Isaa and Lais already knew Kendra"s mind. They choose to show Isaa"s little s.p.a.ce as Lais her own. So when they rest they won"t notice the strangeness.
Kendra told them, after Marcus left, about that idea and it was acceptable. After all, Kendra planned anyway to make one small s.p.a.ce for Lais. She smiled at her and remembered the stuff Marcus left her.
It"s fine if her s.p.a.ce doesn"t grow further for now as long they had some save heaven. She gave a wink and a big smile at Lais and shook her head while pointing at Isaa. Ta.s.sio and Lais understood her idea. Lais" face was filled with excitement while Celia looked at their expressions, not understanding what is going on.
"Tonight." That was the only thing Kendra said and winked at them. Isaa, Ta.s.sio and Lais nodded.
After they said goodbyes to all of them, they went onto their clouds and flew away, while the little town woke up and saw their town changed. Chief had full hands again with n.o.bles, but this time he denied their ways and listened to common folks as well.
Kendra as promised sent messages and notices to her parents, together with a new piece of continents map. She even sends a letter to them explaining what happened and about newcomers and their situations.
Lord Ca.s.sian shook his head while smiling brightly. ""Listen to this child. " Don"t worry, we are safe, and after all, we still have s.p.a.ce. So if we don"t send a notice for a while, that means we are hiding or are just not able to send notice so fast. " Csk csk csk. Why can"t she just say that she misses us."
Xara shook her head at his thoughts. She already understood Kendra. "That child is just saying it...sigh. That is nothing. It seems that she is teaching Isaa how to write. Even tho the words ate still bit shaky, the sentences are filled with her heart. Look this..."
Lord Ca.s.sian looked at the picture Isaa painted and smiled. She painted herself and Isaa on dragon back flying while Lais was in his claws. He snickered and then started to laugh. ""Me, brother and the two fighting beings. Mother, these two are fighting the whole time. So weird."
She laughed as well when she saw the next picture where Lais bit with her teeth at dragons wing. In the same picture stood Kendra and held her head baffled.
They got a full report from Kendra about the little town and already went notification to gatekeepers on the border of their fief.
"I think we could send a few of our guards and help him out. It"s after all next town. She writes as well that they won"t enter settlements directly like last time. First, they will scan the city, then go to city Lord or Chief office and then invite officially for testing if they find anyone with powers in town."
Xara nodded. " People would get excited about the positive aspects of power users. What if there are some that don"t want the power users leaving the town and learning more?" Lord Ca.s.sian stood up and walk around.
"The situation is not that simple. It would be worse if they hoped to find anyone and not one in town had powers. They would take them as charlatans and someone would accuse them of something unrelated. Many people become a bigger ma.s.s of unsatisfactory feelings. You know Kendra... She hates dirty minds. By the way, we need to let the fire clan know about that woman"s arrival with her children. I wonder..."Xara smirked sarcastically. " By the report, the whole town was stunned by her actions. They scanned her and she had no external effects or Influences. That could only mean that the whole situation is her own will. Sigh..."
They couldn"t understand, but they really didn"t care. As long she lives peacefully, they will let her be, but if she didn"t... Xara sighed while patting her belly. "Your two sisters are traveling the world and changing the future. Who knows what will happen. Maybe that is meant to be. I have no idea how we came together, but to be connected with those two is our destiny, I am gladly following. No matter what happens in the later on."
Lord Ca.s.sian stood from his chair and swept her into his arms and carefully took her out the window on their cloud. Like pair of immortal lovers, they slowly rose up to their home that Kendra prepared for them.
But pair of the envious eyes stared at them and scoffed. "Soon your reign will end, soon he will come. Let"s see then who will be Lord and Lady of this place. This all going to be mine and I will ask him to let you two become my personal slaves."
Her mumblings were heard by the hidden guard that just shook his head. " Poor girl. She really needs some brain in her head. Maybe it is better this way. Like this, she could fantasize about it but not know how strong Kendra actually is."
"Stop staring at unrelated people. Not only Kendra is powerful, our Lord and Lady as well. Didn"t you feel their power rise lately? Kendra left us with all the protection that she could think off, but we still need to make sure that some rats won"t pa.s.s by." The other hidden guard whispered with the wind using his powers. Only very powerful users could hear them, but there are actually the most powerful in the fief.
They continued guarding their posts and listening to the city"s rumors. What Kendra didn"t know is that as soon she left the city the town became even larger. The outer city became outside the city walls and the inner city grew steadily. Only the little simple house didn"t change at all. It stood there silently just looking at all the changes.
Some people protested as they tried many times to buy off or enter the garden, but were severely hurt by the protective barrier. Kendra didn"t want any changes on house but let her parents change the garden, that looked enchanting as it was filled with various flowers and plants. Looking beautiful.
The whole neighborhood changed into a large houses, filled with numerous families. But the house she left looked cute in comparing to the big blocks that rose from nowhere.
So many people took a liking on it, but seeing that it was impossible to get it, they tried to enter and walk around as they knew that at the moment none was there.
What people didn"t know was that city Lord sent hidden guards to protecting it, but after they reported about the power protection surrounding they laughed and just told them to watch from time to time. Kendra probably set traps as well at that place, he felt a bit sorry about those that really choose to penetrate the s.h.i.+eld.
While on one side cute couple welled in their emotion, on other side Kendra had a huge headache how she can make the s.p.a.ce without that this person finds out about it.
She made a s.h.i.+eld around herself and invited Lais in. "You have some ideas?"
Lais nodded. "I saw Isaa"s s.p.a.ce. Just make same and later on I will add some of my personal notes."
Kendra nodded. She already spoke to Isaa and told her she will make an exact copy. Isaa at first didn"t like the idea but Kendra promised her some changes and enlargement of s.p.a.ce if she let it happen.
So for a couple of weeks, they choose to enter Isaa"s s.p.a.ce and in that time Kendra made an exact copy of it. Celia didn"t notice on end any changes and entered the small garden like every day. Kendra copied even the flowers so when they entered real s.p.a.ce.
Celia looked around searching for something. Lais came near her and looked at her strangely. "What are you looking for?"
"There was a b.u.t.terfly always around these flowers." Celia stubbornly searched the garden for that b.u.t.terfly. Isaa heard her and secretly released the b.u.t.terflies to the other side of the garden.
"Uhm, its a b.u.t.terfly, why is it so important?" She said while staring at a crowd of b.u.t.terflies flying around the orange tree.
"Oh, there they are. It"s just that one I"m interested. It seems to have some kind of consciousness." She stared at bright red b.u.t.terfly floating in mid of others like a general, I ordering them how and where to fly. It was imposing sight.
Celia looked at it with s.h.i.+ning eyes. " If it could pa.s.s the first boundary, I could use it as soul attachment. "
Kendra didn"t like the word attachment. Her face got dark as she heard Isaa"s cold voice. "What is soul attachment?"
Celia didn"t notice the coldness in the child"s voice and continued to stare at the bright red b.u.t.terfly. "Attachment means I would meld with the animal and use their powers like my own."
"Does that mean as well that those animals would cease to exist?" Kendra looked at the b.u.t.terfly and anger welled in her. It is rare for any animal to become power user after all. She remembered Mother Oyster and felt angrier.
Celia turned her head and coldness pa.s.sed her eyes. "They are just animals."
Unfortunately for her, Kendra was already on brink of her nerves. She got swept, turned around and suddenly her little behind started burning. "I am against violence on children. But if I don"t get that stupid idea out your head, you might do something even more stupid."
Kendra heaved her hand and smacked one more time behind the little girl. She put her on her feet while staring at her face. "If you try harming any being that worked hard to survive and grow powers, I"ll beat you up more than now."
In her s.p.a.ce, she already had few animals showing signs of intelligence and power. Even if she had no meat she wouldn"t harm them in any way. She looked at the b.u.t.terfly and smiled. "That creature will later be able to grow and survive. If we could become his friends and let him help us, that would be nice, but using him as help for your cultivation growth... I definitely can"t forgive that. Do you understand?"
Celia stared at Kendra for a while with big shocked eyes, not knowing what to say. She saw Kendra turning around and coming closer to herself. Kendra pinched her cheek and then knocked her head.
"If some higher intelligence had similar idea towards you, I would protect you as well. Destroying intelligent life to speed up your growth, sigh, that other world seems to be even less civilized than this one." Kendra turned around while shaking her head and sitting next to the tree.
Celia stared at Kendra still in a daze. In both worlds, she never being in any way hurt. She was loved, pampered little princess that could do whatever she wanted. But here a child bit older than herself is teaching her something she doesn"t understand.
She stubbornly stared at a red b.u.t.terfly while holding her burning behind. "But aren"t the creature"s just lower beings that could be used as we wish? You eat meat. Would you stop eating meat in a world filled with creatures with intelligence?"
Kendra turned her head towards Celia and nodded. "I would definitely stop eating meat at that moment and search for spell supplements to survive without food if needed. We power users, as it seems, after a while do not need food to survive. Am I right?"
Celia stared at her with open mouth, speechless. " How do you know?"
Kendra shrugged. " I tried it out. It seems that we need to eat only while we grow. But as older I get less I eat. But when I eat, I enjoy food even more."
Celia nodded. She wanted to ask more but then got shushed by Isaa. She looked at Kendra as saw her sleeping blissfully she the red b.u.t.terfly floated in front her like he tried to protect her... Celia felt regretful. Such good soul attachment. The red wings could look amazing...
Suddenly she felt her forehead hurt. She looked and saw around Kendra small stones floating. "Don"t even think about it. Go rest, soon we need to travel. Or do you want to follow us on foot?"
Celia looked one more time at the red b.u.t.terfly and sighed. " I give up..."
Isaa sighed while she looked at the b.u.t.terfly. "Don"t worry, brother will protect you until you become strong enough to fight for yourself. "
It seemed the b.u.t.terfly understood as he made a circle around Kendra"s head and went back to his companions.
Ta.s.sio and Lais nodded. It was certainly a good decision to travel with her. Ta.s.sio got a little worried. His kind belongs to the animal world as well, what if...