When she’s back to the carriage, Sung doesn’t ask her about the stuff in her big bag. ” Are you done??” Sung asks coldly, he just wants to go. Wendy looks around, only two of them, not even guards, “So are we going alone? Without others?” She asks curiously. “No, just two of us, that’s enough! I warn you, don’t try to make any trouble for me. I won’t take care of you, you better look after yourself!” Sung replies. He chose to go alone without her, all because he heard about the thieves in that mountain! If they go with guards, then it might cause their attention, which would be more dangerous! Besides, he doesn’t want to waste time on those thieves! Wendy seems to understand something, she is a wise woman. She keeps quiet then goes into the carriage.
They are on the way to the Sirius mountain. In the beginning, the horses drive very slow, then they drive faster and faster, which makes her dizzy and nausea a little. Wendy opens the curtain, tries to get some fresh cool air. She sighs, she must look after herself, her man won’t care about her anyway. Such a shame to have no or to depend on.
A few hours later, Sung orders the driver to keep driving. He sits back to the carriage. For a long time, they don’t talk, just sit quietly and do their stuff. Sung takes the sketch out, checking carefully, he’s thinking of leaving her under the mountain, in a hostel. Then he comes up the mountain himself, alone. He used to be there one time, it’s a really high and dangerous mountain, he couldn’t climb easily by himself. Not even about Wendy, she is a woman without Kungfu. It will be hilarious if she follows. For Wendy, she’s looking outside, her body is a bit tired already. Her eyes are dizzy sometimes. She must get the plant then cure Zena, or there would be no other way! She must keep her for that baby.
“Look at yourself! You seem tired already! How you gonna go with me then?” Sung complains, quite selfish. He has decided to leave her under the mountain. Wendy ignores his childish, eyes closing, “Well, I rest now for working hard later.”
“No need! I will leave you under the mountain in the hostel. You stay there and wait for me!” Sung replies without looking back. “Wait! You are not going to take me with you?” Wendy asks with her mouth open. “You will make more troubles if I take you.” Sung replies with his eyes closing. He doesn’t want to argue with her.
“But your father…” Wendy inquiries. “Don’t use my father to control me! He asked me to take you out, and I did!” Sung turns to another side. Looking at this foolish young man, Wendy is quite pissed, but she doesn’t like to argue either. She must figure out how to let Sung bring her. She must take that plant no matter what!
“No worry, I will say you help me when we come back later. So you just stay quiet and don’t bother me, do you understand?” Sung opens his eyes and stares at her. Wendy gets him right away, he thought Wendy came just for the prize! Wendy smiles, she decides to keep quiet. No matter what she explains, this foolish man would never believe her. Well, there is always a reason there, why Sung hates her so badly. Yasmin used to be a really bad bitch, she had so many ways to flirt people around, and making tricks evilly to others. It’s too bad to describe. That’s why Sung can’t forgive her, even trust her after those good things she had done. On the contrary, he really wants to communicate with her badly! Due to her changes from that day, she is too attractive to him now.
About two hours on the way, they just left their city. It needs two more hours to reach the mountain, and it will be in the early morning the next day. It’s a little cold outside, Wendy falls asleep. Her head moves slightly to Sung’s shoulder, Sung pushes her away automatically. “Ahh…” Wendy bumps into the window. She opens her eyes and stares at Sung angrily!
“Don’t try to touch me, I know what you are thinking!” Before she complains, Sung talks ahead of her. “No worry, I won’t!” Wendy replies and ignores him, keeps sleeping. This expression surprises him, normally, she would cry and gave him puppy eyes. “Hey, are you really… Yasmin?” Sung asks quietly.
His words wake her up immediately, like an alarm! She can’t be found that she is not Yasmin, otherwise she would die, maybe. Like those women who were tired on the thick burning stick, and burning to death! With some feudal people around yelling, “Burn her to death! You witch!” Who knows what kind of things they would do, in the country?! So scary! So she better keeps her mouth shut and gets a very close connection with Zack and the Queen!
“I don’t understand, your majesty.” Wendy replies, then falls asleep again. Suddenly, the carriage stops in the middle of the way, “Your Majesty, you and royal princess may rest a little. I will go feeding the horses.” The driver opens the curtain and says. Wendy wakes up and looks outside, it’s around 2 am she guesses. Sung jumps off and decides to walk around. Same as Wendy. Suddenly, she sees the yellow light in the bushes. She feels fascinating, she moves closer. A pavilion is placed there, too dark to be seen the color of it. “Wow, the fireflies!” She mumbles out with huge surprised. She only saw one time before on her school trip.
“Hah, you never see the fireflies, my royal princess? It’s not too much in this weather, but there would be more in summer! Around the lake, thousands of fireflies, such a beautiful sight!” The driver laughs. Wendy laughs back, she can’t imagine what it is like, with thousands of fireflies in the sky, floating beneath the moon. And their reflections would be in the lake. “I wish I could see one day…” She says. “Hah, Princess, you are so lovely. If you wanna see, you can see it anytime.” The driver replies. He will never understand how nature our human beings love and desire in the 21st century! On the other side, Sung stares at her in the dark with his dark mysterious eyes. On her face, he sees excitement, jealousy and sadness altogether.
“Can you imagine, such a small beautiful creature, only has five days of life!” Wendy says with disappointment. They are insects, they can’t think like us, and they never know how long they will survive, until the day comes, they just die peacefully. She holds her outfit tight, she feels cold deep from her heart. Too cold to make her cry. She misses all her friends and her families in the 21st century. She’s getting very emotional from the fireflies.
“Who told you fireflies have five days’ lives?!” Sung can’t help replying though he doesn’t want to. He thinks she’s talking nonsense again. However, he doesn’t know either. “I saw from the book, it says the life of firefly is very short, only five days. And then, I don’t know. Where we gonna go when we die?” She replies sadly. The last one she said for herself. Sung doesn’t respond, he stares at her, lost in thought. He never sees her like that. He starts to accept her from inside.