eto...you know i want to ride a dragon

After the grasp of the situation Hikaru was going cell to cell telling everyone that he will help them escape. Everyone's face beamed with a little hope except one girl. She was the only one in a cell in the corner. Crouched in the corner, staring at the ground, neither responding nor facing him.

Hikaru set aside her matter for later, the first thing he was pondering over was how he could go through the walls. When he asked the ladies captured there they told him that the kidnappers also had the same bracelet as Hikaru, hearing it he tried to go through the wall without it but he couldn't.

Next he tried to bring things with him through the walls as the kidnappers did. First he made an attempt with the sword, forgotten there by the drunk guard. He succeeded. Next he took Rene with him, it was also a success. He tried making a chain by holding hands and getting them through, it also succeeded.

He could have just ran away with them but that wouldn't solve the problem. They will come back with more preparations and cautions making it harder to find them and free the kidnapped ones. And it was entirely a coincidence that Hikaru found their hideout and he also had that bracelet which let him in the area, if not for this coincidence no one would be able to find them for months or even a year.

Hikaru took all the ladies and child in one cell except for that one girl. He took fella with him to her cell and started talking to her even if she didn't respond. Fella told her she was her friend and that Hikrau once bumped into her.

“Eto…..you know I want to ride a dragon”.

“..........”

“I don't think letting her know your dreams will make her start talking.” fella whispered to Hikaru.

"You are her friend right? Why don't you talk with her?” Hikaru whispered back.

Fella sits beside viola.

“Hey, I know that they were talking pretty bad about you but you used to not care about those things right? Did it really hurt that much when they were laughing at the inability to see?”

Viola grabbed her arms tightly.

“I…no…ht”

“What?” Fella scooched closer to Viola.

Viola took a breath and said again “ It's not about that.”

“Then tell me why you are behaving like this?” Fella hugged Viola from the back.

“ I hate it, I hate it most when there is chaos. I can’t see it like normal people can, my heart becomes restless. It hurts, my chest tightens. It is hard trying to figure out what is going on with just a mere image formed in my mind. When they were hitting the others I became more and more restless.Listening to all the voices and cries made my heart ache more and more. For these 100 years I am only seeing a fabricated world. I can’t see the faces of other people when they are happy, when they are sad, crying, thinking, looking for something. I can't see the colours of the trees decorated with flowers, the skies blueness, the blue-greens colour of the sea. Are they happy when they are talking to me? Are they really laughing at my talk? Are they able to understand my pain?or is it all just a facade?Whom to trust?, whom to not? Piling up one after other things in my heart just makes me want to die. I don't even have someone I can share this pain with”

The tears came out of her eyes as she told more

“Mom,dad,sister,brother if I had anyone in whose arms I could just throw away all my worries and sleep like a little child I could have been happier but no……even that was…..hic…… not given to me. If only suffering..sniff....suffering is written in my remaining life then I don't want to live.”

She started crying after finishing her complaints.Fella was comforting her.Hikaru figured out many things from that, she couldn't and she didn't have any parents or siblings. and judging from her ears she was an elf.

Hikaru walked beside her and crouched while saying

“I have a sister and she was ill for months. Every night was a sleepless one without any medications for her. She couldn't leave the room, she was very fragile. It was like a prison for her to stay there seeing the same view all day and night. Jealousy of others who were able to live life normally even if they didn't have any luxury. I talked to her every night before we would go to sleep and one time I asked her from where she got all that power to keep living on and don't even show a little bit of sadness on her face, was she putting an upfront? She responded to me saying that the pain and sufferings were outweighed by the happiness of living with me. She just had to find what makes her life more fun than thinking about what she can't solve by merely agonizing over it.

Why are you jumping in a loop of constantly blaming the life you have? You have someone here who cares about you so much right?”

Viola looks at Fella.

‘Try opening up to her a little more. How will she feel if you killed yourself one day or she just saw you suffering without knowing the reason.”

:That's right!!! Do you know I was also suffering seeing you all sad and depressed in the corner of the cell. You were not even talking to me.”

“.......” viola just started at the ground.

“Look up here!! “ fella pulled her chin up. Eyes filled with tears on the brink of flowing out.

“If you leave the world, how will I survive here? Each and every day was fun because. The silly time we spend on the benches laughing, talking about unnecessary things. I thought you were also having fun spending time with me. Seeing your smile….hic… brightens my face. When you call out to me my face beams with a smile……snifff…..always waiting for the time of the day when we can enjoy it with each other. Every night I recall all the fun things we did and laugh at it. But maybe……sniff……i was the only one….hic……thought we were having fun….”

“N…” Viola mumbled

‘...sorry for dragging you with me. I will try to find more things which you will enjoy. I will find someone whom you can open your heart to but please don't think such things ” Said Fella while wiping her tears.

“No…no no… I also enjoyed the time I spent with you. I am sorry.” Viola tightly hugged fella.

“ I was just….just….” Viola started crying again.

“Really?” asked Fella.

“Yes…hic.sniff…yes”

“Then promise me you will open up…noi will make you open up more with me. Just promise me you will talk with me if that type of thoughts comes again in your mind.”

‘I promise”

Hikaru didn't destroy them and after a while when both of them calmed down he took both of them to the same cell as the others.

Before leaving the cell he crouched and whispered in violas ears.

“My sister can bring back your eyesight”

She beamed with a hope and asked

“Really!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??”

“Yes. So after taking you guys out of here let me take you to her, okay?” Hikaru gave her a smile.

“Okay.”