Wizard of The Sky God: Salt Magician

Into The Shadows

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 the iron lock of the door swirling on the floor. Standing in front of the door was a figure larger than any creature Tamir had ever seen. One hand gripped a heavy weapon like a scythe. When the young girl saw this figure, she was horrified and screamed. The man with the white snake-embossed hilt drew his sword and swung it toward the creature. The creature roared. Coming out of the shadows, the person holding a blue stone in his hand showed the ring to the creature at the door. The creature let out a partially painful cry. The man with the ring shouted at the young girl as the huge figure took a step or two back. "Run" Just as the young girl was about to start running, she saw Tamir lying on the ground. The man saw for the second time, "What are you waiting for, Run!" Yell. The girl took one last glance at Tamir, then dashed out of the room toward the back of the house. The gigantic creature at the door also started running with the girl. Tamir passed out in a blue glow again.

“Shadows,” he said to himself. “Just shadows.” His mouth was dry. The wood in Tamir's room shattered like thunder. Tamir couldn't make out much in the dark, shadowy shapes entered the room. Tamir had no idea where he was now after what he had just seen. "Outside!" A metallic sound was heard. Tamir was watching what was going on in the midst of a dark cold. The girl just now was speeding away from the wooden hut. Shouts could be heard from inside the hut in a language that Tamir did not know. The glass of the hut's window crashed to the floor loudly and sharply. Tamir just watched the running girl without looking in the direction of the noise. Shadowy shapes flickered on the white ground in the moonlight, and the clash of steel against steel resounded in the darkness. Tamir took a deep, ragged breath and shouted as loudly as he could. "They're coming from behind!" The words came out wheezing, but at least they did. The girl turned around and looked over to Tamir in the direction the voice had come from. The girl could see him. The monster looked in the direction the girl was looking at. Tamir made eye contact with the monster and started running towards Tamir, leaving behind the Girl. When Tamir saw the monster running towards him, he felt something he hadn't felt in a long time: fear. And he plunged into the forest behind him.

The trees that surrounded Tamir gave him some consolation. Whatever this creature was, he could see it. The trees were helping to hide him from this creature. Shadows began to appear to Tamir as if they were moving in the darkness of the forest, shifting in the moonlight. He could hear the monster's metallic growls as he hid among the trees. A wolf's howl filled the night. Tamir flinched as a cold wind swirled the branches like a ghost. Tamir moved slowly among the trees. He could see the monster a little behind the trees. The ground shook under Tamir's feet as the beast turned its head towards him. The blue light reappeared, throwing Tamir elsewhere, away from the Beast. Repair fell on his hands and knees. With an agile movement, Tamir got up from where he had fallen and started running.He stopped and crawled from tree to tree, trying to come up with a plan. Tamir wondered if the monster was following him. If he had stopped following her, he could have found her and asked what was going on. If it's still in the middle… Tamir didn't like it. He looked towards the hut. He saw only dark shapes in the moonlight.

Tamir shivered when he heard another wolf howl from the forest. After running for a while, he came to a tree, and when he was sure that the monster was no longer following him, he sat back with a deep sigh. "Where was he? What the hell was that monster, and how did he see it?" Tamir thought these things over. Tamir sensed that something was coming toward him through the trees. His emotions were not as sharp here as before. He felt his sword with his hand, but it wasn't there. Tamir focused on what was approaching him through the trees, ready to strike at any moment. The footsteps came a little closer. and he saw him. A cute little lynx. He just stood there a few paces away. Tamir couldn't tell if he was dangerous. The lynx came a little closer to him and when he stopped in front of him, Tamir hesitantly touched the lynx's face and Tamir was thrown backwards. He tried to touch it, but couldn't.