Emma heard the door open, but ignored it. She was too drained out from the tears she had shed, and was in no mood to see anyone.
She heard light footsteps approach her bed, and knew it had to be her aunt. "Are you alright? I heard you were upset."
Emma looked up at her aunt, her eyes swollen and red. "How did my father and mother die?" She asked looking at her with questioning eyes. She watched her aunts shocked expression which she tried to mask and gulped, she didn't know what outcome of her question was going to be.
The moon supreme sat on a chair close to Emma's bed, and watched her face for some time trying to figure out what was going on in her mind.
"You remember?" She asked watching in disguised fear as Emma nodded in affirmative. She rested against the chair her throat constricted by the pain from the past that she had buried in her mind.
"What do you remember?" She forced herself to ask, her glazed eyes facing the ceiling.
"My mother was from Mizra, then how come she was unable to save us all?"
The moon supreme lowered her gaze from the ceiling, her eyes filled with undisguised hatred. "She gave up the darkness so she could live among our people"
Emma perked up at the mention of darkness "what darkness? aren't't Mizra and Limlor alike?"
Her aunt stood up suddenly, her face filled with rage her finger pointed at Emma "we are nothing like those devils I warn you." She said to the shock of Emma.
She inhaled deeply, trying her best to bring her anger under control, as she sat back on the chair and exhaled looking at Emma who was dazed.
"Just how much did you hate my mother?" Emma thought out loud without realizing.
"She was the perfect example of poison coated in nectar" her aunt said snapping her out of it. "I warned your father, but he didn't listen because he was blinded by love for her. Humph" she huffed in disgust.
"Is that why you took silgrey from me? Leaving me without a part of myself, I can't fly like other witches, I can't even retain energy." She said spite filling her voice.
The moon supreme stood up from the chair and straightened her dress, preparing to leave the room. "Are you that scared of me?" Emma asked a snare on her face. Her aunt turned to look at her, her countenance hardening.
"Evil is not something one should fear, it is rather something you should loathe." She said and walked out the room, banging the door behind her.
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The training ground for the men that were recruited was called island pike, a large open space that was over sixty feet down the mountains that surrounded it.
It was near the capital city of the Kajolin empire, and yet was hidden from the eyes of the people.
Pike was divided into three aspects, one part for the people in charge of the training, another for the training ground, and the other as the hall and sleeping ground for the recruits.
It was a world of its own, bustling with activities, and sever training for all the men who had been chosen.
Yue walked towards the hall, at the second scream of the raven that was soaring in the sky. He flexed his sore arms, a habit he had formed in the few months that he had been here. He loved the training, and the comradeship, and yet solitude that it brought along with it. The men were strong, hard men who wanted to survive in this world, people with their own stories to tell, that rather preferred the talks that had nothing to do with their lives.
It was something he had come to cherish, the ability to keep to yourself without silence.
He walked into the hall with others trailing behind him, making speculations about what was the reason for their being summoned. "Maybe they figured we're too good and want to reward us with some gold as gratitude" he heard Billy a large man with shaggy dirty blonde hair and some missing front teeth say. He smiled and leaned against the wall watching as the others trooped in.