Drifter Journey
5th Log: Balandor Castle
The Mute Princess's ball was suddenly interrupted when a wounded soldier dragged his last
steeps and yelled an attack on the Castle Town. Before anyone could react, the front door of
the castle was destroyed by a quadruped masked monster, a vulcanian destroyer know as
‘Pyredaemos’. The burning monster aimed the cannon on its back, gathering magic to release
another blast. The guard captain ordered all his soldiers to rush off against the black soldiers.
Cyrus: 'YOU, stand your ground and protect the castle! Your king needs YOU!'
Something inside her was triggered when she heard the captain voice, taking up a blade from
a fallen soldier, she nimbly charged against the Magi forces with a finesse of a battle veteran.
Her purple haired companion was awestruck and only then she saw her own reflection in the
scattered windows, a young man with grass green hair and sapphire blue eyes.
Cisna: “Father..., Noooooo!”
The first words of the mute princess in 10 years were a mournful cry for his father King Valtos.
Before the stranger in black armor got any closer, she stood her ground and repelled his
blade. A familiar face with orange hair took the princess and flee from the scene, time then
stopped when each one of the actors started to yell in an unsettling tone of voice over and over
again, until her head couldn’t take it anymore, she took her hands on her head and started to
plea, then beg and finally scream at them to stop.
Everyone: “Don’t forget, this is all your fault!”
Lyris woke up screaming with sweat all over her face, she took a moment to calm herself
down. It was still late at night and a nearby calendar, marked on the second week of March.
How could that be, she was certain it was the second week of January of the next year.
She remembered being surrounded by Leng Spiders and then they started to eater her alive.
Mira Naigus: “What is wrong Lyris? Did you saw the killer?”
LYRIS: “Teacher, what happened to Ingrid and Bianca? Did they make it out of that nest?”
Mira Naigus: “Your head must be a bit fussy, Don’t you recall falling off from the staircase?”
LYRIS: “That was last march at the end of my 5th year, now I’m in my 6th year...”
Mira Naigus: “You’re still in your 5th year and are yet to chose a ‘Vocation’.
Maybe I should give you something to calm down your nerves.”
After kindly accepting the mummy nurse offer, she drank a bitter drink.
She questioned if her whole 6th year was all just a long dream she just woke up.
For a brief moment her hand still felt that powerful sensation of being able to defend herself.
Dreams can also be an omen of the things yet to come, why not use that knowledge?
