"We've never met before, and the reason I've been this way with you is because I hate everyone who is obsessed with training.
You have muscles instead of brains, you don't think about other people, their problems, how they feel when you make fun of them because they don't train!
You guys are like monkeys!
I'm sorry, now I've calmed down."
Wow, I didn't expect to see Affra so angry, I have to be careful about what I say now or it's going to suck .
"I'm so sorry to hear that you've had unpleasant experiences with people who have a passion for training, but I'm not like the rest of them.
I won't try to change your opinion of others, but I want to change your opinion of me.
First of all, you have no way of knowing that I'm like them."
"Dad told me when I prepared your gift that you are also obsessed, and not to have expectations.
How are you different from the rest?
They all said the same thing, and it still turned out that they lacked intelligence and basic knowledge of strategy.
They believe that in war you win if you have muscle.
Ah, what idiots."
Affra places the elbow of her right hand on her leg and places her temple in the palm.
"Teo, why do you train?"
"The reason why I'm training is a secret and no one besides me knows it, I don't know if I can trust you."
"I promise I won't tell anyone."
"They all said the same thing and they still lied."
After I finish saying the sentence Affra comes next to me and crosses her hands with mine.
"I swear by the name of my family and the teachings of my ancestors that I will not tell anyone what you will say or show me."
I don't know how important ancestors and the family name are to her, but this time she looks into my eyes with a face that shows no hesitation or lie.
"I don't know why you want to know so much, but I'll tell you the reason."
Affra lets go of my hands after hearing my response but doesn't move away from me.
"It all started a year ago, also on my birthday I wasn't allowed to leave my room for a whole day, I don't know what the reason was, but all I did that day was walk around the room and looking at the walls.
Looking at the wall on the left side of the bed I noticed that next to the candle holder on the wall there was a hole, I went to check the hole and behind the holder I found a key that looked like the hole in the wall so I tried it, and it worked.
Behind the door I came across a ladder leading down, took the candle from its holder and started to descend on it.
It was full of cobwebs, no one had been down there for decades, when I got down I found a rather large room with a sofa, a shelf full of books and in the middle of the room a bookcase with a book on it.
I wandered around the room for another minute to see if I could find anything else but found nothing so I went to the book in the middle of the room to read it.
I placed the candle on the book stand, when I picked up the book suddenly the whole room lit up, at that moment I was so scared that I fell on the floor with the book in my hands."
I remain amazed that Affra listens to me and doesn't say I'm lying, if someone told me this, I don't think I'd believe them.
"I started looking for the light source, the light was coming from the four corners of the room and from the middle of the ceiling, all I found in those places were some yellow pebbles.
Honestly, even now I'm not quite sure why they lit up.
I tried to read the book in the middle of the room but I couldn't, when I checked the bookshelf I saw that there was another row of books with the same characters."
"Are you sure it's not just a language from a neighboring country?"
"That's what I thought at first, but when I took a closer look at the book that was in the middle of the room I found drawings of the family sword, especially with the gem that is on the sword."
"Do you think it's impossible that another country had the sword?"
"Yes, my father told me that the sword has been in the family since the kingdom was founded.
But the strangest thing is that the rest of the books are completely empty, I can't explain why ."
"I understand, but after all, why do you train every day."
"Can't you figure out the reason from what I said?"
"No."
"I want to obtain the family sword and uncover the mystery behind it.
If I don't have the sword I have no way to progress, even if I get the sword I still have a big problem until I translate the unknown language."
"You haven't talked to your father about this?"
"No, I want to solve the mystery."
"I understand and respect your reason for training, that's why..."
Affra suddenly stands up, comes in front of me with a smile on her lips and a delighted look.
"I want to help you translate the language."
"Wait what? Why?"