It’s been two years since I met Maya. Looking outside the windows, seeing beautiful scenarios, Riven remembered Maya’s beautiful smile. How innocently she smiles, just like this beautiful scenario. Without knowing, Riven’s Maya became his whole world.

  The train rattled beneath them as it cut through the iron veins of the continent. Cutting through the forest, leaving behind beautiful scenarios. Riven didn’t know when he started to talk loudly about Maya.

  She always tells him Riven, don’t attach yourself to me this much; it will hurt you in the future. He also knows this factor. Still, he loves her so much, he doesn't know why. Sometimes he feels he will burn the world just for her. he always tells her, Maya, you are mine, that means you are mine. Nobody can take her from him. If someone tries, she knows what Riven will do. Both of them know that this world doesn't welcome love at all. Strong prey the weak. If you have strength, you can have the whole world; if you don’t have strength, then someone will take it from you. Even after knowing this, Riven loves her deep down. He knows it will cost him too much, and he can't afford it.

  At that time, Riven noticed that the man in front of him leaned forward and looked at him. “I guess you start to become bored listening to this bullshit. I am Riven Blackwood, and you’re? ”

  “No, no, tell me more about it. I really enjoyed it. It’s rare to see a love story like this. By the way, I am known as Whitewolf. Nice to meet you, Riven. So Riven, what's your aim in life?” Whitewolf asked.

  “To be honest with you, it’s nothing; I just want to spend time with Maya.” After saying it, Riven smiled.

  Listening to Riven answer whitewolf started to laugh. “So tell me, Riven, what do you think about the world without Maya?” After telling this, he looked at Riven's eyes.

  Giving a soft smile, Riven starts to tell, “It’s a really dangerous world. Everywhere is fighting and fighting. Monsters fighting the Touched, the Touched are fighting each other. There is always conflict between them. Never-ending fights basically. It's a really difficult place to live as a normal human. That’s what I think.”

  “Don’t you want to be the Touched Riven?”

  “Are you kidding with me, Mr. Whitewolf? Lowly humans like me? Impossible. It’s really hard to imagine.”

  “You should broaden your horizons, Mr. Riven Blackwood; it's a really unpredictable world. Everything can be possible in this world, that we think is impossible.”

  A screeching mechanical voice interrupted them: “Next station: Blackspire Middle Town. Please keep your distance from the door.”

  Riven stood up and said nice to meet you, Mr. Whitewolf. I really enjoyed talking with you. Hope we can meet again. Have a safe journey, take care. Saying that Riven came closer to the door.

  Whitewolf was smiling, and a person came from behind and asked “why are you laughing.”

  Whitewolf looked at him and said “I met a strange person right now, Black Regent. You will also like him if you meet him earlier.”

  “Whatever, so what’s your plan now?” Black Regent asked.

  “Let’s go to Gravenfort, then we will decide”, Whitewolf Relied.

  “Okay, as you say.”

  **

  Again, today Maya’s going to be mad at me. I don't know why, but whoever I meet, I always tell them about her, and she really hates this. Whatever, even if she is going to be mad at me. What I should do, I always do it unconsciously.

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  “Riven, what are you thinking?” Maya asks.

  She was standing outside the railway station. Riven, looking at maya he started to admire her beauty. He then tells her what happened on the train. When Riven finished talking, Maya became very angry with Riven, and she started to tell him, “How many times have I needed to tell you to stop talking about me with strangers?”

  Riven just smiled and said nothing, which only made Maya angrier. Arguing, sometimes they go to a restaurant to eat.

  Maya looks at Riven eyes and asks, “Why do you love me so much? Do you even know my situation? Do you think you can handle it?”

  Riven, she said softly, “it will be better if you forget me. I don't want you to jump in on my problem.”

  Riven takes his eyes from the food and looks at Maya's eyes. And start saying, “You know maya whatever you say i will not listen to you. I'll never leave you, I'll stay with you. We have been together for more than two years. You never tell me the reason why you came to this blackspire city from Gravenfort city, capital of the empire. Trust me, I don't even want to know that I love you, and to me, only you matter to me. Now, if you tell me to kill the empire, I will do it blindly. I will never ask you why. Do you understand me, Maya?”

  Maya shouted at Riven and told him to stop. I understood. So now just stop.

  “Whenever I go, will you come to find me, Riven?” Maya asks nervously.

  “Obviously, I will. I will find you no matter what happened to me. You can trust me on that. You were mine, you are mine, you will be mine no matter what happened. You just need to wait for me, and I will come for you. Just don’t forget me maya. I am just requesting you.”

  “Okay, Maya, promise Riven that she'll always be his.”

  Riven takes a deep breath and asks, “Maya, why do you love me? I know my background, and it’s not impressive as you to be honest, it’s nothing compared to you, so why?”

  “The way you told that person on the train, you don’t know the reason why you love me so much. The same thing applied to me, too. I also don’t know the answer.” They are smiling, looking at each other.

  The following day, they spent time together. They went to the park, went shopping, and it was a lovely date.

  “I am going to Gravenfort tomorrow; family elders are pressuring my parents for me to go there. I will try to come as soon as possible. So take care of yourself.” Saying this, Maya kissed Riven.

  “Everything okay Maya? Do you need my help with something?”

  “No, no, everything is okay i just need to go there, nothing else you don’t need to be tense.”

  “Okay, I will be waiting for you maya, come as soon as possible.”

  …..

  One day later, the capital of the Ashfall Empire, Gravenfort.

  “Do you find anything?”

  “No, I can't. I guess we need to go there personally to investigate.”

  “Man, I told you from the start we should break in and search for it there.”

  “Are you out of your mind? I know they can do nothing to us, even then, we should at least give them some respect. After all, they are the strongest force on the continent."

  “Nah, man is already giving them too much respect by not killing anyone. I don’t want to give them more.”

  “Okay, okay, did you prepare the mask?”

  “Yeah, man, I don't want those mad dogs hunting us all the time. They can't do anything but shout all day. It's destroying my rest time.”

  “Understand now, give me the mask.”

  Suddenly, a huge sound came from the center of the capital. Someone intruded on his majesty's royal treasury, and something important was taken from it. Close the city, no one can go outside the city.

  …..

  Blackspire city in the morning, “what happened where are they going?” looking at the marching soldier Riven asked.

  “Didn't you know that last night someone broke into his majesty's royal treasury? That's why Blackspire sent troops to the capital to fortify it. The other nine cities are doing the same.”

  “What happens if the bandits of Solmar attack us? With this many soldiers gone to the capital, they can’t protect us.”

  “It’s his majesty’s order, and most importantly, the nobles of this city don’t care about us. If possible, they will send all the soldiers to the capital to gain more favours from the emperor.”

  “Yeah, you are right i totally forgot about them. I guess we need to stop talking about them, or you know.”

  “Yeah, you are right, we should hope nothing happened.”

  Riven woke up from sleep because of the shouting. Solmar bandits are attacking the city everyone needs to run for their life.

  Listening to shouting, Riven quickly gets out of his house and starts running for his life, and thinks it’s good that Maya is not here. At least she will be safe from this.

  Suddenly, something hit his head, and he fell.

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  Listening to this, he lost consciousness.