The group of animals approached them as they helped the small ones. They stopped not far from the small babies that they saved today and gave a long stare towards them. A big white dear came closer to them and stopped in front of their bodies that seemed to want to protect the small ones that they tried the whole day to heal. Even tho they could be just stamped to death by the animals, they still did their best not to let the animals get close to those that were hurt. The dear saw resolution on their faces and stepped back. He waved his antlers and suddenly all the animals had instant heal.
Hundreds of babies rushed to their parents and even the surroundings changed greatly. A forest filled with warm mist surrounded them and the white deer came back. He slightly bowed his head towards them and they bowed back.
Then everything disappeared and they were in mid of some meadow. Kendra sighed. ""It seems that it was protection animal of this world. If we didn"t help those small animals and tried to save them fro harm, even risking our lives, we would need a long time to finish this task. But where are we now?""
Nothing but flat land until the end. No hills, no tall trees, just some bushes. Two voices suddenly resounded behind them. ""You guys came as well to help us?""
They turned around and saw two young women that just smiled at them happily. Cynthia recognized her two friends from the same cla.s.s. ""Haru, Kimi so nice to see you two safe.""
Haru just smiled while Kimi rushed to hug her. ""Cynthia it seems you all finished your tasks. The two of us really have a hard time finis.h.i.+ng ours. We are so happy, right Haru?""
Cynthia was curious. ""What was your task?""
Hary smiled. ""I had to make baskets from leftover that Kimi had to make.""
Everyone turned their eyes and Kimi went to Kendra and bowed. ""Thank you for giving us the idea. My task is to make enough cloth for everyone to wear one suit.""
Kendra nodded. ""To make cloth u had to use the resource around you. I found out after so long time about this plant. Let us start with that tomorrow. I am so tired I can"t hold my eyes open anymore."" She could literally feel her body losing energy. She sighed again for her choice to keep this child"s body. How dumb is that?
Everyone was tired. The girls on end settled to all sleep outside as the night was clear and warm. As soon they closed their eyes an enchanting man appeared near them and shook his head. He went to visit other camps and saw horrible things happening, only this school seems to have unity, at least so far. He could see Kendra"s wrinkled eyebrows and smiled lightly.
With his finger, he pressed between her eyebrows and she relaxed as the pain she had in her body vanished. Of course, he just looked at the rest of them and saw tiered faces, but no real pain in their bodies. Then he sighed inwardly again as he turned his eyes again towards the stubborn person that had now small smile on her face as she dreamed something nice.
He got closer and with a big smile whispered in her ear. ""I will wait for you. But after that, I will make you mine, Kendra. You are old enough now. But as long you are in this body, sorry but I am not attracted to small children. ""
But suddenly he jumped back as he was shocked. Big Kendra"s eyes stared at him with a strange smile. ""Taskmaster, you seem to have to much time on your hands. If I find out that because of your carelessness some of my people died or were treated horrible, I might choose to stay in this form the next thousand years. What then?""
He knew that his carelessness could cost him many things but her treat made him lose breath. Thousand years? But knowing how stubborn she is in her nature, he knew that such a threat might even really happen. Within the blink of an eye, he disappeared while Kendra closed back her eyes as the red glow in them receded.
What she didn"t know that everyone actually heard them but were not reacting. They all had their own thoughts after hearing such truth. Some even got close to the real truth. But they still chose not to tell anything to the other or to comment on that. This or that way Kendra became someone important to them even before this.
The next morning Kendra woke up as usual before dawn and others stood up together with her. They got used to starting with the cultivation before the sunrise. The two girls didn"t know why they did that until the huge amount of energy filled them as they started cultivating.
When the sun rose over the plane Kendra opened her eyes and saw field filled with all kinds of plants and many of them were red. She knew that they would need moths if they start doing with hand. After all, she just found out about this dozen days ago... How could the two have done anything.
Everyone saw her pacing up and down and then suddenly she stopped and smiled at them. ""I know how to do it. It"s not hard. How many of you have plant power? And how many earth power?""
As it seems they all had earth power.
Kendra nodded. ""Use a tiny bit of energy to loosen up the earth around yourself and then just pull up the stalks. We have no time to cut it piece by piece. We will do this until evening and then tomorrow we will start changing the stalks into threads. This will be a bit harder thing to do. Let us eat something before we go. ""
She used some seed oil to fry a bit of wild vegetables and meat and then they ate it in gusto. After that, she showed them how she wanted to do it. Those that had plant power as well had another bonus. They could combine the powers and the gra.s.ses tarted just popping out.
The boys started rus.h.i.+ng around and gathering all the popped up stalks while the girls used the power to pull them or rase them form the ground. As they used just a small portion of their energy for that, it took them the whole morning and the whole afternoon to use energy and they stopped.
The boys wanted to continue but Kendra stopped them. ""From tomorrow we will work in two s.h.i.+fts. One s.h.i.+ft from early morning until lunch and second from lunch until evening. Like that, we can exchange the people and no one would be completely exhausted.""
The girls realized that the threads were the best to take out the talks while they are semi-fresh and so they left them on the sun to dry little. Days pa.s.sed and luckily no wheater change happened. The treads started appearing so all they could do now is to make treads for Kimi while she started webbing the cloth bit by bit.
On the other hand, Haru was done with baskets. He never said what size of baskets should be made so she started helping out with the cloth happily.
A week pa.s.sed, then second, then third... But Kimi finished just a couple of cloths. Kendra was lost in thought as she saw a sheer amount of treads and started thinking. ""Kimi, you said you need to make cloth for all of us? But at the same time, we were sent here to help you. If we make cloth together maybe the task will be faster. We can try. Luckily our clan sent only this many people. Not too many. We already have a thread. Let"s try. Even if we do not succeed we can at least make cloth for future uses, right?""
So now their days pa.s.sed in the webbing the cloth. By making the cloth with soft threads it was easier to finish most of the cloth. then suddenly Kendra jumped up. "" Stop everyone! Before we finish we need to do one more thing!""