Morning arrived with Aria touching my face.
"Brother is time to wake up the sun is coming and breakfast is ready" I hide the ax in my blanket and create a distraction
" wao . .I can see something in your face"
she open her eyes very big and say
" what is brother?" I put a serious face looking her how she almost cry...and touching her head.
" That you become more beautiful every day"
laughing i left the room ...she was smiling to my back and we went to the kitchen. Elien serve the black bread , milk and board meat grilled.
Aria could not resist the curiosity " Mom this meat is delicious"
" your brother hunted a beast yesterday and you should not tell nobody , are we clear?
" yes , mom"
Elien smile :" Today we will go to the market to buy some clothes to you"
I was thinking that still I have the board pelt and the tusks , I decide to sell the tusks because the pelt was still drying.
"Mom let me sell the board tusks and with the money you can buy more things"
" Ok , I will go at noon to the town"
I stand up and went to my room hide the tomahawk under my bed and took the knife and hide under my clothes to the right. I took the brown hood tunic and put inside the small bag with the tusks. I run to the library where elder sun was waiting for me .
" Little one what happen to you first time that you are late"
"Elder sun I was in my way to relief in the woods when I found two boar tusks and I cleaned with water and I was thinking in selling it in the town, i forgot the time"
"Aran show me the tusks"
I took the tusks and give to the Elder
" It is from a juvenil Jabali of fire, the price should be around 5 bronze coins, I can give you 5 bronze coins right now for the tusks"
"Elder Sun 3 bronze coins is the only amount that I will take from you and the tusks are yours , because you always have show conpassion to me and my family"
The old man put the 5 coins in my hands and say " you only have one hour today for been late".
I went to the same general topics hall and with travis , I continue to compile information , time passed and I returned home avoiding people in the road. I was surprise that kurt and his connies have not been arround messing with me.
"Mom here you have 3 bronze coins you can buy some goods for Aria and yourself"
"Aran you already sold the tusks?"
" Yes , Elder sun bought it in the library"
I went to my room and start practicing shadow boxing , push ups , sit ups, V ups and cycles of breathing techniques; my mind was thinking in the two people that I killed , but at the same time , this is a new world where strength is everything and you kill or be killed. I continue practicing until night arrive in the yard throwing the tomahawk with Travis corrections.
"Travis could you show me my stats"
"Aran 10 years
strength 1.1
agility 1.2
Dexterity 1
stamina 1.2
Intelligence 6.2
Boxing combat basic peak level
Tomahawk battle intermediate level
magic elements ?
combat experience 1.5
Travis remarks : still weak"
I was happy because I reach more than the average mortal adult in this world.
I felt some noise in the first room and front the stairs I can see an old skinny man in home with Elien and Aria. I can see the clothes of a servant and I realize that hi is one of the secretaries of the principal manager. I hear the conversation between them.
"Ms Elien your situation is very delicate you basically don't recibe any benefits, but if you join to me I can change many things for you, you just have to warm my bed a few times in the month"
Elien was enrage.
"Mister Lau , I am the concubine of the four master and you are a pawn from the first wife and the manager, you are not a man."
The old man took Aria in his hands and put a knife in her neck.
Elien freeze in the position, the old man took two pills from one of his pockets.
"My lady swallow this pill, if you want to see this girl alive"
Elien took the pill and felt weak her hands and legs became flaccid , she laid fragil in the floor , Aria was crying and the old men took another pill and make Aria swallow too.
"If you don't swallow the pill , I will kill you and later your mother and brother"
she ate the pill and fall to the floor. Travis told me that this man was a mortal man weak for an average man. I took my tomahawk in my left hand and trow it hitting him in the skull he fall by the impact, I took the oportunity to trample his armed arm retrieving my Ax ,and hiting him again in the base of the cranium, killing Mister Lau at the moment. I check his pulse to be sure that hi is death.
I check Mister Lau clothes founding another pills, but I assume that the pills probably are a temporal anesthetic, I found a recipe and the mame was poison of lava worm. I check his clothes until I found 4 cristal clear pills. I was very happy that one of the books that I review in the library was common poisons and treatments. The antidote description was similar to the cristal clear pills in the bottle in my hand .I took one and use the bucal administration route in Elien and Aria , the pill melted and the fluid was absorbed. Elia was the first in wake up.
"Aran where is Mister Lau"
I just point to the floor and I had already cover his head with one old bag and tie up with ropes to transport the body to the forest.
"He is death and I will take his body to the forest"
" Hum ..be carefull "
I carried the body like a firefighter style and cross the wall and in the entire travel I was doing the breathing technique that keep me strong and full of energy I went to the outerskirt of the forest. I cut the ropes and took the old bag that was soaked with brain and blood and put close to the body. I knew that the beast of the forest will do the rest of the job or at least partial.
I smash the head with a big rocks to erase clue of the weapons.
I returned home cleaned myself and burned my tunic and clothes that I was using at the moment.
I see Elien coming and sitting close to me.
"Mom how is Aria ?"
" she is sleeping now I explained everything to her and the importance to be quite now. How do you feel killing a man?
"Mom it is hard but he was evil and I am not regretting killing that poison snake"
" Good a man have to stand for his family . I am proud of you, when you finish here come to my room today we will sleep on my room"
I hide the tomahawk in the yard and the dummy tarquet become fire for the kitchen. I went to sleep in my mom room we put Aria in the middle. I was looking to the ceiling thinking in how fragil life is and the necessity to become strong.
To defend them I will do any sacrifice and if somebody hurt them; they will get my rage. Elien was slepping and the candle burning was showing me that life is precious when you have people that you want to protect.