Lord Ca.s.sian stood up and waved his hand to arrest the loud person. Soldiers saw his dark expression and sighed.
Usually Lord Ca.s.sian is quite friendly and kind to everyone. He always has big smile on his face and nice words for everyone. But when he gets angry...
Xara saw his face turning to stone and his eyes becoming icy. She shook her head. Then she turned towards Kendra and saw icy smile on that face and thought that if she didn"t knew him since childhood...this child could be his.
They even looked similar. The bone structure, the way they walked and talked was similar as well. She sighed, it is hard for them to not being similar. Truly like father and child.
Guards held middle aged man between them that had fear on his face. He looked at Kendra with disgust and with fear at Lord Ca.s.sian.
"Lord, don"t believe this monster a word. This child made our life to h.e.l.l and now she even dares to stand here. I..." but he stopped talking as he saw Lord Ca.s.sian"s dark expression.
"Who sent you here? How can such disgusting worm even appear in my palace? What are guards doing ?!" Lord Ca.s.sian"s voice suddenly turned into echo that resounded trough the palace.
Everyone stood still and saw that he was this time really furious. One of n.o.bles slowly approached and bowed deeply towards them.
"I am sorry, it is indeed my fault. He is my wife"s cousin and I took him here by her begging. I didn"t know that he would disturb Lords wedding. Please forgive me." He seemed quite pressured while light sweat appeared on his forehead.
Suddenly a woman run out the crowd and started cursing her husband. "You really have no backbone,do you? This child caused so many mishaps in my brother"s household that he had to leave his home and join us in capital. Its a monster that hates us, even tho he accepted it from small on and fed it till now."
Lord Ca.s.sian sat back to his seat and crossed casually his long legs while winking at Kendra. "Uhm, child, do you want to handle this or should I do it?"
Isaa stepped forwards as her little face turned red from anger. She started pointing finger at the woman while shaking her she hand." You stupid old woman. Monster? Who is monster? Our Kendra is not monster. She is the best , kindest and most amazing person in this world. If you say one more bad thing about her I will..." She wanted to continue but suddenly she felt two hands softly touching her shoulders.
She turned her head and saw Kendra smiled at her and shaking her head. " Why are you even getting angry about some unrelated people. They are here to make trouble with me. But his did they knew I was here, I wonder? And who told them about me, that is actual question here."
Kendra looked at the guests and chuckled
"It seems there are some people here that don"t want our parents to get wedded in peace. Guards, take the gentleman here and whole group that came with him and trow him outside the boundary, together with their gifts. They are forbidden for life to enter the Caledon Valley. If they have power children we will let them in. But themselves are forbidden to join. This is final." She spoke softly but everyone could hear her words Suddenly guards surrounded them and pulled them out. They already had list if people that entered with this n.o.ble and got them all including gifts and sent them out.
When they arrived at the boundary they kicked the man and his sister off but let the n.o.ble go down slowly as per Kendra"s inner order she sent before they left.
This man showed he repentance and she didn"t want to make it more difficult for him as it is. But his woman and her brother...
They stood up and started cursing and the n.o.ble just stood there and bowed towards soldiers. He understood that child"s thoughts. ""Could you please as Lord to forgive me for my rudeness. She is my wife and I never taught her how to behave. I hope one day you will accept one of my children in school. My daughter as it seems has some powers but she can"t control it. So I hope for the guidance and help. Please."
He had older daughter from his first wife that died years ago. He married this wife and had two boys with her but they were just like her filled with malice and displeased with everything.
Fortunately his older daughter is calm child and behaved good. After he heard about the school he thought about sending her there. His current wife is using his daughter as servant whenever he is not around and he is worried if one day he dies...
Hearing soldiers words he knew that his child future is not blocked and he can send her here with ease. Seeing all those precautions and safety in whole Caledon Valley he was sure that the child will live safely and happily.
He smiled at soldiers and bowed one more time as he saw slight nod from him.
He turned around and looked coldly at his wife."If you say one more thing , I shall kick you out the household and won"t let you see your sons ever again in this lifetime. Understood?"
She wanted to say something but her brother shook his head and she just pressed her lips and turned around. It seems she needs to handle this man faster than she planned. She looked at her brother and smirked as she entered the carriage.
Soldiers shook their head and flew back to report to Kendra what happened. But the wedding was in full swing so they couldn"t do it. But saw Kendra staring at the and just nodding her head.
Somehow it seems she knew what happened so they just gave up and bowed deeply towards her. They turned around to go back to their duties as they gave up wondering long time ago.
Kendra saw them leaving and whispered to the captain to give those soldiers extra gift or free days as they wished. He smiled and nodded. Actually the soldiers already had huge amounts of money themselves.
They got lots from the Lord after war, then they got while they work here huge payments and since they net Kendra they even rose in powers.
So they all choose to stay in city and be by Lord"s side for lifetime. Funny thing is that he didn"t even know about their plans as he wanted them just to have normal life.
After knowing the real truth about the war , their resolution to stay by his side and protect this peaceful piece of land grew even stronger.
In between Xara and Lord Ca.s.sian exchanged their wows ceremoniously and sat down to accept the gifts from the guests. Kendra saw long line of guests as they invited hundreds of them.
She sighed inwardly but saw that her parents had smile on their face and urged herself to be patient. Since she came to this world she always did what she wanted freely like wild child, forgetting that she now represents her parents as well.
She looked at Isaa and saw her having same slight smile. She sighed and adjusted her face but when Xara saw her expression she poked her now husband and showed him Kendra.
They started chuckling and mischievously glancing at her. Isaa saw their actions and looked at Kendra"s face and almost laughed out loud.
She approached her and held her hand. "Brother, could you please stop trying being kind. You look scary when you try to smile with stiff expression. Just be as usual. Look our parents, they can"t almost hold their laughter when they look at you. Just relax and be yourself."
Kendra relaxed and just turned back to her calm expression. She looked at mischievous behaviour of their parents and let them be. It better to laugh fully and truly whenever you can.
As long they have long ,healthy and happy life, she is content.
But then she remembered the man that claimed to have raised her. Now she knows who he is. It seems the n.o.ble that married that mans sister is in trouble or he wouldn"t mention his daughter that way.
It seems she needs to send someone with the Eye to their home and get that child very soon. Maybe that child is in danger, looking at the woman"s behavior.
The guests came and gave countless gifts. Luckily they all are power users and such small thing was not really tiring at all. That all pa.s.sed and as the last gifts were given the food arrived at the same time.
The cook prepared many various meals including new plants like potatoes and corn that he got from Kendra.
She got used to go to seasoning store and see are there new plants or flowers, new food, seeds or any other thing that is novelty.
She found in the box that her parents sent her whole hill of golden coins so she spend them when ever she found something new.
But in same time she got lits of money from the store in outer city as well the money from Fintan and her own parents.
She always split the money in half and gave half to Isaa as "Safety" as she called it. Actually she just wanted Isaa to have enough for lifetime just in case they split by some weird situation.
When the guests left they took with them already prepared gifts from the new Lord and Lady of Caledon Valley. Filled with all new sights they saw in this fief they left and soon around the continent the story about new school for power children rose and went up in storm.
Lord Ca.s.sian told them to spread the word and he will soon send his people to check the children all over the continent on their powers.
In time between the entrance to the Valley was sealed for next ten days as the Lord gave order and no one could get in or leave.
Kendra sealed the s.h.i.+eld and left with Isaa and her parents to travel the fief on clouds. They went to every little village and visited evey house that had even one child that has powers.
They found seven children with powers truought the fief and after their parents heard that they will get benefits if they send the children to school they were quite happy. One day they found a child living completely alone in the woods and almost lost it as it has dual power if earth and plant.
Kendra luckily was with them and could sense the child energy deep in woods where it tried to hide. As it seems it run away from some people that wanted to bury it alive as it was weird in their eyes.
The child was still just seven-eight years old and as it lived alone it forgot to articulate itself. But Kendra with lots of patience successfully took child in and after she showed some of her powers child realised that she meant no harm as she could just obliterate it. After the child shyly got closer to Kendra it seemed to be quite interested in Fluffy and Lilly.
Kendra used her purification elegantly and everyone got stunned when they saw that the child was quite strange. It had light purple hair with gray eyes and it seems it was a boy.
As he had no name Xara choose to call him Thei. He seems to like the name and just accepted it with huge smile.
So far most of children had relatives so they were not alone until school start but what should they do with this child? Kendra made a cloud for him and choose to take him with them. After all they were almost on end of their trip.
Last place to visit was anyway the most important... The school...