“Wait! That’s a...” Soldeus’s words were suddenly interrupted by Kay, who put his hand in his mouth.
“Shhh, don’t talk too loud, we can put in risk that kid” he whispered a little nervous, removing his hand.
“Shouldn’t we try to help him?” He asked in a low voice “What if that thing it’s trying to eat him?!”
“ Believe me, if that thing wanted to eat that kid it would have done it already” he was looking at the creature and the kid, surprised by the fact that the kid was petting and hugging the creature as if was a dog and the creature was letting the kid doing it without showing any aggressive sign.
“Then what do we do? We can’t leave him there, he could be the son of someone in the town, what if their parents are looking for him?”
“I know, but if we get close that thing can attack the kid or attack us and even if we can kill it... We have to think in another way to get close. The kid doesn’t look hurt, that’s a relief”
While they were thinking on a way to get closer they noticed that, after pushing the kid with its head, the nighthound turnaround and started walking away from him, stopping once just to look back, almost like it was a goodbye to the child who was just standing in the same place. He wasn’t smiling anymore, he looked more confused. The creature started walking again, getting away and disappearing in the shadow of the tree that was close.
“Ok, let’s go” Kay ran to the kid’s direction.
“E-ey! How do you know that thing it’s completely gone?
“I’m not sure” he replied back without stop running, with Soldeus behind him “but it’s our better chance”
They both got close to the little kid who just looked at them with curiosity.
“Hey little boy” Kay stopped running when he was getting close, trying not to scare him “What are you doing here all by yourself? “ he asked, smiling to the kid who just moves his head, clearly more confused.
“I’m glad he looks fine. You think we can find his parents?”
“Come here, let me hug you” Kay got close and extended his arms to grab the little kid “You are very friendly, don’t you?” he smiled to the kid before turning to Soldeus “He is not a Nightmare, I’m pretty sure his parents aren’t in this kingdom”
“How you know that?” he asked looking at the kid “What makes him different?”
“His eyes” he replied while taking another look to the kid who was looking and them both before start playing with Kay’s uniform’s buttons “All nightmares have purple eyes, different shades of purple but still purple”
“But you don’t have purple eyes and you are a nightmare,” Soldeus noticed while looking at Kay’s eyes who immediately turn around.
“I have them” he was trying to take the kid’s hands off his uniform “I just use magic to change it, most nightmares can’t do it and kids are not an exception, they don’t have magic until they are teens and changing appearance it’s a high level magic that most common nightmares never learn”
“It’s the first time you tell me this...”
“Is not important, I have my reasons” he kindly smiled to Soldeus like asking him to change the subject “Now let’s go back if he is not a nightmare we will have to ask our superiors what to do with him”.
“Yeah, let’s go back before that thing come back and discover we just stole its food”
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