Saeta laughed. We were lost and hopelessly so. Nyckolai
scowled as the reigns tightened causing the carriage to jerk to a halt. His
eyes full of blame as he stared into the emptiness of the four walls. We were
lost and to make matters worse, we were lost together.
“I should have never listened to you, I knew you would find
some way to ruin my day… you always
do”, Nyckolai spat as he yelled from inside the carriage, placing the silk
ribbon delicately inside his book and snapping it shut as he reached for the
door. Saeta smirked as she heard him fidgeting with the door. He didn’t know
that she had purposely blocked it and the idea of his growing frustration,
tickled her gingerly.
“Perhaps then you should have “driven”,” Saeta mocked, as
she wiggled in her seat, hearing Nyckolai begin to bang on the door. Saeta’s
snake like eyes glinting for the moment as she slid from the seat, hitting the
ground with a squish, scowling as she ran her nails along the door. “Now now,
such profanity, is that any way to talk..to your..dear..friend?” her tone was
hard as she unlocked the latch watching him spill into the bog.
“You’re a right dizzy cunt,” Nyckolai said, stating the more
than obvious. “Why did we stop? Are we lost now …” he paused looking down at
his pants and shoes now covered with mud, moss and visceral looking roots. “Great
and we’re covered in forest.” Nyckolai
looked around, trying hard to figure out where we were. Through the trees he
could make out nothing more than shadows and trees, abandoned and broken wavering
in the wind.
“Well what shall we do then?,” Saeta smirked as she walked
around front, running her fingers along the slick leathery skin of the creature
that was pulling them. Her eyes flashing in the moonlight, slitting as Nyckolai
clicked a small light in his hand.
“I guess we need to turn around,
find an alternate route, or call it a day.” He snorted as he lifted himself up
on the step of the carriage, kicking mud and muck everywhere as he tried to
clear his shoes off, wiping at his pant leg with his kerchief.
“We can’t head back now.” She hissed
as she grabbed hold of the reigns, hopping back up into the seat. “We have come
too far and are too close to call this quits. Beside, this is the party of the
year and I demand on crashing it. Why else would we be in this predicament?”
she scowled as she surveyed from uptop, clicking the reigns hard pushing the
creature harder with each movement trying to get the carriage unstuck and around
the deep sinkhole.
“This isn’t the first we have
missed and this is sure not to be the last, Saeta," Nyckolai said as the carriage broke free
from its sticky disposition a small popping sound as the wheels peeled
themselves from the mud. “Besides, we have better things we can be doing back
home.”
“Well at least Nyckolai does” she
thought as she grumbled through gritted teeth, taking them off the path and
slowly making their way backwards.
Nyckolai didn’t respond to the
loud ruckus Saeta was causing in her seat as they returned. He knew how badly
she wished to have caused a scene at the party. But there will always be
another grander party, we will look back on that night and realize that when we
got home he was forced to regret every nagging decision he made that night from
now till eternity.
Word Count: 600
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