-Break-

  The very day I married Tarina in a speedy wedding, then moments after we went up to her father and I said, “Sorry I won’t be taking your offer, since we are going to go on an adventure!”

  With a face of disbelief, he says, “Has your mind rotted away.”

  “As one body, that is what me and my darling wife have decided.” As I say this tears burst forward.

  “Darling why are y.”

  “It is just that I finally say you’re my wife!”

  Sighing, Tarina’s father says, “I see now, you let my child whisper into your ear, listen up right now Yamal do you know how many great men have falleo letting the inferior ones whisper sweet words into their ears.”

  “Father, no Samuel, what me and my husband decide to do with our lives has nothing to do with you.”

  Laughing a little, Samuel says, “You're simply the daughter of a whore whom I graciously accepted as my own because of your face, don’t think because some idiots are willing to pay for you that you take such a toh me you dumb bitch.”

  Without hesitation, I punch Samuael in the fad say, “You may talk to your whores however you like, but you won’t take that toh my wife you got that Samuael!”

  Turning to my wife, I say, “Are you ready?”

  “Have been for ten years!”

  And in no time, we were already on a carriage preparing to leave. As we are about to take off our friends from the vilge wave us goodbye.

  Zee says, “Spread the name of our vilge!”

  Od says, “Bring back lots of stories and money!”

  Nob says with tears in his eyes, “I know you do it!”

  Waving goodbye, I say, “You guys better live good lives!”

  On the carriage, we talked about where we would be headed , “Should we go to Braoneia or Elenito we could even go to Avalon.”

  As my beautiful wife is joyfully mulling over our loy mind goes crazy, and I say, “Why don’t we go to Rasartine?”

  “Rasartine?”

  “A beautiful try which specialises in the creation of fearies, chocote, marshmallow, even mb Carmel.”

  “Oh, I remember you talking about such a try from your stories.”

  “How do you remember such a story; I told you that over 9 years ago?”

  “I always remember what you tell me.”

  “You really are the greatest,” I say jumping my wife.

  As I try to kiss her, I am punched in the face as she says, “Bad boy Yamal.”

  “Sorry, I know we ’t have our first night as husband and wife like this.”

  “Don’t worry whe to Rasartine, I will give something very special.”

  Moving to the front of the carriage, I say, “Give me thns!!”

  “Sir what are you doing!!?”

  “I have no time for this, I must get there!”

  Upon arriving in Rasartine, we looked on towards a try covered with fearies, from giant cakes te lollipops everywhere. There are alse towers raining little coloured fkes.

  Walking up behind me my wife gives me a stid says, “Run with this.”

  As we run we hold up the sticks in our hands and dy floss appears in them.

  “These special sticks makes all the micro dy fibres in the air clump together and it ges depending on where you are. See if I run over here the colour and the taste ges.”

  My wife with the joy of a child runs around as the multiple different colours of dy join to her stick making a rge spiral of dy. Seeing her like this I start tain.

  Running up to me and stuffing all the dy in my mouth, she says with an adorable face, “St and celebrate the happiness.”

  “I know, I know,” I say with tears running down my eyes.

  Grabbing my hand, we run through the city as my wife says, “Let's go have some fun.”

  Looking ba those days I really wish I celebrated instead .

  As the day drew to a close, up in the sky I see a swarm of omega butterflies flying overhead.

  Jumping Tarina grabs one of them out of the sky, and says, “It has been a while since I have seen one of these.”

  “They could never find our vilge, so how do you even know what they are?”

  “Remember, I wasn’t raised in the vilge like all of you.” With a pouting face, she says, “Look at you uo remember things about me.”

  “Sorry, it is just I have erased all information from before we were together.”

  With a blush, Tarina says, “Idiot! But still, it is o see these, maybe I will get to read one of Captivant’s stories again I always loved them.”

  With a sour face, I say, “You like that famous author!?”

  “Don’t be jealousy darling,” Opening the omega butterfly Tarina starts to read it, but suddenly she has a frightened look on her face.

  All around us, I hear screams and tears, as I see people clutg the butterflies. Seeing this I ruo Tarina ahe neer.

  It says the following: Oh of Virgo, at 1 am the holy nation Gevurah decred war on Rasartine.

  After reading this I immediately grab Tarina ao the inn to pack s. As we stuff s, I notice Tarina is shaking behind me, so I hug her and say, “Don’t worry everything is going to be fine, but right now to make sure that has an eveer ce I need you to help me pack.”

  Calming down she says, “I trust you!”

  After pag s, we head out of the inn towards the border of the town, the our carriage to head north on a direct road away from Gevurah to the south.

  Through the night we hold each other as we travel to the border city of Zweetkie, but when we arrive to our dismay, we see the army is stopping anyone from leaving north.

  As we head to the crowds outside the army barrier, we see them scream, “LET US OUT, LET US OUT, LET US OUT!”

  Then the army shouts, through a shattered shell, “Be quiet the lot of you! We are trying to protect you.”

  From the crowd, I hear someone shout, “That’s a bunch of bullshit, the reason you're keeping us here is because if enough civilians die then there is a ce other tries might help you, WE ARE NOT YOUR CATTLE!”

  The moment the man finishes screaming, the crowd erupts as they try to force their way through. Pulling Tarina close, I say, “We o shrough.

  As we start man our way through the rough crowd, I start to breathe heavily as the heat starts to affect me. “Just a little more honey.”

  But as I say this, I see blood spurt on my face. Looking forward I see some of the soldiers have started to attack the crowd.

  “You traitorous scum, I told you to back up!”

  The soldiers in front of us tio cut up people, which causes the entire crowd to turn around and run away. The people who suddenly start running in the opposite dire cause me to let go of my wife. “TARINA!”

  Φ Being dragged away by the crowd, I scream out, “YAMAL!”

  Using all the strength in my small body I try to push my way through the crowd, but I am instead pushed to the ground. As I try to get up, I am knocked down then suddenly I am kicked by one of the panig runners.

  Recoiling from the blow I open my eyes to see a bunch of people running over me, so I enter a fetal position and try to protect my head. As the people keep stepping on me, I feel my body about to give out, but it suddenly stops.

  Opening my eyes, I see Yamal on top of me proteg me from being stepped on.

  Φ Seeing that Tarina is still alive, I let out a sigh of relief. But then my focus immediately ges as I try to cope with the pain of having my back stantly stepped on.

  Feeling a sharp pierg pain in my back a let out a scream, did someone just walk over me with heels. This isn’t good I feel my body about to colpse, but I ’t, if I go down Tarina will have to take this and her body won’t hold out, I must protect my wife!

  After a minute or two, I no longer hear the voices of people, so I say, to Tarina, “Let’s go.”

  -Break-

  Lying on the floor of the street, my wife Tarina starts to patch me up. with a panicked look on her face she says, “This is bad Yamal, you're bruised everywhere and there is blood leaking from your back.”

  Looking at her body, I realize she is more ihan I thought so I say, “Sorry for failing to protect you.”

  Suddenly she stops what she is doing and looks at me with a face of furious anger, “What the fuck is wrong with you!!!? Did you really just say that you mentally roasted potato.”

  “Sorr-.”

  “Don’t apologize, you cotton-toed imbecile, you fish-necked bastard, you dairy dickhead.”

  “What the hell do those insults even mean?”

  With tears, she says, “Shut up, I don’t even know.” As she starts to cry, I try to clear her tears, but as I do that she says, “Please don’t apologize because if you do my heart will break.”

  “I know, I know,” I say holding my wife.

  After a little while she calms down and sits beside me all bandaged up.

  With a smile, she says, “Looks like our first day as a married couple is already hectic.”

  With a cold expression, I say, “Seems like it was.”

  Notig my expression my lovely wife pokes, my cheeks and asks me, “What’s wrong?”

  “Nothing.”

  Poking my cheeks even more, she says, “Tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me!”

  “OK!”

  “Yes!”

  “I don’t think I have ever told you this, but my family were adventures of the hunters guild.”

  “EH, really!?”

  “Yeah, they use to race all over the world and have great adventures, and when they fihey would e back to the vilge to tell me about them, hearing their stories even as a child made me so excited especially sihey always looked so happy.

  Though it was sad that it was only me and Grandpa most of the time, so I asked them oo stay with me and Grandpa.

  But in respohey told me, “Sorry son, but we have always wished to experiehe wonders written in Captivant’s books ever since we wore little kids, and until we see them all we won’t stop.””

  “How selfish!”

  “Yht, it was a very selfish thing to say to a child, but still I thought they were incredibly cool for it. Not rotting away where they were born and breaking free from all the rules that bound them. They felt like legendary heroes, but as they were still just humans. One day, a priest from came to tell my family they had gone missing, apparently their ship ran into a tsunami.”

  “I am so sorry Yamal.”

  “o say that I have gotte. Well at least partially, you know somewhere deep in the bay mind I thought that if I became an adventure I could find them, and when we meet, they would be proud of me for following their path.”

  “Yamal.”

  With tears in my eyes I say, “And because of I dragged us both here, I am so sorry!”

  Kneeling in front of me, my wife holds my head with both her hands and gives me a kiss. Feeling her lips against mine I st, then moments ter she says, “That was our sed kiss ever, I am still kind of embarrassed.”

  “You know using that to manipute my mood is evil.”

  Giving me another kiss, she says, “But it worked didn’t it.”

  Shy I say, “Yes.”

  “As I have said a huimes at this point and will probably have to say for the 60 years, don’t bme yourself I agreed to this.”

  “Honey.”

  “Now if my memory serves me right this is teically still the nighttime of the day after our wedding, and I believe our carriage is still over there.”

  With a blush on my face, I get up and walk with my wife over to our carriage.

  Throughout that night I felt happiness I had never felt before, as I spent time with my darling wife.

  But it was something soon repced with terror, as in just 70 hours Rasartine surrendered.