Chapter 28 - An Unfortunate Encounter (1) (2/2)
Silence soon fell between them. And during their silence, Leah could only blink at the dim light. Despite calling Ishakan insane, she too could feel herself going crazy.
Amidst the silence, she slowly closed and opened her eyes. Even though she called Ishakan crazy, Leah herself is going nuts at this very moment, too.
He truly is a dangerous person—someone not to be involved with.’ She thought grimly. ‘The king of the enemies with an unidentified purpose.
But Leah was still curious about Ishakan, and seeing no other way to quench her curiosity, she opened her mouth to speak.
“You-” but she was quickly cut off by the sound of boisterous laughter, and booming music that was reverberating in the alleyway. Her curiosity shifting towards the noise, she pushed Ishakan aside to look out, and saw a band of Gypsies dancing about in the alley.
Their laughter too had caught Ishakan’s attention, who had mirrored Leah’s actions, before muttering under his breath. “Tomaris.” he grunts and Leah looks at him in confusion, “You people might know them as Gypsies.” he clarifies for her as he continues to observe them, “I don’t like them much really.” he admits.
Like most people in the continent, Kurkans steer clear of Gypsies. After all, they never settle in one place for long, and do the odd job or two to make a living. Their jobs range from selling handicrafts, to luring people in ridiculous astrological myth, singing, dancing, and so on.
But even more so is the blatant prostitution that occurs whenever Gypsies band together, which only serves to endager public security and peace. But despite their negative reputation, they still existed because some people do keep them running.
However, there are also some who are well-versed in the art of sorcery. And because of this, more often than not, wealthy merchants, and even the nobles, would secretly seek out their services, buying love potions, or cursed dolls, and would pay them in securing their safety and livelihood.
There also stemmed the old warning, that when one would mess with Gypsies, bad things will come. Hence most people turn a blind eye to their lawlessness.
Such a troublesome group indeed.
“They’re like weeds,” he grumbled, “No matter how hard you pluck them out, more of them keeps popping out.” he let out a defeated sigh, “I’m not in the mood anymore.” he said in a distasteful frown, before turning towards Leah, and pulled her close to him once more.
“Do you think we can pick up from where we left off?” he asked her teasingly, but Leah couldn’t find the words to reply to him with. He chuckled at her speechlessness, until they heard someone calling for him urgently.
“Ishakan!”
It was a whisper.
“Ishakan!” it repeated.