"everything is fine, just breath in and breath out...…..(inhale…exhale) calm you self its just a hallucination nothing else…" Alexia tightly closed her eyes and breathed in and out countless times, the she just peaked again at her feet .
"finally!!!!" Alex signed in relief when the formation of ice had stopped "what was that. It gave me such a fright…I thought for a while that I had become the ice queen.."
Alex took a step but then realized that her leg had been injured and she had nothing to bandage with so she just teared the ribbon from her dress and tied it around her knee, then she waked out of the door and saw the men still stuck to the ground, and when they saw her coming out of the house a wave of fear could be seen in there eyes.
"until when are you planning on sleeping here?"
"Witch!!!!...witch!!!...aaagggg" the men on the ground started screaming like girls when they saw Alexia getting close to them
"stop screaming like an old lady and clear my pavement fast I don't like filthy things lying around in my neighborhood" Alexia stepped closer to the leaders body and saw a gold chain hanging from his neck, after thinking for a few seconds she grabbed the chain and forcefully pulled it
"this will the fee, for you disturbing my peace…..i am going for a while and when I get back I don't want to see you lying here " Alex jumped over the mountain of bodies and walked away
Just about twenty minute's walk Alex reached a busy place that seemed like a local market, the streets vendors were selling there fruits for extremely low prices but still people didn't seem to be buying anything, the place was a shabby looking market Alexia fastened her pace and looked around for a pawn shop where she could sell the gold chain which she had taken from the man before, Actually Alex felt bad about it but as the man seemed to be well off and was the first to misbehave Alex didn't pay much attention to her own wrong doing, finally she found the shop , she entered the shop where an old man with huge frame of glasses was sitting in his arm chair, the shop was in a good condition and the owner seemed to be a well off man
"Dear customer, what do you wish to sell" the old man said with utmost respect
" well I was thinking of selling this…" Alex put the chain on the counter
The old man inspected the item with great interest, for while and then spoke,
"where did you get this from?"
"a man gave it to me as a payback for intruding into my property " Alex said with a straight face
"very well then, for this precious item I will give you, 1 gold coin and 93 silver coins…" the old man said with a serious face
"are you sure?" Alex had no idea about the currency of this place so she was trying her best to not get coned by the old man
"it's the highest price you would get for this"
"if you say so then I will believe you…." Alex said while hanging her hand in the mid air as if demanding money, the old man understood and handed over a bag of silvers
"nice doing business with you"
"likewise…" Alex left the shop with the money back tightly clutched in her hands, out in the market again Alex looked around to find the things to buy for her house
"Missy we have the most fresh fruits would you like to buy them?" a little girl who was helping her mother sell fruits in the market ran towards Alex while she was looking around,
"yes why not, but where is it …"
"right there, follow me I will n take you there" the girl ran into the crowd and Alex followed the Little girl and just a few meters away she saw a fruit vendor selling really fresh fruits,
"they really are fresh, well how much for the strawberries?" Alex asked
"it would be 6 bronze coins…" the woman said with a low voice as if thinking the price was too high but Alex had other stuff going on in her brain
"6 bronze coins!!!!" Alex meant that the price was too low but the seller thought the other way
"well if you say I can sell it for 4 coins as well"
"no I didn't mean that, I was saying that isn't the price too low? " even if Alex didn't know anything about the stuff here but she still knew that the price she told her was very little
"nobody buys it and they will rot in a few days so that is why we sell it at low prices"
"hmmm….."Alex thought for a few minutes and then said
"can you sent this fruit to the to my home? I am still busy buying other stuff" Alex hoped that she would say yes
"but I still have other stuff to sell"
"what if I buy the whole lot? Will that be okay?" Alex asked
"you said you would buy all of this?..." the vendor looked at her with surprised face
"uhun…..and here take the money.." Alex gave her two silver coins
"Missy its too much"
"its not, the rest of the money is your delivery charges.." Alex looked at her with a straight face, for a long time the vendor looked at her with a confused face and didn't believe her but finally took the money , Alex told her the location of the house and sent them away, after that she walked around the place and bought great amount of stuff, the shopping included food items, lantern oil , wood planks, some brooms to sweep the floor , she even bought some cheap carpets for her house, in short she bought everything that pleased her eyes and at last she had so much stuff that she had to rent a wagon to deliver the stuff to her house..but as we know that all is well that ends well so she finally reached her home in one piece, and surprisingly the men from before had magically disappeared from the pavement and instead of the men there were crated of fruit on the pavement
Alex hurried inside the house and found the little kid snoring on the counter, she patted his head and picked him up, she lied him down on the couch and then started moving in the stuff she had bought, I took her eternity to bring in the stuff but finally she was able to fit in every single thing in her house, she got tired of the manual work and lied down on the couch besides the kid who was snoring sweetly, she picked the kid up and held him in her arms
"what should i call you? My sweet little baby?" Alex pinched his round cheeks while talking to the sleeping kid "how about Roo? No that's too odd, then how about Sam?.....no that's too common, I will give you a unique name…and that will be…Frost…yes I will call you frost" at this the kid opened his eyes and looked sleepily at Alex
"I knew it you like it…from now on your name will be Frost ..okay?"
The kid nodded its round head as if approving the name