Everyone in the yard was quiet, they looked towards where the two new recruits where supposed to take a test, there was a big guy on the ground holding his left side of the face screaming with blood splattered around and a timid looking girl sitting down shocked at what transpired.
Geoff quickly took a hold of Kajus and moved his hand to reveal the wound.
His face became more solemn and she looked at the girl.
"I SORRY I-I"
"ENOUGH!"
"Moonfred! run and get our healer!"
A young man nodded in the group and ran inside the building, the rest of the group quickly dispersed and continued their training.
"I-I thought he was going to grab me and-"
"I said enough! now calm down, he will be fine"
Geoff looked down on the wound and cringed a little, the wound was deep and covered his entire right side face coming down from the forehead to the bottom of his right cheek, a straight line.
Kajus screaming and wailing in pain made the girl feel incredibly dumb and bad about this.
The healer quickly came, his steps not hurried; he had a nonchalant look to his face when he inspected the wound. He placed his hand on the wound and started to encant, 2 seconds later a yellow/green light as big as the wound started to form the light reached into the wound and Kajus screamed even lauder, Geoff held his arms and told him to be quiet and that its over soon.
After 1 minute of intense pain the pain and suffering felt like it was over and he finally started to calm down, he instantly passed out.
Kajus awoke in a bed he had never seen before, he looked around cheesing his eyes, before his eyes could focus he heard a voice.
"I-I am so sorry i didn't mean to I panicked I-I brought you a get well gift, just know i never meant to hurt you"
Kajus was shocked and confused he didn't really remember what transpired,
"where am I?" he asked
The girl swiftly responded "You are in the med-ward for patients, again I am so sorry!"
"ok what time is it? how long-" he stopped himself mid sentence and finally he could see the girl, he remembered now that he was in an intense uncomfortable pain, a pain wich not super painful but an incredibly ominous pain almost like when he got his one tooth repaired and they had to drill his tooth, it wasn't super painful not like getting shot with an arrow but the pain hurt ones soul. He quickly took his hand and caressed his face finding a long groove on his right cheek, he stood up and asked the girl for a mirror.
"You've been in bed for 5 hours and there is a mirror right there" she lowered her head in shame while pointing towards a wall mirror to the right of her.
Kajus walked to the mirror and saw his face.
It looked deformed.
He was shocked, his soul was shocked. With wide eyes he stood and looked at himself in the mirror.
It took himself a minute to finally begin to think
this isn't the face my mother loves' was his first thought 'my sister, will she still love me?'
On his face was a nasty wide scar all across his right side face, no one would ever first look him into the eye when meeting him they would always look at the scar first. He always thought that scars were kinda cool and he wouldn't mind getting some in battle, I could even bring an amazing story as to why I got the scar he thought. But reality is different from imagination, this scar hurt more mentally then it did physically.
He finally looked at the girl with a sad theme across his face.
She dared not look him into the eye she took out a letter and a large sack and handed it to him. He accepted it and placed it down.
He didn't know what to feel, she was the one that disfigured my face and I only meant well when I reached out to help her up. He felt anger, sadness but he was mostly confused.
"I am from a very rich family so in that sack lies 1 thousend gold coins, the letter is an apology from my parents which are dukes in this town, it means alot coming from them"
Kajus barely listened but felt that it was unnecessary to take out his anger at the meek looking girl in front of him. He punched the mirror, breaking it and hurting his hand.
The girl jumped a little but she didn't move from her spot.
Geoff walked in "looks like you are out of bed, don't be angry at her be angry at me for letting it happen, besides its just a scar I have several, now come down and have some food, you need it"
Kajus felt his anger washing away partly because he smashed the mirror but mostly because he could no longer take out his anger at the girl. It would reflect badly on Geoff who has taken responsibility for his wound. 'What could I do? to take out my anger at Geoff? If I wanted to die maybe'
He followed Geoff downstairs where he got some food, the girl sat on the same table 3 meters away from Kajus and Geoff, she sat there timidly looking down on her food.
"Come over here, I know you feel bad but you are both recruits now and I have a mission for you two"
After Kajus threw down his food into his belly and after he heard what Geoff said he felt a little better, he was actually a little excited for this mission.
"It's guard duty!"
Kajus immediately felt dejected.
'Guard duty is the most important if one thinks about it! if an orc invasion happened it would be my duty to save the city!' he thought while caressing his right side cheek. His mood slowly getting better.
The girl moved closer and sat next to Geoff.
"you will both be suited with leather armor and a bow! now gear up your shift begins in 20 minutes"