Chapter 81 - Chapter 81: Returned Love

Aribelle's feet, carrying her off before she had even realized that she had begun to run. They pounded on the dry dirt of the road but could hardly be heard over the joyous cheers rising up from the clanging bells. Her legs revealing a desperation and urgency to see Cassius that she had not understood prior to this moment, they propelled her forward. Not slowing in their determined pace for Kristen as he raced after her nor to converse with the other familiar faces she recognized along the streets of the town, everything else blurred into the background as Aribelle only thought of Cassius.