Dan went straight to his house, caught his breath up, and started thinking about what he had just seen. It was clear to him that the creature had somehow survived kanibora's magic. He thought about weather he should seek Kanibora's help.
" It's late now. It'll take time to reach Tirana again." He thought. During that time if a villager goes near that well, the creature might harm them. He thought about what he should do and figured that he might just go to the mountain the next day when he was done warning the villagers.
He got out of the house and went near the well again. He was careful not to go too close to it. He waited there till morning so that if someone came, they could see him first before they went to the well. Waiting for long, Danachi fell asleep there.
He got up when he heard the tinkering of metal and splashes of water. He opened his eyes and to his horror, someone had already went to the well.
" WOGANA!! STEP BACK FROM THERE!!", He shouted at the young woman who was pulling water from the well. He stormed there and pulled her over. Her pitcher fell from her hand and broke. She looked at him with utter dissatisfaction.
" WHAT PRANK ARE YOU PULLING EARLY IN THE MORNING????", Wogana shouted at him.
" Wogana, there's a monster in the well! It might eat you up.", Danachi tried to convince her.
" You got nothing better to do then making up lies?? Look what you did!You broke my jar!How are you going to compensate me?", Wogana looked very irritated.
" I'M-NOT-LYING!! Yesterday I almost died. LOOK!!", Danachi showed his neck to her. There was a clear mark of strangling. But wogana still didn't believe him.
" Everyone knows you like to make troubles Danachi.I was just pulling water from there. There's nothing in the well." Wogana pulled him near the it. Danachi peeked over the well and to his surprise, the water was clear as before. Nothing was unusual.
" No way. How did this-", Danachi couldn't believe his eyes.
Wogana had finished picking up the broken pieces of the jar. She went to Danachi and tapped on his shoulder, " Make less trouble. Will you?" And then she went away.
Danachi stood there thinking what had happened but could find no answer. He was thinking what he could do next. He decided to come back again that night.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Kanibora had reached the nirvana. The first thing she did was to meet Ratil.
" You're back, Bora! ", Ratil gave her a warm welcome," You're done with your job?"
" Not completely. It'll still take some time. But some strange things had happened so I needed to visit.",Kanibora replied while sitting down.
"Such as?", Ratil bended forward as she got curious.," Did you find some ancient source of magic?"
" No. Nothing like that. I- I happened to meet a man." , Kanibora stopped to see Ratil's reaction which went from curious to blank and then to a really creepy smile.
" OH MY ARDHANA!! I didn't know you were so fast Kanibora!",She said while still having that creepy smile on her face.
"If you're done thinking weird stuff, I would like to tell the rest.", Kanibora said while trying to keep her cool.
" I'm DYING to know.", she replied.
" Long story short. I met this man in Tirana. He said he was there to hunt because the fishes in his village were gone. I went to his village and discovered something living under the river but couldn't find out what it was. Then we went back to Tirana and happened to have a evil creature attack us. I somehow managed to suppress its attack for then and left it while it was injured. But this morning, it was gone. I used the piercing strand spell to tie it down but it went away.", Kanibora finished in a single breath.
Hearing the whole thing from Kanibora, Ratil's expression changed. She put on a serious face.
" Then, the creature you talked about is stronger than you huh?", She asked.
" Kind of. At first, infront of its magic,mine was nothing. It didn't work at all. But I thought it was usual as my magic was weak then. It didn't work on the man too. But last night my powers grew stronger. But having controlled the creature for a while, my powers were still nothing."
" You never told me your magic was glitching that much. The powerful creature was understandable, but the human? Your magic didn't work ...on a human!??", Ratil couldn't belive it.
Kanibora felt embarrassed. She tried to brush out her embarrassment and said," BUT you KNEW I had a hard time performing my magic, Didn't you? And it DOES work on that human now."
" I thought that was ancient history when you had difficulties controlling them. Ah.....forget it. I myself am getting embarrassed." , Ratil said.
They sat silent for a moment till Ratil broke the silence again.
" I think it makes sense there was such a creature. It's probably the reason behind the Qi and why many of us couldn't adapt to Tirana. ",She said.
She put her hand in Kanibora's shoulder and said," Some things are indeed meant to be."
Kanibora brushed off her hand and turned her head sidewise.
" What are you gonna do now? Got any idea how you might tame the creature?" , Ratil asked.
" That's one of the reasons why I'm here. I want to go through the book of ancient creatures and see if I can find anything. ", Kanibora replied.
"Well then, off you go!", Ratil got up to bid her farewell.
Kanibora raised her eyebrows and asked," Why so hurry? You got a date?"
Ratil was flustered by her sudden assumption. She struggled to answer her.
" I- I just want to work! What are you thinking?!", She somehow replied.
" You're working in that? ", Kanibora was appreciating her friend's dress for a while. A navy and pink colored satin blouse which was quite attractive.
" Huh, so what? Its normal! It's COMPLETELY normal!", She replied.
" Yeah sure. I might start working in a 3 stones heavy tiara too as it's COMPLETELY normal. ", Kanibora teased her friend.
" Are you leaving or not?" , Without waiting for her reply, Ratil grabbed Kanibora's hand and almost threw her off the chamber.