Yeah, Drax had to tell the Empress he was there. He couldn't keep it from her anymore, not when no one else he approached could tell him what he killed. But the Empress knew, and know more than she wished. She was angry that Drax had been sent there to protect without her knowing. And she called the creature he killed weak! He had fought a lot of things in his life, but this thing had moved with the speed, strength, and agility of lycan. If it was weak......
The Empress was also angry he left. He promised to return within a week, but he had to tell Erix. He had to make sure he was all right. The Empress called him a deserter, that going against orders for her protection was treason. Well, fine then, maybe he wouldn't go back. Let Miss High-and-Mighty protect herself! Except....she had seemed genuinely frightened by what Drax had presented for her to identify, and she was a female. Curse Erix and damn his morality! Thats what got all this "protect women" nonsense in his head. Where he was raised it wasn't necessary, women were better fighters than half the men. Oh well, what is done is done, so they say.
Drax's chest, left side and arm was a little sore. They weren't even flesh wounds, Drax was too fast for the dark mage. But they hurt, and they would take longer than even a human to heal. At least they weren't fatal, a lycan could die from a fatal silveron wound.
Drax peeked out from behind the tree he was at, he didn't dare go into the too still city of Emani. He saw a small force being led into the city led by a man of size that would put a bear to shame. Some people couldn't leave well enough alone! But wait! There, next to the big one, the smaller man, yes! The silver hair streamed from beneath the helmet. It was Erix!
Drax waited for the men to vanish into the city before he made his way to Erix's house. Thats where he would be, not in the palace. Drax had a feeling his friend needed him. Ignored for the moment in the back of his mind was a great sense of urgency to return to Lycanos.
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