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Thirty minutes has passed and Ipos molded three fifteen foot tall marsh golems into a pebble.
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“Ugh” Zephyr groans, her arm sling against Isaac who helps keep her standing, “If you’re wondering if he is that powerful then think otherwise.” She calls out for him but he charges straight at her. With a fling of a finger, a torrent of roots stops the brown haired younger whose eyes have completely glow white.
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His voice echoes like that of the sea serpent that Ober and Isaac encountered when they were repairing the border. “It was a beast”, the old man says, “and all beasts imitate the Gods by having these echoic voices. Though they really aren’t as powerful as Gods, their silent cousins are different—those who speak like us, like Hemrean with no special voice effects.”
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Zephyr’s voice remains the same even as her eyes glow entirely green in trying to force her plants in containing her brother. “It feels thrilling, exhilarating, and wholly power sating~ Ah~ I shan’t, I shan’t lose myself~” Zephyr bends her entire hand down and the roots drives Ipos into the muddy pools. It detonates by a clasp of her palm and an explosive tempest almost blew Isaac off his footing if not for the mud
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“You don’t have to be that harsh...” Isaac says which Zephyr simply shrugs,
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“depends on who I am up against. Come,” bending the roots to thrust themselves into Ipos’s mouth and behind…a spitroast flora sight as the roots inject balls of twinkling green into Ipos’s body. “This should keep him asleep and slow down the memory fade.” Once more bending the roots, a wooden golem is formed to carry the younger.
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And the group resumes in screaming out the names of “Haures!” and “Real!” The shrouding mist gives no other than the growl of the beast that lives here. But who cares about the lochness anymore, Isaac wants out, Mira wants to kill a beast, and the siblings have to find each other and their journals. If the lochness joins in then all Absternicous hell breaks loose and Isaac does not want to get caught up in that situation, not at all as he screams so loud that his voice wrings itself.
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“Such immenseness in the voice.” Zephyr commends, motivated as well to scream as loud as she can.
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Ten, twenty, and another thirty minutes pass. Not even the wraiths wish to stop them as they feel the marsh slowly changing. The air spiked with needles and everyone’s hair are standing. “What is happening this time?”
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“Sis Real…” Zephyr swallows, trying to keep her eyes open by binging and biting her tongue. “Don’t mind the great Zephyr boy, let’s find sis. Hurry”
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Two hours and thirty minutes pass of wandering around the marsh and Zephyr is slowly losing herself to madness—one moment she is lovingly talking about her siblings the next she is rattling about her ingredients. “Ugh, you know what” She groans, trying to keep herself together with her hair strands haggardly placed on her sweaty face. “If I were to forget, just call a crazy ingredient addict.”
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“You said you are a florist though…”
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“HAH! I don’t even know where that came from other than that came on the cover of our bloody cowcuck journals. Ugh, what am I even talking about now?”
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They trudge through the marshy mud for thirty more steps and Zephyr notices that Isaac has been panting with his hand wrapped roughly against her side, probably carrying her whole limp weight. And she thinks that this should not be it. She should not be forcing a normal Hemrean kid who is like them without anything special. So, she tells them to stop.
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“A—a-a-re y-y-you ss-s-ure?”
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“Have I never been so sure?” Eyes faintly glowing green, “Never Have I been so sure in my life to stop! Ahaha, what am I to let you carry me like that, Oh dear goodness me”
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“M-Mira, should I trust her…” Asking Mira the bunny who is suffocatingly silent, and which is still, completely ignoring her as if she is a skinned bunny hanging by his vine belt. “Mira…”
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“Talking to that one is useless. Though might be friendly, it is purely a deathbell for you and anyone else~”
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“Mira does not scare anyone though.” Maybe Isaac is slowly losing his mind as well, he usually likes these situations with noise but in front of the children of the marsh, he feels frightened to even open his lips. He feels alone with Mira staying silent and wish that Ober could just be here to quell the situation. But reality is, nobody is here for him. Not Merry and Bell, not Ober, certainly not Mira and never the slowly maddening Children. Is there a choice out of this? No! None! There is no other choice in going out of the marsh lest he finds and ask the lochness, would probably end up headless than escaping.
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“Hey Boy! Are your ears fools????”
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“Y-yes! What is it, Zephyr?”
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“Camping you or what? Ready us a fire for this bloody cold night. Damn, even mistcorollas aren’t this cold, whatever even happened to the warmcorollas around? Cannot be helped now without a journal. Huh, this might be the first day I will be dozing off without writing anything”
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The boy quickly finds some wood to burn but nothing to start a fire on. “Uhm, I cannot start a fire…” his head shying low at the truth.
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“Preposterous for a servant not being able to start a fire! But rather true, why would you even start one with these cold-hearted stones. Damp like myself in sweat.” Catching the boy staring at her, “D-do not look at me like that, bother someone else! You think I can start a fire? Goodness if plants except those corollas do that, I would be whoring for it.” Pointing to Ipos, “Ask him,”
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“Ww—wwhat-hate-ver y-y-ou are talking abo-ut s-ssis” Ipos wakes in the grip of the vines, “B-but t-ttru-e c-cold stones a-are- terr-ib-ble tha-n-an rotte-n a-apples. W-w-waar-my campfire cc-c-annot b-bbe b-uilt- here...”
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“Campfires cannot be built you fool!” Sister suddenly arguing, “You make it with the mates around you! You can build its pits and whatnot. But you can never, build campfire without the mates”
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“Yy-y-you -a-aa-re the one wh-oo0 o-rde-red h--him to- bu--ild a- cc-c-ampfire”
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“OH, what A fooLIsH BrOTHeRRR I have. No, I’ve never said it.”
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“HA! Y-y-you- h-h-jest, ly-ing to0- y-o-ur ow-n t-t-tongue like tta-that.”
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‘She really never did though’, Isaac thinks, stuck in between their conversation with cold sticks in hand “Uhm…” Dropping the sticks at the center of everyone.
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“M-m-my -tt-turn” Ipos inhales deeply, making sure his chest is fully protruded before exhaling with whistling lips. The air farthest of him sparks embers then blazes flames. Burning the sticks Isaac huddled together.
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“Now that is a fire! Now make us a proper floor”
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Which Ipos easily does so with a singly tap of his feet, rising the ground beneath them and turning the muddy soil to a comfortable stone that fluffs like cotton. Zephyr releases his brother and Isaac wonder if it is alright but Ipos does not seem to look like he woud run away. Mira, who is now on his lap, continues to remain silent.
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“Hmm, some cottonmallows should be good.” Bending her fingers for white balls to grow out with sticks from the vines. Ipos plucks one and burns the white tips and encouraging Isaac to do so, saying that it is edible. “Hmph! All my bearings are healthy and edible so you know”
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The boy hesitates at first but he takes one for another to grow out from where he plucked. Amazing, at the same time, feeling as if these two aren’t slowly losing their sanity. He glazes his cottonmallow and takes a huffy warm bite. Mmmmn~ a warming embrace that he never felt in a long time hugs him tightly. “It’s sweet and so good!”
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“Good, Good! Help yourselves!” Zephyr makes sure that vibrant leaves and flora surrounds them, easing her chest and so is Ipos’s who now has two cottonmallows in hand. Letting the fire click through the branches and sticks, its light warms their faces. But the cold mist still shrouds them and their bodies hunch forward or leaning back with a support, knowing its timely night exhaustion. “This situation is out of my head” Zephyr sighs as she watches her cottonmallow glazes golden, “The morn was perfect for my cooking and brewing when all of a sudden, we are here, outside in the cold and separated.”
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“W-w-we wi-lll f-f-find b-brother and e-elder s-sister s-sis”
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“Of course, they will be found” Munching and grilling another, “But the thought of how quickly it led us to now. Reminds me of something that I cannot remember.”
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“M-m-me to—oo. B-but, t-t-that is—al-l i-in the p-past n-now I—I—am s-s-sure…” not sounding perfectly sure,
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But good enough for the sister to smile reassuringly, “I am sure though that we have never been like this. Nor had this.”
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“T-t-tru-e!”
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“My memory is still perfectly clear of recent events, though I cannot be sure if they are fabricated but I know myself.” Stoking and feeding the fire with more wood by the fling of her fingers, “Every night is spent on writing an entry. Real writes hers on the roof, Haures outside, You underneath the bed, and I on the bed. Before heading under the bedsheets and waking to another day where a mist sprite will be holding our journals. Its instructions repeated on keeping the journals safe otherwise we will all be in danger and the mist sprite will not help us. We would then spend an hour or two reading our entries, except for Brother Haures who walks out earlier than the rest of us. Where and why would he?”
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“B-b-bro w-w-want-s t-totto s-spar.”
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“Warmonger in his quietness. But yes, we never had any chance for a moment like this. And having them both now would be perfect.” Blooming fragrant roses by the sides of the flame, reassuring everyone that they will not burn, and rather, they will release a prettier scent when burnt, “I really cannot help but feel familiar of this moment. Though I am sure that we never had done this before…What about you boy? Have you ever done something similar? I already know the answer but please do tell for the fools around”
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“I—I-I am—n-not a f-f-ool!”
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Isaac ponders on what memories he has of a campfire which he tells them about Ishka and the Ferlin caravan he and the lord magister met during their travels. Intriguing both the children into having Isaac tell his entire story. Starting first with how he woke up in a cocoon of darkness---as what the lord magister described, and that cocoon of darkness are Merry and Bell.
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“Are they like Nautrens?” Zephy asks,
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“I am not sure, but I think they are at the same time I do not. Lord magister said that they are bound by markings similar to how daemons would be to a person.”
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“Interesting individual!”
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“D-d-d-da-aemons? I—I am –no=not s=sure w=what tt-the-y ar-e”
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“Me too” And Isaac continues telling his tale about how Ober easily made him the lord magister’s personal servant. He goes wherever the lord magister goes and when he stays around Kinguin castle, he is asked to work as a mair but only to the lord magister. Then he tells them about how they met Ishka. Along their way of repairing the continental barriers, they met with a group of Ferlins who were being harassed by bandits.
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The kind lord magister helped them against the bandits and even escorted them to the kingdoms they have to visit. It extended the time he had to repair the barriers, sure, but Isaac did not mind nor did the high royals of the other kingdom who does not wish to bother themselves with the lord magister’s works. Every night, they would set campfire and tell stories from distant lands.
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The lord magister tells his own tales and Isaac himself learn a lot. Then, on the final night they had to escort them on King’s Road, they celebrated amongst each other for the successful trades, most especially to the lord magister and Isaac. “And it was fun. They were all fun nights and I got to learn many things from them. Now too with you two. I did not expect that the children of the marsh existed or that there is really something in the foggy marsh. And that they were all not made-up stories.”
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“Of course, we are all real” Zephyr nods with Ipos nodding after her, “Oh how I wish we can hear from those two! Even though I am perfectly capable of solitude. It would still be best to have enemies around a fire and listen to the stories and drama.”
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“S-s-sis is a—d-dra-ama---w-who—r-e”
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“H-how dare you use your stuttering and call me a whore! Also, that word is a bit much for that brain of yours. Where did you learn it from?”
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“W-w-we-ll, f-fro-m b-big-b-bro…”
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“Gosh that Haures, He may be the quiet type but he is closest to the devil among us. And here I thought silence means angels.”
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“T=t-tha-at is—j-just t-t-ttwi-sted…”
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“How so?” Isaac asks,
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“Oh, do not,” says the sister who has eaten more than fifty cottonmallows, “He was just saying his mind,”
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“N-n-o! T-tt-thi-s is a-a t-truth. F-f-rom b-big b-bro.” Ipos stands and unlike his sister, he makes boisterous gestures, “Sil-ence s-should not b-be s-silent be-cause the-y—are m-messengers. T-they should be no-isy, and tell t-telling everyone a-about n-news f-from hea-ven”
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And the three chat more about their own concepts about the world, talking about Nautrens, the flora and fauna around the marsh. How Ipos is always being blamed for the weird landforms, the ashes on Haures and strange objects that you would not see in the marsh being there because of Real. They continue talking on for more than thirty minutes and Zephyr notices Mira.
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but then there is the bunny, “Do bunnies not eat?”
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Mira looks up and finally speaks, “This bunny does not, and keep pretending beasts, Mira can always tell and will not fond around you.”
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“Woahhh woahhhhh Tt-t-tha--hat b-b-bunny is s-s-s-picyy~”
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“Not threatened” Zephyr helps herself more with a mouthful of cottonmellows. “Isaac, what does that bunny eat? Grass, meat or cannibal?”
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Isaac says, “Ah, I mean cannibal might be a bit too much but I do not really know what she eats…”
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“Truly?”
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The boy nods, affirming to himself as well that she does not know much about Mira. Other than feeling that she must have saved her from the underground plateau.
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“I—I t-tthou-ght th-ese t-wo a-re f-rie-nds s-is.”
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Zephyr sighs, “Some things are best believed only with the eyes.”
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Then, 30 minutes passed, at least, 30 minutes should have already past the third hour since they lost their journals. Isaac watches both of them closely which the two feel his stare and ask him not to and assuring the boy that they are still themselves and are they?
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True that they still act like themselves but, with a lot more stories to tell. Stories about beasts he has never heard off, lands in Kinguin that he never thought about of having special history like villages that were once the lands ‘they’ won victory on, and people whom he has never heard of being heroes. They have lots to share and Isaac finds himself wanting to know specifically about the lord magister, “If you know him of course”
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“Ober Vanderhawk? Of course, we know that mugwort who always shut himself in his room and only going out when it is time for meals.”
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“I even made him a house In the far borders for his rest stops when he made the border. So, U-ungrateful of him to say that he never u-uses it.”
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Rest houses along the borders…Isaac recalls, “Bandits lived there.”
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“THE AUDACITY!”
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“Now, now, calm your horses even though you’ve never ridden one. Calm yourself” Zephyr tells him to calm yet she follows up with, “Useless”
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“GAH! MY MAKINGS ARE NEVER USELESS THEY ARE AS GOOD AS THE BEST TOOLS OR SWORDMATES THERE EVER IS IN T-THE LAND!”
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“But that mugwort never used it! Well, how do you even know that boy?”
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“I’m his servant. I follow him around”
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“Ah…a slave”
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“D-don’t mean it a bad way bro, sis just means a good kind of slave.”
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“Why slaves now have order now? Good and Bad slaves? What nonsense. Slaves are slaves. But for real you are a slave to him? I find it hard to imagine someone like him to be asking around.”
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“Well…” Isaac tries to recall for himself, to the very beginning where he woke up in a riverbank and Ober found him. Telling his story to the siblings, as well as Mira who is tilting her bunny ears. “The lord magister found me by the riverbanks of Micelea and he took me in without asking for anything.”
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“He took you in!? Not asking you anything!? Gods, that mugwort would ask an entire castle for him to even get out of his rathole.”
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“S-sis shush”
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Isaac proceeds to tell them a short summary of his tale with Ober, how he manages to serve as a Mair in Kinguin castle and becoming his personal servant, assistant and apprentice.
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“WILD! That rat made progress in socializing.”
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“Uhm, Kinguin, is that a p-place?”
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“Yes,” Isaac unsurely nods, “Why do you ask?”
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“Well for one, we’ve never heard of it really. Second is how is Ober the magister of that unknown kingdom?”
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“Huh? It’s the best and glorious capital of Cyndoryll!”
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“C-Cyndoryll! That I know. I-It’s our mother continent.”
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“Yes, but you two never knew about Kinguin?” Isaac questions which the two naked children of the marsh shake their heads. “Ah—you should! Kinguin is the capital and strongest kingdom of Cyndoryll.”
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“Huh…really? I’ve only known that mugwort living in the purple castle. So, he now lives in this Kinguin?”
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“Yes! The lord magister has even been serving there for who knows how long! Many years probably because when I came in, everyone treated him as if he is also a king.”
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“That did happen…”
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“D-did it?”
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“I can’t believe you two do not know the lord magister!”
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“PREPOSTEROUS! We’ve known Ober since Eric and Yenniren have been scheming about their baby names! You know, Ober Vanderhawk is also the name of Eric’s great great great grandfather!”
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“How g-great was he sis?”
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“So great probably”
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“Woahh, you go that far back?”
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“Even farther! Hehe, it’s making me feel uplifting Ipos, strange”
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“M-me too…It’s making me feel p-prideful.”
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“You two are crazy old old!”
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“GAHKK!” And both got knocked down as if a boulder named crazy old old was thrown at them. And Zephyr proposes to them that they should just sleep and carry-on next morning. Which Ipos ask, “W-what? W-w--what a-re w-e -going t-o d-o n-n-n-e-x-xt m-orning?”
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“You guys forgot already?” Isaac still being in the high of earlier, “We’re going to find Real and Haures.”
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And why would they need to find those two? Ask their expressions as they both look at each other and glance down at Is!aac who immediately went to snoring as soon as he laid down his head,
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“He is a strange boy, isn’t he?”
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“I—I feel li-ke we are f-or-getting so-me-thing s-s-is…”
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“Like a memory? Isn’t that their fault?”
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“M-maybe that is why this kid is asking us to find elder Real and general Haures.”
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“I commend him though for mentioning their first names easily.”
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“Normal Hemreans would have fainted or bit off their tongue trying to. A-and, what’s up with this thick fog?”
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“It’s really not going anywhere huh…”
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Suddenly, both jump up to stand as if they felt a predator behind them. But it is just Mira, the bunny—with a bloody hungry eye. “You’ve shown yourselves, finally.”
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“What’s wrong with this bunny?”
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“I-is it a sprite?”
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“Unlikely with how we felt just now.”
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“Mind you beasts” Mira starts, “I will slay you all once I regain back my form. And you will all pay for what you did to mother!”
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“D—Did we somehow hunt its burrows?”
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“How preposterous of us to do so. Must be just a kingdom soldier.”
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“Don’t think that others are to blame! Every beast is to blame for Mother’s suffering. Every beast should pay! Her solitude iis Mira’s guilt and Mira will make sure to bring her a performance to look forward to!”
“H-huh…This bunny is hexed.”
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“By whoever must be?”
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“Elder Real”
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“Welllp,” Zephyr leans down to the bunny, “Your revenge might be put on a raincheck until the elder reverts you back.”
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“HUH! I can revert myself in a few hours or so! Just Watch!”
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“F-for real s-sis. This bunny has elder Real’s magic. S-so…if she does, then this two are real. W-we are back!”
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“Yes, we are and that is no time for celebration for I’m sure we only need to find those god damn journals to keep ourselves sane.”
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“Oh wait, the c-cure is not yet lifted?”
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“Haven’t felt safe since the moment I woke up. We are still bound Ipos. And maybe it is really best to find Elder Real and General Haures first.”
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Ipos nods before turning to the bunny and then kneeling in front of the bunny.
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“Gods, just sleep already.”
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“I—I wanted to show this bunny who is in charge. I—I don’t want it to hurt Ober’s slave.”
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“Heh, what are you going to do with that tiny dick of yours?”
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BAM the entire mist around them clears for the first time and Mira rolls back, observing Ipos’s eyes glow entirely blue and then, the murky pools are rising into towering waters pointing at the moon which Ipos looks up and utter silent words, a comet passes by it. Not a coincidental one, but hundreds or even thousands of them, gliding across the night sky of Cyndoryll in different sizes and colors. Mira’s eyes are wide open to see how capable the youngest among the children of the marsh is, which only gets her furs stand up and fangs baring.
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Meanwhile, Real is still in the marsh, wondering why she has not already left. Her head aches and her steps stagger as she keeps herself breathinig. “I have to rest…” she tells herself and stops at a rock boulder. She taps the rock, imagining it to turn into a simple house which is does so in less than seconds. She sleeps inside, unknown to her of the monster that follows her. But the girl immediately falls into a dream and the rock boulder suddenly changes into multiple indescribable forms every second. The wolf monster that is chasing her sees the her inside the boulder, sleeping peacefully. Which the hungry wolf leaps towards her but ends up bloody shredded without knowing what happened.
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While Haures is also looking for real. “The others’ notebooks are not in the hut…” He keeps repeating to himself, and hitting himself to stay awake. “The Journals are not in the hut…not in the hut!” Turning ashes to wherever he goes, screaming out loud like the shadowy lochness watching him and the other children closely.
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