She could see everyone stirring and even Lais were wondering. ""I think we should wake up Xara as we really need her this time. I will let her sleep after this.""He nodded and she looked at her s.p.a.ce but saw Xara standing next to the bed and looking at the empty s.p.a.ce. Sigh it seems she heard everything that happened outside. ""Xara. Come out I need you here.""
Xara stood up and smiled gently. As soon she was summoned from the s.p.a.ce she hugged Kendra and almost choked her as Kendra"s face was stuffed between her b.o.o.bs. Kendra luckily could live even without breathing air, but still felt uncomfortable. Now was Lais that saved Kendra.
""If you want someone to wallow in there, you should ask him. I think he wouldn"t mind. Don"t do that to someone like Kendra. Even tho I know her just a little bit, but I am sure she is frozen stiff from your actions. Hmmm, or maybe should I play with them a bit. I wonder how they feel with tough."" said Lais while playfully coming forth with her hands.
Xara saw Kendra realizing breath and realizing why she blushed all over to her ears. ""Sorry honey. I could hear you crying but I was inside and couldn"t comfort you. I heard everything. Tell us what is wrong."" She sat next to the Lord that felt broken-hearted. She shook her head and patted his hand in comfort.
Kendra sat far from all these clingy people and started explaining. ""Most of you don"t know my story. I lost my memory. I opened my eyes in a gully filled with a bunch of filth. Buried under it. I wondered. Is this normal? To throw away people like some kind of waste. I was fortunate to get help from one old man that gave me some basic things for my survival. Later when I found I saw how I looked at it made me sick. Since then I can"t really handle filthy stuff. Later I found fishes got some money, bought a house and found Isaa. That all happened in the last few months. But since beginning to the end I have no idea where I am, what country this is, went to the city had no idea what is the name of the city or any city, met so many people and have no idea what they are called. When I met the Lord they all call him city Lord, but no one ever mentions his name. When we met I didn"t want to be indecent and ask you directly your name. You know me so far, If you don"t say it, I will not know. That is the reason I ask you for months about the library and books, history books and maps. But so many things happened and I had no chance to find out. Isaa, unfortunately, has no idea as well, which is quite strange. She suffered fear and remembers only her grandmother as she was the only related persons she knew. I beg you all. Give me the details. I hate asking, really it"s so bothersome..."" she sighed and dropped her head.
Silence permeated the room. Xara started chuckling then laughing and on end crying. ""Children in the country we fought for to have peaceful childhood, have to live in such manner. I lived on the battlefield fighting other side thinking they attack us and they just tried to protect themselves. We were attackers on end. If I knew that, or my ancestors... But not only that, the country got rotten because of wars. Shady people took over and made our country into living h.e.l.l. But now the worst thing comes. The child I took into my heart and wanted to adopt had to fight again and again for us. We all knew you wanted just your peace but we bothered you and you kind of attracted all the evil characters in the town. Now after hearing your story, I have a feeling of failure. We can"t even provide you safe environment how can we promise to care about people of this town, are we even good enough to become parents?"" She seriously started doubting herself.
Even Lord was shook to the core but still cared about Xara and hugged her tightly. She hugged him and put her little face into his shoulder and continued crying while he comforted her. Lais looked at humans with mixed emotions. She was still fearful of all of them but after hearing what happened to Kendra she knew that all of them here had their own wounds and fears.
She saw everything in silence and then poked Xara"s nose.""You pretty b.o.o.bies, don"t worry. About war, we can talk about it later and find a good solution for that problem. I traveled around the country hopping from one human to another and I have to tell you to stop worrying. This city is the safest city so far. C"mon. The people here work together. I could see what kind of changes happened last few months here. About Kendra, she is strong. If she could handle all that, she will be able to handle anything. Why crying? Just become stronger. When you become so strong that no one would dare to make trouble around this place then you can be sure that everything will turn fine.""
Xara nodded but the tears still didn"t stop. ""Since I was three I was on the battlefield and was fighting your kind. Funny thing is, we never hated you. We felt only that you are dangerous and was a danger to our country, families and our beloved ones. I just feel sorry for my own childhood. I hoped that with our efforts the future generations could become safer, but didn"t expect come back to something that didn"t seem like a safe place at all. To come to the place that is even more dangerous than the battlefield. Does that make any sense to anyone?""
Everyone had to admit that all this made no sense. Kendra and Isaa saw that situation and mood became dark. Kendra started smiling. She had to stop this. Life is precious to dwell in the past and not just live.
She hugged each and every one of them including Cian and Lais. Isaa did teh same and tehy smiled again brightening the room. ""Later please send me all the data. Now I just need the Lord"s name. If possible. I can"t call you the Lord for the rest of my life, right?"" She said while nudging him.
He nodded and smiled finally. ""My name is the Lord Ca.s.sian of the Caledon Hills. The city name is simply Caledon city. The country is Blles. The country lies at the end of the continent that we call Aludum. Our people came to this continent tens of thousands of years ago. It was everything fine till last few hundred years we got so many demon attacks. But now I understand why all happened. I think probably none of the sides bothered another side. But there has to be always some greedy creatures that have to make everything horrible. ""
Lais nodded. She knew the same things. ""Actually, my elders told me that your people traded with us for thousands of years peacefully. I just wonder where did you come from?""
The Lord smiled at her. ""We came from the far continent. But I have no idea what is the name. I was little when I left home. So I really had no time to read. I will check the Library soon and ...""Then he saw Kendra"s expression. He sighed."" I will have no time to read. I will give you full permission to enter it and read whatever you want. Xara it seems we have to bother Kendra this time again. Hmm. Isaa, Cian, and Lais can help you with reading. It"s not bad to have more information"s.""
They looked at each other and then suddenly a voice could be heard.""What, I can"t?""
Everyone looked at the dog in Isaa"s hands and got astonished. Lais came closer and smiled."" You must be ancient. Looking at your current you, it seems you failed to pa.s.s the test in the secret forest? Now you have to learn from scratch. Right?""
He nodded. He really needed as much knowledge he could get. ""Wait you can talk?"" said Cian flabbergasted.
""I am ancient. Unfortunately, I failed the test and the punishment was to be turned into some creature. I was turned into this."" he sighed.
Kendra was actually curious for a longer time. ""What are you actually?""
""A dog as it seems. Not sure. thanks for Fluffy I like it."" he said while looking at her sweetly.
She scratched his head and heard him purring and got stunned. ""It seems you are not a dog? A cat? A mixture?""
He looked at her and then at his own paws and shrugged. ""Does it even matter what I am?""
""Not really,"" said Isaa why cuddling him tightly. ""I love that you are so soft and fluffy and cuddly.""
He licked her face and then turned to the Lord Ca.s.sian."" Can I join them, please.""
He nodded in a daze. He just spoke to the thing. Suddenly rumbling could be heard, then another. Isaa and Kendra looked at each other and started laughing. She looked at Xara smilingly and started taking out the vegetables from the greenhouse. The fresh and clean smell of vegetables emanated in the room and made everyone almost droll.
Grandma Aine took the vegetables and Fishes into the kitchen and soon amazing smell came out of the kitchen. Soon the fried fish with lots of vegetables were presented on mid of table. Everyone took some of it and they started exclaiming. Grandma Aine was last to take it and was so amazed.
I just used some olive oil...taught Grandma Aine while she stuffed her face with food. This is so amazing.
They all ate and Kendra explained what she did and explained that tehy can use the power water diluted to grow energy plants for private use. She still thinks it"s not good if many people knew about this.
Lais was thinking whole time about the food she ate and it seems that it was the right decision to stay by Kendra"s site. Definitely. Humans or Demons, no matter who it is, as long he can feed her.
She smiled and ruffled Kendra"s hair that turns slightly pinkish that it seems indicated her anger. It was so fun to do so. But seeing her sullen face she stopped.
Kendra finally wanted to go home and rest. But before that...
( The names killed me. It took me a long time to find words that didn"t mean anything bad. Of course, if any of the names offends you in any kind of way, please tell me. I will try to find another. Thanks for reading )