Looking at the unconscious girl sprawled on the table, instinctively Yun Tai gets up to carry XiXi to a bedroom. He knows the effects of the calming tea, she won't be waking up anytime soon. As he is about to pick up XiXi by her waist when he feels a palm strike from Feng Tian.
The force of the strike barely moves Yun Tai's taut muscular body, but it brings him back to reality.
"What are you doing Tai? Don't touch her!"
Coming back to his senses Yun Tai steps back, away from the wooden tableXiXi. He glares at Feng Tian then realizes his improper behavior. She is Feng Tian's why am I concerned for the troublesome girl?
"Tian, I am still weary from just getting back, I wasn't thinking. I just know the after effects of that tea and wanted to get her into a bed." Wait that doesn't sound good ... He can feel Feng Tian 's aura turning black.
What am I thinking? Even at the hot spring yesterday she was right in what she just said a few minutes ago.I had felt an urge to take her and possess her alluring body right there. I felt a sexual energy consuming me it isn't like me to lose control.
He had watched her while she was reclining in the hot spring fiddling with her hair and blowing bubbles, then she was laughing as though they tickled her nose and she scrunched up herhe face. The sound of her voice when she was singing captivated him, it was like the sweet and soothing sound was floating through the air to where he was reclining in the hot spring.
The melody was eerie yet comforting, allowing him to fall into a deep peacesful sleep. His chaotic mind let go of the indescribale pain of his family's death, The Demon War, all the misery of the last hundred years fighting to maintain the Orders of The High Council. Then when hewas deep into the dreamscape she was able to catch me off guard.
When he pressed his body to hers he was half into his dreams and on the brink of reality. He smelled red lotuses that seemed to fuel his desire as he came close to her neck with the dagger. For a brief moment he felt crazy with lust until he realized who he was holding, is best friend's woman. When she fainted and he carried her to the chaise..It's goodFeng Tian appeared quickly...
Yun Tai shakes his head and sees Feng Tian with black lines on his forehead. "You should get her in bed under the covers in LingLing's room quickly soon she will be racked with chills,"
Yun Tai averted his gaze as Feng Tian picked her up. "Be sure and put a new brazier in there and there are more covers behind the embroidered screen on the left."
Feng Tian stares incredulously at his friend. Since when does Tai care about a strange girl's comfort. What has gotten into the unfeeling God of War... he has been acting strangely since he returned.
After Feng Tian leaves, Yun Tai sits at the table with his head in his hands. I need to go into seclusion tomorrow my mind is splintering and I am unable to think clearly. Who is that girl really? I felt a jealous reaction when I was in the kitchen doorway and saw her with a spoon in her hand feeding Feng Tian. I also felt a connection to her when I looked deep into her eyes, it was if she held part of my soul in there.
Who is she ? What sect is she from?
What was the meaning behind that dream she blurted out under the influence of the drug?
When Tian comes back, I have some questions for him that need answered before I enter the cave to cultivate.
Deep in thought he clutches his spirit pets trying to exorcise the last bit of darkness from his body. Their bodies have a gray tint to them from absorbing the impurities within his psyche and meridians.. The dingy gray color usually disappears after a few days when this inner darkness is totally consumed by them.
He affectionately pets them thinking he didn't know how he would survive and still have his humanity without the two spirit beasts. The Gemini twins could be considered to be his most precious possession.
The things he has done to protect The Order and the horrific carnage he has seen perpetrated by the Demons would enter his dreams and he couldn't sleep for nights on end. After he has been on a Demon killing mission if he didn't have these little spirit pets he might be consumed by the darkness within his soul. That is why he loves them, is so protective of them.
He isn't lamenting his choices as he sits there deep in thought. It is his destiny to rid this world of those who wanted to destroy the Order of Righteous Life.He believes the gods sent him on this path at an early age but he thanks them for allowing him be adopted by the Old Master when he was an orphaned child. Then encountering that old Sorcerer that black day who gifted him the Gemini twins.
These are the only gifts he feels the gods have bestowed upon him in his otherwise miserable life.
His family was slaughtered during the Wave of Blood set in motion when the Thirteenth Demon King wanted to invade their land. The power hungry King's army of flying Grijori Demons needed human hearts to satiate their blood lust. They had sixteen layers of teeth that were sharp as razors, feathers black as night, purple heads and orange eyes.
Hordes would swoop down and slice through to the beating heart of any human they encountered. carrying the heart off to the mountains to feast. Blood would rain down on the village covering it in red as they flew off past the forest.
This strain of demon survived by sucking the hearts out of humans while they were still alive. It was particularly horrific to see these orange eyed beasts attacking from the sky with screaming women, children running for their lives.
Yun Tai had only heard stories of these Demons around the fire, told by grizzled old elders drinking their homemade cloudberry wine. He didn't believe them until that day he witnessed it for himself. He felt that day was what had set him on the path he has been on for six hundred years.
He was the last of his clan now, saved by his father as they swarmed down on the village.
He witnessed his mother and sister being brutally sliced and falling to the ground their eyes frozen in horror. Yun Tai ran over but was helpless to save them. His father was valiantly striking with his sword when they attacked from behind killing his wife and daughter he desperately was trying to protect. When he saw Yun Tai crying running towards his mother,he grabbed him and tossed him into a barrel and put the lid on loosely.
That young Yun Tai stayed in that barrel he really doesn't know how long until he crawled out and saw the scene which he has never been able to erase from his memory.
Yun Tai is mulling over these memories which he seems to do every time he comes home when Feng Tian approaches the table.
Feng Tian asks in a worried tone."Are you feeling all right Tai, your color doesn't look good,"
" I was just caught up in some memories, I will be fine after I go into seclusion for a few days" He hesitates then says, " Now that you are here we need to discuss some questions, I would like some answers. You and I have been friends since we were children and you seem changed. Who is that girl?" Yun Tai decides not to waste time and get to the question that has been on his mind since he first saw XiXi.
While Yun Tai and Feng Tian are talking The Gemini twins jump down and roll out the door towards the room where XiXi is laying in sleeping fitfully. When they enter the room, the two spirit beasts suddenly are surrounded by a golden light and they start squeaking loudly to each other. The lingering gray tint from Yun Tai disappears and they are feeling some force on their fur.
"Squeak...squeak squeak is getting louder and louder. The furballs are bouncing up and down in excitement. Squeak..squeak ..squeak.
XiXi doesn't seem to be aware of their presence but mumbles incoherently in her sleep. Gemini White begins to transform into young boy all dressed in white. XiXi stops her almost inaudible muttering and drifts back into her dream at that moment Gemini White transforms back into the fluffy ball that had rolled into her room.
Squeak..squeak..squeak.. She is the one...