To Carry Her

"It wasn't a simple berry. I was able to identify it, and it's actually a poisonous variant," Darius explained with a dead tone. "Because of its smell, humans aren't able to distinguish the difference unless they use some magic to do it for them."

Hearing him speak, Xenia could no longer take how he was acting so weird for some reason. 

So she blatantly asked, "My King, did I somehow do something to offend you last night? You seem so annoyed and irritated." She then noticed the dark circles under his eyes, and how his face looked so haggard. "Did you not rest?" 

Looking around it was only then that she realized that they were now in a completely different spot from where they were last night. It was dark at the time, but she could still vaguely remember the position of the trees around them where they stopped to rest at.

"I didn't rest at all, Xen. We needed to continue moving forward, so I traveled whilst you slept," Darius plainly scoffed.