Next few weeks they traveled with the clouds. They occasionally pa.s.sed settlements, villages or towns, but their scans of the surroundings didn"t show any being having even a bit of power. Kendra made new spell out convenience "Wind of recluse". She let everyone release their own personal amount of power and sent the slight wind go in advance, searching for hidden power. Unfortunately, for weeks they didn"t find anything matching the power properties. But they were not disappointed with that fact. They looked as well at the surroundings of the humans. One of the reasons they had enough time to make a better and faster map. They had no need to get close to humans as they had enough food and other things that were needed. One month pa.s.sed, two...three...They entered the rainy season but that didn"t bother them much as they used the protection spell. They used the rain season as well to amplify the search spells. Kendra used " Wind of recluse" with new invented "Rain of solace" and the search became easier than before. One day, when the rain didn"t fall and they just enjoyed some sun they saw the big strange-looking wall surrounding the town in mid of the mountain.It wouldn"t be strange if they didn"t see children and grownups together trying to add more things to the wall. She used invisibility spell and flew down to see it closer and it really was the weirdest wall she ever saw in her life.It looked more like something that belonged into some beautiful garden. It seems as made out of small and tall brushes in different colors intervened with small, big, and short flowers. The town gate was made out beautiful flower arch and the gate was wide open without doors. From above the houses looked like small miniatures. But looking closer the houses didn"t have their own gardens or s.p.a.ce just bit flowers surrounding them. In mid if the town was a big flower garden where everyone walked around and spoke with each other. They had a place for children to play, for grown-ups to enjoy, for elders to rest.Kendra was very curious. There was no private possessions. Everyone wore the same clothes, the same color even grown up and children. Gray on gray. But it didn"t seem to bother them much. She realized as well that there was no bigger or smaller houses, all same size. Same white color, with same flowers in front. She rose her eyebrows. A perfect society? They floated around town and under much consideration she chooses to show themselves. They floated out of the town and after some forest, they decided to start walking. "Fluffy, Lilly, I think it would be wise if two of you stay inside s.p.a.ce for now. We don"t know how they would react. I don"t want to take any chances. Is that fine with you?" She looked at the two small fluffy b.a.l.l.s that nodded."Don"t worry, we can be in s.p.a.ce for some time. Lately, we grew our powers and soon we will evolve back to humans." Kendra felt their powers growing faster last few weeks. It seems her way if cultivation can help the progress of those that had before powers.She looked at Celia but then shook her head. Even tho this child had a soul of a cultivator, but not the original body. So the progress was as normal as anyone else"s. "It seems that they progress because of their original body. I do not hurry to progress fast. I"m not some stupid idiot that would put in danger my further growth for faster cultivation. Luckily I know that. By the way, can you tell me something? Why are you so strict with me?"Kendra sighed. "" If you were originally just normal kid, I would let you do whatever you want. But, you are not. If you make mistakes and don"t realize how grave it is I must make you understand. It"s not like I want to be bothered, but I really don"t want you to keep those weird destructive thoughts in your head."Celia still didn"t understand the point and stared at her with big eyes. Kendra pocked her head and turned to leave, but suddenly a small hand grabbed Kendra"s and she stopped her motion. She looked down at the small child and sighed.Even tho she is always strict with the child, but the cuteness was just so high that she had no heart to beat her up. Isaa shook her head. Kendra was too softhearted. She took the other hand and smiled at Kendra.
"Brother, there is always me. For anything else you have me and Lais and Ta.s.sio." She included Lais as well, as she accepted her as their sister a long time ago. A bothersome sister that acted as she was younger than Celia sometimes.Lais saw the look on Isaa"s face and chuckled. She loves to make this child annoyed. The changes on her face made her laugh all the time. "Ohhhh, Isaa, my big sisterrrrr, we definitely will be able to make Kendra feel safe and comfortable. But, this town is strange. In human norms, this town is perfect. But somehow its too perfect, if I may say."Kendra nodded and less looked at their clothes. Maybe they should do similarly, so she took the school uniform out her ring and when the others saw it, they did the same. Only Celia had a pretty white dress. As she was a baby that didn"t matter.Slowly they came out of the forest, walking relaxed so the people in town wouldn"t take them as a treat. But their worries were ungrounded. As soon they neared town group of grown-ups came out with big smiles on their faces to welcome them.Ta.s.sio looked at Kendra and saw her slight nod and went forward. He bowed respectfully and smiled back." Let me introduce. My name is Ta.s.sio and these are my companions Lais, Kendra, Isaa and Celia. We were sent by the King and Lord Ca.s.sian of Caledon Valley to be Emissaries in their name. On our travels, through this continent, we were given the right to find power users and send them to the school for further education. Would you give us permission to scan your town for possible talents?"The elders smiled at them and nodded. "We don"t mind. Education of our children is welcome. We do have a normal school where we learn writing and counting, but if there is more to learn, we wouldn"t mind. Please, come to our humble abode and do as you think is needed."Ta.s.sio nodded and was about to enter the town but Lais pulled his arm. "If I may as respectfully, elders, what name does this town has and how long does it exist? We got a map, but you are not on it."One of the elders smiled at her. "That is because we made deal with every King not to be signed into any maps. Child, our society is peaceful, but that doesn"t mean we have no idea what is going on in the outside world."The others nodded as they heard his words. "We would send our own people from time to time to the other towns and what they saw was disgusting and dirty. We would not like if such people would find out about our town and nest here. Sigh..."Kendra nodded as she felt the same. They walked past the houses towards the main garden and then sat at one of the empty tables. They looked around and saw people talking, laughing, children playing around and everything was accompanied with slight music in the background. One of the elders saw Isaa staring at the musicians and laughed. " Actually, we all know musical instruments so we change every day who will play. Of course, it"s all willingly. If someone doesn"t feel like playing, there is always someone who does. As you can see we like it very much."Isaa nodded as she looked at strangely shaped instruments that gave up pleasant notes. She closed her eyes and then looked at Kendra with amazement. "Is this the reason....?"Kendra nodded. She didn"t fly to the city only to look for power users, she went down for this strange power s.h.i.+eld. She felt that this is the reason why they didn"t have any walls, they truly didn"t need them. Everything is incorporated into the s.h.i.+eld, the flowers, the trees even the way the houses stood was actually part of the s.h.i.+eld.One of the elders looked at Kendra profoundly and smiled at her. "You seem to feel it, don"t you. Hmmm, good, very good."Kendra turned to look at her and absentmindedly nodded. "It is indeed a great s.h.i.+eld, but it"s not good enough."Elders all questioningly looked at her. She sighed. "You are visible, that is the bad thing. But worst is, the s.h.i.+eld is not strong enough. You need a power user to help you strengthen the s.h.i.+eld. I have a few ideas on how to improve your s.h.i.+eld. If you give me permission, of course."They calmly looked at each other and accepted her proposal. She did not know why, but these people gave her a feeling of safety, so she wanted to protect them as much as she could. Their calmness and enjoyment of every day made her like this city very much. Kendra had a rare moment of happiness so she gave one of her rare sincere smiles.One if elders went in awe and started reciting some poetic lines. " The time stood still as the smile in your eyes blinded us. Please, no, don"t stop, blind us for as long as you wish as we are willing to be blinded, up until the eternity."Lais hugged Kendra and continued. "As the world changes, your true smile will come back, to s.h.i.+ne upon us and we are willing to be burned by it, into the eternity."Isaa and Celia smiled at each other ad Ta.s.sio coughed and closed his eyes to concentrate. "The future is near, and so are you, do never stop giving us the s.h.i.+ne and happiness as we are one with you...into the eternity..."Kendra looked at them with a pure smile on her face as she started laughing from deep in her heart. The sound of her laugh echoed in the whole city and everyone stopped doing what they did, and with closed eyes and smile basked in the happiness that emitted from the sincere laugh of a person who wishes only one thing in her heart. Happiness for everyone...