Chapter 132 - Fairy (1/2)

On a dogsled, an Eskimo hunter is controlling the direction and going forward smoothly on the snow.

The sled is carrying the hunter with a beard in the white furry hat, as well as a dead seal. Some fish in different sizes are in a string, waggling by the side.

After climbing over a few snow dunes, the hunter sees a house made of ice. He pulls the rein. The sled slides on the snow for a few meters and stops steadily.

The hunter rubs off the ice crystals on his beard with his thick gloves and drags the dead seal down the sled. An adult seal can weigh 180kg, and the weight of this young seal is at least over 100kg. If he didn’t have a sled, he would have a hard time bringing the seal back after killing it.

The hunter lifts the woolen door curtain of the ice house. An Eskimo teenage girl stands up, “Dad, you catch a seal today?”

The hunter puts down the seal. Looking at his daughter Tess’s glad little face, he rubs her hair. Winter has gone and there will be enough food for them. His daughter will no longer be starved. How can he not be happy?

Tess runs out and hugs the sled dog. She comes back with the string of fish. Food is too much, so she buries the fish under the snow to keep them fresh and clean.

Tess is only ten years old but she has already started helping out her family. She skillfully butchers the seal along with her father.

“Dad, look!” While was.h.i.+ng the seal meat, Tess finds a bead covered in blood in its stomach. She rubs the bead on the snow and finds that it is a round and s.h.i.+ny pearl. She holds it up and shows it to her dad.

The hunter takes the pearl and looks at it. A pearl like this is rarely seen at the North Pole. G.o.d knows what the seal has eaten.

Since Tess likes the pearl, he gives it to her to play with.

The hunter feeds the dog with the seal’s viscera and comes back to enjoy the meat with his daughter.

It is hard to make a fire in this ice land. Thus, the Eskimos always eat raw meat for a living. Recently, with the development of society, few Eskimos still live in ice houses and eat raw meat except for those who live at the North Pole. The hunter and his daughter are two of the few people who stick to this traditional way of living.

After eating, Tess lies on the blanket and plays with the bead.

Some Eskimos live nearby, and they always help each other. The hunter sends most of the rest seal meat to his neighbors.

Tess is alone in the ice house. She is tossing the bead and enjoying the fun. The Eskimos came to the North Pole from Asia thousands of years ago, and they look like typical Mongolians: short figure, yellow skin, and black hair. Tess herself actually looks like a girl in the State of Huaxia.

The hunter is back. Seeing that Tess is still playing with the bead, he is glad that she likes it so much. Tess’s mother died while giving birth to her. All these years, he raised her with goat’s milk and went hunting to keep her stomach full. However, he really had no idea how to play with a teenage girl… Even the sled dog was able to make the little girl happier than he could.

There is no night in summer at the North Pole. It is the end of winter and the beginning of summer, and the night comes late with snowstorm.

Since they live in an ice house, they can’t make a fire at night or else the house may melt down. The hunter covers Tess with a thick blanket made of bear skin. He is so tired because of all the hunting today and he falls asleep soon at the other corner of the house.

Out of no reason, Tess is having a hard time sleeping tonight though she is full.

She is holding the bead she found in the seal’s stomach in her hand. The bead seems to be warm, and she doesn’t want to put it away in this cold night.

Tess has heard of several fairy tales. This bead comes to her in a strange way, so she feels that a fairy must live in the bead.

Certainly, until the little girl stays up late and finally falls asleep, no fairy comes out of the bead. Water Reiki is fluctuating around the bead, which is the reason why it attracts the little girl so much.

The next day is sunny. After having seal meat for breakfast, the hunter goes to discuss things with the neighbors.

Tess stays at home and plays with the sled dog. Water Reiki around the bead continues to gather, and its affinity makes the little girl unwilling to put it away.