Twilight of a Hybrid, стр. 94
Sora was standing some distance from them, giving the two lovers she found very strangely clingy. She couldn’t get over the fact of two different species being in love. This was an idea she thought the Three Gods would consider very unnatural to the way of the Living Life. She wasn’t jealous of not spending time with her brother as they did when they were kids, but she just didn’t like the idea of two different species falling in love.
As the night rolled on, the three were about to head to Geraldus’s village. They spent enough time as they have, if was their last night to be alive on the island.
After Valverno spent a romantic hour with Marina, the second hour he spent was with Sora on sparring, seeing what skills they knew. At first, the half-siblings started with ease but their training intensified when harder blows were being exchanged; in the end, both were equally skilled as the other.
When they were walking through a valley of hills, Valverno heard a flick of a footstep coming their way. From the hard darkness, a shadowy figure appeared from the valley’s short hills while holding a small torch.
His eyes, being like a lion’s eyes, saw it was Flavius walking his way; Flavius didn’t look happy.
“Flavius, good to see you,” said Valverno. Valverno walked up to his foster brother with a smile, but Flavius gave no such smile back.
“Father told me everything that has happened. King Uragiru. The White Knights. You being a demigod. Every scrap of detail, even your current form from the Pool of Shadows.”
Valverno lost his smile, seeing how Flavius knows everything. “I’d guess you would have found out sooner or later. What happened with your younger siblings?”
“No need to worry. Some Dragons gave us a ride back home, but not all of my siblings could have made back on Dragons’ backs.”
Valverno knew why Flavius wasn’t smiling. “Listen. About Alaric, I am sorry for what had happen. There are no words for what happened to him and for not taking the right actions.”
Flavius didn’t say a word about his oldest sibling, who lost his life in the battle during Valverno’s wedding. “You chose the people over your family; the family you lived since forever. There are no words of forgiveness and there is nothing that could heal for a lost life. Just don’t mention him near me.”
Valverno nodded.
“Since you already know Marina, let me properly introduce you to my half-sister and the first White Knight of Charity: Sora.”
Valverno pointed to Sora and Flavius blankly looked at the girl he wasn’t going to show interest in.
Sora was lost for words; she gazed at the looks of Flavius, and she was surprising amazed to see him. At first, she was having a nice friendly rivalry with Marina, but that was considered dead when she spotted Flavius standing next to Valverno.
Valverno and Flavius blinked when Sora suddenly dashed up to closely Flavius.
“I’d never seen a perfect specimen until now,” she said suddenly.
The two men blinked.
At first, Sora wanted to be with Valverno, but she suddenly changed her mind when she gazed upon Flavius. “I’d never thought primitives would look so… handsome. And I guess this is what people would call ‘love at first sight’?”
Flavius eyes flashed. A girl he only met for two seconds is suddenly in front of him. “And she is your sister and the first White Knight of Charity?” asked Flavius.
“I’m afraid so,” answered Valverno. “She always was clingy to me when we were kids, and she always was.”
Flavius struggled to get away from Sora, who wasn’t giving Flavius some personal space. Sora’s soul lit up in shock when she just laid her eyes upon Flavius. “Can you do something with her?”
“She’s the daughter of a mortal, celestial being from the Second Generation. Those kinds of beings are always going to be clingy to something they first lay their eyes on. In other words, she gets it from her father, whose name I had forgotten and the person who would be my step-father.”
“Well, I’d appreciate it if you could remove her from an arm’s length,” said Flavius.
“I can try, but the same thing happened to me with Marina. If I try to pull her away, she would be like a magnet; she would just snip right back to you.”
“Would just do it?” asked Flavius.
“Okay, I will.”
Valverno stepped between Flavius and an awning-staring Sora. “Give some room for him, Sora. Don’t invade personal space of an individual, or have you forgotten that from Mother?”
“Sorry,” said Sora. She backed away from Valverno blocking her view of Flavius. “It’s just I’d never thought people from ten thousand years ago would be this… attractive.” Sora blushed without trying to hide her face from them.
“Get to know him first before you do anything first. It is an order, not as a demigod but as your older brother. Get to know him first before you fall in love with a… caveman.” Valverno walked passed Flavius and headed straight for Geraldus village.
Marina followed in from behind, grabbing Sora’s wrist and dragged her all the way. “Sorry about that,” Marina said to Flavius. “I, too, was clingy to Vaeludar when I first met him, but I wasn’t this clingy to him.”
Flavius shook his head of what he just witnessed. The original White Knight of Charity fell in love with him at first sight, but he wasn’t like Valverno and Marina when they fell in love at first sight. He was going to be in one inferno of a night.
THE NEXT STEP
Valverno had stayed awake for the whole entire night, knowing in the following morning would be the dawn: a war against King Uragiru. He stood atop the village’s watchtower’s roof. He laid on the rooftop, looking to the sky above him and