The door to the room slammed shut behind the white-haired woman. The woman turned and stared at the door. Her slender shoulders made her appear taller than she was. On her dress, strange shapes of various sizes formed colorful piles on the floor. “Acuz,” Mayda whispered, looking excited. The white-haired woman turned quickly, her long skirts waving. There was not the slightest line on her face to indicate that he was having a hard time.She was holding a long pointed staff. Her tomato-colored eyes, which were just starting to mature, looked like they were piercing through. Her eyebrows, which stood like a puddle of white bushes just above her eyes, softened her lofty look a little. Tamir was stuck in her eyes after examining her from head to toe. Almost everyone in this country had dark eyes. Apart from Tamir, his family's eyes were also dark and slanted. With his straw-blond hair and ice-grey eyes, Tamir seemed to be shouting that he was a foreigner in this country. The woman said, "What kind of place is this," and spat on the ground. Her voice was loud for a woman's, filling the room and echoing off the walls. “I ran into a couple of Obur living on that mountain over there. They were almost starving: they looked weak and pale. I told them a place or two where they could find something to eat. They told me I could get here before dark, but even though I set off just before noon, I only got here at midnight. I'm cold to the bone, I need a warm bed. You just stop and look at me. Darkness is starting to rise even here.” She paused for a breath, glanced at everyone in the room one by one, then continued where She had left off. “ I want to warm up in front of the fire and smoke my drink. A glass of hot drink wouldn't be bad either. Of course, you pale skin people don't have such problems; but I'm still alive." The woman was talking about a kind of cigarette peculiar to the weak and a kind of slightly intoxicating drink peculiar to them. Mayda's face was confused.
She felt a sense of amazement mixed with fear before her helplessness. She wanted her to do her job and get out of there as soon as possible. "Excuse me, Acuz lady," said Tamir, "We forgot your needs." He didn't realize he had a silly grin on his face. “ Then why are you still waiting?” the woman shouted. Mayda shifted uncomfortably in her place. Artam was startled by the words of the helpless. Mayda said, “We were expecting you a little later, and as you said, we couldn't think of them because pale skin creatures don't have such needs. Our aim was never to disrespect you.” The Acuz made his way over to the fireplace and waved his long pointed staff.The fire was burning in the fireplace. “These are old excuses,” She said helplessly. “People like you are by nature thoughtless. These are the last places left for you to live on earth. ” Then her eyes fell on the bow and arrow hanging on the wall. She approached the wall with heavy steps. “So it's still here. I always thought I knew Tonka." There was a vague sadness in his voice. “Tonka has always been into the unknown. In fact, the greater the obscurity, the more he would follow. There was always more to her than holy wizardcraft.Tonka's curiosity finally prepared the end for everyone and everything." said Nesa as she entered the room. Acur stared at him for a long time, then a wide smile appeared on her face. “The Persian beauty, who was once a legendary beauty.
I should have brought daffodils for you. Unfortunately, I could not bring it because it is not the daffodil season. Would you like to stand by me tomorrow and watch me? You will never be like us, Nesa, but maybe you'll learn a thing or two." Artam blinked in surprise.Nesa glared at her, took her place right next to Mayda with a dull expression without a smile and said in an extremely calm tone, "Thank you for this kind offer, Acuz lady. I am quite surprised that you can still show kindness even though you have lived in the mountains for so long. It would be my pleasure to learn from you.” “Ayana,” She said .
They all stared. “My name is Ayana, not weak. She swung the hem of her colorful dress and her voice echoed in the room again. “I was once a holy magician. Now I'm a Acuz just by the name you call me. But we also have a name. My name is Ayana. Even though holy wizard has long since abandoned me, I am just a nickname given to me by you breaths." She swung the hem of her dress one last time and sat down in the armchair by the fireplace. “ Acuz … sorry… Miss Ayana,” said Mayda, still unsure of how to address her. “What's going on in the mountains? Has the rise of darkness spread far? What about the night when the stars will fall? ” “Do I have a Koncolos-like side? ” She grumbled and she took something out of her suit that the weak drink. She put a grass that grows in the mountains into a wooden device similar to a pipe and began to smoke it with pleasure. “I'm just a Acuz, not a pigeon you get the news.
I don't want to know anything about darkness, colder than starry nights or colder than ice. ” Artam started to say, “ But war,” but Ayana cut him off. “ These wars have brought us nothing but destruction for thousands of years. Neither the holy wizard nor their people have ever been happy. Wars don't interest me, I'm just here to trade between us. “Suddenly, he pointed a finger at Tamir. “You, you, with your tall neck, your gray eyes that are never seen among the pale, you look like a man from a people who once lived in the north, even from the people of Tonka in the north. Vora's lover is Igan. Icebreaker Igan.” Tamir couldn't tell if the woman was making fun of him. The woman turned her gaze to Artam this time. “And you are as big in size as his blood brother, Homar.” Artam gave him a laugh.
“Those old stories,” he simply said. Acur tugged at her skirt. There was a slight mockery in his voice as he said the bloody creature, "The creatures made up from these ancient stories are now in front of me in blood." Tamir decided it would be best for all of them to keep his mouth shut, but Artam had no intention of remaining silent. “Yes, we are monsters from those legends so you have to be careful too.” Acur drew a puff from his pipe and burst out laughing.
She simply said, "This much anger will hurt you, young boy." Tamir glanced at Nesa out of the corner of his eye: but she had given all her attention to the Acur. Nesa didn't like old tales at all, especially not the story of Tonka's fall. “Old tales,” Ayana said, waving her hand as if she were throwing something away. She reached into her pocket and pulled out three bottles of different colors. Acur again took her wand in her hand and muttered something. The liquids in the bottles moved towards the center of the bottles and began to dance in a circle. Ayana stood up and approached the window and looked up at the sky. “We will finish this work tomorrow night. Then you will keep your word and give me what I want.” No one in the room was making a sound. Ayana got up and walked to the middle of the room. When she let go of the bottles, they continued to spin around themselves, hanging in the air. “The destruction of the Kutsk people and the fall of Tonka” Ayana’s words were left unfinished. The spinning bottles suspended in the air suddenly stopped. He reached over to the feet, picked them up, and put them back in her pocket. Guva had entered the room. Ayana glanced at Guva. Her face and body were motionless, save for putting the bottles in her pocket. Guva approached her and took Ayana's right hand between her two hands, moving it back and forth. When Ayana saw her, she blinked and returned her greeting in the same way. “Welcome to our house, Ms. Acur. Excuse the rudeness of the children, and forgive us if they disrespected you.” “I didn't think they were being disrespectful and just call me Ayana,” he said. Turning to Mayda said, "Leave me alone with our guest and don't forget to prepare a meal for him before that." After the people in the room left, "Guva didn't teach your customs to your pale skinned people," she said reproachfully, "Ayana, don't be sorry for them," and approached the fireplace to warm his hand. Ayana settled back in her seat and took out her pipe-like drink. “Thanks for answering my call and coming.” After removing the fumes with her hand, Ayana said, “Let's see if others will heed our call. "
While Yelis and David were passing the first barrel through the middle of the bar, Rick was sipping one of David's wines in a glass. The bar's yellow cat, Moose, was slumped on the chair with his eyes closed and his tail wrapped around his feet. A man was standing in front of the big fireplace in the corner, looking across at Yelis and David, who were carrying barrels. The man touched a polished tin can he always carried. The bar was almost empty except for David, Yelis, the bartender, and the man by the fireplace.At that moment, two large men entered. They headed straight for the man in front of the fireplace. He glanced at the bartender as the men entered. But the man who had been standing by the fireplace from the very beginning did more than take a glance and caught David's arm, who had passed him and was heading for the door. A long black leather jacket he wore highlighted the heavy muscles in his arms. His head was covered with a hood, as if he wanted to hide his face. David fro
“We couldn't find them, we have to go back now,” Artam said, looking troubled as darkness began to fall on the mountain. “They must be dead already” “Does it scare you?” 'Tam asked. He had a vaguely mocking expression on his face. Artam gave him a murderous look. “He is weak, he is weak.” said. “We don't have anything to do with Gluttons or Wretches.” Artam looked quite nervous. "Did they really come?" she asked in a whisper. Artam must have felt what Tamir. felt.Tamir looked up at the sky as if the fog that had settled on the dark mountain was of no interest to him. Artam had already judged that the fog descending on the mountain was the cause of arrivals.It is as if Tamir had read Artam mind, "There's always fog on the mountain at this time of day." He could taste the tension in Artam's eyes, hidden under the hood of his black cloak. In fact, Tamir also shared Artam's uneasiness. He was in Kars for years. When he first came to Kars, all the stories he had heard about Tonka and the I
Tamir disappeared in a swim of blue light. When he opened his eyes, the forest around him and the cold that was burning him had disappeared. He was lying on the wooden floor of a house. A woman with her long braid on her right shoulder hurried to the door of the wooden house. As the woman walked, a sound came from the wooden floor. Tamir moved to stay off the ground, but failed to do so. As she made her way to the door, she looked back and said hesitantly to someone standing in the shadows, "One of the neighbors." “She might want to borrow some groceries…” A young girl with straw-blond hair reaching her waist gently placed the bowls on the table and slowly walked away. The residents of the house seemed unaware of Tamir's presence. “I don't think so—” another man in the room said to the woman heading for the door, and his hand touched the hilt of his sword. The figures of two white snakes entwined on the hilt glowed faintly. The woman approached the door when it exploded open, parts of
When the light disappeared, David and Ewin rushed over to Yelis, who was lying on the ground. David squatted down beside Yelis, who was lying on the ground, hastily searching her body for something bad, but all she could find was a slight cut on her forehead. While small, that single cut could have been serious enough. Yelis' body was warm. They took Yelis in their arms and left with Ewin.Aunt Abigial tried to be polite as she dressed Yelis, but soft groans interrupted Yelis's low mutter nonetheless. Yelis had been lying unconscious for days after that incident. He had a constant fever, the reason for which he did not understand on the third. Aunt Abigial looked at Yelis' fever again. Such a fire could easily kill a person, but Yelis was still struggling. After wetting a cloth again, he placed it on Yelis's forehead. A doorbell was heard. It was David and Ewin. David: “How is she doing?” ' asked Aunt Abigial. Abigial was unhappy. “Same,” he said.Ewin's spell would keep those men awa
Ewin gripped the hilt of the stick in his hand. Everyone concentrated on the direction the light was coming from. Shadows waving eastward were trying to break through the firewall. The shadows gradually transformed him into a horse and rider with tall bulky shapes behind him. Ewin knew what these shapes were. The moonlight had revealed the rider's hooded cloak. Between the Shadows and Ewin and the others was just a magical firewall. All the shapes were black in the night. The sound of a horse's hooves…. Ewin recognized that voice.Behind the black cavalry, the horned figures appeared in double rows, as if obeying the black cavalry. The sounds of boots hitting the ground sounded like a nightmare. Ewin counted nearly twenty horned shadows running left and right through the firewall. The black cavalry stood motionless, and suddenly raised his staff and attacked the firewall. Ewin could feel the pressure exerted on the wall. He lowered his cavalry staff to the ground, vanishing westward i
The road to the Black Lake was quite long. It felt like weeks had passed since dinner with David and Abigial, as if it had been days for Ewin since he had seen the black horseman. He could no longer feel anything but numbness on his shoulders carrying Yelis's stretcher. David had been quiet for a while. Ewin wasn't sure how long it had been since the murmurs had ceased. Reaching the black lake was their only hope. They tiredly tried to increase their speed, but their legs were moving slowly.Ewin finally fell to his knees. He checked Yelis' covers, tiredly. Yelis's breathing was regular. "What if they come back?" he said coldly."The wheel of fate turns as it pleases," said Aunt Abigial uneasily. “If they come back…We'll gather our strength and stop them,” he said, and sighed, his face loosening as he bent his back. Ewin realized for the first time that Abigial was as frightened as he was, if not more. Uras nodded and looked at the firewall. "We'll get over it," Ewin said, encouragingl
“It's a beautiful weapon you're wearing,” David asked Uras. Uras looked at David for a moment."I didn't think I'd find a brute-marked sword in a place like this," said David.“It belonged to my father.” Uras looked at his sword, the hilt visible at the end of his cloak; He turned his eyes to Bilge's house. “They took it a long time ago,” he said. "It's strange that they've been taking the Ice people for thousands of years, but they've never touched the Burkut bearers," David said.Uras avoided looking sideways from David. He didn't want to talk to a stranger about his sword. Still, he felt he had to say something. "It might not always work to carry a sword with the Bürküt mark. I didn't even know he had it until recently, anyway."David nodded to her. “It might work. It wasn't always like this.” David touched the symbol on the sword on Uras' waist. A two-headed eagle." Sacred once among the ice peoples of Bürkut. Another symbol of the Lakeside. This sword must have met your father by
Ewin's gaze fell on the Sage's house. The beam of blue light reflected from the Sage's house was reflected outside. These thoughts in Uras' mind disappeared. David's face was less red than it had been. He jumped when Ewin grabbed his arm. When the blue light finally disappeared, Sage left his house. With heavy steps, he walked towards the Black Lake. The people of the black lake were following him. When he dipped the ram's horn object into the waters of the Black lake, a bright light was reflected and soon dyed the lake dark again.The Sage nodded and sighed as Ewin came near the Sage. "Not yet. I hope not yet. There's a blemish. A wound that won't heal unaided will cause deadly fevers, I've eased the pain, but you won't leave him alone." The sage's words were half request, half command. "I won't leave him alone, I won't," Ewin agreed simply. “I am very tired, Bilge, and I haven't had a chance to rest since last night,” said Bilge assent and walked away from Ewin.A woman wearing a dr