His eyes started to look at me. Not the annoyance that is seen from his face, why the disappointment that is implied there?

"If you think I'm afraid to lose my powers, you're wrong. I'm really scared of losing my world." The reply.

I'm silent. Uncomprehending.

"Both of my parents were Queen's prisoners. Your mother could have killed both of my parents when she found out that I betrayed her. Not only that, all prisoners could be threatened." Her speech.

"Erasmus and I will guarantee that none of our plans will be known to him. I'll prioritize your parents' lives." Reply with certainty.

"That's low you're judging me?" I was confused by Eric's words. Whatever he sacrificed.

"Is it easy to sacrifice both parents? Let's just say my parents survived. However, the memories of the witches were wiped out. That plan would have wiped out memories since we had that power, whereas that power we might have had since childhood. What if my parents don't remember me and become strangers to each other? What if I don't know them?"

"We can-"

"I don't want to forget you either." He cut my words. My face is starting to heat up.

"You don't believe I love you?" Reply with a down.

He touched my head, my face turned red. I forced myself to look at his face. We smiled as our eyes met. His lips were about my forehead, my face was getting embarrassed.

"Are you aware that right now your left eye is red and your right eye is green?" Ask Eric. I shook my head quickly too.

"You're not gonna kill me, are you?" Eric asked with a smile.

"No."

He also rattled my hair. I no longer looked at him because I was so embarrassed, and it certainly felt happy flying into the free sky.

"If I don't remember you and I'm with another woman. What are you gonna do?" Ask Eric again.

"I will still confess to being your wife. That woman will leave you alone." Reply sure. He laughed.

"I'll tell you what we'll do when Erasmus comes here. But please, this plan must work. Otherwise, all prisoners will be threatened."

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