Chapter 9: Run through the plains

They started Sprinting in the stormy dawn, the light that makes it to their feet still mild from the thick storm above and only this being only the first dawn. Both in their pure black combat suits that hug their bodies and full masks that shows no features or contours of the faces hiding behind them. They run along as close to the bottom of the rolling hills as possible just far enough up that they don't have to deal with the flowing water. Samira keeping a consistent awareness of their surrounding and Lucious focused not losing direction and being ready for any ambush targeting himself.

In the relative silence they continued their trek, all that they could hear being that constant rain and their own footstep in the rain. They were a black blur passing through the grass rapidly. 

In this time the anxiety that they've managed to push down again and again has begun to rise once again.

Step after Step after Step, this run continued, each holding their thoughts to themselves but both know that they were nervous. Nervous that they would be the cause of the failure and endangerment of their family. Lucious worried that his weakness will cause him to be ambushed and attacked before he could react. Samira worried that she would miss something or make a mistake by not fulfilling her role well.

 Step after Step after Step, even with the budding worry of their own failure not once have they considered the other as the one possibly messing up. This is a result of two simple facts, one because of the trust they have in each other to not make a mistake and two because if the other failed they wouldn't be able to doing anything except fall with them shortly after. 

Step after Step after Step, The weight of this long night has started to sink into both of them. Even while there bodies and minds are refreshed from their strength or tools their spirits can feel the effects of being on overdrive for so long. Normally they would be fine even after days of having to be completely focused never letting up for a moment but the importance of this specific situation is taking it's toll on them. 

After a few hours jog they finally reach a sparse forest, after finding a rock outcropping that Lucious marked out in his head from before they made a stop. They take their masks off and Lucious takes their daughter and bag from before. Samira takes off the gloves and holds their daughter pulling her out of the wrap she was in. She locked eyes with her daughter who irrevocably changed their lives, even if that is true she would hold nothing but love for her daughter. Their child's eyes still looking like a strange constantly moving mist or fog, she noticed that they seemed to changed depending on the situation. If it was relatively calm her eyes would have a slow steady flow to them but in times of anxiety or potential danger they would experience an extremely fast chaotic flow like you were stuck in a storm.

With that thought Samira looked up then wondered if her daughter could potentially be the cause of such a phenomenon, not sure whether to think that obviously the whole sky isn't being influenced by her daughters birth especially not constantly until now. But she could never truly be sure after all her daughter was apparently the most powerful cursed child not that she really knew what powerful cursed children could do. There is those two 'Demon of Asura' and 'Saintess of health' but again I'm still not sure how strong those two are. They should at least be in comparison to the top 10 ranked and if that's the basic strength of them then she couldn't really conceptualize what her daughter could potentially due. All she knew is that it would definitely being something great. 

Looking down after pushing away the momentarily unimportant thoughts she continued her previous line of thoughts about the strange state of her daughters eyes. She noticed a few times that in immediate and imminent danger that the moving and swirling mist would come to a sudden and unnerving halt. During one of those moments she looked at her daughters eyes at same moment that she looked up at her. In the moment their eyes locked she felt an instinctual pressure from her gaze. Kind of like an innately higher being looking at you. Like a little natural born queen or empress staring down at you. It felt like the world momentarily turned against her. There wasn't any signs of physical and mental danger or any form of tangible potential threat for that matter, it was just an innate instinctual response.

As she was contemplating the significance behind her daughters eyes, Lucious finished unpacking everything in the duffle bag they brought. He brought out a whole bunch of strange objects but what was most prominent was a carefully sealed piece of writing on what seemed to be a dragon scale or at least something close to it. There was a strange lightly glowing writing on it, but the marks kept flowing and changing shapes but you could somehow understand what they meant, at least the intent behind them.

This was the thing that Lucious previously talked to Samira about getting to do. A contract but specifically a world contract that let's the will of the world act as an enforcer and guarantor to the contract. It's something extremely rare and sought after by the few who even know that such things exist. After all as long as your put up something of equal value or considered fair then you can do something far beyond your ability or means. Just like Lucious is planning now. 

Even among contracts this one is special as there is a secondary small piece of metal that was with the scale when found. This piece of metal also contained a contract but this one just allowed him to finish writing the first, putting up his sacrifice or restriction and what he wants in return. All of this despite not being even close to know how world contracts function or are created. 

Lucious put the other supplies to the side and came to sit down besides the large rock that acted as a land marker for himself. He placed himself near a little smaller platform that stuck out so Samira could place their daughter down and he could finally give her, her name. A name she will remember no matter what happens in the future and a name recognized by the world itself.