[Bonus chapter]The One That Got Away

"I want to agree with you, Rana, but we haven't changed course since we started running for the Origin," the prince argued. The world was now starting to spin with his mind providing incoherent pieces of information. Cirrus was running for the Origin… he had been running for the Origin, right.

Somehow, the sound of the Sirius River did not reach their ears. If someone was indeed looking for the Origin, this would be the first thing they ought to look for, but the river was nowhere in earshot.

"No, we haven't. Well, that's what it seemed like when you figured she was following the river, but we've been slowly drifting away from the river. At some point, you started running so fast that I couldn't focus on the sound of the river. I simply had to keep up with you," the man responded, trying to make sense of all this as well.