The feeling of cold washes over me making me jump up and shudder as I'm wet and cold, looking around I only see a beach which confuses me as I doesn't remember anything or know anything that can help myself with why I am here but looking around more I see a wave coming towards me which makes me get up and wobbly walk a few steps futher in the beach before collapsing again, exhausted, worrying that I may die, but I hear a girl yell out from a distance " We got a body that has wash up!" I then pass out.
Eventually I awake in the embrace of something warm atop of myself and feeling dry, opening my eyes I sit up and see that I was laying on a straw bed with a blanket that has a few holes in it. Looking around some more I try to figure out where I am now but the investigation is cut short as a girl about the age of 17 walks in with a man who I can't place a guess on about his age but that doesn't matter as the man speaks to me with a rough voice as they both notice he is awake " what do you remember kid, tell as much as you can".
" I-I-I" I try to speak but can't say much as it seems like my throat can't cough out the words I wanna say. " Father, leave him alone, he just survived what is most likely his ship being destroyed and was blessed by the God of the sea to be safely returned to land. We shouldn't interrogate him but should help him recover and help him figure out what to do." The young girl says calmly to her father which just makes him grumble a bit before patting his daughters head and leaving to go do something.
"Sorry about my father, he is sometimes a bit forceful but he's a good man ... albeit a bit paranoid, But enough of me rattling on, here's some food and when your ready you can find your stuff at the end of your bed, that and you know ... come down and talk to us so we can help you out." she gently whispers to me and then hands me some porridge which I uncontrollable start gobbling it up without a moment of thought. She just chuckles and then leaves the room so that I can have some privacy most likely.
Once finished with my food I set the bowl down on the dirt floor besides the rudimentary bed I'm laying upon and I get up, I almost fall as my legs feel like they haven't been used in a while but eventually I get the use of them while slowly walking to the end of the bed where I find my clothes and a small bronze hunting knife. Looking down at myself I just figure out that I'm butt ass naked and quickly go to put on my breeches and linen shirt. Once fully dressed up I grab my knife and store it into my pants for safe keeping and then walk out of the room and down some stairs into what looks like a big communal area of the house which I'm meeted with by the stares of the father, daughter and one other person that I haven't met yet who is a small boy about the age of 10 or a bit older.
" come sit down and join my family, maybe my daughter can help you with speaking" He says but I can't tell if the last bit was sarcasm or him being literal but deciding not to be rude I walk down the rest of the steps and sit right next to the daughter and boy which gets a cough from the old man, so I take the hint and moves seats between him and the daughter. " so lets try this again, do you remember anything " he says this time more calmly which out of the corner of his eye he sees the daughter giving the father a thumbs up.
I think for a moment but nothing at all really comes to mind at all so I start to speak but really choke out the words " I- don't- remember". The father frowns which I don't know if it's about me not knowing or the state of my voice at the moment but as he is about to say something I try again to speak and almost a bit of a surprise to myself I seem to speak a lot better " I'm sorry but that's all I know". The father just lifts his eyebrow and looks at me before just saying " well kid I don't if thats the truth or not but I'll accept it for now, I would also offer something to soothe your throat but it seems like it's getting better already".
The son speaks up and says out of nowhere " So is he going to be living with us or what?" which causes the sister to slap him in the back of the head which makes him yell ow! The father just sighs and looks back to me " you can stay with us while you and me figure out what your situation is and what you should do.". I smile slightly which just gets a nod back from the father and then nothing else as we just stare at each other.
" Ummm how about I show him around the village and see if that helps him remember stuff" the girl mumbles out loudly which catches the attention of the father and me. The father just sits and looks at his daughter before sighing and shaking his head " Fine but take this knife in case our guest tries anything" he says while handing a dagger of some sorts but I stop looking as he looks to me " not trying to make it seem like I don't like you but I don't fully trust you and it's a cruel world for women so I make sure that my girl always has a knife to cut of the pricks of anyone who tries something ... now go along".
I sit there a bit scared but before I could say anything or get up on my own I feel an arm wrap around me and start dragging me out of the house. " Bye father, we'll be back before the sun sets" and before I know it the girl has dragged me out of the house. Looking around I see that we are on the outskirts of the village but not to far where you couldn't make it in case of a emergency. " Hey so I'm sorry about that last part that my dad said to you ... I mean If you do anything I will cut off your dick but I don't think you will so nothing to worry about. well as you can see the village center is that away but I think before we go there we should maybe get you some shoes." looking down he sees that he isn't actually wearing any shoes which embarrasses him for some reason but the girl doesn't seem to care that much as she says " Oh don't feel to bad as half the village doesn't have proper shoes but as I know the pains of not having them I'm gonna get you some so just follow me."
She then starts to walk and wanting shoes I follow her as I just knew that it would suck if I didn't have some. The walking continues for about a few minutes until we reach a man sitting outside his house which is a bit closer to the village. The man just looks me up and down before turning towards the girl and saying " Who's this jackass Emma". " This jackass is our new guest who we found washed up on shore and I'm trying to get him some shoes, think you can help. The man just grumbles before heading inside his home and coming quickly out with leather shoes, he then throws it at me and says " if they fit then you can keep them if not then give them back and I'll see about finding something else."
Catching the shoes I lay them down and push my feet into them, luckily they fit perfectly which makes me smile and look up to the man. The man softens his frown a bit from what he could guess is from my genuine smile. " I take that they fit ... well get out of here now you two or I'll start throwing some shoes." which gets a small chuckle from Emma, she thrn grabs my arm and forces me to run away.
Once where out of eyesight from the shoe guy she leads me to the village center and points to various places, people and other stuff for what I think is a couple of hours as eventually th sun starts to starting to go down and she just frowns while I think guessing how much time we may have left. She looks at me and says " Hey you wanna meet the local smith? He makes a bunch of cool stuff for our God kings army, that and he's a veteran of the war of the gods, which was a pretty bloody war I think ... I don't know though as it was a bit before I was born." Before she could continue I just say " yes!" loud enough to stop her which snaps her out of her own world.
She smiles again and brings me to the blacksmith who she pointed out a bit ago but we are much closer and I can see that the man looked like the sun tried to personally kill him as he looked almost like he was made out of bronze with patches of whiter skin but the most noticeable thing about him was a metal hand that he has that looked strong enough to break a couple of skulls with a well place punch. " Hey Albert, my favorite blacksmith, how is it going well actually nevermind as it's probably going the same as it usually is, but I want to introduce you to my friend who we found washed up on the beach." she quickly says which confuses me but I stop as Albert looks at me up and down, measuring me before saying with the most scratches voice that I ever heard " Nice to meet you kid, you look in pretty good condition for washing up so I guess you have the blessings of the Sea God".
I nod not knowing who the Sea God is but not wanting to waste my breath for the answer to that question, but I do speak up as a thought does come to my mind " Hey so Emma says your a veteran of the war of succession or whatever right? Can you teach me how to fight?"
Both Emma and Albert just look at me and before Emma could say anything Albert cuts her off by saying " Sure but I ain't teaching you for free and seeing as your a wash up and probably have no money on you I think I can make offer which will satisfy us both." Emma eventually yells out cutting Albert off " I don't think you should do it, I mean you should probably focus on trying to figure if you have any family or remembering your name!" but I simply say softly in response" I know my memories are gone but I have the feeling that I have no family or at least not anymore and while I regain my memories or if I even do regain them I should be doing something at least while learning to protect myself .... now please Albert what were you saying"
Albert just smiles while Emma frowns, Albert then continues " Well the offer is that I'm looking for a assistant to help me out around the smithy so what I'm basically asking is you become my assistant and if your any good maybe you'll become my apprentice but that's for the future, you become my assistant and besides the money that I'll take for the training fees I'll pay you a bit so I get my help and you get your training in fighting... plus bronzeworking. Deal?" He then holds out his hand which I don't hesitate in taking and with a firm handshake the deal is made.
Emma then cuts in once more and says " Well thats fantastic but it's time to go back as the sun is setting" She then grabs my arms and pulls me away, Albert shouts " Tomorrow morning at the smithy " which makes Emma pull harder and once we are out of eye sight she looks at me and says " what are you thinking your doing? no don't even say anything, you should be focusing on seeing if you have a life that you can remember and go back to, not get yourself stuck in a boring and depressing place like this!" I look at her and then think to myself as she is a little bit right but as I think about that my head starts to hurt as I remember something ... I have a vision of sorts of falling and sinking into a ocean but their was no ship nearby and I didn't struggle as it seemed like the water didn't bothered me, after that my vision changes to something that ain't natural as a date appears in my head that says [ World age is equivalent of earth during 3000 B.C. or the bronze age.].
Emma smacks me out of my trance and looking at her I see she is worried about me so I just shake my head and ask her to take me back to her home as I feel a bit tired which she nods to and quickly takes me back to there without a word and once we reach the home she takes me upstairs ignoring her father and puts me to bed. I can only say " Thanks" before falling asleep but before I fully fall asleep I hear her whsiper " I'm sorry for yelling at you ... good night.".