Outsider Chapter 6 part 3

A start of a brand new day and a lot questions to my mind because of last night's events. First question, was Reaper really here to kill me? Her presence in Caelum City puts me in a state of fear and anger. Reaper was sent here on orders from the one person that banished me from the tribe. Not that it hurt me or anything,...just felt a part me was destroyed when my banishment came. The reason for the fear is because Reaper is one of the ranked Zuni members. She is by far, the strongest Zuni in the tribe that pairs with the Syntagmatarchis. She has never lost a fight and never will. I was once on pair with the Syntagmatarchis but since my banishment, I'm forced to find my own training to keep up my skills. Second question, why are the Zunis gathering here? Normally, if many Zunis gather in one place in a city; they start killing people around them or kill each other. Hopefully, the second option is true. I don't want the first option to be true at all. Zunis have always avoid going to a city; the belief is that the city's way of life could corrupt us or worse. Third question, why does Noctis have the mark of Stategos. The one mark no one wishes to have but Noctis bears it. I doubt his friends know.

Flashback

As Noctis let's go of me slowly, his hands intertwined with mine and he teleported us to the ground level. The sun came up brightly as I rubbed my eyes and yawned.
"Tired, princess?"
"Not really and we are not done with our conversation." I replied as my eyes saw his face putting up a facade and he said,
"_________________, let's drop the subject for not. I'll...tell you when I'm ready."
"No! I want to know now!" I shouted at him as he let go of my hands and wrapped them around my waist. The distance between us is closed and we were nose to nose. My face felt red as he smiled his goofy smile but felt forced again.
"_______________, the last thing I want to do is talk about my mark."
"Noctis, I'm not going to stop asking you. If you dodge the question again, I'll ask your friends." I replied as his smile dropped instantly and his eyes turning crimson of what I said. He tightened his grip around my waist and I felt a little bit of pain.
"Listen _______________, I don't want you asking around about my mark. Ok? I have my reasons. Just like you; said like being banished from the Zunis." I said as my eyes widened in surprised. How could he have known that? I didn't tell him nor Jay, my closest friend unless....he knew my brother.
"I have my sources, _______________. Also, I don't know who keeps writing you letters but are you aware that something is off?"
I was speechless, for once, I had nothing to say. He was completely a different person when he is serious and for a moment, I answered.
"I know." Noctis raised an eyebrow
"You know? Yet, you let it be, why?"
"...you don't want it was like to be banished from your friends and family; never to see them again."
"....alright. I let it be too but if something happens to you, I will take action,_____________." Noctis replied as I nodded and the tense atmosphere decreases greatly. His eyes were back to a ocean blue.
"Now, how about me kiss?"
"What the! What is wrong with you, princie!!!" I shouted

End of flashback

My ears heard a knock on the door as my body got up from the bed and went to the door. As my hands opened the entrance, Jay is standing in front of me with a smug grin. Damn him.
“What?” I asked as I let him in my apartment room and he closed the door.
“So…are you going to give me the details?” He asked
“I said this to you before, nothing happened.” I said
“So you say.” Jay said continuing to smile and it pissed me off. We headed to the table in the middle of the living room. It was colors of brown and white gave the welcoming feeling in the room. It was a simple living that wasn’t too fancy or too plain. We sat down on the chairs as my fingers lifted the pen that was on the table and my eyes looking at the paper in front of me.
“Seriously ___________, give me the hot details!”
“Nothing happened, Jay!” I shouted to Jay not turning my head to face him.
“Ok, I’ll just ask Noctis to give me the details then.” Jay said as both of my hands slammed the table together and I turned my head to face Jay.
“Don’t you dare.” I said in a low tone of voice with anger.
“Oh fine…you still have to give me the hot details later, hon.” Jay replied as my eyes went back to the task at hand and his eyes wondered to the letter on the table.
“_________________, you been skipping school a lot recently. Why?”
“Well…let’s just say the princie’s got a fan club that wants details as well as you.”
“Eh? Noctis has a fan club?”
“Yes, did you forget that Noctis is a woman magnet?”
“Oh yeah, don’t worry about it. Noctis is head over heels in love with you, so he won’t cheat on you.” Jay says happily as if he is seeing something special in his head.
“Lucky me….He’s a stupid princie.”
“Awwwww, come on, hon! He can’t be that bad.”
“Are you kidding me? He always says that I’m beautiful whether or not that I’m covered in blood while hunting. Another thing is his damn phone conversations.”
“What about them?”
“I understand a time and place for a…date. However, he has no business to know what I’m  wearing right at the moment!”
Jay was silent for a moment and started to laugh hard.
“So, he…really asked you…what you’re wearing…half the time?”
“What do you think?” I wrote on the paper angrily
“Hahahahahahaha!! Oh, Noctis has it bad for you!”
“Shut up! He is so….so…”
“So handsome?”
“No!”
“Hon, he is handsome and the right guy for you.”
“Hell no! Is this a message for the lord saying I’m going…to…be…a….bride soon?”
“Ohhhhh! If so, can I design your wedding dress?! I love to see in a wedding!”
“Stop talking about it and don’t even think it!” I shouted with my fingers still writing on the paper as he chuckled and his eyes went to the paper.
“So, what’s this?”
“Oh, I wanted to write a letter.” I said as my hands started to write more on the paper and Jay was quiet.
“Jay, I know what you are thinking.”
“________________, I won’t stop you…just be careful what you write.”
“Ok.”
“Anyway, when you are done, Rin’s got lunch ready for everyone so, come down.” Jay said as I nodded my head, he left the apartment with me in thought of a letter and there were no longer any noises to bother me. My hands carefully wrote the words that I needed to say and I was done with the letter in 30 minutes. I looked over what I wrote in the letter again to see if there were any mistakes.

Dear brother,

Since you insist that I should write to you, I would give it try. Thank you for giving me a place to stay. Sorry if I wrote in anger today, you can blame Noctis and his friends. Before you ask or think it, no. I did not flirt him. He’s a stupid princie. My friend Jay thinks he’s a match for me and Nana thinks we will have a good wedding one day with a lot of food. Gosh, Nana eats a lot. I don’t ask why. Nana is the first friend I made in school, she talks slowly but is a good person. Lately, she hasn’t come to school either. I’m a little worried but I get a text message saying she has a family issue to resolve and wants to meet up later. Anyway, I wanted to know more about you, if you don’t mind me asking. I know nothing about you except you gave me a place to stay and write letters. Can you tell me one thing about you?

Sincerely,
__________________