Webnovel Author: Lilia_Vincent - Novel Collection

She lifted herself out of the waters, feeling her hair heavily against her back. The severe, chilly air that touched her caused her to feel cold and she shivered, hurrying to go towards the tree that held her clothes. She irrationally wished for heat in that frigid ambience.

Wars of the Heart

Fantasy · Lilia_Vincent

That very night, it was taking much longer than it usually did when she came for a dip. Perhaps, it was because she had not come by for a month until that night to bathe at the sacred river and relieve her body of the strange swirling shapes upon it.

Wars of the Heart

Fantasy · Lilia_Vincent

However, what needed to be done needed to be done.

Wars of the Heart

Fantasy · Lilia_Vincent

At the edge of the woods that were spread around the eastern rim of the Kingdom of Velicia, a young damsel of about two decades in age, Amelia Lunadynn, stood by the banks of a river. She lifted her dark eyes to gaze at the beautiful night sky that was spread over the heavens. It was like she was memorising their colours and the very placement of each star...

Wars of the Heart

Fantasy · Lilia_Vincent

His face was dangerously close to hers, such that she could hear his very breath, seething. Tears began to pierce her eyes, threatening to fall. She had never meant to deceive him. But in that moment, she was afraid. Her fear was evident, pupils dilated and heart throbbing loud enough for the very skies to hear. Her lips were quivering and she shivered.

Wars of the Heart

Fantasy · Lilia_Vincent

Shoved against his chest, she held on to her towel in one hand and the gathers of cloak over his shoulder-blade in another. His movements were quick and he wasted no second to even look around. In a heartbeat, he reached out to grab a rope that was hurled towards him and they lifted off the ground.

Wars of the Heart

Fantasy · Lilia_Vincent

The man swooped down from his place on the exposed neck of the dead hound and advanced towards her. Amelia could hardly collect her senses before she felt his strong arm grip her waist.

Wars of the Heart

Fantasy · Lilia_Vincent

A tall man: countenance hooded and capes flying, harnessing his large sword into its sheath, standing on top of the headless body of the gigantic monster he had felled. Her pulse was still throbbing at an ignited pace after nearly having brushed shoulders with death itself, but a part of her could not believe that she was saved.

Wars of the Heart

Fantasy · Lilia_Vincent

Then, from behind the tree where her clothes were hung, a pair of deadly eyes opened in the seething darkness. There was a large and mounting shadow in the shape of a bloodhound that was approaching her humble figure.

Wars of the Heart

Fantasy · Lilia_Vincent

Just then, Amelia stilled when she heard the sound of low, but deep growls from the woods around her, like the snarls of those bloodshot hounds.

Wars of the Heart

Fantasy · Lilia_Vincent

There were strange marks of dark cerulean blue spreading over her shoulders and down her back, looking like a moonless night sky had been painted on her body. In order to cover them and also to shield herself from the chilly winds, she loosened the upsweep at the top of her head and her lovely brown tresses of long, curly hair cascaded down her back.

Wars of the Heart

Fantasy · Lilia_Vincent

Large ravenous monsters that bore the exaggerated countenance of sabre fanged wolves would storm into the ends of the village and bring chaos to their victims. It was nearly practice that on the event of every full-mooned night or on every night without a moon at all, such monstrous beasts would afflict the edge of the woods, and the quaint human dwellings that neighboured it.

Wars of the Heart

Fantasy · Lilia_Vincent

Amelia gasped when he rammed his fist against the wall in the absolute pangs of frustration. It was like it burnt his senses to think that she would deliberately hold something as significant as her origin from his knowing, regardless of all things of his secrets that he had shared with her, while they were yet secret lovers. She knew the fault was hers, but she had been too scared to relay, for she had loved him far too much to lose him.

Wars of the Heart

Fantasy · Lilia_Vincent

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Wars of the Heart

Fantasy · Lilia_Vincent