After that day Aria sent the maid to drug Deucalion and failed. She has been looking for any other means but it all failed. Deucalion was so fixated on searching for Malia at every cost.
For months, Deucalion searched for Malia.He checked the roads first. Then the nearby territories. Then the neutral lands beyond Blackridge borders.
Every report was the same.
Nothing. No one had seen her. No one knew where she had gone.
Deucalion refused to accept it. “She cannot simply disappear,” he said one evening, standing over a map in his study. “How can someone who has barely been outside before, just disappear without any traces. Just like that?”
His father watched him from across the room. “She has been gone for months.”
“I know.”
“You have searched every territory within reach.”
“Then I
