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2024-10-29 19:42:56s still dark outside when the clock struck the fourth hour of dawn. Yet, Elena was all up already on her boots and dagger tuked on her waist. She left her wet dark hair hang over her shoulders. She smelled her clean jacket and wore it hiding the dagger inside it. Her jacket smelled ripe mangoes on a summer harvest
Pushing the wooden door, she crept to the cold dawn. She seemed very pleased. The morning greeted her and she felt the fresh whisper of the wind in her ears as if singing a morning greeting, touching her scalp like anointing her for a blessed
She sighed. She was no one. Elena de Leon. Granddaughter of the high Datu of Building. Her mother was the heiress of acres of lands which later on will becomes hers. But, she was nothing. Money didn't please her. What she wanted was the open field, running, dancing, singing, and swimming with her folks and with her town peopl
But, no. She was the heiress, the only heiress.
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"We have a problem that needed so much attention", Josh started. He looked over the circular table. Marcus Madrigal of Riverside was on his left and Michael Avila of the Mountains was on his right.It was a meeting of a council of three. But that number was not easy to gather. Josh had to force his guards to watch over, send assassins to kidnap and lay traps to take hold of them like a predator to its prey. But he was no predator. His purpose was a noble one and it concerned the future of their blood lineOn that table, they kept staring and hatred to each other was so obvious for reasons he didn't understand. Josh was the one who gathered the three on that round table and he felt obliged to speak even just for awhile ago, ge felt a cold feet"I don't know really understand the problems of our families. But, if you just listen for awhile... I would make things easier to understand and fast to conclude.
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A blind man was holding am empty tin can. He extended his arms from where he was sitting that the passers by, at their, he could collect some for his upset stomach. But, it seemed that no one had cared. It seemed that he was not the only blind in the world. It seemed that that the world had a bunch of blind eyesNear the bum, an Old man stood. His back slouched a bit of weary for the days of fishing. All his days were spent in the rivers with his nets. If not, the port was his place of trade. In his list, he had enough reasons to pass for a retirementThe street was full of people. Buzzing to and fro, strangers exchanging trades, gossipers sat at the corner, their daughters roaring at the place but no one had cared, the trade center looked an endless, which it was and it made Peter dizzyIf he could just have a little time sit, he would take it gladly as a reward. But, Joana was always the energetic as well as restless w
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She was the same sweet girl he had known before. The only girl who bounced a cheery greeting in gloomy morning, the new owner of the legendary crystal her family passed from generation to generation in honor of that family zest.One time, he saw her tending plants in the garden together with her mother. Gardening was the worst thing that could ever happen to him. So, irritated by what she was doing, dehe asked her how come she'd like to soil her hands for a boring work. She answered him, 'I else could I do?' He was startled then by her response that he asked her to come with him to hunt which startled him more for not declining.He thought she would go bored with it and go home. But, no. Hell. The little girl was a wild as a bear and as deft as a lioness to her prey.Her prey was a leopard, he could still remember how she built the trap to make it fall. Clever. Why need force to swing the sword or stretch the bow? He thought it was just luck. Her next prey
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Near the torch lighted from the entrance of the gates, a man was reading a text from an old parchment. In front of him, men, women and children form a circle. In the middle of them, a big fire was burnt. Michael wasstanding near the fire separate from the crowd."The Mountain people are born for the wild. Wild life is a free life." The man whose name was Juan, the prophet, read the testament of loyalty, reminding the people the pledge they had made before their gods. "Anyone who tries to destroy a free life is deemed to die."Then the drums rolled. Dancers of women half naked from the above and wearing a skirt of laces made of fleas skin dried in the sun started the ritual. The beat was fast. The dancers lost in the rhythm of it.After a apracticed beat, the drum stopped. Then the cows were brought in the aisle. According to the tradition, each one of the family who was present would offer a life in front of the gods and the people.Michael we
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Boldon was no longer the same as Josh left. She hadn't believe him left that way in silence. But, she could not trust herself seeing him in that old state. He had more than enough man could have in a lifetim Sheena stood quiet beside the window. The place was still the same place of lush meadows, thick forests and cultivated earth. Summer was coming and the corn field was glowing in golden crisps in the mild afternoo It would never be same as ever. Never. While she sat at the seats of Lords and Ladies of Boldon, she could not imagine how big the state was until she became one of the rulers. Josh had enough view of it and the view sagged his entire bones to death. His father, bless his memory, was a man of honor who put his words first for the good of his people before his famil The sun was setting and she could see the smooth glow of it resting from its whole damn big day. She wished she could lay do
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ist. Stand. Raise. Watch." In the darknes of the tunnel, the man who was shouting the command was audible,and Elena recognized it quite clearly who the voice belonged. When she emerged from the darkness following Raymond's lead, she could say how expert Lloyd really knew how to mobilize a command that from where he was standing, Elena could see him not a good target to shooThe noise of war had covered the entire state but that's not the thing that rang most in Elena's brain"Remember that," her mother's last word for her made her head spin like a trump. If it would not of Raymond, she would be tempted to remain with her mother. Her mother needed her. But, Sheena needed her to leave because Boldon needed her, her people needed herFear was not an emotion that she felt. Many times when she sneaked, the hunt always excited her. The smell of the wild and the bold always thrilled her. But now, fear had made her weak because
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"I am overwhelmed by the courage of Michael. 50 is to 1000," Marcus sai"He is such a baby," Joram of Silver Island commented. Though he knew that it was not war already, he preferred to ramain silent and just followed the old man"Outnumbered." Marcus smiled from above his seat knowing that victory favored himHis seat in the high place was made of white marble and it was a seat designed like a shell as if the one seating there was the precious pearl everyone dreamed to take possession ofThe seat was at the top of a 35 feet hill of white and granite stone with stairs encircling the place. It looked like an a cone with many layers of ice cream been scooped in it with the strawberry designed at the peak. The strawberry was the Captain's seaOn his throne, Marcus could see the whole place of Riverside. His palace, at what he thought was, stood in the middle of the ri
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"We have a chance to take Boldon"How was their preparation"The wall is as silent as ever. But the gates are close except for the east wall, the guards are very busyThe young man was still holding the scratch that was made the night of their oppression to the Riverside. It didn't really hurt. He was just felt being so foolish why he pretended to take the covenant his fathers and all the hunters took for nothing. The hunters are children of the Mother Mountains and they are brothers and sisters alike and no covenant can bind them because they are already binded by nature.They are free men"But its all part of the plan. Just the start of it." Michael said the night when he was tasked to lead the 50 hunters to give the appetizers of the war. The old man knew too well how hesitant he was in it. "Covenant like that has no power in our bloods. You can betray them then," he assured Rody
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"Have you eat something already?" Betty asked. "It's still a long day ahead."I did have," he replied. "A little. The young men ate all of it."That's why they looked so happy," she commented. "It's as if they actually made a joke that so silly."That is right," Rudolf said. "Who are their parents?"I don't know," she answered. She called the thin girl to come over her. "Well, young men these days, what could you possibly expect?"Generous?"Betty laughed at that. So hard and she was almost knocking herself. Rudolf didn't understand much though what's so hilarious with the statement."I am so sorry," she apologized as she wiped the little tears on her eyes. "That was the funniest thing I've heard since the . . . crash. Generous might have been a word when humanity knew how to build houses and created a neighborhood. Not possible on a time of survival."You can be wrong at that too," he said. "I have been generous
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Old Peter was there with a boat and there supplies which Elena told Lloyd to separate from the goods to be presented at the tradeElena breathed the air that once was full of sweet sweat of farming and the scent of vegetables and fruitThey glided from stalls to stalls, keeping their eyes open for possible encounters. Elena had always her dagger tucked in her waist. It's not visible to whoever she had with. Though Raymond knew it, and that Elena could handle herself well, he felt a sudden urge of protectiveness that was deep in his heart. He was nothing in him that would protect them but he felt so powerful that he didn't know how comeThe stalls had a few number of trading merchant farmers. Some were to their families fighting Boldon. They were safeTheir next passage was pass the port"Your mother was a born businesswoman," Elena said in hushed tone
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It's the first time she met Joana, wife of Jonathan, as it was the first time she saw fleets so massive like that. Ships who were not just carrying goods to trade but the new world itself. Civilization was sailing towards Highlands and it's first footsteps echoed already on shore announcing its arrivaBut her amazement and awe to the arriving ships were not the same reaction she felt towards the Madrigal woman on porSusan met Jonathan once on the Mountain. As well because, it was just rarely when she came down the comfort of the Mountains and mingled in the plainlands. Jonathan and her bastard brother Raul were good friends through Sheena de Leon. She bet, on those times, the Eagle and the lioness of Boldon already had their good times and Jonathan had already run dry of lucks even before he got his sight to SheenThough Jonathan hadn't had tgat kind of affection towards Sheena as what Raul had, Susan knew too well the glitter of adm
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It must be a wonderful morning. The breeze felt warm to the skin and great for breathing. It felt more like having a good sunbath on a late afternoon twilight. She opened her eyes and her very own private pool in the secret underground of the Palace satisfied her with the things she would never felt outside.She used to be alone - even before. So, it did not matter to her. She learned that being alone was much better to be with someone who wished no blessings for her. There were too many who wished to be closed with her - to befriend her. However, those whom she learned to give entrance to her personal life were either dead or a villain."This is much better," she said to no one in particular. "If your cage gives you satisfaction, why do you need to get out?"Prisoners in jail are given food, shelter and clothes. They just have to do some chores like what we do in the house as mortals. But they are not truly free.Elena had been listen
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She looked back on the wooden stairs which spiralled the Great Tree of the Sky Kingdom. This tree stood thousands of years, towering around a thousand miles from the ground. Everything looked like ants down from there and the wind whooshed and howled like a giant storm was coming."You know Rudolf's portals?" Ray, the Siren, asked behind her.Elena did not turned to face him. She knew what he would say and she did not care about it. The Sirens made their way with the gods and there was no point of befriending them if their loyalty could not be trusted"Yes," Elena replied. "Rudolf is a powerful Magician."You should know that he does not make portals before," Mark announced, not moving from where he was standing. "I am a Siren and the making of gates and portals should only be known to Sirens."And yet, Rudolf knows. Is that his mistake that you taught him how to muster the gift?Of course, Elena knew that the late King of the Sky King
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Exhausted and starving, Raymond urged himself not to collapse. He pushed his way out to the dark tunnel. At his right side, he supported Elena's weight. If he would collapse, nothing would help them. If he would collapse, who would take of Elena? No. He wouldn't collapse and lost consciousness. He had a lady to take of. The lady so much precious in his lifElena had lost consciousness right when they were about to find a way out from the steel door they had entered from the inside tunnel from the Water Palace. He thought it was exhaustion that Elena fainted but he realized that he even was fainting. The darkness was to thick but it wasn't just the darkness who was tempting him to surrender to unconsciousness. It was these voices. "So many voices I couldn't determine who," he told Elena. Elena told him that she heard it too. However, what he heard was different. Those were crying of people alive. His were dying crieIt's almost dark whe
