When we finally got to the town I was told to go meet Oryko the village chief. When I went to meet him the door was open and I heard a couple of voices coming from inside. One was female and one was that of an old man, I'm guessing that Oryko was the old man but who is the girl. I proceed to enter the house and walked up to them they didn't seem to see or hear me as they continue to talk about an old myth it seems, so to make my presence known I cleared my throat loudly. As they have finally noticed that I was here they stop talking and looked at me strangely, then the girl said, "When did you get here? I didn't hear anybody come in."
"I was only here for a couple of minutes," to my answer she looked at me with a face full of disbelief, I'm guessing she couldn't believe me.
"Fufufuf, I myself didn't notice you enter."
"Even you Oryko, you didn't notice," I started to laugh at their exchange of words, "what are you laughing at?"
"Your exchange of words, it sounds like a granddaughter and her grandpa to me."
"Well, you got it wrong," she says with a pouting face, to stop this from going further, Oryko intervenes saying, " and for what reason have you come to find me?"
"Um, well I have a request that I would like to talk to you about in private, so well, if she could leave for a few minutes that would be great."
"Ok, Aminian if you could please leave for a few minutes that would be great," he says to the girl I now know is Aminian. Once she was gone, Oryko says to me, "so now what is your request?"
"Well, if you be so kind could you allow me to stay here?"
"Oh, if it's just that then, yes. But depending on how long you want to stay there might be some condition, ok?"
"Yes, I was planning to live here, so what are the conditions for that?" I straightforwardly tell him my intentions.
"Well, for that you would need to tell me your name and the reason you want to stay here."
"My name is Ito and I'm trying to find a quiet place that I don't have to worry about people hunting me down," I only tell him half the truth because it could be bad if he found out about what my old job was.
"You know it's not nice to lie me, so tell me your full name, please."
"What, how did you know that wasn't my name?"
"Well, you are still wearing you're hood and you said you were being hunted too. Two very obvious clues."
"True, I guess I can only tell you my real name but don't ever tell anyone."
"I swear upon my life."
"Thanks, just wanted to make sure. My real name is Norito Menteval you satisfied?"
"Yes, well sort of who is hunting you and could you show me your face?"
"Teris," I say as I take off my hood.
"If you're being hunting by people in Teris then why are running this far?" He was puzzled at my answer.
"The nobles."
"Mmmhh, oh, so might you be the one known as Shadow?"
"Um, ah, I'm not going to question how you know that."
"Well, you have the same circumstance as him."
"Ok yes, I'm Shadow."
"Well, that's all I wanted to know so you may live here," he motioned for the door.
"Thanks, Oryko," I say my thanks to him letting me stay here. As I walked outside, I caught a glimpse of four people ducking for cover, so I walked over and greeted them. We then kicked it off like old pals, their names are Aminian, Miles, Cahya and Wisp.