Chapter 51 the barons hospitality 1 (1/2)

Mars in the tea room and petted Victoria that was laying on his lap purring loudly while he waited for Reimund to arrive, and decided to meditate as he closed his eyes while he felt the purring vibrations that shook his core slightly and moved on the pet Victoria's ears causing her to purr even louder

”...how did you know?”

”hmm?”

Mars still sat with his eyes closed but he knew it was the beastwoman Elsa that had asked him with her crystal clear voice

”...about my daggers”

”oh that... they are old right?”

”yes... they are about 10 years old”

”that's how i knew”

”...how?”

Mars took a deep breath before he began explaining

”first it's the smell of polished metal, while you could have been polishing some silverware before I arrived the slight sound the 2 daggers make when they hit the lightly lose sheaths while you walk gave it away”

”...you sure have good ears... for a human youth”

Mars gave a sigh and shifted his hand to patting Victoria on the edge of her ears

”well I'm not exactly human”

”...what does that mean?”

”it means what that I'm not completely human”

Elsa remained silent, Mars didn't know if she belied him or not but he didn't care enough to open his eyes to cheek, nor to explain any further so for a time the only sound in the room was Victoria's purring and a few minutes later Mars's eyes snapped open

'here he comes'

Mars picked up Reimund's footsteps through the wall and a few moments later Elsa's ears also seemed to pick up the movement as they twitched slightly and went over and opened the door when Reimund was about to and gave a bow

”master, madam”

”oh thanks Elsa”

Reimund walked through the door followed by a mature lady that had flowing blond-yellow hair that reached her hips, and with cures in the right places Mars found himself staring a bit to long at her until he looked a her face and saw yellow eyes and a bright smile that reminded him of the sun and praised

”Reimund i thought you were going to get your wife, but this beautiful young lady can't possibly be form the same generation as you”

”oh my, Reimund I like him already”

Reimund gave a sigh and sat down, deciding to ignore his wife as he started his back and asked Mars while the old butler from earlier served the tea along with some small cookies

”so Mars can you tell me what happened in the forest?”

”sure...”

Mars stopped petting Victoria and put on a serious face

”I was on my way out of the forest, where I have been living most of my life by the way when I ran into a group of about 15 goblins witch I swiftly took care off, when I ran into you son”

of cause 'most of his life' was only 2 months but Mars felt no need to mention this as it would make the whole situation more complicated

”I see... you certainly look like someone that have lived far from civilization but the Mother forest huh... didn't the elvers trouble you?”

”yeah that is also the reason I left the forest, I had a run in with a squad of elvers a few days ago and decided to leave the forest before they hunted me and Victoria down”

lady Orbrage gave a sigh and looked at Mars with concern in her eyes

”that certainly most have been hard... do you have any idea where your parents are?”

”no, but my dad is long dead”

”I see...”

Mars felt a little touched by the lady but decided to move on with his story

”well anyway, your son showed up with 5 armed people he seemed to have hired for some sort of hunter test and commanded one of them to chase me away so he could claim the goblin corpses”

Reimund gave a sigh and began to rub his forehead while lady Orbrage narrowed her eyes and sent out a lightly concealed pressure

”that person then demanded I hand over all the magic cores and coins in my possession if I wanted to keep my life, which I of cause refused and then he attacked me”

”fortunately for me he was an armature with the sword so i quickly... took care off him, then the rest took up a formation to attack me but I made a preemptive strike and killed them with my fire magic and then i knocked out your son and dragged him to the gates were i turned him in to the guards”

Reimund gave another sigh and lady Orbrage remained silent but Mars noticed her hair was lightly flowing around like the wind was blowing it while small electric currents jumped between her hair, her eyes had also turned even colder

”...Reimund”

”I know Irene... I agree, Sebastian please make perpetration for sending Stephen off to the knight school in the capital”

”at once master”

the old butler gave a bow and walked out off the room and Irene seemed to clam down a bit as she gave a sweet smile to Mars

”thank you for telling us this... hopefully this will build some character on that useless son of mine...”

”no problem, but why don't you doubt what I say?”

Reimund gave a slightly defeated smile