Shortly after the twins disappeared, I gave permission for Anna and Connor to come in and settle down to eat, not even giving them time to sit down, the semi-identical duo appeared and practically would have flown onto the kitchen table if I hadn't refused them. entry again.
—HEY, WHAT'S THE REASON FOR WE ALREADY TAKED OUT ALL THE DIRT THERE WAS. LEAVE US INTRARRRRRR!!!!! — Max shouted with his eyes red and his mouth foaming like furry beasts.
—Calm down, tough head, I'm only going to let you two in when you calm down and act rationally, or as close to that in your case Max. — I said, looking at both of them.
—I'M CALM, LOOK AT MY CALM IS SO GREAT THAT I'M ALMOST DROWNING IN SALIVA JUST BY LOOKING AT WSSA FOODIAMIDA GOOoooMMM AT MIWinnnNHA FEWNTE, SO CAullmMO Q—. Before he could finish speaking, which ended up sounding more like a demonic incantation, Mav punched his brother in the back of the head.
—Uuuhhuumm, sorry about that Cali, but you know how Max gets when he's hungry, and even though he doesn't admit it, he likes your food more than our inn's. But don't say I told you that - Mav apologized as calmly and rationally as he could, out of respect for that I'm going to pretend I didn't see him looking at his food like a hawk or how there was a bit of drool threatening to fall on one side of the table. his mouth.
—Haaahhh okay, but now what are we going to do with the passed out person here? — I said looking at the boy with light hair on the floor.
—I have an idea, Connor, can you pass me a piece of rabbit meat, a piece without sauce please? He asked, Connor found the request strange but accepted it anyway.
I already have an idea of what he would do with the piece. But it seems that was wrong, instead of using the meat as a smelling salt, Mav simply started eating the piece over Max (I'll leave it to myself, the fact that I saw Mav make one of the most surprised and satisfied faces I've ever seen. I've seen him do it, when he bit into it he ate the meat. Or the fact how satisfied and envious I was for not being able to eat it too)
—What do you think is-
Before I could finish asking, Max moved as quickly as he went to the bathroom to wash up, and grabbed his brother's arm before he could take a third bite of the meat. Caught off guard, Mav barely had a chance to react before his brother turned his arm holding the meat, forcing him to drop it and giving Max enough time to turn his face and swallow it quickly.
—WWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!
After giving the worst scream I've ever heard him make, Max just stood there with his eyes closed and chewing the meat in his mouth. It might be just me, but after Max's scream I could have sworn I saw the windows shake.
—Have you calmed down now, Earthhead? — Mav asked, turning his arm to make sure nothing was broken.
—You're quiet! I said I was calm, I just wanted to eat quickly and I may have exaggerated a little. — Max said with his arms crossed but not in anyone's eyes. After all, SERIOUSLY MAX!!! THAT'S WHAT YOU CALL A LITTLE EXAGGERATED!!!! I'm sure I saw Connor hold that knife tightly, and while I'm at it I'm going to pretend I didn't see Anna steal one of the pieces of meat from his plate during the commotion.
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Shortly after that headache, the four of them sat down at the table and started eating (needless to say, Max made another fuss when he saw that there was much less meat on his plate than on the others), what about me? I just had a little milk and went to the games room. Obviously I also wanted to eat some of what I made myself, but because of the test I couldn't for another two days, because the test of resistance couldn't be anything else, putting up with people offending you, holding your breath for half a day under the water, because it had to be precisely not eating anything solid for 1 month, only being able to eat half a loaf of bread a week and milk the rest of the time.
Anyway, I headed towards the game room for 2 reasons.
1. It's the only place in the cabin that has books and a desk.
2. This is where the manuscripts of the magicians who came on the last expedition are located.
By any logic or common sense, these manuscripts should have been recovered by one of the surviving members, but they couldn't find anything like that in the magicians' belongings, no manuscripts or anything really, but the next time since the expedition someone came to hut their manuscripts were found on the book shelf, which was previously empty according to several older reports including those of Connor himself, of course they tried to get them out of here but it seems that the Ordeal doesn't want them to leave. After all, every time someone tried to take them out of the cabin they disappeared from the hand or backpack of the person who was with them and reappeared on the shelf in the cabin's games room.
The same applies to the tomes that the wizards had and used to study the strange language of the Ordeal, like all the tomes they could be removed from the Ordeal without problem, but we were unable to specifically remove the tomes that belonged to the wizards and now that they were on the shelf , the same thing always happened with the manuscripts, another one of the incomprehensible phenomena of the Ordeal. Although there is a theory for this, which if it is right also helps to explain several things that happen here, but many do not believe in it or do not want to accept that it is true.
As soon as I arrived, I went straight towards the manuscripts without looking too much at what the place was like, especially because following the "logic" of the ordeal so far, everything that would be here would either be the equivalent of a nobleman's house or something completely incomprehensible for now. With them and the tomes both on the shelf and that Connor lent me, I started to check the analyzes left by the wizards, in addition to comparing the characters of the two tomes to make sure they were the same, the notes they made didn't help much, after all the Those who had been sent here were not very prominent wizards and according to rumors their families had bought their admission from a lower order of wizards both to give more prestige to their families and to get rid of possibly problematic members.
The more I looked at the manuscripts and tomes, I couldn't help but think that there were strange things in the wizards' analysis, but I couldn't say what. It just felt like they were missing something.
I looked at the notes, the images and the words above them, trying to find meaning, I don't know how long I was looking but to me it seemed like hours, until after turning a page I finally understood what was bothering me. On one of the pages when the main character (at least we think he is, since he appears in every tome and is the only one who survives the creature that is hiding) and his companions, start a fight with another group in a forest cabin, there is some of them speak with slightly different characters, and that's what bothered me, the characters that come out of their mouths were different.
'Could this mean that they probably weren't speaking the same language?', as soon as I thought about it, I remembered another passage further on, where one of the men from the main team had just been caught by the creature that was hunting them, and one of the team members questions the woman they had captured in that language. Here the characters with which they communicate are the same as those used by some of the previously dead enemies. That's what was strange about the wizards' notes, they put all the characters as the same, so I wasn't getting anywhere.
Having understood this is good, but it still doesn't help me, what should I do in this case? Then I remembered something in their notes, in which they compared their names and the names of the others who stayed with them here in the river cabin, with some characters that appeared on the doors of their rooms in the cabin. They used this to try to decipher the tomes, but they couldn't decipher everything because they assumed that all the characters in the tomes were the same!!!!
'But what if you define the characters more based on the images themselves than on what is written?'
With this in mind, I reviewed the first pages of the tomes, analyzing the letters and words that the magicians had deduced from their names and those of others, also comparing them with the images and the general message they gave and rewriting them in my notebook.
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