The Love that Never Really Dies (Sasha and Sebastian)

Sasha didn’t pay him any mind. After she stopped his stomach issues through acupuncture, she sent

him to go to the temple’s apothecary to get some medicine.

That night, Sabrina scurried over to Sasha’s room with the baby in hand. She seemed as if she was

overjoyed at the chance to sleep apart from that man.

Sasha took care of both mother and daughter, and they slept peacefully throughout the night.

They thought they would have a calm couple of days, but they were faced with bad news the very next

morning.

“Master! Things are going badly below the mountain. We got wind of Louis’ crimes being released to

the public. Now, several other countries are attacking us for it.”

“Attacking our country?”

The old monk, who had woken up early to prepare for his prayers, was mildly confused at his

apprentice’s news.

His apprentice nodded confidently. “Yes. All the news outlets below the mountain are reporting on it,

and a lot of country leaders are confronting our country and asking us about what Louis has done.”

“So what do they want exactly?”

“T-they said our country’s leaders were secretly building illegal firearms factories and producing illegal

military goods. They were angry that all the weapons and explosives made there were nuclear

weapons that other countries haven’t had access to,” the apprentice said, explaining everything he had

heard from below the mountain.

The old monk fell silent after hearing that.

He had known Sebastian already had a plan brewing when he pretended to be sick and went down the

mountain, but he hadn’t imagined that it would be this crazy of a plan.

“Master?”

“I got it. Go and inform Mrs. Hayes and the others. Tell them I have something to ask them,” the old

monk finally said mildly.

About ten minutes or so later, Sasha, Edmund and Sabrina walked over with the baby in tow.

“Is something wrong, Master?”

“Yes. Not long ago, I bumped into some trouble in the temple and wanted to ask for your help. Would

you be so kind?” the old monk asked with his ever-pleasant smile as he sat down.

That was an unnecessary question.

Sasha nodded without even thinking about it. “Of course, Master. What is it?”

The old monk chuckled and looked at the apprentice next to him. “Don, bring these three over.

Remember to tell them what to do.”

“Yes, Master,” Don said as he bowed politely.

Soon enough, he escorted Sasha and the others toward the mountain peak.

Where are we going? Sasha wondered.

Since even she was confused, Sabrina and Edmund were even more so.

They finally reached a deep canyon and spotted a rather simple courtyard attached to a small hut.

“What’s this?”

“This is where Master meditates. He’s mentioned that he wanted to come by and meditate in a few

days, so we have to trouble you to help clean this place up a little. We truly aren’t free to do so right

now,” Don explained.

Sabrina finally knew what was going on. She walked over with the baby in her arms, and Edmund

followed right behind.

Sasha, however, studied the small yard and frowned slightly. “This yard seems pretty unused. There’s

such thick dust on the fence and around the yard. Are you sure your master said he wanted to come

here for meditation?”

“Yes, Mrs. Hayes.”

Don had already opened the gate to the yard, but at the sound of Sasha’s suspicions, he gave her yet

another firm answer.

Sabrina didn’t really think too much and entered with the baby.

Edmund was also about to step in.

Suddenly, Sasha looked down at the threshold she was about to walk over.

“What’s this?”

Clang!

At the same time as Sasha noticed something off, a loud clanging noise of metal against metal rang

out. A bronze object quickly rose from beneath her feet. Before they could even blink, the old monk’s

apprentice had already pushed all of them over the threshold.

If Sabrina hadn’t caught her in time, Sasha would have collapsed face-first on the ground.

“Please don’t worry and just stay where you are! No one will be able to find you there. The minute

things become peaceful again out here, you will be released,” Don said as the bronze doors started

closing.

Sasha finally understood what was going on. She no longer cared about the intense shaking from the

floor under her feet and started rapidly bashing the door with her palms.

“Let me go! What is the old monk planning to do? What do you mean by ‘peaceful?’ What does he

have to do with all of this? Let us go right now!”

She screamed until her throat went hoarse and her palms became red from slamming them against the

doors.

When Edmund and Sabrina realized what she was doing, they rushed over and began screaming and

hitting the doors as well.

However, they couldn’t hear anything from the outside anymore. All they could see were the bronze

doors that were slowly rising higher and higher.

Soon enough, they realized that the doors weren’t rising higher but that they were the ones sinking

below the ground. The place they were standing on turned out to be a platform of sorts that had been

hidden inside the small hut all along.

Soon enough, there was nothing except for an empty yard in that canyon.