"Wh...what ..do you mean she is in danger?" Iliya asked Curl. It took him a moment to get himself together, he sat right.
"She is fighting some, umm I didn't see it very well, but she is not in a good spot right now, she is probably fighting or , whatever. All I know is that she is in danger. 
"We should go look for her! We can't leave her by herself!" Iliya trembled. 
"Cool down, you can't do anything much in this condition" Little Ben said to Iliya. 
"But I think she can take care of herself , right? She killed a Cruk, and two Lynx Lynchs, who else can do that?" Little Ben added , looking at both of them, but nothing was helping Iliya's feelings, nothing was helping, because she was still panicking. 
"Come on, we are talking about Pradai here. Whoever she is fighting against, I am sure she will be fine… right? …Curl say something… is there something else you are not telling us?" 
  Curl looked at both of them, he was scared to say something. It was as if the words that would come out from his mouth would be all lies. In fact, he didn't want to say it. He was weakened, and looked like someone who just lost everything in life. 
"What if she isn't fighting against anyone?" 
"What do you mean? Then what could it be that will put her in so much danger?" 
  Curl kept quiet for a while, and when tears rolled down his cheeks, they knew it was something too serious but if it wasn't anyone like he said, then what was it? Iliya's mind only went through the bad-end outcomes.
Knowing that Pradai was in danger was enough to act on. She didn't need any more explanation or anything of such, but there, Curl was being super mysterious. 
"No you don't understand." Curl said in a shaky voice. 
"Then make us understand!" Yelled Iliya. 
"She is not even fighting it, she doesn't want to fight it…"
"Why doesn't she wants to fight it? What doesn't she wants to fight? Why is she holding back? Come on Curl, you have to tell us what it really is, if we are going to do anything, we have to be fast about it."
  Curl nodded his head. 
"She is not fighting because , she has been betrayed, and she is heart broken…" Curl was trying so hard to hold back his tears. 
"But she told us not to follow her…" Iliya added. 
"No, no is not because of us. Not because of us"
"Then what?" Iliya asked.
"Is … I don't know." Curl said, and that was a lie. 
   They were restless for a moment, as they were thinking of what to do, and that was when Iliya realized something. 
"Wait...Is really it… that butterfly is a record messenger." 
"Record messenger? Curl asked
"Yes. They operate on different levels and… I think this is a priority message, but I don't think she sent it, is just weird…" Iliya couldn't fully understand it. 
"Umm… you said is betrayal and heart break right?"
Curl nodded in agreement. 
"And they are feelings… and she doesn't want to fight…She didn't send the butterfly either, then that means, the butterfly acted upon her feelings… that's it, she just didn't want to fight it herself…"
"She needs us…" Iliya added. 
  They started getting ready to go after her. 
"You can't follow us Iliya" Curl said
"No one is going to stop me. No one." 
Curl looked at Little Ben and he shrugged. 
They got loaded with weapons and whatever they needed. 
"But where is she?" Little Ben asked. 
"It doesn't matter, we have to try and look for her, we will surely find her. 
"Let's check the cave first" Curl added, and they agreed on that. 
Curl supported Iliya with his shoulder, and they went out. 
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  When they reached near the cave, they hid themselves and made sure that it was safe first before going ahead.
After some time of observing, they didn't notice any movement or anything suspicious, and they concluded that she wasn't there. But they decided to go nearer to see if they would find anything that would help in locating her. 
"One thing I know for sure is that she was here, I can smell her scent" Curl said sniffing all around the area.
"Yes me too. But that isn't helping, she was here, okay, but where is she now?" Little Ben added.
"There is blood… here" Iliya called them, and when they got closer, it was really true. And it meant that someone was wounded. 
"The question is… whose blood is it?" Little Ben asked. 
"... I hope not." Iliya said. 
  Curl bent down and touched the ground, where the blood was and immediately recognized the source. 
"Is hers." 
"No no no, no please let it not be" Iliya started to panic, and Curl tried to calm her down. 
"Is okay, is okay. Take it easy. She is capable of healing remember". 
"Hmmm it looked like someone else we know was here…" Little Ben said, lost in thought. But Curl wanted him to knock it off as soon as possible. 
"Don't be silly, is just her." Curl said. 
Little Ben shrugged and started wandering around. 
"Umm I think we have a bigger problem" Little Ben said as he picked up the ponytail that was cut off from one of the Lynx Lynchs. 
"That is definitely from a Lynx Lynch" Curl said. 
"Oh no! Not Lynx Lynchs again!" Iliya said with detest. 
"Curl this can't be good. A Lynx Lynch losing half of his ponytail? If he is still alive I don't think he would take this lightly…" 
"You are right. I think Pradai is held hostage." 
"The Lynx Lynchs have her… but where could it be? Little Ben asked. 
"The Castle ruins"
"The Castle ruins? Like the castle ruins? Ha are you joking now seriously? How do you know?" 
"The butterfly… it knew where they were going to take her." 
"Oh it was duely planned" Little Ben said thoughtfully. 
"Yes. Which means, we won't be facing an easy opponent, and there might be many…" 
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   Kar was sitting down around a fireplace, and looking at Pradai. He stood up and went to her. 
"How are you hanging on?" 
Pradai was very weak to do or say anything, but she scoffed at him.
"You know, I have been wondering, why haven't your friends come for you? Or you don't have any friends? Hmm I am disappointed. You are alone, and you know that, I am not the only one you should hate now, it feels good to know that" 
"You have it all planned out, haven't you?. unfortunately for you, not everything's going as planned"
  Pradai said, looking at the two Lynx Lynchs outside. 
"What do you know?" 
"There aren't many people here as you have planned haha. Bad. Bad for you" Pradai mocked him, and he left her without saying a word. He looked worried but pretended that everything was fine. 
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  They were busy thinking on what to do. Iliya was restless, she couldn't think straight. 
"Iliya could you just calm down okay? We will save her, I promise." Curl assured her. 
"We will? Okay fine. Tell me, how? If there are really Meivs there, how are we going to defeat them? You know Pradai is the only one who can kill them, she would probably be in chains, tangled all around her that it won't be easy to let her get out of it". 
  Curl didn't say anything, but backed down. 
"Yes, you're right" 
Iliya looked at him disappointedly. She expected more. 
"What? Are you just going to give up?" 
"We can't just go in and expect to take Pradai with us…" 
"Fine" Iliya pulled herself together. 
"Maybe is time…" She said.
"Time for what?" Little Ben asked. 
"I need to go somewhere"
"No, no you're not going anywhere. We are not losing you too" He cried with a trembling voice.
"You can't even walk on your own" Little Ben pointed at her leg. 
"And that is why you are going to make me walk by myself" 
  Curl and little Ben shared a moment in confusion, beating their minds around the mud. 
"How are we going to do that?" Asked the Two young Meivs.