Hunter is walking using a guiding stick in a mountain path, the wind breeze feels cold, the birds chirp, the chirp sounds alarming, it comes towards him, he doesn't care and moves forward. In the time that passed, his senses have enhanced. Hunter feels the earth shake underneath him and sounds of enormous feet stepping towards him. The wind coming from the front is blocked by something.
"Where is my wind?" Hunter's voice feel's changed, it's more rough. He moves a step forward. "You. Old." Hunter hears a glutinous, childish, but adult voice above him. "Yes, I am old, giant!" Hunter moves past him, he even sighs and shakes his head. He feels the wind breeze again. "Don't stand in my wind again giant."
Hunter moves forward, he hears a river passing on his left. He can't see it, but he knows if there is a river, there is also a village. He slowly follows the stream of the river down the mountain. A faint smell of smoke comes in front of him. He stops. "Is there anyone there?"
Rustling in a bush on his right, can be heard, he feels this can be an ambush. He slowly walks forward, with caution in case there is a fire or someone will come from the bush to rob him.
The rustling from the bush are heavier and louder and he hears small footsteps behind him. He waits for the footsteps to get closer. The footsteps were near him, and he could hear a breath, a human breath. Hunter turns around and hits the person in the head.
"Attacking a blind man isn't the best way to get in the afterlife…" Hunters hear the person, she is in pain. "A woman attacking a blind man is another low…" He turns around and goes back on his way, the woman tries to attack, again, Hunter hears her and waits for her attack. He moves to the right and uses his guiding stick to make her trip. "If you are blind how did you know that I was here?"
Hunter feels the warmth of an extinguished fire on his left, it still had a few pieces of wood half lit, giving heat. "I am a Bloodhearth." He moves forward passing the fire and leaving her on the ground. He hears her get back up and starts walking behind him. "You are that guy, Hunter Bloodhearth. Your family has been looking for you for 3 years, after king Theodore finally sat on his throne." Hunter stops looking back at her. "How much has passed?"
"3 years, nearly 4, we are near the winter season and the end of the year." Hunter scratches his beard looking down, he sees nothing, he does it out of habit, where he looks at his hands. "Tag along then." Hunter figured she might be of use to him. "You want me, after I attacked you to 'Tag along,' why do you trust me?"
Hunter smiles, and she can now see his eyes. The iris is white, looking like she was talking to a dead man, but when he smiled it made him feel alive. "Fine, name's Talia, and in case you don't know, I am a human."
"No last name?" She shakes her head. "If you shake your head you know I don't see it, right?" He turns around and starts walking. "Well Bloodhearth is nice enough. Let's go, we must not be late, night is coming." She walks behind him, and chuckles. "It's already night…" He looks up and laughs. "Doesn't seem like it."
As he walks he realizes that he missed so much in these 3 years, he missed his nephew's coronation, he didn't see his daughter after he ran, he feels lots could've changed. "What did Theodore do in these 3 years?"
She scratches her head and tries to think. "Well, he founded schools, stopped incoming wars, got married to Fiora Goldhaven, he also is somewhat married to this woman called Leona, and he gave the king's 4 out of 6 children to lords that could never have children."
He sighs. "I don't know what else he did, but he sounds like a good guy."
"So Theodore has two wives? Not like is a bad thing, but he ain't the guy to love more than one woman…" He moves forward, in front of him, complete darkness. "Anyway, how did you become blind?"
Hunter pretends to not hear her question. "Don't act like you didn't hear me. I know how to do that too, you know?" Hunter sighs. "I was cursed, It's a long and complicated story so it ain't worth telling" The keep walking forward, both wondering what will come next.