211 Waking Up In Bed With A Woman Isnt Always A Good Thing (2/2)

Get dressed and come downstairs when you're ready. You need to eat and let you're family know that you are doing ok. Laz then slid open the window of Sarah's room, jumped onto the outcropping and took a leap off the roof. Landing on the ground, he felt like he was going to pass out, but managed to stay on his feet. Laz then went over to the wood pile on the side of the building, grabbed a few logs and made his way out towards the fields.

It was already the morning of the next day, which meant they had been out for many hours. Laz felt like he was seriously hungry. At the same time, Laz knew that Tyr was nearby, waiting for him.

Laz finally located Tyr who was sitting near the forest on an overhang of rock, one that looked out over the miles upon miles of forested lands. Tyr had a nicely wrapped web sack behind him and already had a pile of rocks and wood set up for a fire. Seeing Laz arrived, the big guy suddenly turned small and hop up on Laz's shoulder, rubbing his head against him.

”I'm fine. I'm fine. Thanks for getting everything ready. Are you hungry too?” Laz asked, seeing the excited little spider.

:Hungry,: was his reply and Laz laughed. He knew Tyr could take care of himself and had probably already eaten, but Tyr seemed to enjoy eating cooked food too, something which he couldn't do for himself.

As Laz started up the fire and got to roasting the still fresh demon beast meat that had been stored perfectly in Tyr's self made sack, Laz sat back and pulled out a bottle of whiskey that he had saved in his storage pouch. He had other bottles that he had gotten, different kinds and different spirits, but this one he had saved since it had originally been shared between him and two others.

For some reason, tonight seemed like a good night to drink it and remember.

...

Sarah's family was ecstatic that she was fine and Onacona couldn't thank Laz enough. The old man had been worried that he would lose his granddaughter since they had lost everyone else from this. Only after he was assured that she was fine did he relax. Laz spent the next few days sharing the technique he had used with his spiritual sense to help the infected get through the initial awakening. Laz then spent a bunch of time with Sarah, sharing with her all of the things he knew about realms, advancing, getting stronger and using the technique he had devised, the infinity technique.

She treated all of his words as pearls of wisdom and wrote all of it down, but only after he told her she was free to. It wasn't some sort of secret technique or forbidden knowledge he shared so she was free to pass it along and use it as much as she was able to.

Neither of them spoke about what had happened in Sarah's room.

Between teaching Sarah and Onacona, Laz's days were pretty busy. He still spent time burning off the grey fog as much as possible. Laz wasn't sure, but the fog seemed like some sort of energy that didn't belong. It was very different than anything he had encountered before, like the heat energy of the nectar or the cold energy form the pond. As Laz burned it away, he would occasionally feel the fresh energy seep into his bones and organs. It was like, his inner body was getting a strong injection of something that Laz couldn't figure out. Unlike when he had tempered his body within the stone pool, this was more inside than out.

That was the only thing preventing Laz from going crazy at the slowness of the whole thing.

After things had settled back down, Onacona came to Laz one night while he was enjoying a demon beast roast with Tyr. Laz wasn't being anti social by not eating with the family, he did still have breakfast and lunch with them. Laz was just making sure to spend time with Tyr and focusing on calming his mind.

It wasn't easy, trying to work through those lines he had learned, over and over again. But he felt that it was helping.

Seeing the old man walk up, Laz offered him a stump which he happily sat on while Laz went back to cooking.

”You don't seem surprised to see me?”

”Well, I figured you knew where I was and what I was doing, so no. Not really.” Laz replied back, offering the old man some wine he had gotten from he forgot where. He only barely remembered something about Vivi ordering it online for some reason when she told him about it and then never hearing about it again. Apparently, she had stored it in the pouch because she accidently ordered a ton and had no way to get rid of it. Either way, he had kept it since it wasn't bad.

”It's not that.”

”Oh? What is it?”

”You've... already helped me more than enough. Saving Sarah and teaching me how to save others.”

”Just spill it old man, no worries.” Laz laughed at he looked up at the stars.

”It's Kamama.”

”Sarah? What about her?” Laz was now fully paying attention.

”I don't know. But she seems to be always looking somewhere. I didn't understand where, at first. But then I figured it out. She is staring at these woods. Sometimes for hours on end. And she's been so quiet lately. Normally, she's on her phone or wanting to go somewhere and do something. But now, she sits quietly in her room, looking out the window.” Laz hadn't noticed, but that was because he was so busy during the day, he didn't have time to.

”Did you ask her about it?” Laz asked.

”I did. She said... the forest... it's spirits... seemed to be calling for her.”