19 Chapter 19: Searching

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The stress was getting to me. The desire for Silvera's soul was clawing and hard to restrain. I had searched every black market looking for her, but I couldn't find her or a body. I could sense that she was still alive, even if her scent was faint. I needed her to come back to me. I needed to feel her again, and see her smile.

I was thinking pacing in my throne room when one of my soldiers walked up to me. I turned to him. "Anything yet?" He lowered his head. "No your highness. But we did hear from a nearby town in the south that a fairy was travelling with a human girl that fit the description of your human." I stepped away from him. 'Silvera traveling with a fairy? If there was anyone that would be open hearted enough to trust a fairy it would be Silvera. This could be nothing, but it's the only lead I have.' "I am going to this town to find out for myself."

I walked passed the guard when he stopped me. "With all due respect lord Sythyon, going into a human town with a small army may cause the villagers to think you want to start a war." My eyes narrowed down at the soldier trying to figure out what caused him to have the audacity to talk back to me. "Who said I wasn't going alone?" I pushed him aside and started to walk to the door when the soldier continued to reason with me. "You're going alone? But it's been days since you've slept or eaten! You can't-!"

I raised my hand to silence him. "I am more powerful than the gods. A little hunger and sleep deprivation isn't going to stop me from destroying everything in my path in order to find the woman I love. Do you understand?" I didn't look back at him but I could sense his hesitant nod as I left the room.

Later I had opened a portal to the human world and walked along the road to the town that Silvera might have been seen in. My headache from lack of sleep was killing me, and the hunger to rip apart anything with a soul wouldn't go away. But I had to ignore it. There was no way I could rest when I knew that my human was still out there. Despite my stress, it was reassuring that I had chosen to go alone. It was easier when no servants were around to smother me in their worry. I entered the town and I could immediately sense everyone's fear of me. Villagers ran inside and others walked swiftly away.

I didn't care what they thought of me. It was actually smart of them to run so I could resist their souls easier. Then suddenly, a familiar scent filled my nose. I immediately blinked changing my vision to black and white, seeing a pink trail of smoke leading down the road. It was her. She was here. 'I'm close enough to track her.'

I walked faster following the trail inside a tavern. Her scent grew weak here as two more powerful ones made their way into my view. One was close to her and had been walking with her. It was green and I assumed it was the fairy. Then there was a blue one. It seemed oddly familiar, although I couldn't tell what it was, but the very sight of it pissed me off.

I walked in the tavern ignoring the gasps and whispers of the villagers as I approached the bar. The scents thinned and disappeared a moment later and I blinked again to change my vision back to normal. I could sense the bartender's fear as he spoke to me. "I-Is there anything I can help you with, your highness?" I looked around and back to him. "Did a girl come in here? With a fairy?" He was surprised at my question. "Y-Yes I saw them a day or two ago."

I continued to stare into his soul and I couldn't help but wonder who the third scent was. "Did you happen to know where they were going? And, did anyone interesting come and speak to them?" He nodded. "Y-Yes. They said something about finding a soul book." I was surprised but my emotionless face stayed still. 'The book of souls? Why is my human going on a quest with some fairy and didn't even try to come back to me?'

The bartender went on speaking. "And the person I saw talking to them was a fallen angel." That was what broke my expression to widen my eyes. He continued. "They left to go with him because he knew where they could find the soul book. That's all I know I swear." I paused a moment returning my expression then tossed a sack of gold coins on the bar in front of him. "I appreciate the weird specificity of your eavesdropping skills." I then turned away and walked out without another word.

I started to walk down the street and out of the town. 'Silvera? With a fallen angel?' That thought shook me to my very core. I was filled with rage and the monster inside of me was getting unimaginably harder to control. The calm being I normally was was starting to tear away from me as I couldn't control my demon anymore. I was hyperventilating and I didn't notice until I grabbed a hold of myself. 'Silvera is alive and that is all that matters. But the thought of her even near an angel makes me want to take her away from it and tear it's throat out!'

I huffed and leaned against a nearby tree attempting to calm myself down. I started to breathe normally again and slumped my head down. 'My Silvera. Why didn't you come back for me? Did I do something to upset you? I will find you. And I will feel your sweet heartbeat against my lips on your neck again, for my craving for you is only growing worse.'

Awhile had passed and the only thing I could think about was why she had gone with an angel and a fairy to find the book of souls. The journey is death written and too dangerous for a girl with a soul as valuable as hers. 'I need to find her scent again, and stop her before she gets killed. And then, I'm going to rip that bastard angel apart for even looking into her soul! Her soul is mine! No one else can feel the sensation of having her near them besides me! Especially the scum of a fallen angel like him!'

True, fallen angels are more similar to demons than regular angels, but they still have the disgusting scent of one and the cocky personality. It's annoying. 'As soon as I see that son of a filthy rotting corpse I am going to kill him right where he stands! He will regret ever looking at my human with his last bloody breath as I tear his heart out!' My nerves were unsettling again until I smelled something that calmed me down.

It smelled of honey and chocolate. It was Silvera. I had caught a whiff of her scent and I blinked again to see that there was a faint trail of pink smoke lifting in the air, and I quickly flew up to follow it before it disappeared. 'I have a weak spot for chocolate. Of all the things she had to smell like, it had to be the one thing that makes my blood boil. I'm coming for you my Silvera. Just hold on.'

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