Publishedat 2nd of September 2019 09:00:54 PMChapter 43
As he stood there reflecting, footsteps drew closer behind him, and Jack turned to see Rose and Madeleine approaching, Rose with her sword back in hand, Madeleine carrying a large sack of something over her shoulder . When they drew close, Maddy dropped the sack with a thump, and Rose flipped her sword around and slid it into the scabbard with a small thunk .
"Is the shaman dead?" Rose asked, looking where Jack stood .
"No . But I drove him off . " Jack said, turning towards the two . While he wasn"t distraught anymore, he was sure that his face wasn"t doing a very good job of hiding that something was wrong .
"Well, that"s good, right?" Rose said, seeing his face and putting on a smile . She seemed to be misattributing his negative expression to him failing to beat the boss . "You should be proud of yourself!
Advertis.e.m.e.ntBefore Jack could respond, Maddy looked around, and then fixed Jack with a stare .
"Where"s Ellie?" She asked .
Rose stopped, and glanced around, her face taking on a more confused look . "Actually, yeah, where is she? Did she run off or something?" She asked .
"Well, I-uhh . . . . she"s . . . . " Jack stammered, trying to find some way to explain what was going on . As he struggled to find the words, Maddy"s eyes bored into him, and after a moment, her eyes grew wide .
"She"s gone . " She said, her face slowly taking on a more and more horrified expression .
"Wait, WHAT?" Rose said, jerking around to face her little sister, before immediately turning her attention to Jack . "Where is she?"
Jack sighed and hung his head . He"d really hoped to have some small moment to prepare before all of this, but he should have known better . He lifted his head and made eye contact with Rose .
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"The shaman took her and vanished while I was fighting him . She was already beaten and hurt when I got here, and he managed to use magic to escape when I tried get to the two of them . " Jack said, trying his best to not slump back down in defeat .
"Why didn"t you stop him?!" Rose said, her face flushing in fear and anger . "You"re the hero of legend! You"re the strongest fighter I"ve ever seen!"
Jack hung his head . If he wanted to crawl into a hole and die before, this certainly wasn"t helping .
"I didn"t know he was planning on running with her . He threw a barrier up that broke my eyeline with him for a few seconds . That"s it . I had no idea he was planning on running, and there was no way I could have done anything even if I had known . " Jack said . As he spoke and explained himself, he felt a little of the guilt lift .
"f.u.c.k!" Rose said, less at him and more to the air in general . She looked back at him . "Do you have any idea where they went?"
Jack nodded .
"They"re in a hideout cave a couple days travel from here . I spent the reward Frumpkin offered me on knowing where they went . It"s a cave in the side of some mountain, with skulls around the entrance . And I know generally how to get there . " He said .
"Well, do you where she is inside? Or how many will be guarding it? Or which mountain it"s in?" Rose asked .
Jack shook his head, his face showing his frustration and disappointment .
"I don"t . I"m sorry . Knowing where she is being kept and how to get there is the best I could get . Frumpkin even said that he couldn"t tell me more, even if he wanted to, because of some set of rules or something . " He said .