The girl looks cryful, but tries not to shed tears, her cheeks have been flushed, in her voice is reflected the helplessness and pain she has suffered, act that contrasts her personality that is cheerful.
The young woman claims to be called OKE (sig. Okay).
She used to live in a village among the golden mountains, called: COCADA. Known to many villages for being producers of coconut and articles derived from it.
She remembers that in those mountains, at sunrise and sunset, when you put on your solo, the mountains acquire a golden hue for at least an hour.
TOIRE and KEKI are intrigued, that doesn't explain what just happened, as the COCADA village is more than a week's drive away.
The young woman places her hands on the edge of her skirt, which squeezes by closing her fists, this reassures her a little.
She takes a little encouragement to move on.
The young squire recounts that her father was one of those in charge of preserving order throughout the village.
As happened in neighboring villages and villages, despite being in a hard-to-reach area, they were inevitably attacked... his father had drawn up a contingency plan in case those thugs could reach the village.
He had gathered the strongest warriors of the whole village and divided them into 2 groups.
In one of them, her father took a larger number of them, denying her to go to her side, she... it was his squire, leaving her within the second group, the minority group, would stay looking after the village at certain points.
That day... all those who accompanied his father.
Never came back... she tried to protect her people, they directed them to the caverns where they kept some coconut products.
It was a bit hidden place as they needed moisture those products, inside the cave there was a cenote.
Some of his group armed guard at various points in the village, others, cared for the village in the cavern.
All... had been planned... they knew everything, as if someone from the same land guided them.
At the time the village was attacked, we waited, inside the cavern. You could hear beast noises and explosions, as well as fighting noise.
From one moment to the next, through the opening of the cenote, ropes were lowered and some evil ones dropped from above the water.
The cavern that had been covered was invaded. We were few warriors at this point.
We lacked hands... the girl's hands as she sees them outstretched in front of her, tremble at her, tears roll down her cheeks and her voice sounds crying.
There were too many of them... seeing everything lost, only a few of us managed to get out of the cave to get lost in the forest by different paths... them, it's everywhere... this group found me.
KEKI tells you seriously that this is a long way off, what brought you to this area?
The girl's crying cuts a little.
KEKI distrusts her, he doesn't feel like he's lying, but, he hasn't said everything, it could be a hoax.
She lived in the castle of UNDERWORLD not long ago, her father, in addition to taking care of the villa, was a guard of the castle for seasons, many are so so that she could live with their families as well.
The castle was being blessed by the pillars.
TOIRE looks at her, intrigued, KEKI turns her gaze the other way.
OKE explains that they are priestesses who used their vital power to keep UNDERWORLD connected to princess SATORI where she is imprisoned.
These attacks are not new, they have actually been around UNDERWORLD for more than 6 months in simultaneous attacks.
This if it catches KEKI's attention.
OKE continues to speak, says they were able to withstand many besieged months, but still don't know how it was that someone infiltrated the castle and killed one of the 4 pillars that were distributed around the castle, inside the most fortified layer?
TOIRE notices in KEKI a change in attitude, he looks upset.
OKE says that these pillars had already lasted a long time resisting, they were priestesses of the CHOSEN clan.
TOIRE sees KEKI with surprise, she is a CHOSEN.
OKE narrates in a sad voice that those young priestesses, who functioned as a pillar, remained in place until their lives ran out.
This overwhelms TOIRE a lot.
OKE claims to have seen many pillars do this work since childhood.
One by one of the pillars were succumbing to the evil power that reigns the castle, it was when they discovered the chancellor, that son of a served as a royal guard for years, only to approach the pillars, was surprised when he killed the second pillar, this caused the castle's protective shield to break and thousands of monsters and beasts besieging the castle , they invaded him.
TOIRE takes a brief look at KEKI, he looks serious, only that, there is minimal change in it, his fists are tense. Was... total chaos, OKE did not know what to do, only defended himself by slowing down as much as possible the advance of those beasts, just like warriors, guards and squires, among all the chaos, she lost sight of her father.
He wandered until he reached a room he had never entered, no one in the castle was authorized to do so as, it is a sacred place, it is known as the prayer room, a little-known place.
She ran away from the chaos, she came in, closing the door behind her.
There's screaming everywhere.
Inside the room you hear less, the atmosphere feels fresh and humid, the light inside it, because of the windows on the ceiling of the dome, consolidate a blue, dim color.
OKE, reloaded at the door, looks around, she sees in the center of the room a vessel levitating over a hole in the ground.
Inside the hole is water, like a small lake.
The altar is small, she thinks that the vessel contains what those evil people have come to look for, it is a strange thing, within it a desire to protect her has been born, so she took it.
She breaks and discovers that there was a crystalline stone in the shape of a teardrop, she brings a very small bag of grass hanging from her neck inside her clothes, opens the bag and she shess that tear.
That stone is all that remains of the PRINCESS OF UNDERWORLD, this is... what she had to leave in exchange for time to defeat the evil ISSA.
That tear is what the pillars used to contact her.
Your LOVE TEAR.
OKE fled through the only small window overlooking the garden and sneaked as she could because, she was discovered and chased, she left the castle and fell down a road into a ravine.
At that time she was left for dead so she had time to rest until other monsters found her, her father was the one who rescued her with a small group of survivors.
They went back to her village and somehow followed her she thinks they ravaged all those villages looking for the princess's tear, she cries, it's a lot of cruelty, they destroyed everything and everyone.
TOIRE has been looking at KEKI from time to time looking at his reactions especially at times when the story points towards CHOSEN, KEKI has been left seriously thinking and trying not to show signs that something has affected him.
TOIRE comforts OKE who cries as a child.
The truth is that KEKI is very concerned, those priestesses were complete, despite their youth, they had finished their training and had knowledge that, she did not yet take.
And yet, they have died, she is hardly an apprentice, she doubts a little if she has a chance, even if it is only one, she also believes that it should be of some use to have the princess's tears.
Look at TOIRE and OKE.
He finds KEKI's gaze.
It's an awkward time.
END OF CHAPTER 11