◎Today is the pre-hunting banquet in praise of the Crescent Moon Goddess. Whoever speaks obscene words again will use his tongue. ◎
When the village bully opened his mouth, Mida was naturally very considerate and agreed without saying a word. He also heard that it was a birthday gift for Dill, so he didn't forget to include a lot of things along the way, hoping to leave a good impression in front of Amber.
Mida's beloved disciple Helena brought over an extremely exquisite jewelry box. Since the Great Fable is a gift for a lover, the box containing it is naturally very thoughtful.
The box is made of a large mother-of-pearl produced in Hibbert. The lid of the box is lined with a layer of natural pearly white, and the edges of the box legs are inlaid with various colorful treasures that have never been seen before. At first glance, it is a valuable mother-of-pearl jewelry box. It is not difficult to see the passion and sincerity of love in it, but the dust-covered gems on it have already announced the ending of the love affair.
Even when Amber asked Milda, the other party was combing her beautiful silver hair smoothly. She didn't know where she was going to go to the appointment. For a while, she couldn't remember what the great fable Amber said was.
Helena and Dill walked out of the house side by side. Inside the house, Amber was entangled by Milda and wanted to pray to her for some blessings to add charm. Only Milda's silver cat familiar was at the door to watch the two leave. But when Dill turned back, he was combing his gray-blue hair with his tongue until his whole body was covered with a silky sheen, and the tips of his tail hairs were glowing with a hint of silver.
"You should have the teacher's mirror. As long as you shine it under the full moon, the werewolf's disguise will be invisible."
The two girls of the same age are also familiar playmates. Every little witch will receive many coming-of-age gifts when they turn sixteen. Among them, the gift from the big witch will be most useful for subsequent hunting trips, so Helena doesn't understand why Dill would want such a flashy gift. .
"Such a precious treasure, if I leave, what else will Ms. Mida give you?"
Helena's fair cheeks flushed. Dill was really not nonsense. Mida always only used the silver mirror that could purify dirt to comb herself, but what she just put on the dressing table was an ordinary copper mirror. The mirror looked a bit old, as if it had been temporarily replaced.
"Only the teacher's long silver hair can make the silver mirror shine with the most beautiful light. It is enough for me to have Amenos by my side."
Helena's tone was full of satisfaction. Although her buffalo familiar is not obedient at all and spends all day soaking in mud puddles near valleys and forests. Helena can often be seen holding a brush and panting as she brushes the back of the buffalo, which looks like a hill. It's mud.
Meda hated the buffalo so much that she even said that the big white goose at least knew how to bathe in clean water, but she always ended up carrying the exhausted and dirty Helena back to the hut with her own hands.
"By the way, there will be a carnival in the Moonlight Forest in the evening. All the sisters will come. We all want to sing and dance together one last time before setting off. Dill must come too."
The hanging brown hair cannot cover the girl's blue eyes, which are so deep that they can encompass the entire ocean, just like her gentle and sincere heart. Among the little witches who came to visit Dill at that time, she was the one who couldn't help but choke and sob over Dill's fate.
That's why Helena hoped that Dill was going to take away the silver mirror. She didn't even think that as Mida's apprentice, she should have more power to fight for the teacher's magic weapon.
Helena moved her long hair in front of her forehead, covered her eyes, and said a little embarrassedly: "Veranica said that she originally sent a familiar to notify you this morning, but all the cats..."
Don't want to get close to a big white goose that turns violent.
At this time, Turnip followed Dill, round and fluffy like a velvet cloud. Helena couldn't help but sigh a few times. What a pure and innocent creature, with its snow-white feathers and its black-haired owner. Wonderful contrast, different colors, but equally harmless and charming.
The familiar followed the master, and Helena increasingly believed that someone must have maliciously slandered Dill and her familiar. She and Dill have been close since childhood, and their situations are also very similar. They were both born in the slave trade at the port; but one is a second-hand bargain, and the other is a gift to a lover.
Seeing Helena, who was deceived by her appearance, reaching out to touch the big white goose, Dill hurriedly proposed to go directly to the Moonlight Forest to bring back Arminos before she was bitten. Helena looked at the bright red sky and saw that the evening carnival was not far away, so she happily went with Dill.
The two came to the Moonlight Forest. Dense trees grow at the mouth of the canyon, so every night here, every treetop seems to be covered with frost and snow. The entire forest is bathed in the silvery white moonlight, and the streams are surging. The flawless moon spring is therefore regarded by the moon witches as a place of shelter for the goddess.
It is even said that if you walk into the forest when the moon is full, you will see the goddess putting down her crescent-shaped silver bow and taking a leisurely walk in the forest. At this time, the Moon Goddess cherishes all living beings and rejects killing. She is a holy and mature Full Moon Goddess. If she is lucky, she will also use the soft-light magic silver staff to give believers some magical inspiration.
Many small tents have been set up outside the forest. Probably all the little witches plan to stay drunk tonight. Helena generously shared her beautiful white tent with Dill, saying that it was an elephant-skin tent given to her by Meda. Even Arminos could easily accommodate it, and it was probably a rich lover. one's gift.
Dill touched the delicate fabric and finally decided not to tell the other person that this was actually a cowhide tent.
"Ayo, isn't this Dill? I thought you wouldn't go out these days."
Several red-haired heads emerged from the small tent next door. Veranica and her cousins looked at Dill with their usual malicious eyes. They were the same people who had previously asked for hard-boiled eggs.
"We also brought the main meal of the banquet." When Veronica saw Wuqing, she immediately smiled. The red fox in her arms also cooperated with her master, showing her white fangs.
Helena glared angrily, and Dill smiled at the fox and said, "Goose meat is too hard. The main meal of the banquet is the kind of plump hen with loud cries."
Veranica was the meanest and smartest among them. She immediately understood Dill's hint, and she was immediately annoyed and frightened, and immediately closed the curtain of the tent.
A few days ago, Amber punished those witches who were talking nonsense. They were Veranika and others. They were turned into red-feathered hens by Amber, and they walked around the village on their short legs and cooed for help. The few of them returned to their original state in the evening. They ate, drank, and peeed all day long... Afterwards, Amber was regretful that the fox familiar could recognize the owner. This powerful witch was also extremely defensive and cruel, and there was no one at all. Dare to intercede for Veranika and others.
When the orange fire disappears at the edge, the blue of the deep sea begins to rise from behind the mountain, and the slippery breeze brings a refreshing coolness to extinguish all the remaining heat of the day, and also adds a smile to the children of the Moon God. Clusters of shiny little heads sprouted from the ghost mushrooms hiding under the big trees, attracting fireflies and phosphorus moths to surround them. The forest banquet was about to begin.
Dill accompanied Helena to the forest to find Aminos. As expected, he was soaking in a large puddle of mud. Without a pair of large and curved horns, the stationary buffalo would have looked like a small castle. On the mud hill, several toads with red tumors climbed up and down on its back.
"Armenos!!" Helena stepped forward happily, and she didn't even have time to lift up her beautiful skirt, completely losing the ladylike appearance that Mida always reminded her.
The dark brown muddy water stirred up bulging rotten bubbles. I don't know what was mixed in it, maybe the feces of other animals. When the bubbles popped open, the smell was indeed unpleasant. So even though the cow is a familiar that symbolizes strength, Mida, who loves beauty, still hates this smelly beast.
The buffalo seemed indifferent to his master's call and remained motionless. But Dill still noticed that the cow's tail, which was as thick as a straw rope, actively waved when its owner approached, driving away the mosquitoes that coveted the girl's fair skin.
In order to prevent Helena from being pulled down into the mud pit by her familiar, Dill worked with her to pull up the noose on Arminos.
Finally, they saw the buffalo faintly loosening from the mud pit. The two wanted to take a breath, but their hands lost strength. The buffalo fell into the mud pit again, splashing large turbid mud waves. Dill was the first to be splashed with stinky mud.
After witnessing everything, Helena was so frightened that she almost cried. She walked over and wanted to apologize to Dill. Dill said it was okay, and then a piece of mud appeared in her backhand. The girl with gentle eyebrows was stunned for a long time, and she didn't realize what happened until a large piece of stinky mud slid down from the right side of her face.
The two mud monsters simply gave up on themselves and started a mud war. In the end, the buffalo still in the mud pit lazily looked at the girls who were playing crazy. The only big white goose saw that something was wrong, and stood high on the buffalo's back, showing off With its pure white and flawless figure.
When they finally pulled Aminos back to the camp, their big tent became a crumpled piece of cloth on the ground, with some provocative graffiti painted with fruit paint on the delicate white cloth.
Veranica and the others had forgotten their lesson, and the tent was spread wide open to speak ill of Dill and the others.
In fact, the little girls used to be very careless, they were all playmates holding hands. Veranica claimed to be the daughter of a witch. Apart from being a little arrogant, she was not bad-hearted. However, everything changed after Dill exposed Cinnamon.
At that time, it was Veranica who took the lead in claiming credit, catching the little local dog and stuffing it into a bag, intending to throw it into the river first and drown her. Therefore, ever since Dill let Cinnamon go, she has been holding a grudge to this day. Although Dill had been severely punished by the big witch, Veronica still led all the girls to isolate Dill, and in the end only Helena was left willing to talk to Dill.
They were talking about how slaves born into slaves all share the same bad nature, and when they saw the two people in such a mess, they started laughing even more.
"The mud fairy comes out and pulls it out! The mud fairy comes out and pulls it out!"
Dill secretly grabbed a hair from the goose's butt, scratched the soft belly of the buffalo a few times, and then shouted to the passers-by watching the show: "If you don't want to take a mud bath, get out of the way!"
Veranika and the others were still laughing, with their mouths open and closed, when they saw Arminos suddenly swing his huge body, and all the mud and water suddenly poured down like a heavy rain, smashing the small tent to pieces in one go. Not to mention the people
Veranika still maintained her belly-laughing attitude, and her beautiful red hair could no longer see its original color. The little fox in her arms escaped quickly, but her other short-legged sisters no longer looked human. , forming a row of clay figures side by side.
"Now we mud goblins can feel the same pain."
There were bursts of laughter all around, and even Helena laughed away her tears. She hid behind Arminos, but she still couldn't hide her small laughter.
Veranika's face was covered in mud, and her expression was hard to see, but the fox that turned back had its fur on its back, and as soon as its master moved, it would pounce on her with bared teeth and a gaping mouth.
"The dog slave of the East Coast!!"
Veranika's angry scream was only halfway through when it was replaced by panic. Her red fox was originally pouncing on Shi Luo's big white goose, but in the next second it was snatched into the air by a pair of golden claws.
"Have you had enough trouble?"
The dark hair was tied into neat braids, and the slender girl wore a leather riding suit with a thick green scale belt tied around her waist.
She whistled, and the golden-clawed eagle immediately returned to its owner with the trophy. When the girl raised her face, her sharp eyes revealed that she was a very good hunter.
Bertha the Black Panther's apprentice, Grace, did not disappoint her teacher. Her golden-clawed eagle could easily tame the familiar of any little witch present.
Grace was dressed in a leather jacket, and it didn't look like she was attending a banquet, but more like she was hunting in the forest.
She touched the dagger at her waist, glanced around the crowd with her falcon-like gaze, and warned in a low voice: "Today is a pre-hunting banquet in praise of the Crescent Moon Goddess. Anyone who dares to speak obscene words will lose their tongue."
Veranika looked at the little fox that was still struggling in Grace's hands and nodded quickly. Grace threw the little fox back to her. Villanica didn't care that she was covered in mud. She took the little fox back and hid in the tent; her other sisters also scattered like a chicken meeting an eagle.
If Amber is the great witch who should not be offended, then Grace is the peer who should not be offended.
Over there, Dill, who was also in shock, was holding the big white goose that was almost killed by the fox. For some reason, she felt that Grace glanced at her intentionally or unintentionally.