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Chapter ten: The Sage of Water
Rampone and Kirana, who were in the front of their line, stopped. Allen, Ashie and Tekara were talking and bumped into the two.
“What’s with the sudden halt?” Tekara asked.
“Do you see that person?” Kirana asked pointing to the figure ahead.
Tekara followed where Kirana’s finger was pointing and saw the figure, standing in the road.
“Yeah I see them. Should we go talk to them or… what?”
“Let’s go talk to them. After all, that’s how you met me.” Rampone said smiling a little.
They started walking in the direction of the person. Soon they could see them clearly. It was a boy of about fifteen years old. He was looking directly at them with his light brown eyes. As they got closer he started focusing just on Kirana.
“Hello!” Rampone yelled waving his right hand.
The stranger just stood there. The wind was blowing his short blonde hair around. It was long enough to reach his shoulders and it kept getting in his face. He ignored it and kept staring at Kirana like an eagle to its prey. As soon as they were practically in front of him they stopped.
“Did you hear me?” Rampone asked.
He stared at Kirana for a few seconds longer.
“Hello?” Rampone said waving his hand.
“What, hello.” The boy said shaking his head.
“Hi, did you not hear us back there?”
“Oh, I’m sorry; I was just out of there for a second, if you know what I mean.” He smiled at them.
He stood to be about as tall as Rampone, he had the same average body build as Rampone but his skin was a little darker.
“What brings you out here, just standing there?” Tekara asked.
“Well, I don’t really know. I just felt the urge to come out here and stand. Maybe wait a little. But I don’t fell like waiting anymore. In fact, as soon as you came I felt as though I should just follow you to wherever you’re going, if you don’t mind of course.”
Kirana looked at him closely. He looked like the average Ovsalian. Brown pants, a white short sleeved shirt, brown leather boots. All that seemed out of place was his hair. No Ovsalian she knew had blonde hair. Of course, the others didn’t know that since they weren’t natives to Ovsalia so they would kindly let him come.
“What makes us think you’re not a bad person?” Ashie asked.
“Well, I don’t know. We haven’t met before so if I told you anything you wouldn’t believe me. So I guess it’s just a matter of instincts.”
“I say we take him along.” Kirana said.
It should give me enough time to figure out who he is and why he was staring at me. She thought.
“Kirana-” Rampone said.
“I think I should make the decision since I’m practically the leader of the group.”
“How about we have a vote on whether to take him or not?” Rampone asked.
“Alright, all in favor of taking him?”
Allen, Tekara, Kirana and Ashie raise their hands.
“Looks like you’re out voted.”
Fine. Rampone thought.
“Come along! Were headed to the nearest town! Do you happen to know where that is by the way?”
“It’s the way you were headed in the first place. And thank you for taking me.” He said.
“What’s your name?” Rampone asked.
“Kyle. And yours?”
“This is Rampone, Tekara, Allen, Ashie and I’m Kirana.” Kirana said pointing to each of them.
“Let’s go!” Tekara said.
They walked towards the nearest town. Rampone was walking in the back of their line, Allen, Ashie and Tekara were continuing their talk in front of him and Kirana and Kyle were in the front talking quietly. Rampone kept a close eye on both Kirana and Kyle.
Why would she just say he can come along? There has to be something behind that. Could she know him? Rampone thought.
They had walked for hours taking occasional water brakes and soon came upon the town. The town was very small; in fact, it should be called a small village. There were barely any houses and there was just a shop as the only other building. They walked to the shop and went in. Inside was just like the one at Kirana and Tekara’s home village. There was no one inside but the shop keeper, and he was sleeping. Rampone walked up to the desk and knocked on it. The old shop keeper quickly awoke and got up.
“What’s going on? Are we being invaded?” He yelled.
“No, no, no. We just want to know where we can stay for the night.” Rampone said trying to calm the old man.
“Oh thank goodness. I thought we were being invaded.”
“Well were not. We just want a place to stay.”
“Are you sure were not being invaded?”
“I’m sure.”
“What if you’re the invaders?” The old man yelled picking up a small hammer.
“Were not, now can we-”
“I can’t trust you!”
“Just listen-”
“Stay back!” The old man held the hammer in an attack position.
“Okay, we can’t get help from you we’ll just have to ask someone else.” Rampone said angrily walking towards the door.
“You just have to be calm and quiet and not so demanding.” Kirana said.
She walked to the desk and smiled at the old man.
“I wasn’t-”
“Hello.” She said.
“Are you an invader?” He asked his hammer ready to attack.
“No.” Kirana said sweetly.
The old man put his hammer down slowly as if he were in a trance.
“We just want a room.”
“Oh, well you’ll not find any of that here. You might want to check the old Duncan’s place though; they house all the travelers who come to town.”
“Thank you. Do you happen to know where they live?”
“It’s the last house on the right.”
“Thank you.”
Kirana left him and she walked out of the room. They all had been watching with amazement. The old man seemed to snap out of something and looked at them wildly.
“Are you invaders?” He yelled grabbing his hammer.
“No, were just leaving.” Tekara said.
They followed Kirana out the door and stood outside the store.
“How’d you do that?” Allen asked.
“Do what? Talk? I used my lungs and my brain.” Kirana said.
“How’d you get him to calm down? In fact, as soon as you left he seemed like he snapped out of a trance and was back to his normal ‘are you invaders’ thing.”
“Well, I’ll be honest. I really don’t know what you’re talking about. All I did was talk to him normally.”
“You didn’t sound normal.” Rampone said.
“What did I sound like?”
“You sounded like you were enchanting him or putting a spell on him.”
“Well I can’t help you at all with anything that’s related to that because I don’t know.”
“Let’s just go to the old Duncan’s place okay?” Tekara asked.
“Okay.” Ashie replied.
There is definitely something weird about her. Rampone thought.
They walked along the dirt path to the last house on the right. As soon as they reached the door Kirana knocked on it. The door opened and they saw an old lady standing there. She had grey hair and a blue dress with a white apron tied around hew waist.
“Hello.” Said the old lady “What do you want?”
“We were told we could get somewhere to stay here.” Tekara said.
“Oh yes, you can.” The lady said delightedly.
“So can we come in?”
“Yes come in come in.”
She moved out of the way and let them in. They walked inside the house and entered a medium sized room. It looked to be the main room of the house as there were some chairs around the fireplace and elsewhere. There were some people sitting in the chairs reading books and doing other things. The lady closed the door behind them and said, “This is the main room. I’ll show you to your bedrooms. Oh but you’ll have to share with some of the other guests.”
She led them up the stairs to a long hallway. She walked all the way to the end and knocked on the door to the right. The door opened and a boy about Kyle’s age was standing there looking a little sleepy at them.
“Yes miss Duncan?” He asked.
“Do you have any room for more travelers?” Miss Duncan asked.
“No, but I think the next room has two more beds available.”
“Alright, thank you John.”
John closed the door and Miss Duncan walked to the next door. She knocked on it and a girl about the same age as Kyle opened it.
“Yes miss Duncan?”
“Do you have any room left for these travelers?”
“Yes. We have three beds left.”
“Good, because they want to stay here.” Miss Duncan said with a smile.
The boy moved out of the way and Miss Duncan pushed Allen, Rampone and Kyle into the room.
“Have a nice stay here. Good bye!”
She closed the door and knocked on the door across that room. The door opened and a girl of about fourteen years old opened it.
“Yes Miss Duncan?” She asked.
“Do you have any room left?” Miss Duncan asked.
“Yes I do. I have six beds left. Why?”
“These girls would like to stay here.”
The girl quickly moved out of the way as Miss Duncan shoved Tekara, Kirana and Ashie into the room.
“Thank you Miss Duncan!” Kirana called as the door shut.
“So, where do we sleep?” Ashie asked the girl.
“You’ll be sleeping on those beds over there.”
She pointed to some beds along the wall. There were five beds along the wall across from them facing the door and one bed against the wall to the right and to the left. There were windows above all the beds along the wall across them. Tekara and Ashie went to their beds at the far left corner of the room along the wall.
“What’s your name?” Kirana asked the girl.
“My name is Sela Alaan. And you?”
“My name is Kirana. That’s Tekara and Ashie.”
“Nice to meet you.” Sela said smiling.
Kirana walked over to her bed next to Ashie’s and sat down. Sela walked to the bed on the right wall and sat down. Each bed had a small chest at the end of it. Kirana opened her chest and saw what was inside.
Nothing. She thought. Not even clothes.
She then remembered that she had kept her dress.
I’ll put it in here. After all, I don’t want to loose it or tear it.
She pulled it out of her pack and she saw Sela’s eyes open wide. She noticed that Sela had one brown eye and one blue eye.
Hmm, I wonder why that is.
She placed the dress carefully in the chest. She saw that Tekara and Ashie had kept theirs as well and saw them put theirs into their chests.
“Where did you get those fine dresses?” Sela asked surprised.
“Well, we were kidnapped and we woke up wearing them. Don’t ask why we woke up with them on because we don’t now ourselves.” Tekara said.
“Wow.”
“Do you have any interesting stories?” Kirana asked.
“No. In fact, I can’t remember anything at all from my past, all I remember is that I came here, Miss Duncan took me in and I’ve been living here ever since. I occasionally work at the shop to help pay for the rent here as everyone who permanently stays here has to. That’s all, nothing exciting or anything.”
“I’m sorry.”
“No it’s fine. In fact I should be talking about my past; it might get me closer to remembering.”
Just then they heard a knock on the door downstairs. Ashie, Tekara and Kirana froze.
“Don’t worry; it’s just a new person wanting to stay here.”
“Have you seen a girl with long dark blue hair?” they heard a voice ask from downstairs.
It sounded like the man who kidnapped them. Kirana’s eyes opened wide and she heard Miss Duncan say, “Why do you ask?”
She’s a smart lady. Kirana thought.
“I’m looking for her. You see, she’s my niece and she was taken from me a while back. I have been looking non stop for her and I wish to finally find her and take her back home.”
Don’t let him in.
“She’s right upstairs.”
They heard the man walk in. Each time Kirana heard the sound of his feet on the stairs she jumped a little with fright. As soon as he was at the top he walked slowly to the first door. He knocked on each one, slowly getting closer. When he was at their door her heart pounded like crazy and she had chills running down her back. He knocked on the door across from them. The door opened and she heard Allen’s voice.
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Hope you liked it.^^
Chapter ten: The Sage of Water
Rampone and Kirana, who were in the front of their line, stopped. Allen, Ashie and Tekara were talking and bumped into the two.
“What’s with the sudden halt?” Tekara asked.
“Do you see that person?” Kirana asked pointing to the figure ahead.
Tekara followed where Kirana’s finger was pointing and saw the figure, standing in the road.
“Yeah I see them. Should we go talk to them or… what?”
“Let’s go talk to them. After all, that’s how you met me.” Rampone said smiling a little.
They started walking in the direction of the person. Soon they could see them clearly. It was a boy of about fifteen years old. He was looking directly at them with his light brown eyes. As they got closer he started focusing just on Kirana.
“Hello!” Rampone yelled waving his right hand.
The stranger just stood there. The wind was blowing his short blonde hair around. It was long enough to reach his shoulders and it kept getting in his face. He ignored it and kept staring at Kirana like an eagle to its prey. As soon as they were practically in front of him they stopped.
“Did you hear me?” Rampone asked.
He stared at Kirana for a few seconds longer.
“Hello?” Rampone said waving his hand.
“What, hello.” The boy said shaking his head.
“Hi, did you not hear us back there?”
“Oh, I’m sorry; I was just out of there for a second, if you know what I mean.” He smiled at them.
He stood to be about as tall as Rampone, he had the same average body build as Rampone but his skin was a little darker.
“What brings you out here, just standing there?” Tekara asked.
“Well, I don’t really know. I just felt the urge to come out here and stand. Maybe wait a little. But I don’t fell like waiting anymore. In fact, as soon as you came I felt as though I should just follow you to wherever you’re going, if you don’t mind of course.”
Kirana looked at him closely. He looked like the average Ovsalian. Brown pants, a white short sleeved shirt, brown leather boots. All that seemed out of place was his hair. No Ovsalian she knew had blonde hair. Of course, the others didn’t know that since they weren’t natives to Ovsalia so they would kindly let him come.
“What makes us think you’re not a bad person?” Ashie asked.
“Well, I don’t know. We haven’t met before so if I told you anything you wouldn’t believe me. So I guess it’s just a matter of instincts.”
“I say we take him along.” Kirana said.
It should give me enough time to figure out who he is and why he was staring at me. She thought.
“Kirana-” Rampone said.
“I think I should make the decision since I’m practically the leader of the group.”
“How about we have a vote on whether to take him or not?” Rampone asked.
“Alright, all in favor of taking him?”
Allen, Tekara, Kirana and Ashie raise their hands.
“Looks like you’re out voted.”
Fine. Rampone thought.
“Come along! Were headed to the nearest town! Do you happen to know where that is by the way?”
“It’s the way you were headed in the first place. And thank you for taking me.” He said.
“What’s your name?” Rampone asked.
“Kyle. And yours?”
“This is Rampone, Tekara, Allen, Ashie and I’m Kirana.” Kirana said pointing to each of them.
“Let’s go!” Tekara said.
They walked towards the nearest town. Rampone was walking in the back of their line, Allen, Ashie and Tekara were continuing their talk in front of him and Kirana and Kyle were in the front talking quietly. Rampone kept a close eye on both Kirana and Kyle.
Why would she just say he can come along? There has to be something behind that. Could she know him? Rampone thought.
They had walked for hours taking occasional water brakes and soon came upon the town. The town was very small; in fact, it should be called a small village. There were barely any houses and there was just a shop as the only other building. They walked to the shop and went in. Inside was just like the one at Kirana and Tekara’s home village. There was no one inside but the shop keeper, and he was sleeping. Rampone walked up to the desk and knocked on it. The old shop keeper quickly awoke and got up.
“What’s going on? Are we being invaded?” He yelled.
“No, no, no. We just want to know where we can stay for the night.” Rampone said trying to calm the old man.
“Oh thank goodness. I thought we were being invaded.”
“Well were not. We just want a place to stay.”
“Are you sure were not being invaded?”
“I’m sure.”
“What if you’re the invaders?” The old man yelled picking up a small hammer.
“Were not, now can we-”
“I can’t trust you!”
“Just listen-”
“Stay back!” The old man held the hammer in an attack position.
“Okay, we can’t get help from you we’ll just have to ask someone else.” Rampone said angrily walking towards the door.
“You just have to be calm and quiet and not so demanding.” Kirana said.
She walked to the desk and smiled at the old man.
“I wasn’t-”
“Hello.” She said.
“Are you an invader?” He asked his hammer ready to attack.
“No.” Kirana said sweetly.
The old man put his hammer down slowly as if he were in a trance.
“We just want a room.”
“Oh, well you’ll not find any of that here. You might want to check the old Duncan’s place though; they house all the travelers who come to town.”
“Thank you. Do you happen to know where they live?”
“It’s the last house on the right.”
“Thank you.”
Kirana left him and she walked out of the room. They all had been watching with amazement. The old man seemed to snap out of something and looked at them wildly.
“Are you invaders?” He yelled grabbing his hammer.
“No, were just leaving.” Tekara said.
They followed Kirana out the door and stood outside the store.
“How’d you do that?” Allen asked.
“Do what? Talk? I used my lungs and my brain.” Kirana said.
“How’d you get him to calm down? In fact, as soon as you left he seemed like he snapped out of a trance and was back to his normal ‘are you invaders’ thing.”
“Well, I’ll be honest. I really don’t know what you’re talking about. All I did was talk to him normally.”
“You didn’t sound normal.” Rampone said.
“What did I sound like?”
“You sounded like you were enchanting him or putting a spell on him.”
“Well I can’t help you at all with anything that’s related to that because I don’t know.”
“Let’s just go to the old Duncan’s place okay?” Tekara asked.
“Okay.” Ashie replied.
There is definitely something weird about her. Rampone thought.
They walked along the dirt path to the last house on the right. As soon as they reached the door Kirana knocked on it. The door opened and they saw an old lady standing there. She had grey hair and a blue dress with a white apron tied around hew waist.
“Hello.” Said the old lady “What do you want?”
“We were told we could get somewhere to stay here.” Tekara said.
“Oh yes, you can.” The lady said delightedly.
“So can we come in?”
“Yes come in come in.”
She moved out of the way and let them in. They walked inside the house and entered a medium sized room. It looked to be the main room of the house as there were some chairs around the fireplace and elsewhere. There were some people sitting in the chairs reading books and doing other things. The lady closed the door behind them and said, “This is the main room. I’ll show you to your bedrooms. Oh but you’ll have to share with some of the other guests.”
She led them up the stairs to a long hallway. She walked all the way to the end and knocked on the door to the right. The door opened and a boy about Kyle’s age was standing there looking a little sleepy at them.
“Yes miss Duncan?” He asked.
“Do you have any room for more travelers?” Miss Duncan asked.
“No, but I think the next room has two more beds available.”
“Alright, thank you John.”
John closed the door and Miss Duncan walked to the next door. She knocked on it and a girl about the same age as Kyle opened it.
“Yes miss Duncan?”
“Do you have any room left for these travelers?”
“Yes. We have three beds left.”
“Good, because they want to stay here.” Miss Duncan said with a smile.
The boy moved out of the way and Miss Duncan pushed Allen, Rampone and Kyle into the room.
“Have a nice stay here. Good bye!”
She closed the door and knocked on the door across that room. The door opened and a girl of about fourteen years old opened it.
“Yes Miss Duncan?” She asked.
“Do you have any room left?” Miss Duncan asked.
“Yes I do. I have six beds left. Why?”
“These girls would like to stay here.”
The girl quickly moved out of the way as Miss Duncan shoved Tekara, Kirana and Ashie into the room.
“Thank you Miss Duncan!” Kirana called as the door shut.
“So, where do we sleep?” Ashie asked the girl.
“You’ll be sleeping on those beds over there.”
She pointed to some beds along the wall. There were five beds along the wall across from them facing the door and one bed against the wall to the right and to the left. There were windows above all the beds along the wall across them. Tekara and Ashie went to their beds at the far left corner of the room along the wall.
“What’s your name?” Kirana asked the girl.
“My name is Sela Alaan. And you?”
“My name is Kirana. That’s Tekara and Ashie.”
“Nice to meet you.” Sela said smiling.
Kirana walked over to her bed next to Ashie’s and sat down. Sela walked to the bed on the right wall and sat down. Each bed had a small chest at the end of it. Kirana opened her chest and saw what was inside.
Nothing. She thought. Not even clothes.
She then remembered that she had kept her dress.
I’ll put it in here. After all, I don’t want to loose it or tear it.
She pulled it out of her pack and she saw Sela’s eyes open wide. She noticed that Sela had one brown eye and one blue eye.
Hmm, I wonder why that is.
She placed the dress carefully in the chest. She saw that Tekara and Ashie had kept theirs as well and saw them put theirs into their chests.
“Where did you get those fine dresses?” Sela asked surprised.
“Well, we were kidnapped and we woke up wearing them. Don’t ask why we woke up with them on because we don’t now ourselves.” Tekara said.
“Wow.”
“Do you have any interesting stories?” Kirana asked.
“No. In fact, I can’t remember anything at all from my past, all I remember is that I came here, Miss Duncan took me in and I’ve been living here ever since. I occasionally work at the shop to help pay for the rent here as everyone who permanently stays here has to. That’s all, nothing exciting or anything.”
“I’m sorry.”
“No it’s fine. In fact I should be talking about my past; it might get me closer to remembering.”
Just then they heard a knock on the door downstairs. Ashie, Tekara and Kirana froze.
“Don’t worry; it’s just a new person wanting to stay here.”
“Have you seen a girl with long dark blue hair?” they heard a voice ask from downstairs.
It sounded like the man who kidnapped them. Kirana’s eyes opened wide and she heard Miss Duncan say, “Why do you ask?”
She’s a smart lady. Kirana thought.
“I’m looking for her. You see, she’s my niece and she was taken from me a while back. I have been looking non stop for her and I wish to finally find her and take her back home.”
Don’t let him in.
“She’s right upstairs.”
They heard the man walk in. Each time Kirana heard the sound of his feet on the stairs she jumped a little with fright. As soon as he was at the top he walked slowly to the first door. He knocked on each one, slowly getting closer. When he was at their door her heart pounded like crazy and she had chills running down her back. He knocked on the door across from them. The door opened and she heard Allen’s voice.
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Hope you liked it.^^
You probably wont see another chapter for another week or so. I hope you all understand, all writers get it sometimes. So, yeah, but who knows, I might get a brain storm tomorrow, I'm feeling very writey(if that's a word:roleyes
