Dragon Drips

Chapter 07 The bitter truth

"Why you?" Arsen was of course confused by the changes that had happened to the girl. A few minutes ago I saw a smile with a happy smile but now it looks cloudy again.

"What's wrong. I'm just remembering the past." Arcila tried to smile even though her heart was sore.

"Forget what you don't need to remember, don't torment yourself with a past that will only make you sad. We must rise, baby!! you hear what Om Sandro says? he will help us as much as possible. That means, our path in the future will be easier even though I am sure the number of pebbles that become a barrier later. We must be strong for the peace of the souls of those who have been victims. We can't be weak just because we keep regretting the past." The Arsen pulls gently the Arcila into his arms.

Not that he is strong, but Arsen just does not want to be bound by the past that will weaken their spirit later. It was enough a year ago to be sad and hurt to fall deep into the depths of grief. It's time they got up to go back to what they should have done.

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Leo was still pictured with the painting he saw in Prince Derrick's reading room earlier. He was very sure that the woman in the painting was Sena. The resemblance is so much that there is hardly anything different. The facial lines, the smile on her lips and the way she kept quiet with her dress and her clear eyes clearly reminded Leo of her late mistress.

Reassociated with the incident when he first awakened. The face of Derrick he saw was very similar to the face of his miss, Arcila. Only thing that distinguishes them is the sign that is known as Derrick. Signs that resemble a coiled snake with shiny eyes and crown.

"Yes they were brothers. If true, then the young mistress is the birth mother of prince Derrick as well? But is that possible?"

Leo fell silent again, his eyes focused on the sky glittering with stars up there. But his mind was wandering to many places, guessing and thinking where exactly the brother was. And also the mystery about the painting similar to Sena makes his head seem full of many questions that no one knows who he will ask.

"You're often alone and daydreaming? don't you live in this palace?" I don't know since when Derrick was there, which was clear the young man called the prince was already standing next to Leo at this time.

"I was just thinking about my sister. Somehow his fate is at the moment. We haven't met that time, usually every morning he'll heat my bike and he'll heat my car. But that morning my brother did not see out of the room. At breakfast I didn't see it. I don't know if he survived or if he's a victim like Dad."

"You got a brother?"

"Yes, we are two brothers. My brother is three years older than me. We only lived three, my mother died a few years ago of illness."

"I'm so jealous of you. You can come together and be with your family as a whole. As for me, I only have a chance once a year to be able to see my mother's face from a close range. But I also have not been allowed to touch or even appear in front of him. You can only look at her in the mirror. But this year I haven't seen my mother again. I don't know why, it's usually not like this either. Mother will always sit on the terrace while arranging flowers on a day that has become a determination for me to see it. But yesterday the mother did not appear, even the house looks quiet like never before. Too bad I haven't gotten permission to just go outside checking."

Leo looked at the young man of his age. There was a gurgle of sadness emanating from the glare of his sharp eyes. Although a little scary, but Leo knows that the young man next to him is very good.

"Whatever you really are, all I know. You're a good guy, though it's creepy living here with a lot of snakes running around. I don't know why I feel real comfort."

"What do you think my mom is, she's beautiful, right?" Derrick is back. His eyes always sparkle when talking about the figure of the woman he called the mother.

"Beautiful, very pretty. Looking at the painting reminds me of the young lady at the house where my family and I worked. She is very beautiful and also kind. Unfortunately, her life is not as pretty as her face. He died a year ago, the day I was unconscious." Leo said softly, back the image of the two people lying before him was ringing.

"Why do you have to stay apart?" Questions that have always been wanted to be uttered by Leo finally spoken too.

"Because we're different, just like you and me. We're different!! But, since you have entered my world then you cannot communicate with us whenever you want. What's more there's a ring you wear, it makes you recognizable here." Derrick replied with a grinning smile even though he was not in a state of anger or annoyance. But that's how it looks.

"Makdudmu? your mother was a normal human being?"

Leo hoped that what he thought was not the right thing. For him, it is impossible not if humans marry even to have descendants of the same kind, I don't know whether Derrick and his followers. A funeral? or demons?.

And a nod to Derrick's head makes both of Leo's legs limp. His sense of disbelief turned out to be in vain. They really exist and they are real. What don't you young mistress? Leo shook his head this time.

"I don't know what's going on. All I know is that I also have a twin. But he inherited more of my mother's genes. That's why he's more fortunate than me. But in hindsight, we suffered the same fate. I was with my dad and he was with my mom. It looks very fair but it's not." Derrick's down.

Leo was unable to speak, his lips felt weak this time. He was confused as to what to say. Even the questions lodged in his mind felt lost and unable to be spoken.

"Come with me!!" Derrick stepped into a beautiful garden. Located not far from the reading room, there is a large glass in a pond with many snakes coiling there. Leo shuddered in horror, although every day he was sure to meet with the animals but certainly not as much as even in groups like this. The closer the herd of hissing animals as if to disperse themselves while giving respect, I don't know Leo never understood the style of the animal. All he knew was that his heart was pounding fast.

"Look!! it's a garden where I can usually stare at my mother until I'm satisfied."

Leo who was initially wailing and careful in stepping for fear of being involved or even stepping on the wandering animal raised his face.

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"Yes God. Isn't this the garden behind the big master's house?" Leo covered his mouth with both hands. His surprise made Derrick squeak while looking at him sharply.

"Prince, may I ask you a question?" With a trembling voice Leo tried to vent himself this time. Upon seeing a nod of the head from Derrick, Leo opened his mouth, but was unplugged and chose to swallow his saliva chelate.

Although hesitant, and Derrick's dark eyes made him more shudder in the end Leo rounded his throat.

"What a twin brother prince a girl, and she was named Arcila Damayanti. And is the woman in the painting that the prince calls by the name of mother Lady Sena Aulina Sanca?"

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"Do you know my mother and sister?"