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The Path of Destiny - The Blue Moon Ch 12.

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It was the same house from which flew the strange thing. And what was it? She looked toward Selim. Still lying on the ground. Probably he was unconscious. Next to him was a large metal bowl. It looked heavy and solidly. She hoped it didn´t break his legs. Then she turned her gaze to the strange shadow behind the house. Figure began to appear from the dark corners of the house and with a graceful step approached the motionless body. It was also werecat. Well, werecat lady. She had dark tabby fur that glistened in the sun. Her black hair hung to her shoulders. She stopped a few steps behind Selim. Bright green eyes studied him. As if it was an unknown creature that she had never seen before. After a moment she straightened and folded her hands on her hips.

„Well, well, little brother.“ she said finally. „Hope you didn´t get hurt?“ Her voice was pleasant, but the tone was literally dripping with sarcasm and superiority. Selim´s ears twitched. He lifted a little bit. In his head it was buzzing as in a hive. He supported himself by one hand and with the second he was rubbing the top of his head to dispel the pain that had throbbed sharply. He looked ahead. His sight was blurry and everything revolved around him.

´I guess I hit a rock.´ He felt, like to his hand, which he rubbed his head, clung warm blood. He slowly stood up and turned to the werecat lady that majestically towered over him. Compared to her Selim looked small and helpless. Selim wanted to straighten to equalize the height difference, but he was so out of the balance that he had to crouch down to avoid falling. He shook his head in an attempt to correct distortion of the senses. Later he found out that it was a mistake. He had seen even worse and surroundings rippled faster. Fortunately, he was so conscious that he could think rationally. He slowly looked around. He found nothing that would help him. His eyes settled on werecat lady in front of him. She stood still and watched Selim in amusement. He tried to focus on her but everything was still blurred. He couldn´t recognize her. The shape of the face, her features. Her voice was familiar, but he heard her only briefly. And because of the buzzing he didn´t catch a lot of it. All the thinking started to give him a headache. He turned his gaze to the ground. He needed a dull background, so he won´t wobble so much. In a corner of his eye he noticed a small beige spot a little bit on the left from the werecat lady. For a while he looked puzzled, but then he realized.

´This is my bundle, which I packed. I had to drop it. She probably hasn´t noticed. If I´ll be fast, I can pick it up before she did, and then disappear. I can handle it.´

But as soon as he made a step, his knees buckled and he fell to the ground.

„Shucks.” he cursed quietly. ´So that went wrong.´ An acerbic laugh split the air. Werecat lady walked slowly to the small bundle. Selim wanted to stop her, shout at her, get up and take his bundle. But nothing worked. His body didn´t want to listen. He tried to get up, when she stopped again in front of him.

´If I straighten, I´ll just fall. For now I have to stay down.´ He realized. So he stood at four. He straddles a little more to maintain better stability. When he looked up, she waved the bundle in front of his snout. Selim wanted to reach out and grab it from her, but as soon as he raised his hand, he staggered. So he quickly dropped it down to keep from falling.

´There has been enough of those falls.´ He said to himself. The werecat lady laughed again.

„You're really hilarious, Selim, I must admit. You'd be an excellent jester.“ These two sentences were enough. He knew with whom he was dealing. He forced himself to words.

„Give me that, Lal!“ He wanted to shout, but it was barely audible.

“Sorry, I didn´t hear it. Did you say something?“ she said innocently. He felt an incredible rage. On the humiliation he was used, it would not bother him. But why she goes so far to cripple him? He had also got hit from her, but it's never been so serious. He hadn´t done anything wrong, had he?

„Give me that, Lal!“ Now his voice was carried through the village.

„Come on. This is not how you talk with your sister.“ she said disappointedly.

Eunis startled covered her mouth. Arian was also taken aback. ´A sister? Seriously now she said she is his sister? So, why she is hurting him?´

Lal spoke again.

„If you really want it so much, come and get it.“ Selim knew he had no choice. He really needed his things and she knew it. Without maps he would get lost, without a compass he wouldn´t find the right direction. Carefully he straightened. When he stood firmly on the ground, he clenched his fists and prepared to fight. Again that her laughter.

„So you want to fight?“ she said in amusement. „You know you can´t hit a girl.“ she said gently, almost in maternal tone. When she saw that her words had no effect to him, she dropped the bundle on the ground and a came few steps closer. Her hands were loosely at your sides.

„Do as you think.“ she said softly.

Selim was terribly annoyed by her feeling of untouchability, that literally emanated from Lal. He wanted to grab that feeling from her. Scatter her that she would be surprised that she would be confused and don´t know what to do next. That he might be the one who has the upper hand. He extended his hand. He wanted to hit her with his fist. He almost succeeded, if hadn´t been so out of the balance. He was outweighed. He missed. She didn´t even need to dodge. She used the moment when he was bewildered and slapped him. She slashed him in the left side of his face. Selim stepped back, startled. He automatically covered his injured face. From beneath his fingers he felt warm blood.

´Shucks! He scolded himself. ´Shucks, shucks, shucks. You moron! Look to pull yourself together!´ Lal still stood there and stared at her red-colored claws. As if she hasn´t seen the blood before. On her face was created a spiteful smile.

„See? I told you this is not how you talk to your sister.” she said in a surprisingly deep and calm voice. „I guess I'll have to give a lesson in manners.”

Selim began to slowly back away. Startled, he looked at her, his hand still covering wounds. He didn´t like it. Not at all, he didn´t like it. He had a bad feeling.

´This won´t end well. I gotta get out, and fast.´ He turned around and wanted to run, but his legs were trembling. Before he knew it, he was lying on his stomach and on his shoulders he felt her weight. She sat on his back and hesitates what she would do with him. Selim, meanwhile, tried to figure out a way to get out of it. Until she sat on him, he couldn´t really move. He must force her to stand. But how? He tried to rewind to the side. Maybe he would manage to throw her off. It was a futile effort. Lal completely pinned him to the ground and Selim was already exhausted. He felt his hands shaking. The surroundings were no longer revolving, but it was still blurry. Suddenly, a dull ache went through his head. Lal hit him in the back of the head. And then again. And again. Selim heavily clenched his teeth to keep from screaming. He won´t make her the joy to hear him scream. At least this not. The surroundings before his eyes began to darken. Pounding has stopped. Lal stopped. She slowly stood up. Selim could finally breathe properly. Sharply she turned him and nearly took his breath away. She grabbed him by the collar of his vest and held him in front of her eyes.

„So. Now you hopefully learned how to behave towards older siblings. Brother.“ she added virulently. Selim didn´t perceive. He knew that she was saying something, but he didn´t understand her. He was tired and wanted to sleep. Lal's grip loosened and Selim slumped to the ground. Last time she looked at him, then turned and walked away.

The Path of Destiny - The Blue Moon Ch 2.

“Eunis! Wake up! You have some visitor.” Erin shouted.

“Alright, alright. I´m up.” she answered and quickly enmeshed her hair. She opened the door.

“Good morning. Are you ready for unveiling the altar?” Arian was standing in the door and has a soft smile on his face. Eunis nodded and let him lead her to near glade. There was a lot others elves. Some decorated their homes others turn hung up trees in various ribbons. There were a lot of colors. Some elves were trying to transport really big thing to the middle of the glade. It was about 2, 5 meters high and covered with blanket.

“What is that?” Eunis asked curiously.

“You´ll see. Just wait a bit.”

It took a lot of time to move the thing to its place. But finally, it was placed. The blanket slightly shivered. Suddenly the wind started rise. Eunis looked up on Arian. He had closed eyes and he breathed slowly, it looks like he breathes in the same rhythm as the wind.

“Hey, are you ok?” she asked him. Arian flinched.

“What? Did you say something?” He looked confused.

“Nothing… I just want to know what it is.”

“Don´t worry. They´ll take the off blanket soon.” There was silence. Everyone looked up on the strange thing. The main headman came and had a speech. A pretty long speech. He spoke in their immemorial language. Each tribe had its own immemorial language. Eunis was still learning it so she didn´t understand everything. And the headman spoke fast and he mumbled. It sounded like prayer to the Goddess… Mynai?

´Great. Now I don´t know her name.´ Eunis told herself. The headman spoke faster and faster. Then he turned and pulls off the blanked. In the sunlight there stood enormous statue. It was wonderful elf woman. She had long loose hair. Her dress was longer than pedestal on which she stood. They were simple, but magnificent. They were encrusted with tiny glittering rhinestones. Perhaps diamonds. Around her waist she had a thin belt from the vines with leaves. The statue was made from grey stone. Her face was calm and somewhat had pensive look. In one hand she held an oddly shaped stick. It looked like braided branch, which had a head branched into a kind of star. In the middle was set a relatively large crystal. From each angle it had a different color. In her other hand she held a large book. On the cover was a round hole. Perhaps there was a stone, but it probably already dropped out. Around her neck was suspended smaller round necklace decorated with an odd character.

“Mykénai.” Eunis whispered. Arian gave her astonishing look.

“How do you know this?”

“I know her. I already saw her, but I don´t know where or when.”

The headman started speaks again. Now it was shorter and more understandable. He was talking about the ceremony. It has to begin before sunset. It must be done properly in order to protect our village from… God… Mordred?

´Mordred. Weird name. But it´s oddly familiar.´ Eunis was confused. In the end the headman say goodbye with traditional greeting. He crossed his arms over his chest, bowed and gestured to leave. Eunis he wanted to leave, but Arian stopped her.

“How do you know her? Nobody has seen her more like thousand years ago. How is it even possible?”

“I have no idea.” Eunis didn´t know what to think.

“EUNIS! Where are you?! You didn´t eat your breakfast yet. Come back home NOW!” Erin shouted over the whole forest. Eunis winced.

“Sorry. I must go or else I am in trouble.” she smiled weakly.

“That´s alright. I´ll see you later.”

When Eunis came home she found a bowl with fresh fruits and juice of forest berries on table. Erin wasn´t here. It was really tasty and it lifted her mood. After breakfast she went to her room.

´Ok…´ she told herself. ´You saw a statue of someone who you saw for the first time in your life and you know her? And not to mention that she have been gone more than thousand years. This is weird even for me. Come on. From where do you know her? I need to talk about it with someone. But who? Oh, man. She would think I am crazy.´ Eunis went to the kitchen and looked around. She found Erin cleaning the table.

“Aunt Erin, can I ask you something?”

“Of course, dear. What do you need to know?” she said giving Eunis soothing smile.

´Ok. How do I put this?´

“How did I get to our village?” Eunis asked carefully.

“Do you really want to know it?” her smile was gone. She frowned and her voice was cold. Eunis slowly nodded regretting her question, but she has to know. Maybe it has connection with the Goddess.

“As you wish. It was ten years ago. I went with others to the forest looking for some food. The winter was coming closer. We went deep to the woods. We almost crossed the border of our and Cornwood forest. Then we found debris of one small village. It was terrifying. Not a soul anywhere. Grass was burned, trees were charred, things were strewn across the ground and the wind was blowing through destroyed walls. It was dead quiet. We were about to leave but suddenly I heard weak crying. We followed this tiny voice and we found little girl sitting in the corner of one house.” Erin posed and looked Eunis into her sapphire eyes.

“That little girl was you.”

Eunis bewilderedly gasped. “M-me?”

“Yes, you.” Erin said calmly. “You had similar dresses like today. And that necklace is also from that place/time.”

Eunis ran her fingers over pendant in the shape of tear made from the grinded blue topaz, swinging on a silver chain.

“We felt sorry for you so we took you with us to the village. It took a long time to decide who will get you in charge. In the end they chose me because you refused to go with anyone else. I christened Eunis, which, as you know, mean ´found´. You haven´t told us your real name. Probably you forgot it in all the confusion. Since then I sew you the same clothes, and raise you as my own daughter. That is all. Anything else?"

“No, thank you. That´s enough.” Eunis was too confused to ask something else.

“That´s a good girl.” said Erin and she returned to cleaning. Suddenly Eunis overheard knocking on the door.

“I´ll get it.” Eunis blurted. When she opened the door Arian was smiling at her.

“Oh… Hi. What brings you here?”

“I want to show you something. Come on.” he waved his hand to follow him.

“Sure.”

Arian led her through the forest. It was obvious that Arian knew the way well or else they´ve got lost. The forest was pretty deep. After long time they finally stopped.

“Wait here for a moment. I´ll be right back.” Arian left Eunis at the edge of dense forest. In front of her was small clearing. It was fascinating. Green grass has been quilted with small flowers of various colors. It looked like a soft carpet. The air was filled with sweet scent. Eunis never seen place like this.

“This is AWESOME. How did you find it here?”

Arian was kneeling in front of one bush on the other side of the clearing.

“I just found it when I wandered around the forest. Almost there…”

Eunis wondered what he was doing. After a while he stood up and went back to Eunis, holding something in his arms. When he got closer she realized that he was holding tiny animal. It was green ball of fur with long ears and bushy tail, both adorned with dark stripes. Big brown eyes looked around fearfully. It was little Morphix.

“Aw… It´s adorable. It helped you to find this place?”

“Well… Kinda. I found him about a year ago. I found out that he was alone so I made him company. Every evening he returned here to hide to the bushes until the morning. We became really good friends, but something happened and he is always scared now. It looks like I scare him and I don´t know why. I am not good with animals and I thought that maybe you are. Can you help me?”

Eunis nodded. “Let’s see what I can do.”

She closely examined the small fur ball. At the first sight it looked to be alright, but then she noticed small cuts and strangely bent right front leg. Eunis carefully took plush paw in the hand. She had to avoid sharp claws.

“Careful! They are tiny but really sharp. Trust me.” Arian warned her.

“Yeah, I know. I just forgot it. So… this is young Morphix. It´s female because it has green fur. Males are more like brown. I suppose she is about two years old. And if you look closely you can see small cuts and strangely bent right front leg. It looks on fracture. She maybe fell from tree to some thorny bush, I guess. We´ve got to clean the cuts and fixate the leg.”

Arian was patting small animal on head.

“Ok. So… It´s a girl, huh? What should we name her?” Arian thought for a moment than he shrugged. “Nothing I can think of. And what about you?”

Eunis looked into big brown eyes.

“Karmisha.” she said simply.

“Karmisha?”

“Yep, Karmisha. This was the second suggestion of my name. Eunis means ´found´ and Karmisha ´adopted´. It seemed like a good idea to me. What do you say?”

“I think it´s genial. But we rather go now. We need to take care of her.”

On their way home they discussed different possibilities of Karmisha´s treatment. In the end they agreed that they´ll spread her paw with an extract of Borthensis, which was local medicinal herb, and they´ll fixate the leg with splints and bandages. When they returned to her house, Erin blocked the door.

“Where were you?! I was looking for you everywh… What on earth is it?!” Erin yelped and shakily pointed at Karmisha.

“It´s Karmisha.” Eunis explained.

“She is my friend and she is hurt. She needs a treat.” Arian added.

“No way! I will not tolerate any wild animals in my house. It could bring here flees or who knows what else.” Erin refused to let them in.

“Karmisha is hurt and she needs a treat!” Arian started shout. He looked pretty angry. His voice was strong but he sounded little desperately. “So, if you don´t want to help us, at least move away.”

Erin was shocked. She was staring at him for a while but then she moved out from the door.

“Thanks.” retorted Arian.

Eunis turned to Erin: “We´ll need an extract of Borthensis. Where can I find it?”

“The rest of it is in the kitchen. Top shelf.” she answered shortly. Eunis went to the kitchen and took a small battle and from drawer she pulled out some splints and bandages. Karmisha was lying on bed and Arian was sitting by her.

“Alright. I have everything I need. Now, I need your help.”

Arian gave her skeptic look.

“Don´t worry. It won´t be so difficult. I need you to hold her. Tight. So we don´t have to avoid her claws or teeth. Hold her legs and under head. Be careful. Make sure that she can breathe.” Arian did what he was asked.

“Great. Ok. Now… sorry but it will hurt a little bit.” Eunis grabbed her paw and started to spread it with an extract of Borthensis. Karmisha started to wail in pain and struggle, but Arian reduced her chances to move. After a while Karmisha gave up and just bared her teeth and growled. In the end Eunis fixated the leg with splints and bandages.

“Done. You can let her.” Arian willingly obeyed. At the moment that Karmisha realize that no one is holding her, she clumsily stood up and she tried to run away. But the fixed leg won´t let her make another step and she toppled over. She whined as she tried to stand up again. Arian took her in his arms, even if she struggled, and began whispering in her ears. Karmisha suddenly froze, staring straight ahead.

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