The Shadow of the Crown of Snow [Western Fantasy]

It is not difficult to guess why Hussein wanted to kill Hecate.

Also as the ruler of the kingdom, Selene can understand his mentality very well. If Joshua shows amazing talent and rebelliousness no less than Hecate, she will immediately remove the threat for herself. Give the enemy a chance to grow.Apart from this reason, Hecate also has the right to speak: she can declare that she fled after hearing the news that Hussein was going to attack the Nord Kingdom, and that this war was completely fought by Nagrand against Nord. The responsibility for the aggression cannot be attributed to Hecate.

So he won't give up because of a momentary failure. Even if Hecate is already in the territory of Nord, he will try his best to kill her before she arrives in the Frosted City and has the guard of the Guards.

"Don't rush it." Selene reined in the horse and waited on the spot, turning around to look at Hecate with a dissatisfied expression, "Nord's ponies are not as fast as Nagrand's horses."

Hecate frowned and tugged on the reins: "I have never ridden a Nagrand horse...They are afraid that I will escape, so they basically don't let me approach the stables."

Selene froze for a moment, and asked her with some uncertainty: "You mean you haven't learned how to ride a horse?"

Being asked such a question, Hecate's movements obviously froze, but she didn't answer Selene, she was still sitting on the horse's back and tugging at the reins. Carter was thrown off.

"Okay, come down quickly." Selene jumped off the horse and walked to the side of Hecate, stretched out her hand to appease the horse that was upset by Hecate's mess, and looked up at Hecate again , "Come down quickly, don't stand still."

Hecate dragged one leg over the horse's back, sat sideways on the saddle, and then simply jumped forward and jumped off the saddle.Because Hecate grew up in the Nagrand Empire with extremely elite cavalry, Selene took it for granted that she must be proficient in riding. It seems that Nagrand did not teach Hecate not only military command, but also many other things.

Living in an enemy country that is full of crises and restrictions everywhere, she has missed too many things she deserves.

Selene pulled her up from the snow, patted the snowflakes on her trouser legs, and led her to her white horse. She slowed down and got on the horse, then lowered her head and held out a Hand: "Come on, I'll teach you."

Selene gave up the stirrups to Hecate, and her two legs dangling in the air seemed to dangle habitually, bumping into Hecate who was sitting in front of her from time to time.And Hecate was holding on to the rein almost stiffly, and there was not much fear in it—after all, even if she fell off the horse, she would not be hurt—it was just the breath of Selene.

In the previous 15 years of her life, Hecate had almost never had physical contact with any human beings of the same sex or the opposite sex. In her impression, the only thing she had touched in these years was the hounds in the courtyard of the Yoda Palace. She likes to have lunch in the courtyard, and by the way, The old old hound shared bacon and bread, and in return the hound would lie down and let Hecate stroke its fur and occasionally pinch its ears.

Everyone in the palace learned from Hussein's disregard for Hecate, even if she passed by, they would not look at her, nor would there be any discussions behind her.She was like an insignificant little pebble that received no attention, be it kind or malicious.

Of course, not getting a little attention is already a great malice in itself-especially for a child.

The direct consequence of this kind of malice is that Hecate has not learned to communicate with people at all, and he will not get used to this posture that is tantamount to being embraced by Selene.She's a little unsure what "level" of intimacy "this level" really is.

From the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of Selene's calm expression, which made Hecate a little guilty. She turned her head uncomfortably, and looked for a topic nervously: "Even if I let myself decide, I don't know what I should do, so If it is on the battlefield, I will absolutely obey the command of a good commander."

It wasn't the first time in Hecate's short time with Selene that he was given such a silence after speaking.She was a little afraid of the meaning contained in this silence, which made her unconsciously speculate whether Selene was thinking about the deep meaning of her words, whether she was showing some emotions that she shouldn't have.

Then she quickly realized that Selene's silence was just thinking about how to answer, and she didn't only feel flustered when talking with Selene, even the straightforward and lively Rita in Youfeng Town would also feel uneasy. It would make Hecate's palms full of cold sweat.

Hopefully this is just a hangover from not speaking to humans for too long.

Selene spoke with undisguised anger just when her nervousness was reaching its limit.

"You are like a snow leopard with fur all over the body. You don't want to trust others or be trusted. While tearing apart the enemy, you also take everyone's goodwill as ulterior motives." Selene's tone followed the words The voice gradually calmed down, and soon returned to its usual calmness, "I really want to tell you what it is to be alive, how the relationship between people is maintained, when to judge value, what It's not the right time. But the answers to these questions, even I don't know."

For the rest of the journey, Hecate didn't say a word. She lowered her head silently, staring at the royal coat of arms on the saddle, as if she was thinking about something complicated, but she didn't seem to be thinking about anything.

Living in the sunny city of Yoda for so long, the barriers in my heart are colder and harder than the ice in the city of frost.Selene sighed.She didn't know if she had the ability to drag Hecate back to the world of normal people, it was much more difficult than she imagined.

They set off from Youfeng Town at night, and it was only noon when they arrived in the town. Selene and Hecate got off their horses and wanted to continue their journey directly through the city without wasting time.The Nord Kingdom is sparsely populated, and even in a small-scale city, the level of excitement is far less than that of Joda, but Hecate has been closely following Selene, almost reaching out to hold her by the corner of her clothes.

Selene shook her head helplessly. She casually looked at the market on the side of the road, looking for something new and interesting, but found a few strange figures among the crowd.Most people from the Northland are tall, and there are very few exceptions to this feature. If Selene and Hecate were walking on the streets of Nagrand, they would be recognized as Northlanders at a glance because of the difference in height between them and the people around them.And if the Nagrand people walk on the streets of the Northland, they will appear much shorter and thinner than others.

"Hecate..." Selene turned her head to warn Hecate, but found that the person who was stuck behind her just a second ago suddenly disappeared.After a short period of panic, Selene immediately judged that it was absolutely impossible to take Hecate away quietly, but it was very easy for Hecate if she wanted to leave without making a sound.

Selene didn't want to stay in the middle of the road for too long, she put on the hood of her cloak, took the rein and pretended to be walking forward nonchalantly.She could feel that those Nagrands followed, but they might not know who Selene was, they just wanted to catch or kill Selene quickly and report back to their own country, and they didn't want to mess with other people. Trouble.

They followed Selene all the way to another city gate, but they still didn't see Hecate's figure. Then they felt that they might have lost track, and stood there cursing softly, then turned back.

Not a few dozen steps out of the city, Hecate patted Selene on the shoulder behind her.

"How did you get here?"

"After I left the market, I found an empty alley, walked around the roof, and then turned over the city wall."

"...How did you get off the city wall?"

"Jump down."

Hecate blinked inexplicably, as if this was a perfectly normal thing to her.Selene raised her head to measure the height of the city wall, and shivered involuntarily.

"You found them at the market?"

"Well, it's not convenient to do it over there, so I hid." Hecate touched the handle of the knife, as if expressing regret, "When they find out that we are indeed not in that city, they will probably chase after us." Come up."

"In the future, whether you want to run away or meet the enemy head-on, you must tell me first, and don't just follow your own plan without saying a word." Selene tried not to make her words sound reproachful, "It's you If you say you want to listen to the command of a good commander, then you have to listen to me."

But the suspicious little Snow Leopard could still interpret Selene's words in another wrong direction: "Are you ordering me in the name of the Queen of the Kingdom of Nord?"

Selene pulled her onto the horseback: "Okay, I know you don't have a sense of belonging to Nord yet, and it's not your fault. I order you in the name of your sister, that's okay."

Hecate kept his head down along the way, until Selene finally couldn't help telling her: "Hecate, to be honest, from the point of view of your mind, you really look like a six or seven-year-old child. How precocious."

Hecate suddenly raised his head, and the back of his head almost hit Selene on the bridge of the nose.She opened her mouth, but couldn't think of anything to refute, so she silently pulled out the Crescent Blade from her waist.

"Okay, I was wrong, don't be impulsive, put the knife away, and I will fight with you when I get back to Shuangcheng, that's all right."

Hecate tilted his head and thought for a while, and felt that this suggestion was very reasonable, so he silently retracted the Crescent Blade.

Fortunately, she is easy to coax among six or seven-year-old children.

But Selene is still very worried about her future life.