NIGHT TIME
Teri sat on the tree branch in mizak's courtyard in the melvor's residence.Selena was with him while elley was in the bandits place.
Mizak was sword playing.Teri could only hear but Selena said hIs skills were exceptional.
"Let's spar!",Teri yelled.
Mizak stopped abruptly and turned to the direction of Teri's voice.Teri had been there for a long time but mizak didn't notice.
Mizak smiled as he struck the tip of the sword against the ground and gripped it with his two hands.
"I do not wish to make you bleed, Teri",he said as he swung his sword.
Teri fell backward.
"Be careful!",mizak yelled corncerningly but Teri landed on his feets and mizak was relieved..
Teri was In a black outfit and a white blindfold with his dash hunged in his back.
"Do you think I can't use a sword?",Teri said as he unsheathed his sword and slashed the air.
"Don't look down on me,dear nobleman.i won't hesitate to hurt you",Teri said as he thrusted his sword towards mizak.
Surprisingly to mizak,Teri could handle the sword well,despite being blind.he was stunned.
Mizak thrusted towards Teri's throat but he bent backwards and used his sword to hit mizak's sword.
They rested for a few seconds and mizak swung his sword ready to fight.
"Am curious teri,how are you doing it?",mizak asked curiously.
"You want answers?",Teri motioned him with his index finger,"let's keep on sparring",Teri said as they both thrusted their swords at each other.
They kept on sparring.There were the only ones there as it was mizak courtyard in the melvor's residence.
Teri was happy after a long time,since his family incident.He felt close to mizak.Throughout his journey,he never made a friend.
Even when the chief brought him and his sister, elley,to the bandits village in the mountain.He was welcomed and was treated like a family but he wasn't close to anyone.
Mizak didn't just feel like a friend but like an older brother he never had.
"Your ears.You're using the sound of the wind and my footwork",mizak said as he folded his arms across his chest,smiling like he accomplished something big.
"Oh.mr nobleman became smart.well that is part of it",Teri walked towards mizak.
"I don't think you'll ever guess the second part.so don't worry about it",Teri said as he patted mizak's shoulder as he walked passed him.
"Teri",mizak called.
He turned.
"Have a walk with me along the market road",mizak said and Teri flew up.
Mizak looked up at him,"where are you going to?".
"I didn't use the gate when I came in.Did you expect me to pass there when going out?",he asked as he flew out of the residence.
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Mizak was in front of the melvor's residence as he waited for Teri.
"Why do you keep turning your head?",Teri asked as he saw mizak searching for someone and be laughed slightly.
Mizak turned his head to Teri who was behind him.
"Are you not coming,Mr nobleman?",Teri asked as he walked passed him.
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ALONG THE MARKET ROAD
"Your fabrics here!"
"The best lanterns are sold here!"
"Rouge for a beauty!".
"You want to be as white as snow?,come here!".
Sellers yelled what they sold to attract customers.people walked along the road.some children played around and their parents will try to keep them together.
"Apart from when you use the sword,how do you see?",mizak asked.
"It's the part you might never know the answer.You asked too much questions,Mr nobleman",Teri said.
"That's because I want to know everything about you.we're friends m,are we not?,Teri",he said as he glanced at him.
Teri scoffed,"That's suspicious.You sound like a spy".
"Why did you hide your face that they we met here?",mizak asked.
"That's because one of my victims saw my face".
"Victim?",mizak rolled his eyes,"oh,you mean me.Youre supposed to be arrested but am here walking with you",mizak chuckled lightly.
"Do you have a deathwish, Mr nobleman?",Teri asked.
"Do you wish to kill me,Teri?'mizak asked.
*Do you wish to know my answer?",Teri asked
"Do you wish to tell me?"mizak asked.
"Do you wish___",they both asked and laughed at themselves.
"That is genuine",mizak said as he gazed at Teri.
"What do you speak of?",Teri asked.
"Your laughter",mizak said.
"What do you think you're saying.pfft",Teri shook his head and tripped over a stone but didn't fall.
"Are you fine?",mizak asked corncerningly.
"You care too much,how many times have you asked if am fine?.
Well...,....,am ....fine",Teri said.
"How many sisters do you have?",mizak asked.
"Three.my 1st eldest sister,Selena,2nd eldest sister,Darlene and my little sister,elley".
"I've seen elley before,you've talked about Selena but I've never heard anything about Darlene.why us that?",mizak asked curiously.
Teri scoffed,"Darlene",he muttered.
"She abandoned I and elley.After I,Selena and elley ran out from our stepfather's house,we lived on the streets far away from that place.
It was hard.it was.....,very hard.I was 8,elley was 7 and Darlene was 11.From nobles to beggers.we could only get little and we had to give it to elley,she was the youngest.
Sometimes other kids will fight over our food.
I've starved for seven days.It was a horrible feeling.There were times I felt completely dead but I still live.
Darlene started hiding food herself.selena told me about it and she was disappointed,I was also disappointed.Then one day,she left.she wasn't kidnapped,she left with her own two feets".
Teri chuckled sadly,"I begged her,elder sister please don't go,let us go wherever you're going,even with Selena's help,I can't properly take care of myself and elley.I just recently got blind,how will I ever do this by myself?,do you hate us?,if mother and father was alive,could you have done this?.I was deeply hurt,I remember how much I cried,on my knees begging her like she was a stranger.I hated her for abandoning us".
Then she yelled as she cried,"Don't mention mother and father!.It's all your fault!.Even if father didn't want to serve the new king,he could've just been imprisoned!.But what?,his sone was the ghost weaver and it will become an obstacle for the king when he grows up!.Killing father won't be the end! .They'll have search for you and we all had to be killed!.
"Teri",she said my name softly with pain,"you should have just died that day you were born,then we won't be living like beggers.
She threw the box my father said she should hold for me,at me.
I was shattered by her words.I never thought she would say something like that.Butbshe wasn't done.
"Blame yourself to death or you kill elley and yourself to avoid suffering,",she said and I could hear her walking away."I hated her at that moment".
Mizak watched him as he spoke,feeling his pain.Teri didn't cry but mizak felt the pain in his voice as he spoke.
"Do you have more questions,Mr nobleman?",Teri asked with a fake smile.
Mizak didn't speak.The imaginations of Teri's past kept on playing in his head.
An old man with rags and a bald middle head held Teri's hand.
Teri tried to remove the old man's hand from his,"who are you!".
The old man handed a map to Teri,"you'll need it to find the owners of those items.no matter where you are or where they are,this map will lead you there.Its time you find them and restore the king of the former dynasty of the delmos kingdom back to his throne",he said and left.
Teri understood what he said but he was puzzled that the man knew about the promise he made to his father.
"Old man!",Teri yelled.
"He's not here,he left",mizak answered.
"What us that?,let me have a look",mizak asked as he wanted to hold the map.
Teri put it underneath his upper clothing,"it's something I may or may not tell you".