The celebration continued, and I was asked to dance many times, but I turned them all down because I was busy talking with my mother and planning for the days ahead. Our adventure outside the gates was to take a few months, so everything had to be planned accordingly. While this would cut into my study time, I do hope to take a few books with me. Mainly a few on monsters and a few on plant life outside the walls.
While monsters inhabited a good portion of this world, according to my mother, that did not mean it was completely overrun. The reason cities like the one I live in have such huge walls was to keep the monsters out and to protect the city from monster waves that happen every once and a while.
A monster wave was when a large number of monsters rushed towards the city. It is unknown why they do this, but some people think it is due to a larger, more powerful monster with a form of intelligence sending them to poke at the cities to try to find a weakness.
