Outside Hell
mentioned that he’d tried to use a spell to follow the nanny
but couldn’t because they’d gone that way, the magic from the
witches cave had blocked his spell and he’d lost them. Only after
he’d explained this to Jonyk, Janus’ father had reminded him that
it was dark outside the cave that they were all in, and it would be
far too dangerous to leave, as the Skylark beasts would be souring
the skies looking for anything that moved. One hundred and fifty
people, men women and children couldn’t possibly hope to evade
being seen by them, and then once they’d swooped down from the dark
skies and attacked them, they’d all be reduced to nothing more than
mere piles of smoldering black ash.
     
    Dracus pointed at the glistening light of his
portals entrance that was behind him, and then said that he would
take them all over fifteen trips to where the path turned its last
bend before the Jahunti Witches cave up above. Then he would walk
with them past it and once they were save, and when they were
around the next corner, he’d summon a new portal to take them to
Sarhl.
     
    Jonyk and everyone liked the plan and then
Jonyk hurriedly rounded up the other villagers and raised a meeting
where he’d told them about their pasts, and that they’d a new
prince called Dracus. Everyone was ecstatic and was going to do a
party until they’d heard about Vrakug trying to kill him and
destroying the planets. Then with white faces Jonyk had told them
about the escape plan, and as a result none of them had any wish to
stay.
     
    Then after a couple of hours had past and as
the last group of ten people including Janus and her family had
stepped out of the portal in Sarhl; greeting those who’d just
arrived in another portal moments before, they all hurriedly set
about digging a hole to sleep in for the night.
     
    Dracus reluctantly kissed Janus goodbye not
knowing when he’d see her again and then also said farewell to the
villagers and her family. Janus was in tears though not knowing
when she’d see him again, and after spending many years without him
whilst he was incarcerated in jail, she’d wondered if this might be
the last time that they’d be together. In response Dracus had
placed his warm fingers on her lips to stop those words and others
similar from following too, whilst he’d reached in and then kissed
her deeply. The passion from them as their tongues that had
intertwined and their bodies pushing into each others with hands
sliding, had threatened by it very nature to consume them.
     
    Then as her floodgates broke Dracus told her
that after he’d finally killed Vrakug, and that it might take some
years for him to become strong enough to battle him, or to raise a
plan to get rid of the evil leader, that from then on nothing would
ever keep him from her.
     
    A second past and then as he’d given her his
last kiss, and Janus’ mother had given him her latest blank that
she’d just finished making, something that he could wrap himself in
entirely with dark earthly colors and the distinct and pleasing
scent of Janus all over it, he’d stepped back into clear ground and
summoned the portal.
     
    Once inside he’d given it the grim
destination of where it had to take him and then him and the portal
vanished.
     
    When it had reappeared he was there in the
evil lords forbidden room. The room that he’d only ever gone in
once before and was lucky that he’d gotten out of it when he had,
because Vrakug had appeared by magic outside the door. The evil
lord with spittle spraying from his lips had furiously asked him
what he was doing there. Dracus had kept a calm face and whilst
shitting himself inside if the evil bastard didn’t believe him,
he’d pretended to be looking for other rooms to clean. Vrakug had
furrowed his evil eyebrows in response whilst possibly wondering if
the little toad was bullshitting him, and then he’d simply told him
that if he’d ever seen him near the room again, he’d kill him.

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