-Break-
Φ Standing outside of Yamal’s house, I take a sed to look at it. The house is rather nicely built, but to be ho I haven’t seen a bad house at all in Jedidiah. They are all fairly big, and all of the bigger ones I have seen always have more people living in them, it seems house size is equally distributed with family size.
This try is really well run, but I could say the same about Maples Vilge of Aplos and even Skydust, I guess small unities are just a lot easier to run.
Walking towards Yamal's door with the bag of goodies, I knod stand there awkwardly for a moment as I hear Yamal’s footsteps bring him closer to the door. The moment he opens the door, I say, “Sorry about yesterday,” while holding up the bags of goodies.
Giving me a death stare, Yamal says with a zy voice, “e on in bastard.”
I expected him to be angrier, it seems this is going well!
Following him into his house, I see his daughter Raqiue walk up to him and ask with a bright smile, “Baba who is this, is he your friend!?”
Without emotion, he says, “No he isn’t. Now go get his shoes for him.”
“OK!”
Running up to me, she says, “Let me help you!”
“Don’t worry, I hahis myself.”
As I take off my shoes, I say, “Your hair is sort of messy, would you like me to do it for you?”
Raqiue with her fuzzy hair says, “I left it like this on purpose, I thought I might be able to get Baba to do it for me today.” As she talks she fiddles with her finger as if she is some protagonist trying to fess her love.
Yamal says, with a cold tone, “Don’t be a child, I know you do it yourself so just go get on with it.”
With all her shyness being exged with raw energy, she turns around and says, “Of course Baba!”
After I take off my shoes, I follow both of them into what looks like a kit. While inside, I take another look around and I hat the house is spacious, I guess these houses don’t only look good from the outside, but also great from the inside.
“There are excess dishes go wash them.”
Joyfully, Raqiue says, “Yes Baba!”
Looking over at the dishes it is only one or two ptes, but looking at this also leads me to notice that this house is incredibly . Though it reeks of alcohol.
Walking over to a table, Yamal says, “Sit your ass down, boy.”
“R-Right.”
Sitting down in front of Yamal with the sound of Raqiue washing dishes and humming, he says with a furious gre, “You do know what you did to me yesterday?”
Smming my head into the table, I say, “I am so sorry!”
“Do you even know the embarrassment I faced by being tied up naked out in the open!”
“In the bag, I returned your clothes washed and dried.”
“But you know what bothers me even more than that, the fact that the man who beat me up is now the guest of our king and is wearing rather fancy clothes!”
As his voice starts to get louder he snaps his fingers and moments ter Raqiue runs to his side and gives him a bottle of liquor. Chugging it dowarts to cry and says, “This isn’t fair at all, I deserve pensation for my abuse.”
While he tio cry Raqiue pces tissues right beside him as she goes back to what she was doing.
“But didn’t all the others I beat up accept the king's apology and move on.”
“I AM AN OLD MAN, the damage I take from such things ’t be pared to such children.”
“Well, it seems the king thought so too, so here is your pensation,” I say holding up the bag of goodies.
As he opens it a blinding golden light emanates from the bag, which causes Yamal to smile.
How much did Ahmed give him!?
Closing the bag, the light leaves as Yamal says with a merry face, “Is there anything else for me?”
Is he really asking for something else, after receiving all that? “Well, brother asked me to tell you something.”
“Then go ahead and spit it out already.”
“He said, “Behave Yamal I felt the s reag yesterday.””
Looking at Yamal’s face it starts to look lifeless, but moments ter he says, “I see.”
Trying to ge the awkward mood in the room, I say, “Sorry if what I said upset you, to be ho, I don’t know what he meant by that but if you uand it, I guess there is no problem.”
Opening the bag he takes a small bit of gold and pces it at his side then says, “Alright time to gamble, get your ass moving you’re ing with me.”
Shaking my head from side to side I say, “I don’t know the first thing about gambling.”
“Don’t worry you're only ing so that people will let down their guard, Now get on your feet and follow me.”
As we walk to the door, Raqiue says, “Baba.”
Devoid of aion, Yamal says, “What is it?”
“Would you be able to take me to see tonight’s story?”
“Why would I do that, aren’t you capable of going yourself?”
Fidgeting, she says, “I just thought it would be fun to watch it together.”
“Ok then, I will as long as you guess the story that will be told today.”
“But there is an 0.0099009901% e getting it correct.”
Turning to her I say, “You break down fas to pertages at such a young age, how wonderful.”
As she smiles back at me, Yamal says, “Looks like someone’s being a smart ass.”
“Sorry, Baba.”
Annoyed, Yamal says, “Don’t apologize it's annoying.”
“Sorry, Baba.”
Letting out a sigh, Yamal says in an irritated voice, “Well whatever, but my ditions won’t ge so you better pray to god that you get it right.”
“OK!”
“Now repeat the rules to me.”
With glee, she says, “Don’t py with fire, don’t let anyone in, and don’t touch the bottles. And if in trouble run first ask questions ter!”
“Good now, let’s go.”
As we walk out the door Raqiue says, “Bye Baba!”
Putting his hand up as he walks away, he waves to her not even looking at her.
“Are you sure it is ok to just leave her alone here?”
“She is 5 years old, basically an adult, she take care of herself. But now let’s talk about something iing, why are you here.”
“It is actually nothing important, I think it would be more iing for you to tell me about yourself.”
Suddenly an aura ance fills the air as Yamal starts joyfully talking zealously about himself. “You see when I was born into a crappy small vilge without a name, so instead of rotting there like an idiot I went out to and because a hunter!”
As he tio go on for what seems like a never-ending story, I say, “CRAP!”
“What’s the issue?”
“It seems I left something back at your house.”
“Well then go grab it quickly.”
Turning around, I run back to his house at full speed, “To think I fot those nice shoes I was given.” The clet to the house the more I smell something strange, “Fire?”
Using my legay legs, I dash towards the house and open the door then I run into their kit to see Raqiue messing with something on the floor.
As she turns and faces me a fire ignites, so I lunge forward and create ice to protect us both as an explosion goes off.
Rec from the blow with Raqiue in my arms, I hear her say, “That was fu’s do it again!”
“What the hell are you doing?”
“I got bored so I thought I would try a sce experiment. My teacher gave me some equipment from school!”
“He should be fired!”
“I know what I am doing!”
“Didn’t your dad tell you not to py with fire?”
With a face of i fusion, she says, “Why would I listen to that!?”
Is this just how kids are, “Capti I am sorry.”
“Let’s do it again!”
“No, we won't be doing any such thing yoing to sit here and behave.”
“Pouting she says, “But I get so bored and lonely! If only I could e with you and Baba.”
“Not a ce.”
Pouting even more she says, “Please!”
“Don’t give me that face.”
Getting as cute as possibly be she says, “Please, I promise to be good.”
“Ok.”
“YAY!”
“I couldn’t fight the ess.”
“I need a disguise.”
Scratg my , I say, “Well let’s go get you sorted out.”
Running back over to Yamal standing outside the o, Raqiue says, “Won’t dad see through this bad disguise?”
“Trust me he won’t.”
“Walking over to Yamal he says, “What you got there!?”
“Oh, it's my teddy.”
Letting out a ugh, Yamal says, “What kind of adult has a teddy!”
As he ughs at me Raqiue says, “He really didn’t notice.”
“With the way he has been drinking, I would be surprised if he could even tell up from dht now.”
Walking in Yamal says, “What’s taking you so long hurry up.”
“I’m ing!”
-Break-
Φ “Cyrus over there is Khalid's shop. It is over 1200 years old.”
“That’s n-n-n-not that long.”
“I agree, but by human standards, it is one of the oldest shops in their history.”
“The human n-n-n-ations are strange.”
“They sure are, but for someone like you who has been travelling around a lot it probably feels familiar.”
This is my pressive Pari, “E-E-Exactly, I deal with all the human s.”
Walking up to Khalid’s shop full of fidence, I say, “ I please have three of those meat skewers.” No stutters, I am doing good!
Suddenly Khalid has a rather angry look on his face, and says, “Get out of my face!”
In that instant, all of my fidence fades and I start to shake out ht.
Walking up behind me my sister grabs my head and repositions it, “Cyrus raising your when asking for something here is seen as a sign of disrespect.”
Fag him, Pari says, “Sorry Khalid, I please have three of those.”
“No issue Pari.”
After my sister finishes her transa, I sit down on a bench with her and wallow in my failure.
“It is ok Cyrus; you shouldn’t push yourself above your limits just for me.”
“I-I-I just wao help.”
“Don’t worry, I don’t in the slightest from you.”
“But how are you so well versed in this, what have you even been doing all these years?”
“Well, I have goo and from many different pces, until are amazing king brought me here. He really saved my life,” my sister says with a smile.
Frowning even more, I hear something ing towards my sister, so I stretch my hand out to catch the object. “It’s a ball.”
“Looks like it was kicked over from the game they were having.”
“T-T-They should be more careful.”
“Don’t worry Cyrus it is not like it will hurt me.”
“But s-s-s-s-ister you're really weak, when I was a child you lost to me in arm wrestling all the time.”
“I guess, I did.”
“Sorry Pari,” A kid says as he runs up to us.
“Don’t worry about it, I was in no danger.”
“Who is this man?”
“Oh, he is my younger brother.”
“So, he is another dragon?”
“Exactly.”
“Then would you two like to join over arm wrestling tour?”
“Sounds like fu’s go, Cyrus.”
Following my sister, I see her sit down on a chair fag a rather muscur man, who says, “I won’t go easy on you dy Pari.”
“Same here,” My sister says as she takes off some jewellery on her fingers.
“Sister be careful, he looks strong.”
As the both of them get into their starting positions I being to panic, will she be ok?
“3, 2, 1, BEGIN!”
In an instant, my sister smashes his hand straight down through the table.
“WINNER, Paribanou!”
As cheers fill the area with people running over to my sister, I notice hoy she looks. I don’t remember her ever being this happy around me.
