18 Little Cecily (1/2)

Slipping into the tent that I share with my brother, I make my way around the table and slip into my bed, that's right next to his bed. We'd been sharing a tent for as long as I could remember, I love my brother dearly.

We'd been each other's closet friends, there weren't that many people that weren't that many people around us. Of course, living in a tribe we're all one big family in a sense, but that didn't mean that there weren't problems.

But now that we'd gotten to meet two other kids our age and befriended them. It felt like our small little world had expanded.

”Brother, did you mean what you said about us being life friends, with Hollis and Silvyr?” I ask him as he also climbs into his bed. We'd left Hollis houses a while ago, promising that we'd come back to see her and Silvyr another day.

It also seemed that our parents had; had a good chat with her parents, and we're allowed to stay camped outside of her mother's city.

Now we're just getting into bed, we have an early morning tomorrow. We had combat training and then training with elders and chores. Because we're nomads and we don't generally stay in one place for too long, we learn to fight early on. Living in a city that was protected by the dungeon tower was a luxury that we didn't have.

”Of course, you'd think I'd just say that all for show?” He asks with a smirk, as he grabs my hand.

”When have I ever let you down?” He questions.

”Never,” I say quietly.

”Exactly, I don't plan to start now. Plus, we've now got a new goal, our friends aren't humans like us. That means that they're naturally stronger than us, to begin with. If we want to keep our promise then we're going to have to work harder, way harder than them. As much as I don't want to admit it, they're going to surpass us with ease,” he says, clenching his free hand.

I grip his hand tighter; I knew that he was right.

”We can't fall behind! I know that I just turned five, but they've also just turned five, and she managed to send a kid flying through a wall like it was nothing! How are we going to catch up, and keep up with that?” I ask him bitterly.

I was angry at myself for being weak. In the pit of my stomach, I felt anger and anxiousness, I was nervous about what the future held.

”We'll just have to obtain our classes earlier! The way that Hollis was talking about it, seems like she's not going to waste any time on obtaining hers. She's going to try sooner, rather than later.

Her pace and our paces are naturally different, generally, I thought that Vampire didn't worry about things like that since they've got a long life span. But it seems that we've run into an abnormal vampire that wants to do things faster.

Seeing as that the case, then we need to also obtain our classes sooner, rather than later. It'll be the only way to keep up with those two,” he says with a faraway look in his eyes.

I open my mouth to say something but close it after a moment. He was right…

”That means that you'll have to learn the 「Winter Dance」from mother as fast as you can,” he says a look of determination brewing in those eyes of his.

The winter's dance, a technique that's been passed down from generation after generation to all the women of my Mother's tribe. It was a gift that they obtained from a frost dragon; my mother's ancestors had befriended one of their travel through the many territories.

The story goes…

That when my ancestors had been cast out of the human's homeland, they'd wandered and traversed many lands. Learning and experiencing a great deal of hardship and mysteries. Their travels had taken them into a freeze section of the draconic homeland, where they'd been battered by a blizzard.

The blizzard was so cold and harsh that it had caused them to lose their way in the icy tundra. At the mercy of the elements, many began to fall sick, while also many of them died from the cold.