My plan was to rescue the people then take them to live with my uncle but then that sounded too stupid to even consider it as a good choice option. I was so desperate on savin the people that I did not even consider how were going to live after that. We spent the night in the forest on the other side of the road inside a cave, during the whole night I kept thinking of going to the market together with the children but that was much difficult considering that my magic couldn't just teleport all of us inside my uncle's house and if we were to sneak there things could have gone like before maybe even worse that I would lose the children or maybe me failing to survive the crisis.
I was the first one to get up, thinking had kept me up all night that I only slept for an hour and was woken by a loud horn of a passing truck. I remembered that a few kilometers from the village their was a town where the Veilkins that left 50 years before had settled there, I made up my mind that I was going to take the kids there. I did not care how long it was gonna take or what was it gonna take, all I wanted was to get to the town since it was the safest place right.
"Wake up before someone finds us here."
All of the children woke up, I explained the situation we were in and told them that we will be making stops in any nearest town to find something to eat since I had some cash on me. And we started walking inside the forest going to the next town that I was a little familiar with.
In the first two or three town things were smooth and we were getting out with our bellies full but that was what turned the tables, we should have at least decreased our diet a little. I wanted the children to be satisfied that I forgotten how long we had to go, I realized in the fourth town that the money was not going to last. Sooner or later it was all gone and we had nothing left. I tried looking for a job in the town but with more than ten children to watch, it was hard to get one. Some people offered us food judging by the way we were looking hungry, tired and overworked from walking.
If things were to continue like that some of the children would have died of hunger. I asked around to hear how further the town we were looking for was and to add up to the agony, we had not even cover up half of the distance. I sat down to come up with good ideas that were going to get us out of the situation and the next thing I new was that I was back in the Nexis.
"Welcome back, human. What have you come here to do this time."
"What."
He had asked in way that seemed like I was the one who called for him, I was glad that I was there even though it was not me who brought me there it was him. I wanted to ask him for a new ability maybe in that same random manner I could have gotten an offence ability or some ability that was worth as an offence ability.
"You felt troubled there after doing something I told you not to, still taking stupid actions even with the new power, are you."
"Am sorry, it's just that I thought I was doing the right thing at first."
"You are right it was the right thing but the wrong way."
I understood what he meant by that, it was the right thing to rescue the hostages but since I hadn't considered where to take them first then it was the wrong way and if I had look for a place to stay first then that was going to be the right way.
He did not look like he was mad at me, he understood how desperate I was to change my behaviour. I wanted to stop jumping into situations without fully analysing it but at the same time with the need to do something worth for the people of village, I ended up not repeating the same mistake.
" I know this is out of question but can I get another ability, am ready to exchange another sense for it."
"Unless you prove to me that you won't do something stupid with it, you are not getting any ability."
There was no other way around it, he had made his final decision and wasn't going to change it until I changed. This was going to complement with my journey yet I wanted to keep the promise to my people so bad that I wanted to save them as soon as possible that hearing him deny was not satisfying me. I wanted to continue pleading to him but he broke the connection and I was back where I was before.
The conversation that we had this time had a lot of missing parts that I wasn't remembering for some reason. It was as if I was sleep talking that whole time while carrying on with the conversation and the only time I was awake was only at the beginning and the end of the conversation.
I heard someone talking to me.
"Did you say something."
I asked one of the children the elder one, his name was Benjamin.
"No.
All that worrying must have got me schizophrenia that's what I thought at first. But the voices became distinct that I could tell whose voice it was, it was the Dulcimortis and those were the forgotten parts of our conversation coming back to me, it was different from remembering something.
I asked myself
"Are these really memories."
It felt real, as if the Dulcimortis was they talking to me but while in my head, I tried forcing myself to remember more of it, if remembering was the right word to use, but I could only hear one sentence which said:
[Take the children to LUMINEST]
I asked around again to find out if such a place existed near where we were. They told me that it was at orphanage in the next town which was about two kilometers away in the southeast. It sounded better than walking 15 or 20 more kilometers to nowhere. After a few hours of walking we finally reached our new destination.
It was under the protection of the HUVALIS an odd jobs task force. It was the most beautiful place I had yet seen, outside it had a lot of flowers that were similar to the ones I saw in the Nexis and the gate looked like a door to heaven, with it's golden decorative metallic look with the word "Luminest" embedded on it. It was a three story building with AC's hanging in the walls. Many of the children were playing on the field.
I was a little bit negative with the place since all that glitters is not gold, was this really going to be a good place for the children to stay?