"Just because it's surviving, doesn't mean it's doing fine. And Hunter left you to find someone to help her get you freed," Kye lifted his chin to look her in the eyes. "If you are not going to to help me rescue her, and get the world back into order, then point me in the direction so I can rescue her, and stop Chaos."
Order sniffed. "Fine. I am not going to help you, because there is no reason to. I have no reason to fight. No reason to live. But I will point the way."
"If you have no reason to live, than why are you still alive?" Kye asked her.
"Because the gods have cursed me with immortality."
"Than why-" he lifted his arms in exasperation. "-In God's name, are you afraid of him?"
"I'M NOT AFRAID OF HIM!" Order screamed angrily. Her voice echoed through the cavern, shaking loose rocks. "Why do people keep assuming that?"
"I don't know, maybe because of the way you cowered in front of him not ten minutes ago," Kye snapped at her suddenly. "Your daughter is in danger, your husband is trying to destroy everything, and you're sitting in here playing the self pity game. If you were going to act like a real mother you would be doing everything in your power to save her. But you're not, you're letting him control your life and be pathetic letting him do whatever he wants. I don't know why I even bothered to help Hunter free you. You're absolutely pathetic and don't care about anything," Kye turned and took a few steps forward, before looking over his shoulder one more time at Order. "When you're don't being a coward and pathetic, come find me. I'll be on the surface."
"Why would I care about Hunter?" Order asked. She turned away. "Go then." She snapped her fingers, and a peice of paper fluttered to the ground. "There. There are all the possible places he could be."
Kye walked over, and picked up the paper before turning to leave. "Why would you care?" his voice was quiet. "Maybe because she's you're only child still alive."
Order stiffened. "She is also the only one who wasn't like me. She takes after her father, and that is the reason why I don't love her, and never can."
"Or you just won't even try," Kye disappeared into the darkness, and made his way to the surface. He pulled the paper out and looked at it.
It was a map of the land. The places he could have gone were starred, and a particularly large star was by the tree where he and Hunter had first gone underground.
Kye sighed, and looked around. "And is one of those rare occasions where I wish those dragons were here. They could probably find Hunter twice as fast as I could," he rolled up the paper and put it in his satchel. Then he tightened it around his shoulders and started in the direction of the tree.
Order smiled as he vanished, and for a moment, she seemed to look like Chaos himself.
Hunter hung from a tree branch, scowling at the figure in front of her.
Kye moved along at a fast ish, and steady pace. He'd figured out where he was and knew he was heading in the right direction, it would take maybe two to three hours for m=him to get to the tree, and there was only a chance that they would be there.
An inhuman scream echoed through the caverns.
Kye stopped in his tracks and looked around. He pulled out of the clearing he was in and took shelter among the trees.
That didn't sound friendly.
No it did not. And I'm not sure I want to find out what made it.
Just keep moving, but stay hidden if you can.
Yes sir.
They were coming. They had sensed him.
Kye continued moving forwards through the trees. He wanted so badly to find the dragons right now. While he hated heights because they terrified him, he preferred them over this. Being on the dragons a few hundred feet in the air, would probably be safer then being on the ground.
What do we do, Boss? a Part of the They asked.
Kill it, the other Part replied.
Kye suddenly stopped and spun around to see whatever the They was. "In in the blue hell is that thing?" He bounced back a few feet.
They were wolf-like beings with glowing golden eyes that moved in perfect synchronization. They were large and well built, with shimmering gray fur that seemed to blend into the shadows. One of them, bigger than the rest, with an amber tint in its eye, stepped forward.
"Can I help you?" Kye asked with a slight smile. It was a definite nervous smile, but he figured it couldn't hurt to give them the benefit of the doubt,, and say they weren't here to murder him.
They are definitely here to murder you.
I mean, we don't know that.
I swear, if you get us killed, I will kill you.
Du-ally noted.
The larger They, the one who had seemed to be the leader, snarled. A twisted voice, full of an ancient rage, came from Its mouth. "Why are you here, pup?" It asked Kye.
"Uhhhh-I got lost, while I was taking a walk through the woods," Kye said, trying to come up with something that he could make sound believable. "So I was wandering around looking for the trail that I took. What are you doing out here?"