-Break-
Two days ter
In the river, I see, right o Aurelius. We race to see who reach Lillian and Cudia the faster.
ith all our hearts as we race down the river, but in the end, I lose to Aurelius.
He jumps out of the river o Lillian and screams, “THIS IS THE POWER OF LOVE.”
“Yes, yes, you big dumb idiot.”
Reag out my hand, I say, “So what if you won I will simply wiime.”
Suddenly all three of them stare at me, and then Cudia says, “That won’t be happening.”
Knog my arm away, Aurelius says, “You haven’t fotten.”
Lillian says, “The way you abandoned all of us.”
“I didn’t.”
“You coward.”
“You traitor.”
“You fool.”
“Die.”
“Die.”
“Die.”
From the ground I jump up and almost throw up.
-Break-
Location: Campsite
Stepping to the front of the lih Charles not far behind me, I stretched out my hands, and the beastkin in front of me gave me winter clothes, and moments ter Charles was given these clothes by the same beastkin.
Rubbing my face against the clothes, I say, “Oh how I have missed fy clothing.”
“I see.”
“Hey Charles if you have something to say don’t just sum it up and I see.”
“Ok.”
“Don’t miss the point of what I just said. Expin your I see.”
“I see. Well, I just thought it makes sense for you to want new clothes because your current clothes have been ripped to shreds by your never-ending failure in regards to the giant flowers, so I uood, I see.”
His words unknowingly struck me like a bolt of lightning. “Well you’re wrong the reason I want new clothes is because I missed soft things, like women.”
Charles asks, “What’s a woman?”
Frozen for s sed, I realize what he just asked, then ughing I say, “Don’t worry I will show you one day.”
“Ok.”
-Break-
Four days ter
Locatiore pin
Digging up the nd around one of the tree stumps, I say, “This really is hell.”
We have ceased our pnting of seeds, for the season but now in rept of that, we have to remove all of the stumps aover wood in the nd.
And for two boys such as us, “That’s fug hard! I have to dig up this frozen nd and then start hag away at the stumps until I pull them out. The only be is because we still have to use axes, I tio threaten those men to leave us the hell alone.”
Charles ask, “Who are you taking to?”
“MYSELF!”
“I see.”
“EXPLAIN!”
“You talking to yourself is in lih the rest of your strange behaviour.”
“WELL THEN MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS.” Feeling a cold breeze I say, “THESE WINTER CLOTHES DO NOTHING!”
“Ok.” After saying this Charles pulls out one of the tree stumps all by himself.
Looking at him in shock, I through my spade on the ground and say, “CHARLES I AM DONE, E DO THE REST OF THIS WORK FOR ME.”
“I see,” Charles says as he walks over to me. Stopping in front of me Charles punches me i sending me flying back.
“What was that for!”
“You told me if you ever ask me to do your work for you, I should hit you at full power three times until your seurns.”
Holding my gut as Charles walks forward, I say, “My sense has returned so you stop.” If Charles hits me awo times with the current state my body is in, I will die. Without a doubt!
“I 't do that you made me promise to only stop after three hits no matter resent you say.”
FUCK YOU PAST ME! “Please Charles I will die, you wao live right, so don’t hi-.”
He hits me so hard; that I feel my soul pop out of my body.
-Break-
Six days ter
In a small area surrounded by the other members of my , me and Vul stand there with sticks in hand, preparing to begin our sparing match.
The moment Cudia makes a gesture for the battle to begin, I charge at Vul with a sti hand, but he steps out of the way and then knocks me on the head with his stick.
“Oh.”
“Again.”
A very simir process repeats itself, and he says, “Two deaths.”
“AGAIN!”
Over and ain, we repeat this process with the only difference being Vul ging his t of deaths.
Taking my stick I through it into the ground and yell, “I AM DONE!”
Aurelius from a distance says, “You o ge up your approach, and not do the same thing every time.”
“Yeah, whatever, Aurelius it’s your turn.”
As I leave the area, and Aurelius walks in, he grabs me by my arm and says, “You were always like this, giving up at the slightest issue.”
“Aurelius let go.”
“If you had just trained more we wouldn’t have ended up like this.”
Suddenly I see blood fill the area around all of us.
“THIS WAS CAUSED BY YOU.”
I jump up and spit up just like most nights.
-Break-
The day
Location: A few meters away from the River Lúide
With passion in his eyes, and with a fervour that even the healthy struggle to have in this cold winter, Nero digs his spade into the dirt and starts to dig while saying, “NEVER GIVE UP.”
In a stark trast beside him, Charles mutters a pletely passionless, “Never give up,” copying Nero.
But even though the passion in Nero is heights below Charles, the amount of work they are getting done is not correted to this at all. Nero has dug up a small amount if pared to the heap of dirt that Charles has.
Seeing Charles work, Nero screams, “THIS IS SO UNFAIR!” But as he screams one of the beastkin starts to yell at him in their nguage.
This causes Nero, to pick up his spade, and scream, “NEVER GIVE UP,” While w with all his strength and might.
Seeing this Charles starts to bee slightly more energised, and in a tohat carries a little bit of passion he says, “Never give up.”
-Break-
Eight days ter
Location: Campsite
As I devour my pathetic potato while freezing, Charles points his finger up towards me and says, “Good job!”
“DON’T MOCK M-, Ehh that one was slightly better, I think you actually mao shift your face muscles upwards. But you could still do better.”
Grabbing my face, I say, “You o push them up like this.”
“I see,” Charles says, as he pushes them all downwards.
“NOT WHAT I MEAN. I don’t know if this is some sort of prank or if this really is just against your nature.”
-Break-
2 weeks ter
As blood gushes from my leg in the middle of the forest I cry, but no one is anywhere near me, so I scream, “Mommy, daddy, HELP ME!”
The darkness of the forest scares me to my core, so I shiver there as I await the wolf that bit me to e and find me.
Hearing rustling, I start to scream, “NOOOOO!”
But from the forest, Aurelius and Lillian appear, with Aurelius holding the head of the wolf in his arms.
Upon seeing me Aurelius runs over and says, “We finally found you Nero. Wait, Nero is bleeding Lillian hurry up!”
Lillian walking over to me says, “I know, I am ing.”
As Lillian bandages me up, she says, “You really made us break our backs.”
I didn’t know these two that well at all back then when I was seven, so I said, “Why are you guys hear.”
Rubbing my head, Aurelius responds, “Because whenever you’re in trouble y siblings will take care of you.”
Putting me on his back, Aurelius said, “NOW LET’S GO!”
As I am carried away, I hear a voice say, “But you weren’t able to save them.”
In front of me, I start to see blood leak from both Aurelius and Lillian, and then I hear, “They have always been here for us but we couldn’t do the same for them, they scram and cried yet we just LEFT THEM!”
I jump up from my bed and vomit all over the floor.
-Break-
Four days ter
Locatiore pin
With all the strength I muster from my body, I pull out the tree stump from the ground.
“FINALLY. After digging up the nd to its roots, hag away at said roots with an axe, blog the roots from grounding back, and then slowly pulling the stump from the tree out of the hole in the ground, I have now taken out my sed tree stump.”
Laying on the ground in victory, I turn around and see Charles with 42 tree stumps pulled out. Moments ter we lock eyes, then I turn my head around.
“Don’t say it,” I whisper.
But then I hear Charles say, “Good job.”
Turning around, I shout, “IT WASN’T A GOOD JOB DON’T MOCK ME.”
-Break-
Six days ter
Location: Campsite
As Charles collects his food, I see him stick his thumb up towards Baine cíche, and say, “Good job.”
Grabbing him I say, “Didn’t I tell you to specifically stop doing that.”
-Break-
Seven days ter
Location: River Lúide
Standing ier of River Lúide, Nero has both of his fists against his hips and is staring at the sun, with a smile on his face.
fused by this a, Charles goes up beside Nero and does the same.
To all the onlookers of this sight, they felt raptured. A boy much younger and smaller than them. A boy who cks fat throughout all of his body is standing there basking in the sun with a smile on his face, he looks as if he has discovered the through of the world.
Seeing this sight one of the other sves says, “The messiah?” While looking with awe.
Soon a group of men copy Charles and Nero's as, hoping to reach his same height.
But in truth the only thought going through Nero's head was; MY BACK FUG HURT’S.
A beastkin walking towards them all starts to scream in a nguage Nero ’t uand.
-Break-
Three days ter
Location: Campsite
Shaping my face, into a smile, I say, “Charles like this.”
Shaping his fato a frown, he says, “Like this?”
“No, no, like this?”
-Break-
Two days ter
Locatiore pin
Cutting the roots out of the three I say, “NEVER GIVE UP. NOT NOW NOT EVER.”
One day ter
Location: írassnd
Seeing the flower swing towards me I dodge and pluck out its st seed causing it to wither instantly.
Falling to the ground I say, “I am dohough I missed a few so I should do better ime.”
Charles walking up to me says, “You’ve do.”
“Done what.”
“Your quota, you’ve finally hit it.”
In disbelief, I say, “You're kidding.”
“No, I am not.” Stig his thumb up and giving me a light smile, Charles says, “Good job.”
Hearing this and seeing Charles's successful encement shocks me so much I pass out.
-Break-
I see all my friends, my family, being attacked. The beastkin are scary, so much so that I feel I have to run, but I ’t not now, so I take a step forward.
Suddenly I hear, “Do you think doing anything now will ge anything? You have already failed, it is too let for us to ge their fates now.”
“I know that, but still even if it is too te I would rather go forward than run back. So if you want to stay there pining do that till you die.”
Running forward towards the beastkin, I am killed within seds.
Jumping up from my bed, my chest feels tight my breathing is untrolble, and terror causes my boo shake. But I don’t feel sick, I don’t feel like throwing up.
-Break-
Location: The western edge of the pntation
Φ Standing by his carriage, Bricriu says, “Liam are you ready.”
“Of course, but I must ask why have you decided to take me.”
“Because you're simply so useful towards me Liam, I am sure you will help us in our quest of the isnds in Molstoria.”’
“I will try my best.”
Looking on towards the pntation, Bricriu says, “Goodbye for now, but we meet I am sure lots of fun will be had.”
And so as Bricriu left the pntation the year came to an end, but the would be just as important for the two boys.
