Priestess Of The Land

Chukah and Hepri caught up to Tria and Crei, but surprisingly did not discuss the marriage matter with her. 

Not because they did not want to tell her, but such news...how exactly do you tell someone their husband has a fiance looking for him. 

Both Hepri and Chukah were awkwardly silent for the rest of the trip to Centria, while also glaring at Crei from time to time. Their behavior was not unnoticed to Tria, not to mention their energies not being in synch as usual. 

Chukah had simply told there that the old man who was following them was just a pawn without going into details of what they had accomplish. 

"Alright you two! Spill whatever is going on," she demanded but she did not get any answer. 

"Now," she said again, getting mildly upset. 

Hepri had never seen Tria upset before, so he was a lot more affected than Chukah, and he did not hesitate to shout words that could have come out a little better. 

"Your husband has another wife!" he screamed while covering his head in fear. 

A dead awkward silence took place. 

Chukah was flabbergasted of Hepri's intelligence. He has been repeating and practicing a perfect way to relay this and this bug head just shouted it out? 

Tria heard Hepri, while thinking that she had probably heard wrong, she couldn't help but think of that time Crei had said he'd only be with her. 

Crei on one side was just standing there like a statue, he did not know what to think, he was not prepared to hear such an accusation therefore, the process where he should start to defend himself was being delayed. That would usually not be a good sign. 

Hepri realizing no one was going to hit him, tried to look around, only to see the confused faces and finally realized that he had messed up. 

"What I meant to say is...there's a delusional woman out there who thinks she was arranged in marriage with 'Sir' Crei...nothing to worry about though, even if she's a goddess we'll never let her steal hi- 

Smack! 

Chukah couldn't take it anymore, this guy was looking for his own death. What was he trying to accomplish by explaining everything so wrongly? 

"Zip it!" he hollered at him, then apologetically looked at Tria. 

"Little sister..." 

"I heard what he said already," she snapped at him. 

Crei broke out of his stupor, what was he doing, he inwardly scolded himself. 

"Wifey, I don't know what beetle head was talking about but you need to know that my promise to you is something that I will never break," he said slowly while getting closer to Tria and just as he was about to touch her she swiftly turned around. 

"A goddess?" she coldly asked him. 

Cold sweats ran down Crei's back feeling her cold stare. 

"About that..." he awkwardkly started. 

"Tsk you don't have to force yourself...besides there are other things that I need to deal with right now, let's talk about our marital affairs at home," she slightly smiled and said, then turned around to Chukah and said, "tell me what happened later, let's keep moving."