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2024-10-29 19:42:56Bastet clapped her hands, "Okay! and I think that's okay for now. We have been talking for some time now, you must be hungry."
"But I am not yet done, there is still a lot he must know about..." Mr Walter protested.
"And I agree, but as they say, Rome was definitely not built in a day. Besides the young master has had nothing to eat and must be hungry,". She interrupted him, "Am I right master Derek!?"
She looked to Derek.
Derek nodded in reluctance. Deep down, he did not want to stop. The lesson was so interesting that he had totally forgotten about food.
"Come with me please. Am sure my acolytes have prepared something nice for you." She lead the way out of the library while Derek and Mr Walter followed along.
They passed a few doors that lead to a magnificent hall with broad artistically designed tables all around. The hall had chandeliers that did not seem to be connected to the ceiling but just floated high in the air from one end of the room to the other. There were different 'kinds' of people in the hall. They were both humans and not humans.
The moment they entered, all stood up and bowed towards them was baffled by the attention, but in a corner of the room, he noticed one or two people not bowing, with as much confusion on their faces as it was on his.
"DEREK!!!" The familiar voice of his good friend Aesir running over. Madeline and Tiny were also there with smiles on their faces but they kept their composure more.
Derek was so excited to see them that he ditched Mr Walter and Bastet. He and Aesir jumped into an embrace nearly even dropping on the floor. The crowd of people in the room stared in surprise, while Mr Walter's eyebrows twitched. He kept reminding himself to make sure he taught this country pumpkin the proper way to conduct himself as firstly a Writer and secondly, a noble.
While he and his friends were catching up, Bastet clapped her hands and every person in the room stood up and left. Derek turned to Walter and wanted to ask why but Walter just signalled him with his eyes and he kept quiet.
When the hall was empty of people, Derek looked to Bastet and she understood what he was about to say. So she explained instead.
"Power! Power!! master Derek. It's what it is. Power is a mysterious force that can only be adequately held by the mysterious." She clapped her hands again and runes on the tables glowed and different kinds of dishes appeared. "Do you understand master Derek? You are about to eat. Commoners should not see their rulers in such 'acts'."
"You are a Writer master Derek and should carry an air of mystery at all times." Mr Walter added.
Aesir and the others had not noticed Walters presence at first, but when they did, Derek could feel tugging at the back of his shirt. Apparently, there wanted an explanation. He signalled back with the corner of his eyes that he would give it later.
"In truth, Writers do not need 'food' to survive, at least not this type. We have naturally sustenance from anima. But you are a special case."
Derek looked at the variety of food before his eyes. He had never seen such an amazing sight. He really did not know where to start, but Aesir on the other hand didn't care where to start. The glutton nearly climbed the table in his excitement. His hands reached for the nearest thing on the table a chicken rib suffered from the wrath of his jaws.
Derek and the others joined him to partake of the food while Mr Walter stood at the side shaking his head to the lack of manners these children displayed.
Derek suddenly remembered something and stopped eating. Bastet noticed and asked.
"I miss them." He answered.
"Miss who?"
"My friends, all the other kids in the orphanage, Our caretaker. I miss all of them. What's worse, all those kids at school died because of me." He folded his legs on the chair and buried his head between them.
All that knew him well, knew that this was a sign of mental breakdown. Soon, sobbing sounds could be heard.
Everybody eating suddenly stopped. Even Aesir found himself lost for appetite.
Tiny left her seat and came to hold him from behind. She held his head close to hers and whispered into his ears. "Don't worry Derek you still have us and we are not going anywhere. okay?"
"Yes man, we are still here. Calm down, you such a softy." Aesir tapped him on the shoulder. Derek looked up at them and at Madeline that was too shy to approach but still smiled from the distance and he nodded slowly.
They have been here for sometime now while Derek was passed out and pretty much had heard a number of things. They already knew the reason their school was attacked by a 'mad' woman
Bastet moved closer to Walter and whispered, "Hmm, he has good friends. He will need them in the hardships to come." Walter nodded.
"But that girl," She continued with her eyes set on Tiny, "Does he know!?" She asked
"No, he doesn't. I had wanted to get rid of her a long time ago but Maria insisted not to. Honestly, am glad I did not."
Bastet nodded her head, "I agree, she might even be fit to become one later on. I'll keep my eyes on her."
Bastet walked to the 'comforting' family and clapped her hands. "Don't worry master Derek. The very long life of a writer is far more exciting than you can possibly imagine and besides you are a noble.
Trust me, the windows that are opened to you by the world are expansive and beautiful." She looked around her and took a spoon from the table. "Let's take this spoon for example," She bit her finger a little, allowing a few drops of blood out and she traced her fingers in the air drawing a rune and another rune beneath the first one on the table. Both times of which she said a spell and the runes glowed in a faint red.
She dropped the spoon on the rune on the table and it disappeared and appeared through the first rune and through the rune on the table again. The spoon kept on falling through the two runes in an infinite cycle, therefore, increasing the speed at which the spoon fell over time until it reached a speed they could barely see with their eyes and Bastet told everyone to take some steps away from the table.
When they did, she waved her hand and the runes disappeared and the spoon crashed down on the table with so much force that it smashed the table to the ground. Broken parts of the table shot out in force in all directions but Bastet was aready prepared for it and an invisible shield made from her aura, blanketed them so that no sharpnel came to harm non.
Derek and his friends looked on in surprise. Bastet saw that she had his attention and thought it was a good time to initiate another lesson.
"Master Derek! would you like to learn about Runes!?" She smiled.
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"Welcome Madeline, we have been waiting for you!" A voice whispered and she turned about to the sound of the voice.There stood a very tall slim woman. She had on a white crop top that revealed her very slim waist leadingdown to her white blouse. She had a pair of glasses on, and she smiled sweetly to Madeline."Where I'm I!?...And who are you!?" Madeline asked."Follow me! I'll explain" she said, gesturing to Madeline a path that opened up in front of them.Madeline frowned and at first did not want to, but still followed behind the woman taking gentle steps.Through a yellow path in-between trees that surprisingly had both carrots and cabbages growing on them, to a hut on a hill side. Madeline followed, while her eyes examed her environment with nothing but wonder and surprise.At the small hut, the woman entered, and then she gestured for Madeline to follow. Although she did not want to, she had no choice and followed.Madeline thought that her sense of reality was warped because
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Aesir willed and his sword acted as an assist as it went straight for the bird's other wing.*Caw!*The eagle screamed in pain. Manila ran straight for it. And mounting it's back, she delivered a crushing blow to its neck.*Caw!* It screamed again. However, she did not stop for a bit and after the fourth blow, the eagle passed out. Derek and Aesir stared at her in surprise as she slowly stood from the eagle's back. She made fierce eye contact with Derek and then looked away. Aesir turned to Derek with a brow up, and Derek raised his hands in surrender, "what I'm innocent. I swear!" "Of course you are." Aesir smiled and walked away.Manila began work immediately. The plan was to use the bird as a distraction for the scorpions so that they could pass.The best way to do this would be for them to make sure that the beast could no longer pick up flight.Manila was unsurprisingly skilled at this. She cut out the feathers of the beast.Aesir and Derek also joined her and helped. Soon eno
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"Exactly! So if you can't solve them, why bother about them? Yet, before you lies a problem that deserves you immediate attention which you can or at least try solving. But you are too concerned with the rabbits in the wild to realize that you should first deal with the one on your plate." Priestess Ada adviced.She smiled and walked away, "Don't forget, listen as a passerby and it will flow naturally." Madeline watched the back of the old lady leaving as the words she had just spoken played again and again in her head. She sat crossed leg once more as she continually told herself to let go. Her eyes closed tightly and suddenly the thoughts as expected came once more.This time around, she decided not to quiet it or silence it. Rather she let it flow naturally.At first she couldn't help but be swept up in the thoughts and the different scenarios they played. Some even ended in tragedy. And this made her ache in worry. This was a disadvantage of over active thinks. A disadvantage t
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Derek could not help but look at them and observe them. These were not like the scorpions he knew from earth. For one, they produced webbings from their tail end. Also, there seemed to be very organized and particularly busy.Some of them were bigger, but those big ones were few. And from the looks of it, they monitored the activities of the smaller ones. These creatures were hard at work building it seemed."Scorpion colony! We will have to navigate round them." Manila spoke."Navigate?" Aesir asked, "how far are we talking of?"She pointed to the hill far in the distance. "That far? But that will take at least an extra day off our schedule." Derek added."Yeah! It will. But it will be far better than to have those things have our scent. Cause ones they do, they will follow us for a very long time." Manila advised."Hmmm. Is there no way to distract them?" Derek asked."Well, there are a couple of ways that could work. However, we don't even have the necessary materials to make tha
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Madeline nodded her head in understanding to Chief Sasha's words."So what does this have to do with aura?" Madeline asked."Well! Every thing." She picked up another stone from the ground, "according to your definition of aura, then aura is this object in your hands. And has stated earlier, it weighs you down over time." Chief Sasha turned and threw the stone into the water, then she turned once more and slowly released her aura, "However, if you understand that all it is, is an extension of your body, then behold the weight is gone. After all, your hands have always been attached to the rest of your body and you don't hear them complaining."Those words suddenly stroke difference to Madeline. She felt like she was at a state where she wanted to understand. In fact, the enlightenment was just Infront of her, however, it was a yard bit out of reach.She even sat on the ground as she tried to think hard on Chief Sasha's words. However, for the first time in a while, her brain was una
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"huh!?" Madeline could not believe what she was hearing."Don't worry! I am not as weak or fragile as you think. I am sure you noticed that we are a small tribe. Yet, we have survived for so long with terrible neighbors such as the Kaka tribe. Although we rarely bring out our full force, we are definitely not weak." Chief Sasha smirked a bit.Madeline nodded and then she commanded the Cerberus to attack. The beast used one of its paws and a heavy blow landed on the chief. *Bam* Some where within the carven, Priestess Ada was attending to a pregnant woman when she heard the boom of the attack. She raised her head and sighed, "So the the training has started."She pretended not to hear it and continue with the pregnant woman in front of her.....Meanwhile, Madeline was panicking. There was a lot of dust and it was difficult for her to see what had happened. As far as she was concerned,she had crushed the chief."Chief Sasha!" She called out in a low tone. Afraid that her eyes might m
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A few hours later, Derek ,Aesir and Milan said their good byes as they started their journey to the Gaka tribe.However, before they did Priestess Ada had come to see Derek one more time."Please take care of yourself properly Repono. And if there is absolutely anything you need, do not hesitate to contact me. I maybe far from you, but some of the things I can do will very much amaze you."Once she said this, she touched behind his ear and Derek clearly felt another radio rune added to the one he already had.Radio runes were special but not ominipresent. One had to be within a certain range for it to be used.Derek knew that If she was giving him one, then it meant that she was sure of reaching him as far away as even the Gaka tribe.A sudden realization hit Derek. One that he had not thought of before. Priestess Ada was a Familiar. Which meant that she could also weave runes.He remembered his experience at the cave when he first came and the one that had happen during the fight aga
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"And what might the main dish be?" Milan asked with raised brows. Chief Sasha did not exactly know how to have this talk with her daughter. But she knew that she had to. "Erm... Milan how old are you now?" "I am nineteen now!" Milan replied, "but in a couple of months, I'll be twenty." "Oh! That's nice. That's around the same age I was when I had you. Oh, how I remember it like it was only yesterday. That was the happiest day of my life. You were so little and so adorable. Your butt was not this big and chest this full then. It was all so..." "Mother!!!" Milan stopped her. Her cheeks had become red from embarrassment. "Just go straight to the point. Please!" Chief Sasha laughed a bit, "okay! I understand you are a big girl now." She sighed and then laughed some more. Apparently, she was still rolling down memory lane. "So tell me. What do you think about that Master Writer?" Chief Sasha asked. "Huh!?" This question had taken Milan off guard. "What do you mean mother?" "I mean
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Meanwhile, back at the mountain that belonged to the Waka tribe, Derek sat crossed legged in a cave assigned to him. This cave was by far a better one than the one he had and his friends had been sharing on first arrival. Also it was decorated appropriately and it even had a bed in the middle made of several animal fur. Derek had already given out instruction that he would loved to be left alone for a while, if not the entrance to this place would have been crowded by people. With rumours of the tribe having a writer as a guest, every body wanted to meet him. Also, tales of his marvelous feat from the battle earlier in the day had reached their ears.He was as good as a god to them at this point. At the entrance of the cave already lay all sorts of gifts for him. However, Derek was not all that interested in playing messiah at the moment. He just had too much on his mind. Too much problems that needed his attention. One of which was the pressing matter that both his women were mis
