Dark Wind Icy Snow Ryutar Yinyuan - Volume 1 Chapter 332
Once they were finished, Snow melted the ice wall around them, allowing the stream to return to its normal flow, the darkened waters quickly taking over the clear pool he had created.
Turning his back on it, he started his way back to camp, not wanting to see how the land he had just healed quickly became defiled again, the horrible smell rising from it making him grimace.
Once back at camp, he quickly made his way to the prison cart. As to be expected, ZaiWin was already inside it, his brief break from being treated like a prisoner long over. They just liked to humiliate him, Snow knew, the same way he knew ZaiWin knew. Even the qinrien around his neck. There was no real need to force him to wear it. All those things were just silly, almost childish ways to show their supremacy over someone they deemed inferior to them. And that’s why RyuXin couldn’t come to terms with the fact that Snow would rather travel inside that prison cart, than ride a horse like the rest of them. As far as he was concerned, Tien’Elhar were supreme beings. And, as such, they should always stand above everyone else. It was inadmissible that one of them might willingly choose to mingle with some common, inferior human.
Snow smiled at the bright-blue eyes that had been following his every move since the moment he had returned to camp.
Taking the waterskin from the little girl’s hands, he delivered all three of them to ZaiWin, before he quickly made a short trip to his horse, now traveling without a rider.
Thankfully, fearing he might not be able to find any food on their next stop, he had always stacked as many roots, fruits, and other edible herbs and mushrooms, as his saddlebags could carry. Especially roots and fruits, since they took longer to spoil. Now, apparently, this was all he would have to eat, as long as they remained inside that huge death zone. He definitely had to make his best to ration what little he had.
Although he would have liked to do so, and he hated the knowledge that he couldn’t, there was no way he could share his scarce provisions with ZaiWin. And so ZaiWin would have to keep eating the horrible food the others ate. Of course, Snow would never allow ZaiWin to put anything that originated on that land inside his mouth before he could at least purify it … It would still be disgusting, though, and he could only hope that it didn’t make him sick.
“If you wanted water you could have asked me,” RyuXin declared. Snow had seen him stand up from where he’d been sitting, the moment he had crossed the camp. But he had made a point of ignoring him.
“I just filled most of our waterskins this morning.”
Yes. And Snow couldn’t for the life of him comprehend how they were able to drink that water and not drop dead the next instant. Even the children were drinking it. He guessed ZaiWin would have drunk it as well, if he weren’t there As if he would ever allow such a thing! That water was poison! Truth be told, it might not actually immediately kill a person. But it would most definitely harm their body in the long run. How they couldn’t see that, since they were all Tien’Elhar like him, was beyond Snow’s comprehension. He was sure that NimMai, for example, would have never even stepped close to a stream of water like that, taking into account her disgusted expression as she watched ZaiWin practice controlling his dark swords. If all the golden-ones, like they called them, were even remotely similar to her, then Snow was sure that, like him, they could tell when something was right or wrong, energetically speaking. And yet, RyuXin and the others didn’t seem to feel anything out of the ordinary, their tolerance to that dark energy even higher than ZaiWin’s abnormal capacity to endure it.
Anyway, unless that information could help Snow come up with a way to knock them all out in one go, he couldn’t care less, he decided, taking two pieces of fruit from his saddlebag. Fruit would rot quicker than the roots, so he would start by eating that first. He was in no position to waste any little bit of food. His only fear was that, unless they left that place in the next few days, he would probably end up with nothing to eat again.
“Want me to help?” RyuXin offered, reaching out to grab an apple, but Snow quickly slapped his hand away, leaving a scandalized expression on RyuXin’s face.
That was his food! He didn’t want him touching any of it! He would have to cleanse and purify it as it was! Snow quickly closed his saddlebag again.
“You’ve really changed.”
Snow glared coldly at him.
He had changed?! Really?! RyuXin had deceived him! They all had deceived him! Enticing him with the prospect of visiting his birth-home, with discovering what had happened that day, after they had openly told him that he had murdered his entire family! And all that for what? So that they could drag him all the way who knew where, to meet some guy called InnArg! If that InnArg-person wanted to meet Snow so much, why hadn’t he come to find him with the rest of them? And worst of all! They had dared drag ZaiWin into all that mess! Just when Snow had had the feeling that their relationship was finally getting better. Just when they were on a tight schedule, needing to reach Weiin as soon as possible, before the end of the four months’ period during which the Calzai of Wei was allowed to watch over the Province of Nox. And they were still using two innocent children to threaten him into obeying their command! And he dared stand there and accuse him of changing?! Was he for real? What did he expect? That Snow would just shrug it all off and happily accompany them who knew where, through that accursed land where no one was even supposed to live in?
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Why was he wasting time and energy arguing with him inside his head? RyuXin could think whatever he wanted, he couldn’t care less. The only thing that still pained him was the thought of how stupid he’d been, allowing himself to blindly trust those people just because he had felt relieved, finding out that he wasn’t the only different Tien’Elhar. His stupid insecurities were what had landed him, and ZaiWin, into that mess. When he should have known better than to care about what other people thought about him. So what if he was the only male Tien’Elhar? So what if he was the only one with silver hair? That shouldn’t have mattered at all! ZaiWin clearly didn’t seem to care about any of that. Even when they had first met, and ZaiWin had wanted to get rid of him. It had never been because Snow was different from the others.
Completely ignoring RyuXin, who silently followed his every move, Snow halted again, this time right in front of MaoHan, who was currently taking a rest, sitting with his back against one of those tall, dead trees. His gaze immediately fell on his objective, the small pouch hanging from his belt.
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Author’s Note: Gooo Snow! He has clearly taken the lead here
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