The gale of wind was genuinely a refreshing moment as we rode into the night. Uriel had pointed out that a storm would soon be approaching and lo and behold she was indeed right as clouds began shrouding the starry night and enveloping the moon too. It had been a few hours since we had our encounter, and we were nice enough to leave a horse behind for our former acquaintances who so had graciously brought us gifts.
Soon enough cold droplets began to rain down, the chillness quickly encompassed our bodies. I could see both of them shivering, their bodies randomly jolting from the cold every now and then, their teeth chattering, it was funny sight to see.
"OH, my goddd...It's soo..oo CO....LDDD" Uriel cried out, her teeth still chattering. " Bu..t I'd rather freeze than speeeend o..oone more nig......night outside"
Lucas laughed like a maniac despite the cold, he genuinely found it funny and freezing to death wasn't going to stop him.
"I swear I feel as if my toes are gonna fall off, seriously why is it sooooo colddddd" Uriel then began cursing at the rain. " I'm go...ing to ... to be an ...ice figurine by the time we reaaaach the capital.
"Come on y..you can do it, think of something hot maybe like Me!" Lucas spoke with a deep tone for the last word and gave me 'The Look' then continued laughing his head off again." Oh, my god I'm dyingggg help me" Uriel couldn't help and busted out laughing like a maniac together with him.
I think they were crying while laughing but the rain made it hard to see, I could slowly feel a pang inside myself, bubbling up the feeling of being happy I think, and I couldn't help but start laughing with them, both of them took a glance behind and continued laughing as we kept riding into a freezing storm.
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It'd had been close to an hour, the storm quieted down a little that we could at least see where we were going and to our delight, we made it onto a road of sorts not a very good one but one that had been used, we continued on this road for a while and there it was!! Lights! but this time it wasn't moving so we hastened our horses towards it and soon enough we reached it.
"Thank god it's a tavern." Lucas sighed; we got down from our horses and enclosed them in the shed besides it, there were a few other ones besides from ours as we made our way into the tavern, it hit us the moment we opened the door the sweet and savory smells of bread, of the roast and stews. Oh, it was delightful indeed.
Still drenched we sat down on the table closest to the fireplace that was lit, food was more important than warmth right now because we were famished. Uriel ushered the maid who was serving over towards us and ordered quite a lavish list of dishes, none of them sounded familiar to me, the maid looked at us with a concerned look but carried on with our order.
"Would you like for me to conjure a robe for you milady, so you can change into it?" Lucas offered her. Uriel declined rather quickly so he turned towards me and gave me the same offer. I wasn't bothered by the cold that much since the initial downpour and thought it would be rude to decline but before I could accept Uriel stopped me.
"I'm warning you that's not a good idea unless you want to end up naked and freezing to death in the middle of the night." I looked at Lucas and he had a look of jest in his eyes as he began to giggle to himself. "He can only maintain things if he is actively maintaining it or else it disappears that includes when he's sleeping so unless you want to, I guess." Uriel raised one of her eyebrows.
"I..I'll decline too" I stammered, Lucas just carried on with his antics.
The food arrived and my gosh was it delicious, we vacuumed our food to every last bit of morsel, and drank to our hearts fill once we were done Uriel paid the maid and were about to inquire about lodging when a man in fine suit greeted us.
"Ah greetings lady Uriel and Lucas child of Agnes" he took a bow and then he turned and looked towards me. "And you."he paused" You shouldn't be here..."
