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Legacies of light Interlude 2.10: The pyres of samhain part 4
-Break-Four weeks laterIn front of me stands my father as the entire camp around us burns. He cuts down one beastkin after another, with the strength of a hundred men, but then they all come at him at once and even he is unable to stop them.Being held down by the beastkin, my father screams, "NERO HELP ME, FIGHT WITH ME."But in my fright, I run and run far, far away to a place where I couldn't see the violence that was unfolding anymore.Through the forest where I ran, I feel something drip right down onto my head, and looking up towards the top of the trees I see it is blood; from the trees, countless dead bodies hand dripping their blood directly onto me and the surrounding area.Then with their mouths, they all say, "NERO, YOU RAN. YOU ABANDONED US, YOU COWARD. YOU GET TO LIVE WHILE WE DIED, YOU'RE NOTHING BUT SCUM."From my bed, I jump up with a fright, and feel like I am about to puke, but the contents of my stomach are too empty to even do that. #Unable to hold back my emot
Legacies of light Interlude 2.11: The pyres of samhain part 5
-Break-Φ Sitting by a table right next to his almost finished sculpture the man called Bricriu looks with joy at his pyre right across from himself, and smiles. Then from the sky the beastkin who looks like a bat; Liam drops down, and in that moment Bricriu says, "Liam how is it looking over there?""It is going just like normal; all of the pyres have been set and the rest of our people are performing their prayers to ward off the dead.""What about the humans.""They have each individually started to walk back, and just as you have requested they are not being guarded.""That's wonderful."Sensing that Liam is a bit stiff, Bricriu says, "Liam is something wrong."With sweat running down, his face Liam asks Bricriu, "Isn't this dangerous, we are simply letting the slaves run free without direction what if they try to escape?"Confused Bricriu responds, "It's Samhain isn't it?""This is my first full year here, so I don't know if I missed something but isn't Samhain just a myth."Gig
Legacies of light Interlude 2.12: The pyres of samhain part 6
-Break-Two days laterIn the river, I see, right next to Aurelius. We race to see who can reach Lillian and Claudia the faster.We swim with all our hearts as we race down the river, but in the end, I lose to Aurelius.He jumps out of the river next to Lillian and screams, "THIS IS THE POWER OF LOVE.""Yes, yes, you big dumb idiot."Reaching out my hand, I say, "So what if you won I will simply win next time."Suddenly all three of them stare at me, and then Claudia says, "That won't be happening."Knocking my arm away, Aurelius says, "You haven't forgotten."Lillian says, "The way you abandoned all of us.""I didn't.""You coward.""You traitor.""You fool.""Die.""Die.""Die."From the ground I jump up and almost throw up.-Break-Location: CampsiteStepping to the front of the line with Charles not far behind me, I stretched out my hands, and the beastkin in front of me gave me winter clothes, and moments later Charles was given these clothes by the same beastkin.Rubbing my face
Legacies of light Interlude 2.13: Lions mother part 1
-Break-Two weeks laterLocation: CampsiteΦ Giddy in line, I say, "I can't wait, I can't wait, I can't wait."Charles behind me says, "Is this because you finally went over your quota.""Of course, it is, now I can get some extra food and stop being just skin and bones."Walking up to the beastkin serving food, I say, "I completed over my quota this time, you can check with other beastkin if you doubt me."The beastkin says, "It doesn't matter, we no longer do extra food for hard work. All the means have been standardised again."Hearing this shocks me to my soul so intensely that I freeze and collapse over to the floor. But in that state, the beastkin throws my water and potato at me knocking me out.As Nero lays on the ground in defeat, Charles takes his food, picks up Nero and walks away.Then sits him against the wall of the campsite where he slowly feeds him. To all the onlookers around, the sight is almost identical to how a mother feeds her child.-Break-Depressed I walk towa
Legacies of light Interlude 2.14: Lions mother part 2
-Break-The next dayLocation: Scortha fieldsWith my feet freezing from the cold, I say, "How is this worse!""During the summer months, these fields were ridiculously hot, and now during winter it is stupidly cold."But still, despite my complaining, I continue to do the work given to me. Today we are being forced to poor these sacks of white materials through the fields in which we planted seeds in."Beside me, Charles continues to do the world as well at the same speed at me. I would be happy that I am keeping up with him, but it is not like this work requires any form of ability, it is just pouring this stuff into the fields.As the white powder-like substance continues to pour out of my bag, I look to my left and see that Charles has stopped while holding something in his hands.Instantly panic takes over my body, and I look around, but luckily none of the guards are around us, so I quickly say, "What are you doing!""This fell out of my sack."Within the hand of the boy named C
Legacies of light Interlude 2.15: Lions mother part 3
-Break-"Hey Charles, where are we going?""Some place where you can rest.""But won't we get in trouble?""Don't think about that now just leave the rest to me."Following my words Charles slumps his head on my shoulder and when he does, I can still feel that he is hot. I need to move quickly.After a little bit of walking, I stop and say, "The air here is pretty good and it is not too warm or cold. I think it will do nicely."Dropping Charles I say, "You can sleep for a bit.""But isn't it still daytime?""Don't worry about that just trust me.""Ok," Charles says as he closes his eyes.Sitting down next to a tree watching Charles I let my thoughts run wild.He isn't as alert as usual because if he was he would have definitely stopped me from doing this. In all honesty, staring at Charles right now is terrifying, the fact that this boy could be rendered so weak is shocking.I guess in a way I thought him indestructible like my father, a boy with no limits whose strength and endurance
Legacies of light Interlude 2.16: Lions mother part 4
-Break-Location: Fíodóirí houseAs I knit away at the clothes in front of me, I make sure to keep a constant eye on Charles beside me who is sleeping.Due to the lax attitude, they have taken with us because of their celebration no one is currently monitoring us as we are preparing the clothes but when the day finishes someone comes to check we have met our quota.So I have decided to let Charles sleep while I do his share of the work. If this was any other form of work, this would essentially be impossible for me, but since I am rather skilled at this it is no problem at all!And this rhythmic process helps me think about what the hell happened last night! I am still as confused as I was when it happened, why would he help us, the beastkin go out of their way to bully us whenever possible so this is incredibly strange.But another thing I noticed is that the guys who usually attack us had some bruises on them, almost as if someone else struck them. That can't be a coincidence.Wait
Legacies of light Interlude 2.17: Animus
-Break-One month laterLocation: CampsiteIt has been one month since the day we confronted Dónal, and since then something new has been added to our lives to do every week.Looking towards Charles, I whisper, "Go give him the signal?"Walking up to get his food, Charles says, "Popopo, tatatato."Some beastkin in the area laugh at Charles's words, but on the face of Dónal, I can see him smiling with all his might.What the hell is with that smile, stop making it obvious! I knew Charles lacked a sense of awareness but I think I just figured out where he got it from.-Break-Location: Far east of the River Lúide, inside a nearby forestAs I stand in the forest beside Charles, from the forest I see Dónal appear, and when he sees us he runs towards Charles, and asks him, "How are you doing?"Tasteless as ever he says, "Fine."With a bright but disgusting smile Dónal, says, "GREAT!"This interaction now has become our new arrangement. Since Dónal can't talk to Charles anywhere else we hav
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