416 SHOOT THE BREEZE

She thought the real Senja needed to know, to see how much Elder Dam loved her, he would want his granddaughter to know…

There was another silence as a gentle breeze swayed their hair and then a soft sniffed.

Senja let the information sink in.

Another sniffled and then she started crying. It sounded like she bit down her lips to keep her broken voice at bay as her sobbing echoed.

Senja could sense her emotion as the same emotion crept in her heart as well.

After she could regain her composure, she took a deep breath and with shaky voice she asked Senja. "Who killed him?"

"Your father…"

Senja thought she would start crying again, but to her surprise, she just kept quite as though she had known it beforehand.

"I will kill him the moment I meet him." Senja said calmly. "No offense." She added.

"Please do. He has stopped being my father for a long time."

Senja hummed in reply. After all she had been through in the Black Sword Clan, watching and reading her letter, she could understand her answer.

"How do you know my grandfather?"

"Actually I have become you for this one year." Senja said and realize, it was indeed almost a year since the first time she came and was claimed to be Senja.

Senja told her how they had found her and said that she was Elder Dam's granddaughter along with another thing that she thought fit for her to know.

"Are with him in his last time?" She referred to the moment Elder Dam was killed by her father.

"He died in my arms and thought I was you." Senja said as she relived the pain memory.

"Thank you…" Her voice was barely a whisper. "For being me…"

Senja nodded.

"Do you think they will come for us?"

"He will." Senja replied resolutely, there was no way Xiao Tianyao didn't look for her. Even though, he was upset because Senja blocked his dagger, that wasn't enough reason.

"I think the same." She said with smile in her voice.

"Senja, why were you running away two years ago?"

"I was not running away, I followed Gong Xu."

That what she said, but in Senja's ears it held the same meaning. "You eloped with him." Senja remarked.

"That sounds… weird." She scrunched her nose upon hearing Senja's choice of words.

"So?"

"We are doing the same thing like you had been doing."

"Which things exactly?" Because there were many things that she did.

"We are saving those children."

"What you are doing to them?" Senja remembered the same teenagers in the clearing, but didn't precisely the same like Modama's people.

Modama was a mind controller, thus he could manipulate them, but Senja and Gong Xu were not. So, how could they manage to command them?

"Cure them."

"Cure?" Senja tilted her head toward her direction slightly, apparently the pain had subsided a bit. "They are hypnotized, are they?" She asked hesitatingly with her own opinion.

"No," She shook her head. "In the beginning it was Gong Xu who found this."

"Found what?"

"Medicinal herbs to hypnotize others." She said truthfully. There was something inside the purple hair girl who was lying on the ground before her eyes that made her trust Senja. After all, they were walking the same path.

"How could that be possible?" Senja was surprised by the information. This was what Xiao Jun had been investigating, because she was very adamant that those people weren't under hypnosis.

"Gong Xu is actually a talented practitioner of herbalism." She moved closer to Senja, opened her outer robe and put it under her head. Senja muttered a 'thank you' that she reciprocated with smile. "Did you know that Xiao Tianyao's deceased wife is Gong Xu older sister?"

"Yes, I know…"

"She had been sick since birth."