Several days have passed, INKU and TOIRE have been very good team of hunters, both from land and in air or water.
Thanks to this they have been able to make meat wrappers and put them to dry, KEKI has been using some fire spells to speed up the process, so they will have food for when food is scarce.
In a river, TOIRE found a smooth stone of beautiful colors and picked it up while fishing.
INKU saw him, something funny told him that he was slowly going to stone the monsters to death?
TOIRE smiles a little sorry at him, denies the comment.
That stone seemed very pretty, ask the boy if he thinks KEKI will like it?
INKU, smiles at him, tells him that he assumes that yes, women like a lot of colorful things.
TOIRE somewhat mocking tells him that perhaps also INKU should find something for OKE.
INKU tells her no, that's all boyfriends do.
TOIRE blushs a lot, tells him not necessarily.
Friends too.
TOIRE changes the subject, asks INKU that from when he learned to hunt.
INKU doesn't know, just remember that it's a recurring practice in your temple.
It was one of the disciplines since every month, they changed the tasks to be performed.
Providing food was one of them.
INKU returns the question to TOIRE, he tells her that, as a child, he and the other children, helped his mother to this task, the greatest of all.
INKU asks if he had many siblings.
TOIRE, with a smile tells him yes, had many good brothers, who somehow believe were apprehended some.
They were taken from the village, not many of them left when their mother died.
She was a beautiful woman who raised them all.
INKU understands that perhaps TOIRE had no parents and that woman took care of them.
He doesn't ask any more questions.
They decide to come back, they already have a lot of fish for dinner.
As a preventive measure, in addition to departing from the main roads, they 4 take turns surveillance, in this way, none feel more tired than another.
Very few people have been found, some of them fleeing their villages that have been invaded.
They've even shared their food with them.
The course of these days has been productive.
In addition, TOIRE is the happiest, the fact that a single boy takes care of 2 girls was not at all simple.
TOIRE does not know if it is the cause of coexistence, or the attachment that has formed over time and what they have spent together, but, he feels that there is something in KEKI that attracts him in greatestness, in the time when he met her wounded, the nervousness of having to see his fragile body, naked and beautiful, makes him blush and scold himself by thinking about those things , if she just needed help, she doesn't deserve to think of her that way.
Her coldness, her anger, her compassion and courage not to give up, even though she suffered much pain with the healings of that flesh that came close to rotting, only remembering her from time to time, makes her feel strangely happy.
Although no one was told, such an attraction has become palpable and everyone will realize less KEKI, as that is not in their priorities.
Mutated but not evil beings have been found along the way, so they have been avoided.
After two weeks, they have finally come out of the mountains, finally, it remains to cross a large cliff, it looks somewhat beautiful despite having almost no vegetation, as there is a canal at the top from which the river has been coming down, the water falls to the cliff and fog shape, they must go carefully, the ground is somewhat smooth , they go along the banks between the fissures sometimes, glued to the wall, they gradually went down, in the skirts of it looking for where to rest.
There's a set of caverns in the foothills of the mountain.
The atmosphere feels fresh and somewhat suffocated.
There is a very narrow path where the water falls to the front, it is perfect as a hideout with the water curtain.
Everybody gets in there and settles into that hole, it's a big thing.
The view out is good, from the outside out there not by the stream of water.
Some of them remember, others sit still.
OKE's turn will be next, you are told to sleep as in about 4 hours you will play your turn.
She excitedly snuggles up next to her backpack she made with cloth and is stuffed with some herbs, so she uses it as a pillow, semi recharged on the cave wall.
Everyone tries to keep quiet as much as possible so that she sleeps.
They've walked a lot so INKU and KEKI sleep too.
TOIRE's still watching.
The dawn lights look beautiful through the water curtain, TOIRE is grateful to have been able to enjoy the view.
She would have liked KEKI to look at her too, turn to see her, she sleeps.
She thinks she's so pretty sleeping, she laughs at he himself, she's become cheesy.
And yet he feels he can stay by his side until the end of the world.
END OF CHAPTER 17