The Marenon Chronicles Collection - By Jason D. Morrow Page 0,306

wasn’t there. Silas was someone else. He had no control over the movements of his head. His vision turned from right to left. The man at the other end of the room turned, but his face was covered in shadow by the hood of his cloak. There was also a woman on her knees, crying.

“You two stop it! I’ve had enough of your fighting! I don’t want either of you!” the woman screamed. Apart from the look of distress upon her face, the woman was absolutely gorgeous. By her pointed ears and fair skin, Silas could tell that she was Erellen. The big tears rolled down her face as she looked at the two men, begging them to stop.

Silas realized that he was watching the memory from Kaden’s point of view.

“You’re nothing but a worm!” the shadowy man said to Kaden. “You don’t deserve her!”

“You were my friend!” The voice confirmed Kaden’s identity to Silas, though he sounded much younger. His eyes focused in on the Erellen woman. “You told me that you loved me!”

The shadowy man pulled out a dagger and charged for Kaden. Kaden carried no weapon, but he was able to grab the man’s wrist and wrestle him to the ground. The Erellen woman screamed for the two of them to stop fighting, but neither would relent.

Everything moved so quickly that it became difficult to see what was happening. The man whose face Silas had yet to see, was able to reach around Kaden and free his hand that held the dagger. With a quick swipe, he cut into Kaden’s jaw drawing a river of blood from his face.

“No!” the woman screamed. “You cut his throat! You killed him!”

The man stepped back from Kaden. Kaden looked down at his wet hands covered in blood, then quickly placed the pressure back on the wound. “I didn’t touch his throat. But maybe I should have.”

With blood pouring from the spaces between his fingers, Kaden sat against the wall and looked at the woman for a long moment, then back to the man. “I hope you’re happy.”

The man walked over to Kaden and squatted in front of him. He pulled back his hood to reveal the younger version of a face that Silas had gotten to know through his dreams. Will.

“It doesn’t make me happy to see our friendship end this way,” Will said. “We both knew this would happen.”

“So, this is your way of getting back at me?” Kaden asked. “This is how you react when your father chooses me to be his second in command over you?”

“I love her,” Will said.

“So do I.”

“Goodbye, Kaden.”

Will stood and walked over to the Erellen woman.

“Shelinsa, are you all right?”

Silas instantly recognized the name that belonged to his mother. She looked up at Will with big wet eyes then to Kaden. Kaden just stared back at her, his vision blurring with tears.

“I’m sorry, Kaden,” she said.

Kaden said nothing.

She turned and left the room and Will began to follow her. Before he stepped out of the room, he took one glance back. For a brief moment, Silas could see the sense of regret and sadness in his father’s eyes. A single tear dripped past his cheek and he was gone. Kaden dropped his head to his chest and began to weep.

Silas didn’t want to see any more.

He felt his grip loosen on the side of Kaden’s head and instantly the light from the outside shined bright in his eyes.

“Did you see him?” Kaden asked. “Did you see the same man from your dreams?”

Silas nodded. “I did.”

“Interesting,” Kaden said. He sat silently for a moment then stood. “I tried to come up with the best image I could. I thought of him sitting across from me when we used to play cards. It was the best image that I could remember.”

“Thank you,” was all Silas could get out. Kaden had no idea that Silas had just seen a very intimate moment in his past. Kaden had been in love with Silas’ mother? He had been a rival against his father?

For a brief second, Silas studied Kaden’s face and looked at the scar that barely showed through his beard. He had seen it before, most notably the first time they had met in the caves on Earth. Silas would have never thought that his father was the one to administer such a mark.

Silas got up from the bed and Kaden showed him his fresh set of clothes and a clean cloak.

“I’ll wait for you outside,”