Little Magic「TFboys FF」

TWENTY-THREE

★Music of the day - Mansae (Seventeen)★

Y'all give a round of applause for Seventeen's newest MV. Let's just say all the ones with blue-coloured hair are my biases.

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"If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one. Because if you really loved the first one, why did you fall in love with the second?" - Johnny Depp

Chapter TWENTY-THREE;

We left the Inn the next day, saying 'goodbye' to Stella. We all boarded our horses and left in full gallop.

We were already delayed because Leo had broken my ankle, so we didn't have any time to lose.

Leo rode Dian - it was strange looking really, a boy riding a leopard, he looked wild.

The sound of Dian's padded paws as it hit the ground was surprisingly comforting - yet it was overlapped with the thundering hooves of our horses.

All of us rode in silence - not wanting to talk that morning. A few months ago, I wouldn't believe I would be able to ride a horse - I was always so afraid of them ever since one bit my finger when I tried to feed one. Faye and Tay laughed at me so hard.

But here I was, riding Gina with ease. She was doing quite well, considering that I was overworking her.

From the corner of my eye, I saw Veronica yawning widely - it must've been such a nuisance to them, if we never crash-landed onto them, they wouldn't be dragged into all this.

I saw Roy trying to catch everyone's eye - he was probably bored and wanting to speak with someone, but no one wanted to look at him.

'Hey,' I mind-linked him.

His gaze snapped to mine, 'Jackson! This is really scary! Everyone's dead silent.'

'Really?'

'Whenever I mind-link them, they block me out!' He whined.

'I admit, everyone's been feeling a little tired and confused - I mean, what're we even doing.'

'We're going back to the Castle, right?' Roy asked, 'Considering that Alois and his men will attack us on the third day of the Blue Moon festival.'

'It's two days away and the journey to the Castle will take about a day, we're cutting it a bit close.'

          'Yeah, and-' Roy's thoughts were suddenly cut off, his horse stumbled a little, "Whoa!" He exclaimed,

          Vector veered his horse around, "What's wrong?"

          "She just stumbled a little, I think she's fine." Roy stroked his Pegasus' neck.

          Vector nodded, "Let's keep going."

'That was close wasn't it?' Roy mind-linked me again,

I nodded quietly and I realized what everyone must be feeling - they wanted to just be quiet for a while, to think in peace, 'Sorry, Roy, let's talk later, okay?'