Tonka struggled to keep her balance as the ground under her feet swelled as if it wanted to swallow her. Her black hair was distorted and messy from the horror he experienced. Her pale white fur was stained with bloodstains on the floor. For a moment, her hand went to the necklace, which consisted of a pale pink stone wrapped in a hoop around her neck. The stone radiated light at his touch. This light was quite weak compared to the blue light that filled the tent and quickly faded away. The ground shook and trembled again. An invisible wave came and crashed into Tonka's chest. Tonka scorched with pain and let out a scream. This scream came from very deep and he couldn't stop him. The fire of pain had penetrated to his bones. It collapsed backwards. The stone he used to start the fire in the middle of the floor crashed into the height and fell to the ground. Her head hit a stone. He writhed helplessly in pain. Her heart felt like it was going to jump out of his chest. She writhed on the ground and began to scream hoarsely. The pain gradually passed. Shaking, he got up on his hands and knees. She began to stagger, almost crawling, on the ground. "God of heaven help me," she prayed and sobbed. He had to get out of the tent as soon as possible. The ground shook once again. Tonka collapsed to the ground exhausted.
Two shadows clad in black cloaks stood a meter in front of the tent. They were waiting at the border in front of the muddy area, unable to step into the area where the salt-covered circle was. One of the shadows threw back her black cloak, picked up the sickle she was carrying on her back and swung it. The shadow looked arrogantly at the other shadow, and they stepped into the white space at the same time. They opened the tent door and entered. Tonka looked up at the black-clad shadows. Shadows involuntarily took a step back before Tonka's gaze. Tonka stood up slowly. She wiped her tears, the expected moment had come. Min and Tin had come to get him. Tears made their way across the dust and dirt on Tonka's face and slid down her neck. Tonka whispered something with a last effort. She scattered the dust in her hand. The earth shook, Tonka held out her hand in despair and was able to travel.
Beams of blue light illuminated the night. The surroundings of Tonka were white, flat, and empty. Near it, a wide river flowed noisily. She could make out that there were no living things around. She was glad, she was still alive.She turned her face to the sky. Tears were shining on her cheeks. "God of the heavens forgive me!" She shouted into the sky. Lightning flashed in the sky. The light filtered from the sky and landed in front of Tonka.
The ground writhed and shook. A wind howled. It smashed everything in its path and finally stopped. Min and Tin looked at Tonka with anger and contempt. Seeing them, Tonka started running through the snow with a futile effort. But what she did was unforgivable. It was the end of the road for her. Tonka let out a shrill cry with a final plea. It sounded more like a plea than a scream. She kept running, looking behind him. Finally, she slipped and fell facedown on the snow.
Min and Tin were now standing before her in all their majesty. Their metallic voices echoed in the darkness of the night. They said, "You have come to the end of the road. You will pay for what you did." Min and Tin simultaneously raised their sickles. Tonka closed her eyes tightly so she wouldn't see the end that awaited her. She was waiting for the first blow. With one hand, she gripped the pink stone necklace around her neck tightly. Both of them had lowered their sickles for the first blow when a light emanated from the necklace. Min and Tin had to raise their sickles up again. The blow that Tonka had been waiting for never came. She didn't understand why it took so long. She slowly opened her eyes. Min and Tin were standing in their usual places. With one difference, a white wolf was growling at them. This wolf was even more majestic than she had seen before, turning to Tonka's side. His eyes were sparkling blue. The wolf turned back to Min and Tin and growled. So they called out to Tonka again.
"You will definitely be punished," they said, and they disappeared in an instant. Tonka and Wolf were left alone.
Two horsemen were coming on the snowy forest road. Although spring had already come, the snow had not yet melted. The wind was blowing like ice. The breeze had glued the fur of one of the horsemen further into his back. The wind seemed to howl for a moment. There was an unusually heavy silence around. Despite the arrival of spring, there was not a single greenery except for the trees that did not shed their leaves during the winter. Where the trees were thicker, puddles of snow covered the ground. Igan touched his arrow, thinking he heard a little stir in the silence. This was the hardest winter, according to the elders.Even wolves in the mountains were beginning to appear on the plains by the riverbanks. Judging by the deer carcasses along the way, the wolves had already spotted the stray deer. A few people they met on the way said that wolves even attacked herds of horses from hunger and warned them to be careful. The horsemen crossed the snowy roads at full speed. They had been on
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, "W
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“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