416 Evening talk part 2 (1/2)
While I didn't expect this to be brough up at this moment, all the possible reasons for this information being hidden on the beach and revealed when I was already in their village popped up in my head, almost making me reach for the snakebite that was lying beside me. Only the peaceful and calm expression of Jeleria made me hold my hand for long enough to let her explain herself.
\”You see, it's not about knowing IF there is a ship coming from a different island. It's about, which island did you even mean in the first place?\”
Asking this question, Jeleria threw me a playful and sad glance, as if she knew what sort of thoughts that would provoke in my mind.
And even if unintentionally, she was perfectly right!
There was more than one island that this heavenly city was in contact with? What was the nature of the relationship between those islands and this particular one? What was the deeper meaning of this all?
\”Can you go on? I have a feeling that there is a lot more that you want to say right now.\”
I don't know why I said that. For some reason, I had this gut feeling that this wasn't the end, not even the middle but barely a beginning of her story!
\”The question is, can you afford the cost of my story?\”
Throwing me yet another of her playful glances, Jeleria scanned my face, as if wanting to gauge my reaction to her offer.
\”What do you want, if it's about sex…\”
\”Don't give me that crap.\”
Cutting my words right when they began, she looked at me sternly, as if angry that I dared to disrespect her. In the end, her character was far more complicated than I bothered to assume earlier. While she already admitted that she and other people from this tribe would do almost anything to have a powerful heir capable of lifting them from their current status, when I actually was about to offer an honest dosage of my seed, she acted as if I ridiculed her!
But instead of making me angry, she actually piqued my interest.
\”What do you want then?\”
Turning my head to face her as a man should face a woman, instead of throwing her nonchalant glances from time to time, I looked her deeply in the eyes, fully serious.
\”Let's continue it elsewhere.\”
Instead of coming clean on her wishes, Jeleria stood up, patted her ass as if she didn't want the dust from the bench to stay on her pitiful cloth before reaching with her hand, grabbing my right arm and pulling me forward.
Grabbing my staff with my free hand, I allowed her to pull me out from the bench and followed her. Walking at a normal pace through the village, the fact that she was the one pulling me somewhere attracted a lot of curious gazes, instantly changing to an expression of jealousy on the faces of both the girls and men that watched us go.