Kingdom

"Is he the one you are going to kill next?"

The sentence blew quickly hitting Ravi with shock. Obviously that this man had a conversation full of nonsense, Ravi believed in Raymond that he would not be able to do it, right? He hardly sounded sure. However, who was that man to make Ravi doubt Raymond?

"Who is he?" Ravi interjected when Raymond was in his open room, he sat on a small red sofa in the corner of the room. Raymond seemed to flinch from his reverie as Ravi asked that.

He glanced at Ravi to look fully at him. There was an expression embossed there that Ravi couldn't read. Fear? Worried? Or what? Ravi doesn't know.

Raymond just silently closed his mouth tightly, is this also part of his promise not to tell Ravi?

"Well, it's your right not to speak." In the end, Ravi said that even though his heart said otherwise, wanting to force Raymond to say all the things Ravi didn't know. But what if the man is right?

Ravi massages the bridge of his nose when he thinks too much and his throbbing head hurts. He didn't know if his curiosity could make Ravi like this.

"Ravi?"

"Hm?" murmured Ravi opening his eyes that had just closed. Ravi instead found Raymond had stood on both knees in front of himself sitting on the chair, Raymond's different-colored eyes gleaming did not escape the sight of Ravi who was also looking at him. "What's the matter?"

"Can I touch Ravi?"

Ravi's forehead wrinkled at that. "For what?"

Raymond's look lowered leaving Raymond's long shaded eyelashes between the trunks of his nose. "I just want to hold Ravi's hand once."

There is silence that accompanies them with Ravi's inability to digest what Raymond pinta. However, in the end, Ravi nodded and found that Raymond couldn't see it, he immediately said, "Go ahead."

The next second after Ravi said that one word, Raymond's eyes crawled up until he caught Ravi's gaze, his smile instantly blooming creating a reddish hue on Ravi's cheek as Raymond slowly touched the tip of his finger on the surface of Ravi's back of the hand lying on his lap.

Ravi subconsciously took a deep breath as Raymond's scent grew denser around him, so Ravi had to keep his body upright resting on the back of the chair preventing himself from leaning more towards Raymond. He noticed how Raymond's fingers touched his hand very slowly like it was a fragile glass that could break at any time. Then Raymond gently turned Ravi's hand, tracing the lines in his palm until Raymond finally clasped Ravi's hand gently.

Raymond seemed to stiffen in his grasp and as if conscious of his daydreams, he quickly pulled his hand away from Ravi until immediately the writing on Raymond's skin disappeared like a blown by the wind. Raymond's gaze rose face to face with Ravi with his confusion and disbelief. Ravi was a little disappointed when the writing quickly disappeared with Raymond's hand moving away from Ravi's grasp, even before Ravi had time to admire it any longer.

"What happened just now?" asked Ravi once again.

Raymond's hair swayed with the shake of his head. "It is the name of the kingdom where I live, but Ravi, the shining mark just now is the mark of the royal member Pureza Na Luz."

Ravi listened to Raymond carefully, his head had concluded. "Then?"

Raymond looked doubtful, his mouth opened for him to close again. He got up to his feet uneasily and spread his eyes in all directions and looked back at Ravi with his eyebrows down. "I'm nobody, Ravi. Nature makes sure to make mistakes."

Ravi also got up standing his hand floated grabbing Raymond's wrist that gasped at his touch. Ravi grasped gently and repeated to admire how the beam re-rose to form a beautiful inscription on Raymond's skin. Ravi then said almost half-whispered. "Such a beautiful thing, how can it be a mistake?"

Ravi's left hand went up tracing the cursive writing with his long fingers. His other hand felt a warmth begin to spread slowly to Ravi's skin that was channeled from Raymond. "If you mean you're not a part of it, let this happen. That means you are special Raymond, by having this or without this."

Ravi still admired the dim light shining before him. Suddenly Ravi's hand felt water dripping over there. Ravi's eyes rose to find Raymond crying silently with a trembling body. Did Ravi speak wrongly to Raymond?

"I'm sorry Raymond, maybe my words are too harsh for you," he said sounding agitated in his place of standing, he moved forward putting one of his hands on Raymond's shoulder.

"Ravi never made a mistake on Ray. It's just that no one has ever said that to me," he said weakly.

Ravi's mouth curled up to form a sincere smile. He raised his hand from Raymond's shoulder and slowly let go of his other hand. He was a little disappointed when the writing disappeared with an imaginary hissing sound in his head. Ravi is amazed at how much things relate to Raymond all like beautiful magic that never bores Ravi to see more and how the glowing writing on Raymond's tanned skin arises because the reaction to direct contact with Ravi is enough to make Ravi's cheeks warm up.

Ravi's small cough attracted Raymond's attention. "What does the writing mean?"

"Pureza Na Luz means purity in light. It was the name of the kingdom where the elves of pure light without crossing between humans gathered to form a kingdom. Every descendant of the king as well as a royal member who is an elf of pure light must have this sign that will be visible if it comes into contact with the bond of his partner. But Ravi, I'm not both. I am not a descendant of the king, I am a half-human elf and the relationship between me and Ravi is more like between the slave and his master."

Ravi listened to every word that came out of Raymond's mouth carefully until he had to shake his head when Ravi heard Raymond's last sentence, his hand raised to hold Raymond's hand back when it suddenly stopped because it was suddenly interrupted.

"What nonsense did you say?"

Ravi was just about to open his voice when the speech was cut before Ravi even spoke. He instantly stiffened with his head jerking towards the doorway. His mouth gaped with scanning eyes and Ravi opened his mouth with a feeling of surprise and relief flooding his every nerve. "Daniel?"