Grudges of Rainbow (Kingdom Series #1)

23: Indigo- How do these start

A humming sound was so serene dancing in the air and drawing spirals, it keep on circling around my ears and it brings coldness but becomes warmer as it goes through my skin, like a lullaby that comforts my shattered soul. It was a familiar song that makes patches to cover a massive hollow that's slowly digging up inside me, it subdued, and I am ready to calm down.

I can smell the fragrance that reminds me of the field of colorful flowers, beauty of colors just as the man I have pondered like a question I cannot answer for a long time, still keep looking for the answer until today.

Then a sweet aroma woke me up.

Waking up again in the same room did not surprise me, but what surprises me is him, holding a cup with a smoke escaping over inside it... it smells like tea, the scent overcome like herbal.

"You need to get up, so you can go back." Like as usual, he walks like a lion who does not make any sound, precise and calculated, some things really stays no matter how long the time passes.

I followed the cup as he settled it on the round table beside the bed, trying to avoid his eyes, the lilac eyes.

"Nasaan tayo? Saan mo ako dinala?"

"It doesn't have poison, its safe."

"Tinatanong kita!" I glared at him, now I couldn't avoid those lilac gems that glitters like a firefly at night, I saw him sighed and smiled wryly.

"Vezemiedo."

"Ano? P-paano mo ako nadala rito, paano ka nakapasok rito?"

"About time," I saw him swallowed and smiled again. "I'm sorry Cyan, I'm really sorry. I'm so sorry." I noticed the uneasiness of his breathing, I don't want to be convinced in a simple apology so I looked away.

"It will never be enough, words will never be enough for the people and lands you have destroyed."

Did you betray me? Was everything a lie?

You broke the promises you made.

These are the words I wanted to voice out but I answered it silently, throwing me in that cliff is a statement of his clear betrayal.

Then maybe tnose promises were just part of his tactics to bring us down, but why did he used me?

Colateral damage?

"Ang ama ko at ang aking ina ni hindi ko sila nakita, ni hindi ko." I stopped, "Paano mo nakuha ang loob ni Huestia? Pinagbantaan niyo ba siya, nilason, dahil kahit kailan, hindi iyon kakampi sa isang traydor!"

Mataman lang ang kanyang titig, sinasalo lahat ng mga salita kong may poot.

"What was the last thing you remembered before the incident, before I left you in that cliff?" Para niyang binaon ang puthaw na nakasaksak na sa akin, kaya mas lalong sumakit ang aking naramdaman nang marinig ko ang tanong na iyon.

Ibinuhos ko ang aking buong lakas upang makatayo, "Huwag mo akong hahawakan." Madiin kong sabi, bumuntong-hininga ito at at itinaas ang mga kamay na para bang sumusuko.

Hawak ang aking tiyan ay naglakad ako palabas sa kuwarto, pagkalabas na pagkalabas ko ay hampas ng mabining hangin ang sumalubong sa akin, habang musika naman ang paghampas ng alon sa malalaking bato.

Aking napagtanto na nasa palasyo ako ng Vezemiedo, sa kuwarto mismo ng Hari at Hara ako nakalagak ngayon.

Dahil halos mawasak ang pader na nasa likuran ng kagubatan ay kitang-kita ko ang kalawakan ng magkabilaang gubat at karagatan.

"I'm sorry if you live with lies." Mabilis ang aking paglingon sa nagsalitang iyon.

"Vriveta?"

"Hello princess, it's been a long time." Nakahalukipkip ito sa isang pader, nang harapin ko'y tumayo ito ng maayos at naglakad palapit sa akin.