Chapter 10 (1/2)

Chapter 10 The Stonemason

This week, the weather wasn’t good, the sky was always gray, Karl van Bate’s loomy to the extreme

Walking on the wet stone street, fro him In in this town, Karl run a school At Graycastle those noble children with the talent to go to school, attended a different kind of college, here he was also teaching for the children of ordinary people Therefore, in this border town, he had a very high reputation

“Hey, Mr van Bate, good ”

“Sir, is ht?”

“When are you free, Karl, let’s go fishi+ng together”

At ordinary times Karl would always smile and would respond to the a word

Since he witnessed the hanging of Anna, in his eyes the world appeared to be flawed – or to say since his departing fro into existence, but he deliberately turned a blind eye He used his busy work to numb himself, and to a certain extent, he even used the innocent smile of the students, to cover this crack

Until Anna died, he thought, that the world had not changed But after the hanging, the crack not only did not disappear, but it expanded

Regarding Anna, he recalled the memories of the previous half a year Withinthe more than thirty children in her class she stood not out, with a normal appearance, she was never a person ofthat let Karl felt a little impressed

That was her passion for knowledge No matter what they would teach, characters or history, she could always re history and evolution of the religion, she was always seen holding a book He had seen the young lady help to take care of her neighbor’s sheep, sitting down in the sun, Anna would carefully brush the sheep’s hair, gently, like someone would do it with a baby The picture he could still reirl, no matter what or how he could not think of her as a sinister and evil person

Later there was a fire at her place, and Anna’s mother unfortunately passed away, afterwards Anna never cao, when she was proved to be a witch and hanged in the town square

Be tempted by the devil? An unclean person? Evil? All fart! In his heart, he had for the first time doubts about the Holy Church, for the first tie they imparted

Whether or not Anna was a witch, he didn’t knew, but she would never turn evil! If a yet to norant of the world and full of curiosity could be called evil, then the administrative officials of Graycastle were from hell and possessed by the devil too! In order to save several hundreds of gold royals, they deliberately stole stoneto the collapse of the half-finished theater building; uild had died

But were they hanged? Not even one! The judge finally ruled that the leader of the stonemasons was unsuitable for his job, he was punished into exile, the stonemasons were forced to disband

And Carl, who knew the insight story, fled out of the liht and left Graycastle, he followed the road into the west, eventually ending in the border town

He e, with a lot of students, he already got to know the new neighbors, he found new friends, but the criraved in hishim- as evil, the Gods of heaven could they really see it clearly?

The last overwhel straw for Karl was Nana

Nana and Anna were nothing alike; one could even say they were the coirl, quite well known in the college Only seldo class, and when she was there, she could never pay attention, only lying in the grass If you asked what she did, she would giggle for a while, and then she would answer that she was looking at a fight between a grasshopper and ants

Nana’s face was always full of laughter; it see to do with her, at least in the college, she could always be happy and was able to laugh Karl was even a little curious – if she had ever cried since she was born

Until two days ago, when suddenly, with a long face, Nana caed too, like Anna?”

This let him knew, his student, Nana had became a witch

“Ah, isn’t that Teacher? Come over here and help us to look at what it says”

Karl felt as if someone had pulled his sleeve He looked up and found that he had arrived at the town square Many people stood around the board andshouted, that so van Bate’s naet out of his way

“Teacher, you coincidentally came, help us to look at it”

“You are right, originally it was Meg ould read this to us, but the end result was, that before he could tell it to us, he got stoo to the toilet, until now he did not come back”