Zayn followed them until they reached something more like a tent or shelter but fewer people were there wounded like the rest of the ones that had come with them. The big grumpy guy called everyone to his attention with the girl rolling her eyes and signing. He said some things that he wasn't able to hear but with the way his lips moved he knew it was very important.
While watching them he didn't see the girl step away from where she stood not until someone whispered into his ear "eavesdropping huh?" And he jumped almost losing his balance but he didn't and his eyes widened on what he was relaxing on. Air. He scrambled to run but an invisible barrier stopped him from leaving like he was inside a small room with no air.
What are these people and where the hell was he? He scratched his throat breathing hard, his eye ball almost bulging out from the sockets however the girl he had thought was a fragile lamb smirked before she flicked her thumb and forefinger and he slumped to the ground breathing so hard and she chuckled "so delicate"
Zayn raised his head and stared at her, did she just call him delicate. "Where am I?" He needed to know how to navigate his way in this place. It was bleak and deserted. Was this where they lived and stayed?.
"Ash told you hell, didn't he?" The girl asked while playing with light balls in her hand, she turned to him "well, I won't say he's wrong or anything. This place is hell but that's not the name of this hell"
Zayn finally stood up dusting his trousers and standing in front of her "then what's the damn name?!" He gritted out. The girl flicked the ball on her hands at him and it shimmered into sparks at his face and she laughed at the horror displayed on his face before he frowned "this hell is called shadow peaks or wastes any which way you wish to call it" she shrugged before glowering at him "be careful out here, I don't know where you're coming from but this place is not normal for—"
"Because of the magic?"
The girl hummed "yeah because of the magic and a delicate flower like you shouldn't be roaming around. There are wolves ready to devour you if you seem to stick around" she said and left leaving zayn thinking, when he recollected himself he ran after her. He needed to stick around to people who knew the way here before he went back and know the reason for why he was here. "Wait" he called after her shouting, he fell into steps with her "how…where…what is this place?"
The girl stopped in her steps deliberating a thing before she asked "where are you coming from?"
Zayn didn't know if he should trust her or not but he needed to have a house over his head and someone to help him know his way back so he answered "solvamore"
"Solvamore hmm" she mumbled, weighing on the name of the place. She hadn't heard of that place before so she looked at him "how did you arrive here?" That place wasn't on their map. So he must have come into this place but how?. With the level of war and more to go down in this dimension. Places were closing up their borders not letting strangers and intruders into their territory.
Zayn sighed, this question was taking him back to the sight of his mother running to his body. And now he touched himself and felt his skin. If his body was on the floor down there in the middle of the road. What was him? And how did he cross the portal without a body. This was making him go crazy. That wraith, he knew all what must be happening.
"Through a portal" he answered, and a crease formed on the girl's face "a portal?" She asked trying to clarify her thought. Who goes through a portal into another dimension. And what portal?
"What's your name?"
"Zayn"
Zayn watched her taste the name on her lips mumbling it before shaking her head and telling him to follow her. She was oblivious to some things even as a magic user. Her people needs to hear this before she goes back into her confinemt.
The big grumpy guy turned to them as they walked into the tent, he felt like strangling the girls neck before killing the other person at her back "what are you doing Selene?"
"Listen to him first before concluding or trying to talk him off ash, he needs help—"
"And what does that have to do with me…us? He is a stranger Selene gosh now I know why you were confined. You are too soft and foolish" ash pushed her lightly out of the way to zayn and holding him on the shirt "why are you following us huh?" He pushed at his chest again.
Selene ran to him and tried pulling him away but zayn glared at him intently, indignation clawing at him. He firmly propelled him with a brutal force he never knew he had and ash went flying back inside the tent, everyone turned to the scene.
Everyone was awestruck, no one dared to come against or try to fight ash, he always poised himself like a small god which sometimes left them hating him but they couldn't do anything but wished someone would try to go against him, seeing another person whom they knew not who he was pushing him and even snarling at him made them curious who he was.
Ash groaned standing up "waging a war right now against me wind do you any good. I could send you off to the wolves out there, they would be glad to take you up for execution you seem to have quite the strength to…"
"Ash don't" Selene tried interrupting him but he continued not caring if a human spoke up or not "…to fight out there" he looked at the people sone sitting on the floor, some standing gazing at them "He should be out at the front, shouldn't he?" He laughed trying to ease the situation, he knew he had lost his face now. The only restraint on him why he hasn't lunged at him right now was because he didn't know who he was and what he was capable of.
The force he used on him was something he had encountered which was why he needn't attract right now, so he clutched zayn's shirt and dragged saying "follow me" and they went outside of the tent, Selene running after them, the people in the tent watching.