Thoughts - I

In the most deepest, dark part of the forest, near Dunwich. The foreboding forest brimmed with the sound of wind whistling around the trunks, branches cracking, birds singing, insects humming and the rustling of animal.

Aidan blankly peered steadily at the black hooded cloak man on the ground, with a lethal black sword on the hooded man's neck, as though if he move a little bit, the sharp blade would certainly slash his neck mercilessly.

He was the man he captured when the town was on fire.

The man did not came to cease the fire, instead he came to killed him. Unfortunately, he have the ability to hear other people thoughts.

Therefore, before the cloak man could killed him, he captured him effortlessly.

Aidan face was impassive, even though he could hear the man inner thoughts.

'Why aren't they here yet?'

'This man would never spare me'

Fear filled over him as he perceived the duke will certainly not spare him alive. .

His inner self is extremely feeling dreadful of the duke, unlike his outer composure which appeared nonchalant.

Though he nodded "Duke Sheraton."

"The Lord sent you his greetings," he dreaded.

Aidan slightly curl his lips at the man and was about to say something when he discern another person approaching them.

He could hear everyone thoughts, exceptionally in close proximity which consequently gave him headache, thus he avoided being in crowded place.

"Why didn't your Lord greet the duke in the flesh?" A voice came out and Ezavius instantly teleported himself in front of them and smirks at the man on the ground.

The man glare at them with his red eyes and chant a spell, subsequently black mist emerged from his hand.

"Lord Vier is our salvation, our saviour and our king," the man declared.

"Our Lord would have been the emperor, if not for Elrod Vandenberg dirty trick. Long live our king!" the man proclaimed.

Subsequently, after he'd just done with his proclamation. In the blink of an eye the transparent black mist like on his hand instantly completely vanishes.

The hooded man gazed at his chest in terror and then at the emotionless duke, and then suddenly his body swiftly and nimbly slump to the ground with his red eyes dead open.

Although, he'd just stabbed him in the ches. The duke face was ,however, cold and impassive as though the person who had just killed wasn't him.

Meanwhile, the wizard gazed at the duke in astonishment, he'd initially thought the duke will first torture the man to get information out of him and then killed him ruthlessly.

However, the situation seem contrasting unlike what he'd initially thought. The Duke of Sheraton will in no way be impulsive in this town case.

The duke could discerned his gazed and turned to stare at him with his straight-faced and said coldly, "You'll get nothing from him."

Ezavius gazed at the dead body on the ground. He originally want to ask, how did he knew when the man didn't say anything. However, he keep silence and just shrugged his shoulders, completely minding his own business.

Whatever secrets Duke Sheraton has behind close door, he's disinterested in discovering it. The duke would perhaps even put an end to his precious life, suppose if he tried to uncover it. Moreover, his face alone is a mystery, which remains mysterious to everyone. A face everyone had never glimpse without his mask except his people.

Some secrets are better left unrevealed, especially the mysterious secrets of the cold and enigmatic Duke Sheraton.

Ezavius then turned to the duke and was about to bade him farewell when the duke suddenly interrupted, "The girl with blue eyes, did she find her brother?"

Aidan originally wanted to asked everything about her, but on second thoughts he perceived he'd appears too concerns about her.

Through the buzzing thoughts in his head came the most expressive eyes, expelling the numerous thoughts of everyone across him in his head. The emotions in her ocean blue eyes was fathoms deep, yet they carried warmth and at the same time filled with anxiousness.

However, neither her azure blue eyes nor her ethereal and beautiful face had stunned him, but her thought, the thoughts on her mind.

He'd hear everyone thoughts, except her. The only exception in his thirty years of life.

She was like a mystery for him to unravel.

Therefore, he feels obliged to learn every single things about her.

Ezavius appeared confused for a while when he heard him, but then he suddenly remember a certain blue-eyed girl.

Ariana Rarelli.

"Yes, she did." he responded.

"The boy with extreme fire ability is her brother. Infact she's the one who's healings everyone with her healing ability," he added.

"Perhaps, you know her?" he queried.

"Hardly," Aidan uttered in annoyance.

Ezavius narrow his eyes at his answered, but he further didn't question him, regarding his annoyance at Ariana. Since, he know her, otherwise he'd never asked about her.