"How much time till we reach the top? We have already been climbing for about 20 days now."

"Maybe It will take one more day before we reach the top. Hey, look there's a village, let's ask them if they would let us stay the night."

"Yeah... Let me ask them. It would be easy to get them to agree if I am the one who's doing the asking."

I can't believe it’s already been 20 days since we started the journey. It would take more than half a month to reach the top for an ordinary human but since we both are not humans our physical strength is somewhat superior and we made it this far in just 20 days.

Good thing I took necessary stuff like ropes and food before leaving and had knowledge about edible plants or else we would have been doomed from the start. I was lucky to not get caught in the village.

"Keil, how many days did it take for you last time?"

"Well, I flew to the top for the most part so it took way less time."

"Oh, I see, sorry that I kept reminding you about your wings."

"Don't worry it doesn't bother me anymore."

Honestly, I still miss my wings, I miss flying all the time. That's the thing I never used to get tired of. Maybe it's just the bad luck that I was born with.

"Hey Kiel, I got their okay. I can stay in their home for today."

"At Least you are of some use now, Ciel. Might be my influence."

"Stop teasing me, I'm much better than you when it comes to conversation."

"Yeah yeah, whatever."

During our time together I got to know a few things about her and the world above the clouds.

Apparently she's actually the princess of thee kingdom called Skyhold. Well she's the youngest child of the king so it's very unlikely that she will succeed the throne. The kingdom they she lives in is actually situated on one of the floating islands.

Not only all that, I got to know a lot about her personality. How she doesn't like sour things and even though she never saw a bug before she immediately got afraid after seeing one. She's moody but can be sweet sometimes too. I can't help but wish to spend more time with her but unfortunately this journey of ours is now going to come to come to an end tomorrow.

"You are?"

"Sorry, I am Keil, thanks for letting us stay in your house for today."

"No problem, to us serving guests is like a blessing to us."

"But I never knew there were some humans living on there she is a human still she don't know about it?"

"Actually, she is an angel."

"An angel? What an angel and a demon are doing together? This is something odd."

"Well stuff happens." I replied with a smile. After a little pause, I asked again.

"What is this great partition?"

"We are not surprised that you both don't know after all both the angels and the demons tried to hide it from their future generation."

"Can you tell us about it?"

"Okay then listen, you know about the war, right? The one which happened ages ago between the demons and angels. Both the sides were at each other's throats all the time. And between all this we humans were crushed from both sides. In the end, we prayed day and nights to the Gods to stop this war, which god did but in the way partitioned the world into three. The demon continent where demons live, the sky with floating island where angels live and the land of living where we humans live.”

I didn’t know that..

“The god made the clouds as the way to separate the World where demons and angels live and gave a curse to both. The wings of the demons burn in sunlight and feathers of the angels scatter if they are not in the sunlight. This way why they can't interfere with each others. As for us humans we were given the land where we can receive sunlight as well as the moon light during the light. This way three worlds were partitioned. Angels and demons tried to forget it because they wanted to hide the fact that they got cursed by the gods but we humans remember a the humiliation and hardship we've been through.”

So, this is the story behind all this. We have been in the dark all this time. God punished us, not only demons but angels too. Maybe they aren't god's favorite after all. Everyone is equal in his eyes. I'm glad this is the case.

"We have prepared a room for both of you, go and rest for today, you both have a long journey tomorrow."

"Yeah, thank you."

Even though they were just a family of three. Father, mother and son. They still gave us a roof and food. I won't ever forget this. I would return this favour one day.

We got shown to the room and as we were too tired we directly jumped onto the bed.

"Keil, this is the last day of our journey I think after all, we will reach our destination tomorrow."

"What's of it, all journeys have to end one day. Well the sooner, I get rid of you and your idiotic nature the better."

"Come on after travelling for all this time you still say that I am an idiot. Keil, you big meanie."

"Okay okay, call me whatever you want but just sleep already we have an important journey tomorrow."

My eyes are tired too maybe i should just fall asleep too…

….

"Wake up!"

"Ehh..what?"

"Shhhh… Tqlk in a low voice and listen to what they are talking outside."

“Lemme hear..”

"Is the village chief ready?"

"Yes, he is."

“Seems like they are talking to themselves.”

"We can't let them escape, they might call other demons or angels and we all will be thrown out or killed this time. Its better to just kill them both."

"Wait till the village chief is here and then we will attack since they are asleep now."

What the hell, they are planning to kill us.

"I have a very sharp ear so I woke up as soon as i noticed there is something going on in the house."

"Thanks to you, Ciel, we might escape."

"Lets run out of the village in this darkness before anyone notices us."

We silently jumped out of the window and ran as fast as we could towards the top of the mountain.

Hopefully nobody saw us but with our tired bodies. 

I don't think we can run off to very far location.

"Ciel, we will walk from this point on, its not wise to waste energy plus its night we can't be risk getting lost."

"Yeah, thanks Keil."

"But I really wanna thank those ears of yours. They really saved us."

"But are we going to be okay?"

"Don't worry, we just have to keep moving towards the top. By the way what do you want to do after reaching the top?"

"Well for starters I just want to take you to our kingdom and give you a tour."

"Okay, anything else?"

"I want to meet my mom.. I just miss her way to much now."

"I remember you saying you had a fight before falling down here."

"Actually the fight was the reason I actually decided to check what's below the clouds."

"What do you mean?"

"Actually I said that i am going to check what’s below the clouds just as a prank but she got serious about it. We ended up fighting and that’s the reason in anger I decided to actually check what's below the clouds."

"Oh, so it's just your stupidity that lead to your downfall."

"Dimwit, don't say it like that. You too what made you go above the clouds."

"It's nothing special in my case. I just wanted to see what's above the clouds. It was just pure curiosity that's all."

"I see, but in a way we both a quite alike right, Keil?"

"You couldn't be more wrong idiot."

You couldn't be more wrong, Because you are someone who after loosing her wings still trying to reach for the skies and on the other side I am thinking of getting back to the dirt where I came from.