In the morning, I leave my bed, after I got quite a bad dream last night. and this will probably be the last time that I am ever going to try that spell on myself. The dream or the spell gave some headaches. Anyway, I put on my daily clothes, make my bed, and head to the kitchen to eat a good breakfast, and I hope it will not be made by Fiona this time. We had an agreement that she will not feed her food to me cause if her parents might going to punish her to be more careful at watching me.
Right before I was about to head into my kitchen to eat breakfast, Fiona was stopping me, by putting her heavy and soft hand with scars on my front, and she told me with a happy face, who seemed quite creepy.
"Are you going to go to Pluga?"
"Pluga?" I asked her because I do not know what she is talking about. "Is this some kind of a festival or a Tavern?"
"No. It is one of the traditions of these holidays. You take a whip with you, holy water from the church and you beat the walls of a random house."
"What kind of tradition is this?"
"Is an odd one, I know. But, we are doing this to prevent the demons coming to their houses, taking their lives and their children."
"And you think this is real?" I asked her, and she looks confused at me.
"You do know demons are real in Arges, right?"
"Yes. But they are even coming here?"
"They are everywhere, Judah... You wanna go?"
"With you?"
"Yes."
"Alright then," I respond to Fiona's request.
After we eat breakfast, we are going into a hidden room into this house, and we take from there two wipes and a few metal bottles of water that probably contains holy water. Fiona takes two bottles, and she put them into my backpack I use almost every day when I walk somewhere with her, cause a squire always has to bring a backpack with him when he goes with the knight somewhere. After she put the bottles there, she also takes from there a sheath where I am going to store the whip I will use it on the houses from this area.
Then, both of us are leaving the houses, we are saying our goodbyes to the parents of Fiona, and to Diana, who was on her way to go into the forest and hunt some wild animals which might be going to be used for the dinner or when the big feast will come, which will be tomorrow night. While I was walking to Fiona on the road, I saw a few kids my age, who are using their wipes and hitting a building while they were laughing or screaming, and there were two old women, who are looking happy at those children who are somehow vandalizing their old house who is about to collapse at any minute.
"Don't worry if you cause damage to the houses when you will be using your whip," says Fiona like she did read my mind. "Even if the houses are going to be damaged, it will at least made the demons fear by your power."
"My power is in magic. Not strength." I respond to her.
"Much better. You could curse the whip and make it much more powerful against demons."
"I can do magic, but curses... I have never tried it and I do not think I am capable to do that."
"Whatever. Even if demons will tr to come, we have some reliable priests and warriors in this village besides me and Diana."
"You do have more ridiculously powerful warriors in this village?"
Fiona dodged my question, and she stopped in a front of a house made of rocks and wood. We both go into that house, and there was a young man, dressed in clothes who are smelling like meat from wild creatures such as bears or even bulls. Probably this one is a butcher or other kind of chef like Diana, or the guy from the butcher I saw a few months ago... it has been quite a while I last saw him. I hope he is doing okay.
Fiona took out her whip, she then asked me to give her a bottle of holy water. I take out my backpack, take one bottle out of there, and hand it to Fiona. She takes the bottle, opened it, and pours a little on her whip. Then she started hitting the walls with her whip so hard, that it made me and the one who lives here flick. When she did the third whip, and the final one, she looks at me and told me to do the same. I pour some holy water from her bottle into my whip and start hitting the walls of the house three times as Fiona did it.
And, the man gave us two gold coins per. person and we leave his territory and walking to the other house, which is next on the other part of the road. There we did the same thing, and we got this time three gold coins, I got two, and Fiona one. When we finished that one, we got to the other one, and we did the same thing until our holy bottles were getting empty, and that is a sign that our job is finished and we have to go back to our houses and do our things.
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Meanwhile, in a forest, Diana is carrying her crossbow she is using almost whenever she is going hunting wild animals. Diana has fixed on her mind that today she wanted to catch something big and also who contains a big amount of meat. She thinks haunting a boar, or a deer, even a bear could work, if the arrows she currently has are strong enough.
The arrows she bought were from a new weapon store in Dobrat. That store seemed promising cause he is owed by a legendary warrior from Arges, who used to be the best sword crafting man in that area, but he is specializing in creating much more than shields, like arrows, swords and he is even going to get a license for working on heavy weapons, such as big swords (like the one Fiona is carrying around), big shields and spears.
Thirty minutes later, while she is walking into the forest, on a path, she heard a few sounds that were coming from the bushes. She quickly aims her crossbow in that direction and shot an arrow. When the arrow flew from that crossbow in a straight direction, that thing who was about to be hit, he is dodging the attack at the last moment and the arrows hits the tree.
"Whoa! Whoa! I am sorry! I didn't know you. Hunt. Here." says the person who is leaving the bushes with his hands raised and he looks surprised or shocked at Diana.
"My goodness," says Diana feeling shocked by this moment.
The guy who was close to the shot is the one who was mentioned earlier in this novel, and that dude has a name. His name is Leonard, the guy who was close to marry Diana (even though there were their parents who were trying to do that).