Story of Season: Winter

Chapter 17's

Talking while drinking makes anyone feel easy to express his heart.This can be felt by Delphy, the girl without him realizing it speaks a lot of things because of drinking wine.

"Have you felt better?" Ask Frost.

"Come on, I feel a little more relieved." Delphy replied and then drank the wine, "thank you for listening to me."

"Do you need my answer?"

Delphy nodded slowly, he needed Frost's answer to dispel the bad thoughts that always haunted him. He was sure that Frost would give an answer that would calm his heart even though somehow he could feel that confident.

"To be honest I don't really know how much you've been suffering. To be considered a cursed princess I'm sure it feels very heavy. The Winter Country is indeed very closed, it is not easy to enter it, therefore I can understand why you can be considered a cursed princess.

You do fall asleep a lot while on the ship, but isn't that a natural thing? You are too tired, so without you realizing your body is asking to rest. There's nothing wrong with that."

Delphy recalled the voice in his dream telling him to rest.

Frost drank the last gulp of wine in his glass before continuing. "If you feel destiny is toying with you, why don't you seek your own destiny? Until you finally know that is your true destiny. Don't you feel like you've been feeling too bad about your destiny because of the people around you?"

Delphy laughed crisply, for some reason he felt stupid at this moment. "If you think again, your words are right. Starting from the royal family who thought I was a cursed princess it made people always look at me strangely because of my appearance."

"Finding destiny." Delphy Mumbles.

"Ah I'm curious about one thing, how old are you really?" Delphy asked as he looked at Frost.

"Five years above you." Answer Frost.

In the evening, they spent the night talking about getting to know each other better.

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After making sure no items were left behind, Delphy and Frost rode their horses. Continue the journey relaxed.. While watching the surrounding Delphy imagined King Varsha. If not at that time he did not win the war then the territory he passed today is still the Kingdom of Varsha.

If the war did not happen then the area around the port is still in the power of the Kingdom of Varsha. Not a single resident of the Whittaker Kingdom could head to the port easily due to the extremely high taxes to pass through it. Whereas the Whittaker Kingdom and the Varsha Kingdom had a very profitable cooperation for both sides. But unfortunately, since the King changed five years ago, the Kingdom of Varsha became arbitrary to cause war.

"At least because you won the war I can get through this area easily." Frost.

"Don't bring that up. Sometimes guilt still envelops me when I remember many of my soldiers being victims."

Without feeling the day was quite late afternoon when they found a river. Frost decided to stop by the river for a moment and ate their supplies. Delphy got off his horse, he washed his face. The cold water from the river refreshed his face.

Delphy let Frost warm their provisions alone, the girl prefers to take off her shoes and play in the river, trying to catch fish until her body is soaked because of her own actions.

"Come, the food is ready." Call Frost.

"I'll be there soon." Delphy.

Drenched and grasping the fish Delphy caught up to Frost. Frost could not say a word when he saw Delphy's state. In Frost's mind, how can at a time like this Delphy even play games until his clothes are wet.

"I don't know what's on your plate right now."

"But we'll continue the journey at night, Delphy." Frost.

"I forgot it." Delphy pulled Frost's hand. "Come here." They arrived at the riverbank.

"Now what do you want to do?"

"Wash your face first, your face feels very tangled tau." Delphy Canda.

Although it sucks, Frost still washed his face. In his heart he thanked Delphy, his body felt fresher after washing his face. When Frost was washing his face, there was no wind no rain Delphy even slipped until his body splashed in the river.

Frost sighed then intended to help Delphy, unfortunately Frost did not know if he was being played by Delphy. Instead of coming out of the river when Frost reached out his hand, Delphy instead pulled Frost into the river. Both are equally wet now.

"HEY!" Frost shouted, I don't know since when the last time the man shouted. He was furious but could not get angry, let alone see Delphy who laughed with satisfaction.

"My stomach hurts from laughing too hard." Delphy held onto his stomach which felt cramped. "I'm sorry, I'm tired of looking at your face, which seems so tired of the world."

"There is no mercy for you after this." Without an aba Frost again pulled Delphy into the river. Eventually they played on the river.

The food was cold when they finished playing. But Delphy and Frost still eat it greedily without being reheated.

"I don't think you're a boring person." Delphy said opening the conversation.

"I'm just adjusting, 'cause I'm with a kid right now."

"Who do you mean little boy?" The inadmissible tone was clearly heard from Delphy.

"Who else if not someone lost on the ship, smiled broadly at catching fish and getting me soaked."

"My age is seventeen years old, you know!"

"Shut shut, already. You better go back to eating, big brother Delphy, who's an adult."

Although increasingly upset Delphy did not reply, his stomach was very hungry at this time, since his stomach had rung, screaming asking to be filled immediately. Delphy ate with a stifled face, watching him make Frost smile thinly.

Supposed to finish eating they continue the journey, but Frost's wet shoes due to the action of Delphy became the biggest reason to delay the trip. Delphy himself has borrowed a change of clothes from Frost.

Frost was barefoot, his shoes he approached on the fireplace with his wet clothes. "Yesterday you want to get to the city center quickly, now you're the one who makes this trip longer."

"It's okay, thanks to you yesterday I feel a little calmer. Though I'm not ready to know the worst possibility yet."

Horse hoops are heard. Delphy and Frost turned to the source of the sound. Frost's horse ran away in panic. Right next to Delphy's horse, a dagger was stuck in a tree trunk.

Delphy and Frost take the horse. Even Frost had already grasped his sword. Which robber dared to do the action when the day was still bright even though it was late afternoon.

"Hold this." Frost gave Delphy a dagger.