The silence. . .The very nation of the crania. . .A huge assembly that covered the entire land space that was commonly called Kin since it bore the great hill known as kin. The entire tribe of Krania that fell off the portal that opened in the sky, gathered around on this special day. The day that Malak would assume his full position as the leader and the ruler of the great and powerful tribe of krania.There were men, women, and the young, but all of them had assumed the age of majority and were of age as the kranian law, had described the coming of age to be. This was due to the fact that at the other side, across the boundary, at the place where they were trapped known as nero spilia, they guardians of the boundary had put in place a substance that was able to stop them from giving birth and multiplying.The guardians had realised that if they had failed to put that substance in place, the population of the kranians would have increased outrageously and with that, the increase wo
"Behold! The Ceta Otiris, Malak!" Baraka said at the top of his voice and while he spoke, Malak flaunted as he stretched his hands sideways and walked around the hilltop to show himself to everyone all over again. The sacrifice was complete, the ritual had been concluded, and Malak had assumed his full position as the Ceta Otiris. Varata was extremely proud of his son, even though it was from him the title was taken. The Potrans kept watching from afar. They were patient enough to have watched from the very beginning of the ritual to the end. They saw everything. They saw the use of black magic, and the dark objects, and as they watched all these, their mouths were wide open. Malak was done showing off himself to the crowd of kranians, and what was left of him to do at the top of the mountain was to give a speech to the people. This was supposed to be his first speech to the Kranians as the Ceta Otiris. . .He stood still at the edge of the hilltop and glance down at the slope to ge
L A K E O F Z U B R I S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[ T R I N I K A, M E T R A ]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .K I T A’S H U T. . . . . . . . . . . . . .The night wind whistled gently across the top of the small lake, clouded with several stones. The lake basked under the moonlight and its bright light made the lake sparkle like it had a touch of magic, but it was only a mere lake with mundane water. . .Surrounded by the deep wild trees and shrubs was the lake, but it was not the only thing that stood within this pile. There was one more thing that was not green, although, built from wood.There was a tiny, yet beautiful house that sat at most 20 steps away from the shore of the lake. It was as wild as the wilderness it stood in, with lots and lots of creeping plants and trees winding their stalks around it.The inside was no different; it was shadowy, and they were different herbal plants growing in several vases that sat up on the shel
K I N H I L L * * * * * * * * * As it was upon Metrá, so it was also upon Kin and its hill. . .The whole land basked underneath the moonlight. The kranìans had retired, and they had gone into their tents. The women and the young ones were all asleep, some of the men too had fallen asleep, but there were some who were charged with the responsibility of keeping an eye on the prisoners and the surrounding as well. It was not as if the Kranìans were scared, if anything, but Malak, who was just a new member and was still not used to everything, thought it to be safer if some of them were awake. . .Amongst those who he had given these orders was Lokaa, the Kranìan who was charged with the responsibility of guarding the prisoners in the cage. After breaking Isher's wrist, he had refused to let his eyes off him, not even for one second. Lokaa kept staring at Isher and rarely looked at any other person in the cage. It made him focus on the cage as a whole, including the people in it. H
L A K E O F Z U B R I S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ T R I N I K A, M E T R A ]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .K I T A’S H U T. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kita bidded Era to join her by the lake. . .Era was quite shock at what she saw Kita do with the smoke that she could not help but become curious and wish to follow her wherever she was taking her to. Magic was not supposed to be knew to her, because she had seen it in excess while with Castar and Callagh, and she was not supposed to be that much intrigued by Kitá’s little trick, but the thing was that she could remember none of those moments. Almost everything was new to her and little things excited her. If she could remember, she would have known that Kita’s magic was not normal and was a bit strange. She would have remembered that only the Kranìans bore magic, and no other tribe could do what they did. How then could Kitá be toying with some strands of magic? It would have brough
* * * * * * * * *K I N H I L L * * * * * * * * * The fire was still burning, and the night wasn't young anymore. There were deep into the night, but still not so close to dawn. There was utter silence, and nothing could be heard apart from the chirping sound of the birds that came once in a while. . . Everyone had retired, even the Kranìans that were extremely stubborn and hardly felt the need to rest their heads. They had all spent the day preparing for the siege on the Syrn empire. Isher gave up some moments ago, after he could no longer see the figure. He glanced through the other prisoners who were his men, and he saw through the tiny space between them that Lokaa had fallen asleep. . . He never would have believed it if someone had told him Lokaa was going to fall asleep. Keeping an eye on Isher had been his priority, so it made Isher wonder if he would ever take a break. . .But at this moment, not only were his eyes off Isher, he was also in a deep slumber. This was so
L A K E O F Z U B R I S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ T R I N I K A, M E T R A ]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .K I T A’S H U T. . . . . . . . . . . . ..The wind rushed past her ears as she maintain her balance on the rock that was halfway buried in the lake. The roughly circular top of the rock was where she had been standing, motioning her hands through the wind. . . The night had just passed. . .now, it was the time that crept between night and day. The sky was grey and silver clouds embedded in it. “No! That is not it. You are getting it all wrong!” Kitá shouted from behind Era, and she trembled and almost fell from the rock top into the lake. She had been trying to get what Kitá had been teaching her since very early in the morning and she had not got it yet. It was though for her to learn all the steps in one single training session. Besides, this was her first ever. Kitá insisted she must learn how to assimilate it that very da
* * * * * * * * B O R H N* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * K I N — M É T R A B O R D E R* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Lokaa wasted no time. He tried his best to follow through with Malak’s order as quickly as he could. He walked out from Malak’s tent with Isher's body, and he didn't go anywhere else. His walk took him straight to the border between Metrá and Kin, and at the border, he dropped Isher's body and turned back towards the great hill of kin. . .Silence reigned, and the wind coming from around the hill swept over Isher's still body. . .Lo. . . there had been a man in the woods nearby. Isher's body was to being watched. Mafik was only waiting to confirm Lokaa's departure from the border. He was waiting patiently until he saw that Lokaa had taken the turn which was definitely going to take him to the hill, and then he looked around one more time just to be sure no other person was watching. He walked out from where he was hiding b