” Is this how you treat your brothers? Do you leave them to fate when they need you the most?” She probed him with her gaze still bowed to the floor. She was oblivious of the presence of Catori, little could anyone say she was trying to impress him. Her revelations only made Maximin aware of his lapses. It showed him how rare she was in thoughts and how selfish he had been without even knowing he was being selfish. She brought out the best in him and he swore to keep her at all cost.
” If you want me to stay back and fight a war I know nothing about. I’m sorry I Will disappoint you. I have been fighting my personal battles and no one has fought on my side. No one but you Amelia. All the things you did for me. I swear I can never do for even my father who I love the most. We are made differently and not all of us can stake our lives for the benefits of others. This is my truth and this is what I live by.” He elucidated, gazing deeply at Catori whose gaze narrowed with hate towards him.
” I stood against Gallagher and almost got my larynx shattered, I travelled to the outer lands where a death warrant is on my head, just to fetch you medications, I was at the brink of getting devoured by the wrath of a grizzly. My home was torched and destroyed. I was battered and almost raped by the caveman, I traveled to the mountains on your instructions and almost got obliterated by yet another grizzly. I brought a helper to save your life. All this I have done for you as a stranger.” She said and hummed softly before speaking again. ” Does it makes me a fool that I have gone all through these just to save the life of a total stranger? ” She asked with her face still on the floor. She didn’t accord so much seriousness in reminding him about her sacrifices. He was mum in guilt and she wasn’t even done talking.
” And what should Catori think of you. He saved my life and then he saved yours. If things had played differently. You would have left him to die wouldn’t you Maximin,? If how we do is the ways of the animals then I will stay with the animals. I won’t do like you. I won’t do like the humans.” She said and finally raised her gaze to meet his only for her find Catori in the distance. She stood up, said nothing and found her way into a nearby hut that had been assigned to her by Catori. The two men stood gazing at each other with nothing but hate in their mind. One had tolerance in mind, it was his soil. The other one had rage in his mind. It was his woman. As they stood gazing at each other in hate, Maximin couldn’t help but slightly growl from the rage that vibrated in him. Catori stood still, with hands clutched to his vertical spear. He was almost like a statue, he was almost like a god.