Across the Worlds
Chapter two
CHAPTER TWO
She was again in the unfamiliar place in her dream. It was weird compared to her home. The city, where she walked, was huge. Tall buildings stretched up towards the sky, and strange vehicles moved only on the ground. And she couldn't find anybody as she searched the area. After a few minutes, she arrived to a circular place, which was closed around by the big houses. Then she noticed him.
Every morning, when she woke up, she couldn't remember anything, but in her dream, she knew very well, why is she there. In her dream world, she could see him.
The scene was always the same. When she appeared at one of the corners of the circle, nothing was happening. The streets were quiet, and the windows mutely reflected each other on the buildings. Then the man came out – ran actually – from one street, chased by several alien creatures. It seemed at first, that he tries to escape, but then, when he arrived at the centre of the circle, he turned around to face them. He wore a strange gown, it was blue, white and a little bit red, and covered every part of his body. His face was hidden by a helmet, and he held a round shape shield in his left hand. While he kept his eyes on his enemies, Lyanna started to worry for him. The creatures were many around him, and they didn't look friendly. She knew, that if she could help him, it would be great, but she didn't learn, how to fight – she rather chose a book, then a weapon. But before she could do something crazy, he threw away his shield.
She hid behind one of the weird vehicle, and stared at the fight in amazement. He was strong, fast, skilful and flexible. He easily defeated his opponents just using his shield with powerful hits, kicks and jumps. Sometimes, during the fight, his helmet fell off, so Lyanna could look at his face after that. He had blonde hair, and if she saw correctly from such a distance, had a crystal clear blue eyes. His face was dirty probably because the battle, but nonetheless she found him handsome. Very handsome. Her heart immediately started to throb. It wasn't that pain, which she felt in her heart and chest for a long time, it was excitement. Excitement, because this man was his soulmate, whit whom she will spend their everlasting life. If she could find him. She knew, that their time unmercifully approximated to the end. If she won't be able to find him, they will die, even if she's immortal.
Suddenly one creature appeared next to her, and clearly wanted to kill her seeing its big and dangerous weapon. Lyanna screamed, and tried to escape from the deadly strike, which came towards her. She despairingly lifted up her hands above her head, but the blow never came. After a brief second, she cautiously looked up to see the enemy was locked on the wall behind her by the round shape shield. He saved her life.
Lyanna turned the centre of the place, and her eyes met with blue. It was like the world had stopped around them. Only this moment, their locked eyes lived onwards. She felt herself spellbound as she slowly stood up, then walked towards him. The pain and suffering was just a faint memory. She would give anything to meet with him in real life and not just in her dreams.
"I miss you terribly!" Lyanna cried out, after she stopped before him. She knew perfectly well, that this is just a dream, yet she had to voice her pain. "Where are you? I want to find you."
A few tears fell from her eyes, and ran down her cheeks. How she desperately wanted to find him, to meet him, to love him. And to hear his voice. Because he never said any words, when they met in these fantasy place. Like this time. He just smiled at her, then rose his right hand to wiping away her tears. Despite he wore leather gloves, his touch was gentle and soft. Lyanna wanted to enjoy this, as long as she could, but he withdrew his hand, and started to retreat.
"Please don't," she pleaded to him, and stretched her right arm towards him. "Don't go."
Everything started to whiten, and the scene changed until her soulmate's face completely disappeared. She cried out in her despair, and burst into tears. She didn't know, where she is. There were glass walls around her, and she couldn't hear anything from outside. Then slowly a voice began to speak, always the same sentence, which cause agony in her heart.
"He's dead. He's dead. He's dead. He's dead…"
"Noooooooo!" screamed Lyanna, while she collapsed on the glass floor. "He can't be dead!"
"He's dead. He's dead."
Lyanna started up from her sleep gasping for breath and quickly sat up on her bed. She still wept shaking in every limb, which caused the fact, that for the first time, she remembered everything. His soulmate's handsome figure, his smile, then the horror, because he's dead. It was so real, and after her awakening, the pain returned in her heart worse than ever, so she actually believed this.
"No, no, no, no, no!" she kept repeating, while she shook her head frantically.
"My Lady!" came a shout, then her friend appeared in the room. "Lyanna!"
"He's dead, Eislyn!" she sobbed, while the younger elhen sat down on the bed next to her. "He's dead!"
"No, he's not." Lyanna couldn't believe her, so she didn't stop crying, until Eislyn shook her. "Stop it! He's very much alive, because you are too! So don't hurt yourself with this nonsense."
Lyanna tried to calm down, but it was difficult. Not just because the horrible nightmare, but because her pain was hardly bearable. This took so long now, that she couldn't remember those years, when her heart didn't ache. She couldn't hope anymore.
"I can't take it anymore," she said her friend with a weak voice. "I can't find him, and this pain is too much."
"You can't give up, Lyanna."
Watching Lyanna's misery was so sad to Eislyn. She didn't know her for so long, just for a few decades, but she liked her immediately. She did anything to help her in the past, but they didn't come closer to the older elhen's soulmate. The only thing, that they actually found out, that he wasn't elhenionian. And it was hardly enough to locate the man, because he could be anywhere in the galaxy. At this point, they could go just one person, but this was fastidious. At least to Lyanna. But they hadn't more choice. Eislyn took a deep breath, then suggested her only possibly solution.
"Why don't you ask the king for help?"
"You perfectly know, that I can't do that," answered Lyanna without hesitation. Dismay and protest gleamed in her blueish eyes. Clearly she didn't like the idea, but at least she stopped crying. "If I'll go to the palace, the prince certainly will be there too. Everytime, when we met, it didn't end well. I don't want to meet him. Shab deeply despises the whole soulmate thing. I can't even imagine, how he can live after so many years without his soulmate."
Eislyn sighed, and she had to agree with her friend. The prince since he noticed Lady Lyanna, firmly ignored, that the elhen has a soulmate somewhere. He multiple times tried to get Lyanna for him. Yet they must ask for help from the king.
"Alright. I'll go," Eislyn said finally. Lyanna sent her a small smile, and squeezed her hand as thanking it, which she returned with a smile. "Are you going to be alright, My Lady?" asked then.
"I'll try deflect my thoughts."
"Just think of the future. Soon you're going to be together. Don't forget this."
After a few minutes, Eislyn stepped out from her friend's house, then sighed again. She was much younger then Lyanna with her one hundred and eight years, and her soulmate link didn't come to life, so she couldn't imagine how bad this can be to her friend. But it was enough to see the signs of the despair and pain. And it will be much worse, if she won't get any help from the king.
"I'll do anything for My Lady," she vowed, then pulled up her cloak's hood to hide her face.
Eislyn just finished her warrior training roughly fifty years ago, when she met with Lady Lyanna. The noble elhen was her first and only task in her life, and she quickly became friend from the guard.
Elhenion's most cities were built on huge trees, and the elhen inhabitants travelled on the ground or with skyrollers – these vehicles hovered in the air with one, two or more seats. Eislyn's single skyroller stood at the end of the sidewalk. She sat in, then started the motor. The palace was a few minutes away from Lyanna's home, and was also built on the trees. It was enormous from the forest's ground to the huge tree's highest branch. In the middle of the building, there was a wide stairs, which led to the glass entrance. Eislyn stopped her skyroller near, then hurried up the stairs. Inside it was the main lobby of the palace – there were several entries in the building. Because the giant trees prevented most of the sunlights to reach the treehouses, lanterns hung everywhere. In the past these were candles, which changed over the milleniums until nowadays, when everything worked by the energy source in the middle of the forest city.
While Eislyn walked on the corridors towards the king's suite, she passed by several elhens. They greeted each other politely, and then she found herself face to face with a blonde. He was tall and muscular, and if he wouldn't wear a pompous look, he would be a very handsome elhen.
"Your Highness."
Eislyn nodded to the man, then tried to keep out of his way, but the prince didn't give her a chance to escape.
"Eislyn. Where did you leave your protégé?"
It was obvious, that, who is he speaking, and it made the young elhen silently fuming. If he wouldn't be the king's son, she could already teach him the soulmate lesson with a little bit of punishment. But he was untouchable, and unfortunately he thought, that his status let him everything. How much times Eislyn prayed that someone should knock some sense into him. If it's possible with such a dishonest man.
Because Prince Shab still waited for her answer, she couldn't avoid the question.
"Lady Lyanna is with her brother." It was of course a lie, because when she left her friend's house, she didn't see Lord Raven, but what the prince doesn't know, remains unkown. "I'm sorry, Your Highness, but I have to go."
Eislyn didn't let the elhen man to continue the talk, she just stepped aside, and quickly walked away. The corridor was long and straight, so she could feel the prince malignant eyes burning into her back. It was unpleasant, yet she didn't give him a pleasure to see her discomfort. She straightened her back. After a few seconds, Eislyn arrived at the big door, which led into the king's suite. She still could feel the prince look, but she didn't care, instead of she rose her right hand, then knocked.
"Come in."
Eislyn took a deep breath, then opened the door to step inside the room. It was lit by several lanterns. On the left, there were a sofa with two chairs and a table, on the right a huge bookshelf stood from floor to ceiling, and in the centre, stood the king's desk.
"Your Highness," she greeted him immediately with a bow. "I came to you, because I desperately need your help."
King Trion didn't answer right away, he just sat behind his desk, and silently scanned Eislyn. In everyone's eyes, he was a beautiful elhen with his long, blonde hair, with his dark eyes, and with his elegant features. But in the past few years his aura changed. He smiled less and less, and anyone clearly could see, that something is on his mind. But the king never said a word, just his eyes spoke, if someone looked at him very close. Like now. As he watched the female elhen, his eyes spoke about pain, sorrow and sadness. Eislyn didn't want to disturb him, so she continued to stand there patiently, and waited for his answer.
Maybe five minutes passed, when Trion sighed, then stood up from his chair.
"I was curious, when will you come. I thought, that you do it a little bit sooner." His voice was deep and calm, and nothing showed, that there are concerns, which bother him very much. The king came around his table, then stopped to look at her. "But if I think of it a little more, maybe I understand, why didn't you come yet."
"Your Highness."
Eislyn turned her head, because suddenly she felt herself very uncomfortable. The older elhen's last sentence meant one thing. He knew perfectly well, what, or exactly who kept her away from the palace.
"There's nothing to be embarrassed." Eislyn looked at the king carefully, and she noticed his sad smile. How much prince Shab took after his father, and yet he was so much different with his pompous attitude. "Come. Let's continue this somewhere else." The young woman watched him bewilderedly, as he walked to the bookshelf, and pressed a thick tome. It was an unsaid fact between the elhens, that nobody can step inside the suite of the king and queen. And Trion clearly invited her into his rooms across a secret door. Eislyn couldn't decide if she should be thrilled or frightened about this. "If you want to help Lady Lyanna, then keep going. I won't wait for you forever."
