บท 232: THE TRADE (edited)

It was quite a distance and Senja wasn't used to riding on a horse for too. So, after a few hours her legs turned sore and she shifted about in place uncomfortably.

"Don't move, you will fall." Xiao Tianyao cautioned her.

"How far is it?" Senja whined.

They had been in and out of five villages so far without any pitstops. It wasn't a challenge for someone like Xiao Tianyao who had lived his life riding a horse day in and day out. But, for someone like Senja who had just learnt to ride, it was an unbearable ordeal.

"Close, hold on for a while longer."

That was what Xiao Tianyao had been saying to Senja since hours ago. Senja sighed, not wanting to act spoiled. However, she couldn't ignore the pain either.

"Chicken katsu, chicken soup, cheese cake, egg rolls, vanilla ice cream." Senja was chanting all her favorite foods in order to distract herself from her numbing legs. "Chicken… fried Chicken… chicken again… chicken…"