Chapter 10 - Turning Point (2/2)
Starting at the seventh day, Little Flah with the elf to sneak into his rooht beside him At first the old elf was a bit confused as to why the beast trusted hiht
Bringing up the recurring event in a conversation, Eldrin learned of sis when they were still alone in their Dragon’s Den
The s it out loud, but froet a good grasp on the various es and was si lonely
In the following night he petted the dragon’s head until it nestled itself right next to him under the blanket He had ca its family
On theof the ninth day, Little Flame left the room in a hurry, but didn’t display any dissatisfaction about their conversations or h it didn’t quite look the elf in the eyes either They spent the rest of the day inside thea heavy rain had started falling, talking about variousup the store room
With the cleaning of the storage roo been taken care of, the two of thes in between the piles of junk
Eldrin was surprised to discover howup to the 5th rank were had been left behind in the storage rooe Silk itself was a luxury good that could not be produced in the kingdom of Leandar, but could only be imported by uild, frodonated central hts nora way based around a codex of honor, calling themselves ‘warriors of the divine path’
As one of their specialities, the Yukedo kingdo a specie of [titanic Dire Silkworms] that didn’t appear anywhere out of their area of control Fro silk in the capital, Eldrin had learned that these silkworh, the thread from their cocoons could be woven to produce a textile called [Heavenly Silk] and their queen wor the most precious of those fabrics of the fifth rank as well
A single piece of such clothing could aold, yet the two of them noticed several crates of differently dyed vests, dresses and trousers, all tailored in different styles
Eldrin unceremoniously picked some of the silken pants for his own use, as their quality, soft under the fingers yet durable, wasthem perfect to wear The elf wouldn’t have been able to buy trousers like these by hi as they had already been abandoned by their previous owners, he helped hiht
Little Flame also felt excited, and snatched soht in front of the fireplace The newly erected sleek nest reon’s Den] and provided the dragon with a place to laze around
Having taken out a bottle of hisin front of a blazing hearth, sitting in a padded aron, as enjoying the heat of the fireplace up close, muffled in several layers of fabrics
Over the course of this evening the elf learnt more about the relationshi+ps betweentheir domain It took some time for Little Flame to explain hion didn’t know the specific word for such a thing, and as Eldrin ca in the wilderness astonished hi about it, the concept wasn’t that unbelievable, the little lizard in front of hi wood, that it was faintly purring, so creating a form of hot water reservoir wasn’t ience
Eldrin on the other hand was describing things like ‘a city’ or ‘nobility’ to the curious creature, who had three new questions for every answer it was given
Eventually evening becaht and Eldrin departed fro the fire to die Little Fla and just followed hiuest room it was supposed to live in, and si his clothes for the next day
Coo, the current roo around, all of the furniture free of dust and even the bed was properly made
The shy-acting Little Flame faced the wall, yet still waited for him to lie down and sleep Eldrin son forits loved ones, since he perfectly understood that very eolden pocket watch and placed it on the nightstand
Kindly looking at the lizard, he spread the blanket over both of theently stroked the war onto the roof, inducing a hypnotic melody, and he fell asleep like this
During the tenth and eleventh day, a heavy thunderstore, and the two friends thus spent their ti in front of the fireplace Little Flas to tell Eldrin and could only listen to his story, how a young and bold elf grew up in Cilyra, the forest kingdom of the elves
He was born as the second son of a rich merchant and had spent the first 50 years of his life as a spoiled child, never working for even a single day This had changed soon after he cae by the elves, when his father’s trading house fell into ruin and disappeared without leaving anything behind for his older brother and him
Trained as the successor of the house, his brother quickly got accepted as a trader into another rich noble house Forsaken with nothing but his oo hands, Eldrin knocked onto the doors of the adventurer’s guild and had to accept the lowest level of available quests, trying toWithout an education in craftsht [Goblins] and [Horned Rabbits]
His fate changed when one of the guild’s receptionists took notice of his hard struggle, and introduced hiroup of adventurers froether, they learned of his history and the arche of the party, seventh rank in mana at the time, took him in as a disciple
A giant [Shadow Walker] at the eighth aura rank appeared near the elves hoht eleency quest, the huot co to enjoy the spectacle
The scene of his teacher casting volley after volley of [Holy Cross]’ on the monster to restrain its movement, and dispel soparty, consisting of a knight, a sue, cornered and executed theof reverence in him
Driven by a will to becodo tiht the basics of spell casting and being able to live properly from an adventurer’s job’s incomes
His teacher was pleasantly surprised, he didn’t have any issues with the elf following him to Leandar, and set up a place for him to live when they arrived Within the next 100 years he quickly became the most powerful disciple of his ician when he died
At this part of the story Eldrin stared into the fire for a while, with Little Fla for the rest of the story
Eventually Eldrin let out a long sigh, eon
“Let’s go to bed, shall we ?”
With a slightly sad s the rest of his past unsaid, as he headed for his room
Reading the atmosphere somehow, the little lizard followed him and coiled itself around one of the arms of the elf when he laid down
Patting its head again, Eldrin took a long look at the golden pocket watch on the bedside table, going through the last part of the story in his mind
Using the hand the cute beast was coiled around the oldits tail to wag, and a son drifted off into a dreamland
With theof the twelfth day the rain clouds departed and the sun shone down on the field of grass in front of the cottage
But clouds of a different kind appeared on the horizon as the first sunrays showed that the knight that had been caone