Location: Abais CastleΦ Entering another set of giant doors, I see a ridiculously large table in front of us a circular one, covered in vines.And sitting at the top of this table is one of the ministers we met yesterday, Cultúir.With a pleasant smile, she says, "How wonderful it is to see you accepted my invitation."It was an invite? If felt more like they were telling us we had to go here.Composing myself, and getting on my tippy toes, I say, "It is a pleasure to be here as well."As Cultúir is about to say something, Willow looks at me strangely and says, "Where did this Maple come from?"Proudly, I say, "Certain forms of training have been passed down so the village chief could deal with outsiders well.""How enthralling.""Don't say such things about me," I say hitting Willow repeatedly but lightly in the chest.Suddenly the maid behind us coughs, and then we stare back at Cultúir who looks less than pleased at us ignoring her."It must be fun to be young and in love.""You d
Location: Grand hall of EcheAs the eccentric lecture rampages on with her teachings in front of all of us, I take the time to form my thoughts.Through this one class, I have learned quite a bit about this place. First, they all speak the heroes song, after seeing so many of them speak it I can confirm it is simply the universal language down here.Secondly, it seems they all think the humans were completely wiped out, and everything on the outside has frozen over.And from other statements they have made, I can rightfully assume they have all been living here since before Victoria froze over and became Fimbulwinter.This has made me extra cautious in regard to protecting our identity. Because we are their only key to the outside world, and if we are not careful we could even start a human-beast war like in all of my childhood books.However, I doubt they could do anything to the human nations which have advanced much further since the time humans were the slaves of the beastkin.Sti
-Break-Location: Base of the great tree AnucroíΦ As we walk with Cultúir through a corridor someone runs up to her and says, "Madam.""Madam?" She says giving the girl walking over to her.The woman then corrects herself and says, "Deirfiúr na gréine." Which is a term in more classical heroes song, a version of the song that no one in the village or outside the village tends to use.The term means sister of the sun. With a bright smile, Cultúir asks, "Yes what is it.""The pipes understand, Ronald's bakery has burst which has caused flooding, and it seems Moris had used the Uisslí plants for his own recreational use so we have none to make any pipes.This has caused a big stir as his bread was recently going to be used as a prize for the upcoming Gaelic tournament, and now those who usually eat his bread are fighting with those who want to save it for the sports tournament, this has caused some to even start fighting.But the worst part is some of the kids participating in the tourn
-Break-Location: Grand hall of Eche; Dinning HallΦ With a plate in my hands, walk up to where all the food is, and it is tremendous. Ever where I look I see food glistening as if the messiah has fallen down on it.So with my stomach grumbling I reach out my hand and prepare to take what I want, but then I am stopped by a beastkin with a weapon at his side, who says, "Don't try and be funny, Fanalis you know which food is yours."So, I stretch my arm, away from the food I was about to grab and to another dish, but he makes the same angered look that he had on before. So I repeat this process, till my hand ends up hovering over food that is clearly made from bugs."You can't be serious?""Are you sick in the mind you Fanalis, stop complaining and take what your kind eats as normal."Filling my plate full of bugs, I get up and walk away till I meet Dillon and Suzuka. Sitting down beside them, I say, "Hey Dillion why can't I take any of the other food there?""What the Fanalis eat is he
-Break-Location: Fanalis VillageΦ As all of us kids return on the back of the beast, I say, "What an eventful day."Suzuka replies, "I cannot wait to reach that much tomorrow."Dillion then says, "We don't have any school tomorrow."Suzuka's face instantly fills with despair, and I try my best to hold back my laughter."But you don't have to worry, it is almost dinner time," Dillon says as he points towards their little village which seems to have a lot of people gathering in the centre.Suzuka runs forward and we follow behind her, and when we reach the overpopulated village, we see there is a giant pot in the middle of the village and from that pot a heavenly smell emanates.Beside us, we hear, "It seems the Aisachta up and died, so they are cooking it all tonight.""What? I thought we would have been able to get more out of it.""Well what use is there complaining about it tonight, it won't bring it back from the dead.""I guess you're right, so let's simply party today to make u
-Break-Location: Abais castleΦ Sitting in one room the five ministers of Nialathrú gather. "Cultúir, how did today go?" Amadán asks."It went far better than I had expected. As it stands the little girl seems like she would be very easy to control.""So should we move on with the next step of our plan?" Olc asks."Sadly, not yet, one thing I learned is that one of the people she is looking for seems to be the one who holds all the power among the humans who live above us.This means our plan to use the girl to control the humans won't work without killing this other human first. But to do that we are to go ahead with our plan, we now need a bit more info. Leisciúil did you do the inspection like I asked?""Yes, my people doubled checked and without at doubt falling from that height would have killed a normal person. So those people the human is looking for have legacies, well at least one has.""That causes a minor problem for us, but not one that we won't be able to get past. Still
On the ground, Aois says, "Thank you, I have already made their breakfast, all I need you to do is serve it in their bowls."Walking forward, I opened a compartment that Aois was pointing towards and took out a couple of bowls. There are only a few, so I guess these kids must reuse the bowls.Taking one bowl, I serve food inside it then hand it to one of the kids with a smile, saying, "Here you go."The child gives me a confused look, then she throws the bowl of hot porridge right into my face causing me to roll around on the ground, and then she says, "THAT'S NOT MY BOWL!"Getting up I scream, "It's just a bowl, eat!""No, I don't want to touch Malta bowl, she is yucky!""You're yucky!" Malta says as the two start to fight."Stop being brats and just eat!""NO!" The children scream.Aois says, "Sorry, but the kids refuse to eat from anything other than their own bowls!""But there are not even fifty here, so how could that be?""They tend to misplace them, so only they would know.""
Φ Running forward at full speed, I go up to everyone I can see and ask the same question to each of them. But in response to this, I get either unaware or rude remarks in response."Sorry, I don't know?""I haven't heard of such a thing.""Could you stop being such a pest!""Get out of here.""I don't have time for this.""I have no clue, sorry.""No idea but here's a snack for your trouble."Still running in a circle, I start feeling a little weak and then I end up falling into another beastkin. Getting up while on the ground, I say, "How many times is that now!"Seeing the beastkin, I notice he is something that I haven't seen before. He looks way more like an animal than he does a human, in fact, he looks like a bug."Sorry, I was running like a fool."Looking at me he says, "No, I wasn't watching where I was going please forgive me?"Hearing the sound of a child being considerate is something that seems completely alien to me after the day I have had, so crying uncontrollably, I s