I stared at the ground and finally stood up, in deep thoughts. When I met nutarious he didn't seem to care about Olaf, even if she was found dead or alive. So all what he wanted was the demon slayer rings. I wore my robe and walked walked into the bathroom. I walked into my grand bath while taking of my robe. I relaxed by going to the deepest part of the tub and deeping my head in the tub. It was more like a pool than a tub.
"master loucesa."
"yes jubril." loucesa said and came out naked. The helpers quickly rushed to him and covered his dignity by rapping his waist with a towel.
"Oliver has received the girl. Now all we need to do is find Olaf."
"Ahh... He said and sighed. That's not necessary jubril. I know nutarious has her and wants the rings for him self."
" Master should I prepare for your journey to vrindes?"
"No, my goal now is to find Olaf." He said and left the grand bath to his room.
We walked together and talked about the ways of the church.
"Sabrina this is where we hold every prayer quest." she said and pointed towards a vast room with many chairs and a large golden cross in the middle of the room.
"sister Angela." Said the priest.
"father, you startled me." she said with her cheeks immediately turning red.
"How was your sleep sabrina?"
"My sleep was splendid." I said with a straight face.
"I'm sorry about your family. It was quite an unfortunate experience for a young girl like you." he said and placed his index finger underneath my chin. He was an old man but still looked strong and he was quite handsome for his age.
"Thank you." I said and couldn't help but think about what happened to my family.
"you have to be strong and I believe you are strong." He said and wiped the tears threatening to fall from my face any second from now. I touched my cheeks and covered my cheeks with my palms.
"You should have your dinner now. Sister pls be kind enough and take her to the cafeteria."
We left the priest standing alone and proceeded to the cafeteria. The cafeteria was filled with kids and teenagers. Miss Angela directed me to the cafeteria and left. I joined the line and collected a tray. When it was my turn I thanked the lady in charge of the cafeteria food by bowing my head slightly.
"You are welcome child." she said and smiled.
I walked to the corner of the cafeteria and sat on alone on a chair. We were served rice cake with lettuce, water and a box of ice tea. Mother used to make rice cake for me and my siblings during the full moon festival. Her rice cake was delicious. We always looked forward for it every year.
"Hey are you new here?" A girl said and sat comfortably on the chair opposite mine.
"Yes I am."
"My name is Joy and I have been here for two months." I looked at her and wondered if she was of any good help. She might be useful to me in the future because she has been here longer than me.
"I'm sabrina." I said and brought out my hands for a hand shake. She shook my hands and smiled. Joy had reddish brown hair and hazel eyes. She was really preety and she looked my age.
"So how did you end up here." she said and proceeded with her dinner.
"what do you mean?"
"I mean everyone here comes for a reason. I came here cause my only family died and I have know one." she said nonchalantly and continued eating.
"sorry." I said and chewed slowly due to her blunt reply.
"So tell me, why are you here?"
" I also lost my family." I said and held my breath to prevent my self from crying.
"oh sorry."
"what do they do to the children here." I said, trying to gather as much information I can.
"Ahhh, We could go to the library before curfew."
"There is a library here?"
"Yes there is. This church has almost everything. We can read books about the history of the church if you want." she said and smiled, revealing her left cheek dimple.
After dinner we went to the library. It was magnificent. I gasped in awe and looked at each rows that had books. It had shelves as high as two meter and had a lift.
" Curfew is in one hour so we still have time to check for books." she said and placed her hands on a book. Most of the books looked like it haven't being cleaned for centuries. How were we going to find the church history book.
"over there. Joy said and walked to a tall shelve, pointing at the sign. It seems like locations for different categories of books were provided to make it easier to find books. We walked to the history section and surveyed with our eyes. We started checking from the lower shelves to the higher shelves. The books were dusty and ancient looking.
"This library is amazing." I said and looked at done ancient books with weird symbols.
"I found it." she said and rejoiced happily. We immediately settled down and cleaned the book with a tissue.
"wow, it says that the church has being here since the fourteenth century." I said and touched the book cover.
"The church was originally a satanic worship place. It was converted to the house of God in the eighteenth century by a man called...
" Thats enough girls. It's past your curfew time. Said father Oliver."
" father, we are sorry for not yielding to time." joy said and bowed her head. We left the the library and walked to our dormitory.
"I guess we couldn't find out more. Maybe tomorrow." she said and smiled like a happy child.
"nice meeting you." I said and proceeded into my dorms.
"Sabrina my room number is fifty-five." she said and skipped to her dorm.
I carried the book from the table and kept it in a shelf with lockers.