The Thousand Year Dynasty
20.5 Fla Side Story Part 1
Although his ankles and hands were biting, and his lungs were hurting from pumping air too fast, Fla still did not stop running. He was no longer concerned with the machete and shrubs that tore his skin, or the cold weather that pierced into the bone. Because all he needed was to get as far away from the slave carriage that carried him. Run to his freedom.
After running almost far enough into the forest, his endurance was no longer able to help him. His body fell because he had no strength. When he breathed his nostrils were already painful. The look in his eyes shaded, as well as his ears buzzed. The shabby youth lay helplessly staring at the trees that covered the night sky. Trying to endure all the pain that his body felt.
Fla was already convinced that his life would end there, when then emerged from the tree branch a Getzja jumped down to him. The Getzja man seemed to be trying to talk to him, but because his ears were still buzzing, he could hear nothing. It suddenly appeared out of nowhere the two Morras came approaching. Maybe they're Getzja's guy friends. And then his consciousness gradually began to fade away.
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Now Fla's in the dark. The cold made his body tremble violently. Amidst his confusion as to why he could be there, suddenly appeared a silhouette of a short-haired girl coming towards him.
"Livia?" Fla called to convince himself.
"Fla" There was the echo of the sweet voice of the girl called Livia.
"Livia?! How did you get here?"
"Fla, wake. You have to hold on. You can't give up here, Fla"
"Whatchu mean? Why are you here?"
"I will always love you Fla" said the girl, whose surroundings suddenly turned bright, and it appears that the girl is in a cage with tattered clothes camping and accomplices tied to rusty iron chains.
"Livia?!" Fla shouted in surprise at the sight. And almost at the same time he opened his eyes. It was in someone's arms.
"Oh, you seem to have realized? Whatis yourname? Why are you in a place like this under the current circumstances?" Asked a large Morra man who was carrying Fla's body on his back.
Fla tried to speak, but because his throat was dry, his lungs felt weak, as a result he just buzzed softly. Even he already had no strength to cough though.
The man lowered it and then placed his body on a tree. There was Getzja's man and another Morra man whom he had seen before he fell unconscious. One of them pulled a drinking bag out of the skin, and tried to drink it to Fla carefully.
Immediately and voraciously, Fla bit the dried meat sheet until it ran out 5 pieces.
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"Thank you, I owe you three lives. I'm Fla. I cannot return your goodwill. At least may I know the names of the gentlemen before we part" said Fla, who thinks that the three men who seem to be hunters will leave him here to avoid trouble.
"I'm Deuxter. This one's Huebert, and this one's Louijze"
"Just calm down, you don't have to repay us. Besides, where are you going with such a weak and scarred body?"
"Truely at least treat your wounds and recover your body strength first"
"True, come along to our camp. We got a healer there"
"Are you not from Estrinx?" Ask Fla later. Because he wondered why the three of them would help and treat him well. Did the three of them not know that he was a slave. And why aren't they worried about connecting with a runaway slave like this?
Because it was obviously impossible for them not to realize that he was a runaway slave. So Fla thought it must be between them people from outside the Estrinx, or indeed very stupid people.
"We are from Estrinx, precisely from the village of Tirgis. But we just got back from the south"
Are they stupid people? Or are they people so strong that they are not afraid of these kinds of things? Fla's mind kept on stirring up thinking about who these people who were helping him were.
But then his survival instincts informed the idea of asking these people for help. "I'm sorry for this ludicrousness of mine. But will you take me away from this place?" Fla kemidian spoke with his remaining strength. Because now he believes the three of them are strong and good people.
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