Chapter 135 - Go Home (Part Two) (1/2)

Tess is burying her face in the peach she is eating. For the last few days, she has eaten roasted seal meat, fish soup, sautéed meat with chives, and some incredibly delicious peaches… Little Tess believes that she has tasted so much food which she will have no chance to taste again in her life.

She doubts that she may have a hard time getting used to eating raw meat again after she gets home.

The longer Tess is with Lin, the more she confirms that Lin is a fairy.

If Lin were not a fairy, how could she not fear the coldness? How could she make fire out of nothing and conjure so many ingredients which Tess never saw before?

Tess puts a peach in her hat and plans to take it back home to her dad.

Lin Luoran notices what Tess has done, but she is not in the mood to care about this.

She has been walking in the wrong direction during the last two days. She never saw anybody around. Lin thinks it over and realizes that this little girl can’t be wandering on the ice land alone. Her house should be nearby. Lin Luoran was searching in a range way too large, which made things more troublesome.

Lin Luoran returns to the spot where she met Tess and the snow has covered all the footprints. Yet, the two of them are getting closer during the days.

Tess is really smart and sensible. She knows that “fairy” can’t understand the language she speaks, so she says a word over and over again. Later, Lin Luoran learns how to p.r.o.nounce the word and understands that this is the little girl’s name.

Tess is only ten years old. Every time Lin Luoran cooks, Tess volunteers to butcher the fish and clean the meat. Her hands are red due to the coldness and she still smiles brightly…

Lin Luoran gets along well with Tess. If Tess didn’t have a family, Lin would like to bring her home and raise her with Luodong.

Listening to the noise nearby, Lin Luoran feels like a strange woman who tries to abduct a child. Little Tess does have a family… Lin forgets about bringing Tess back and starts to be happy for Tess.

Lin and Tess met on the ice land and spent two days together. Lin makes some gestures with her right hand and infuses a stream of pure water Reiki into Tess’s head. Will little Tess become smarter with the nourishment of Reiki? Time will give the answer. Anyhow, the Reiki won’t do any harm.

In a hurry, Lin Luoran looks through all her belongings and can’t find any souvenir to give to Tess. There are a few pieces of ancient jade pendant she bought to study Commander Qin’s protection pendant. Back then, she drew down the magic circle on the protection pendant and prepared to practice the spells in the secret land. She didn’t have time to do that, and these jade pendants she bought were left in her s.p.a.ce. Lin Luoran takes one out, thinks for a while and starts to make a gold spell.

Gold spells major in attack. Gold is originally the sharpest in the five elements. Gold Reiki is so thin on the ice land, and Lin Luoran exerts herself to cast a “Sting Tip Spell”. As the name suggests, the spell creates a needle sharp as the sting of a wasp, which is used to do sneak attacks.

Lin Luoran controls the needle to move on the jade pendant. Later, she blows away the dust. Two figures are carved on the little pendant. It is the profile of Lin Luoran and Tess’s smiley face. A row of small characters are carved in Mandarin— “To Little Tess at the North Pole”.

Lin hangs the jade pendant on Tess’s neck and gives her another peach. Lin touches Tess’s little head, points at herself and says slowly in Mandarin, “Lin, Luo, Ran.”

Tess is happy after receiving the gift. She understands that these three syllables are the name of the fairy. Tess lowers her head and reads the syllables for a few times. When she looks up happily because she has memorized the fairy’s name, Tess only sees the white snow. The fairy is nowhere to be found.

Tess suddenly realizes that the beautiful pendant is a farewell gift from the fairy!

She stands still and looks around. Her eyes turn red and she can’t help crying.

Hearing the girl’s cry, a man at the other side of the snow dunes is thrilled. He drags his weary feet and shouts, “Tess, where are you?”

His daughter is not dead… The hunter has been searching with the neighbors for days but they always missed Lin and Tess. He was unwilling to give up so he went out searching once again and he actually found his daughter.

Hearing her father’s voice, Tess shouts, “I’m here!” The hunter climbs over the snow dunes and hugs Tess tightly in his arms.

Tess buries her head in his father’s coat and looks at the other people from the tribe. She hides the peach under her clothes and doesn’t talk about her encounter with the fairy.

With the jade pendant hanging on her neck, in her father’s arms, Tess thinks of Lin’s care for her during the last two days. She feels that the hole in her heart which has been there all her life is filled…