It has been a week since I arrived here and the sister still seems to be reluctant to trust in me. I can't blame her since it is a time war and trusting strangers instantly would be quite dumb. She constantly observes me and evaluates me and any move I make. She doesn't want to trust me but has to put all her faith on me, quite a dilemma if you ask me.
One of these days, Darian took me to two other children, both boys who seemed like twins as both had blonde hair with green eyes and almost same facial structure. They were also malnourished and scrawny but when they saw Darian they seemed to perk up a little.
They were playing around and eventually they gathered up some dirt and and threw it in the sewage system and gathered it up. Then the three of them collectively made mud into round disc shape without even adding any salt probably due to scarcity of salt. Then it was left to dry in the sun for hours. That thing they created was a contaminated mess, I don't know how they are even living at this point, depending on that. The war seems to be very really bad since famine is this bad.
I made the excuse that I am low on energy and was unable to help them by conjuring up anything for a couple of day since I wanted observe how grim things were currently.
While the cookies were drying, they traveled to various place and dragged me with them.
At first I was taken into an open space which seemed to contain several types of plant. The three boys were gathering them up, while I looked after the boy Darian from afar. Those three boys gathered a lot herbs. I have yet to know for what purpose. The place was damp and reeked of the smell dirt.
Then, the boys took me to a quite a lengthy journey. The path was quite hectic, since it was full of pebbles and point rocks and the were walking on it with barely intact shoes which was as good as bare foot. They place also seemed to have remnants and piece of the war as there were broken spear, swords, wands and corpses that have been rotting for a while in the path.
It took us few hours to reach an abandoned town. It also seemed pretty ravaged. There was no sign of life there. All that seemed to have filled was lacking. The air was thick with the smell of blood. Most likely due to the effect of war.
The boys were ravaging through the place, they went through various houses. First they went to two story house and looked through everything there for around thirty-minutes, they looked through various chest, closets and drawer. To end up of being disappointed as they didn't find anything in there.
Then we slowly made our way back to the original town. We took a stop here and there so the boys could rest. It was almost night time by time when we came back and the three boys divided the mud cookies they made along with the herbs they gathered which was also divided but Darian got the largest share. Then each went to back to their respective homes.
When we were making our way home Darian said, "Please, don't tell about that Hodie mihi sis." from what I could make of it, it seems like he wants me to keep quiet about today's events . Also seems like I have a lot learn about this language
I suppose I can comply with that request since it doesn't affect me in anyway.
Later when we made it to the house. Darian as soon as he reached there gave him sister the mud cookies and herbs he collected through out the day.
So, it seems they were making those to support their houses and eat for themselves. And Darian probably got largest portion due to his sister.
Maris then got up and smiled looking at him and started looking at the items, he brough. She first then ate the mud cookies he brought to her. She chomped each of them down with a smile, it seemed like she was having a hard time to swallow through but the boy didn't notice that. Then she ate the herbs that was brought by the boy.
Then I saw a another stash of herbs like that next to her. So, the boy always gathers these herbs for her to help her get better. And the ones she could not eat was left aside. He looked at her and said, "Eat these you will feel better, Sis.". She looked at him and smiled along with a nod.
He probably believes that it is a conventional illness. So that's why he gathered those herbs. The herbs more or less were to say not ideal. A lot of those were poisonous and contaminated. And they have been living like this for while. It is truly one of the worst cases I have ever seen.
I replaced some of the herbs with something that would be useful quickly, since it would not be ideal for me if something were to happen to her. Moreover, I cleansed those mud cookies since they were literal poisons. The town's residing folk survived on that as well. They most likely have the poorest health tons of infection and disease, and this worlds seems to lack significant technological advancement so most of them can't be cured. They most likely carry several diseases in their bodies.
I will have to clear these two of the diseases since, I still need them to learn various things from these two.
Also the sister seemed to feel a little better after eating the herbs that I replaced. And the boy seemed to perk up after seeing this.
Some time passed by, I was learning some vocabulary from Marias. My vocabulary increased quite a bit. Her brother was next to her sleeping peacefully. Then she suddenly asked, "Did he go to the other town?". I simply stayed quiet and she seemed to have caught on. "He looks pretty very accersitum,(strained) so he most verisimile(likely) to the other town. I told him many time not to go there, but he won't listen to me." She sighed.
After that, she went to sleep as well. I just sat there quietly gathering my thoughts. Humans are truly interesting specimen to study. They are quite resilient and will do anything to survive. Quite stubborn but noteworthy I suppose.
Though I still need to find the cause of Maria's illness and understand this world. Also, the illness is blocking something inside her.
I headed out and conjured up some food and water for the sibling pair. I left them some food with nutritious food. Since, I need them to be alive.
I gathered some corpses from the path where everything was ravaged. I had to dissect few things to understand few things in this world. I had picked up these skills from various other worlds and they prove quite handy.
It seems like Esenia is the building block of everything in this world.
I did research till the next noon. I learnt quite a bit of things. Some people are able to manipulate this energy. There were quite a few people who had unique paths inside their body and they contained some amount of Esenia. Even further there were four types of these paths but each were quite unique but can be generalized into three basic structures. I have to learn how each path behaves.
After this, I went back to their siblings house, and the boy was weeping while Maria was trying calm him down. And as soon as the boy saw me he ran towards me and hugged me. Seems like he has grown attached to me, most likely due to losing his parents at a young age.
It could prove to be quite problematic in the future. Then the sister looked at her brother and sighed and looked at me and said, "Next time please inform us if you go outside." I looked at her and simply nodded.
Few days had gone by since that incident. When I was looking after Darian, he and three boys ventured a little too far while observing them from afar then a wild bear had attacked them before they were able to react as it came out of nowhere.
The bear managed to get one of the twins as the bear ripped the boy in half. It was a gore sight blood splattered everywhere, covered both the boys in blood. They both seemed extremely frightened by that. When suddenly something interesting happened. Darian created some stones and hit the bear with high velocity. The bear was unaffected as it was going to attack Darian, I went ahead a aged it until only bones were left.
It's flesh and organs vanished in front of us, both the boys seemed surprised by it.
Darian fainted right there and the other boy was shaken looking at the dead corpse with no life in those eyes. He stayed like that. I then advised him to return to his house but I told him it was dangerous there. He said, "My brother....". I then stated, "He died but you should count yourself lucky, now return to your home." then carried Darian home.
The boy kept looking at his brother's corpse.
He looked disheartened and made a facial expression that resembled one of person who didn't have the will to live.
I didn't care about the other boy but it would be troublesome for me later as Darian could be affected.
When I reached his house, his sister who was anxiously waiting for him saw his state, covered in blood and fainted, instantly got out of bed and tried to run towards us but she just fell forward. I then put Darian on the bed and explained her the situation. "And that's how he ended up fainting"
"I see", she replied with relief with sigh. Then she thanked me by saying, "Thank you for salutaris(saving) him. He is omnia(everything) to me." and few tears were starting to come out of her eyes.
I then went outside since she probably doesn't want me, a stranger, there in a vulnerable state.
The next, day when Darian woke up. The first thing he did was puke probably due to the gore scene he remembered.
Then after calming down he asked me about the other boy. I told him, "I don't know as I came here as soon as he fainted."
Then he abruptly rushed out after hearing that. Then I followed his suit and reached the town's center.
What I saw was truly gore and disgusting. The corpse of the two young boys were being eaten by the people there.
That very sight broke the boy immensely, he looked deeply saddened and raged. He went towards the people and punched them. He then said enraged, "What are you doing?". The people simply looked at him with confusion and one of them said, "Filling our stomachs" . That seemed to have enraged the boy even more and he scream voice full of anger and resentment, "With them? Why?". Then another one said, "Because we don't have enough food and we have been abandoned. Also we can't get in to the next town due to threat of monsters, war and the path is super unsafe kiddo. What choice do we have?"
Darian was going to jump on him but I caught him and took him back home. He was severely angry and cried for several hours. He then feel asleep after hours of crying on his sister's lap.
She looked at him and sighed. She then said, "I feel paenitet(sorry) those kids, and I am more worried about my brother since he saw that atrox(gruesome) sight. I spes(hope) he is bene(fine)"
I stayed quiet since, I didn't know what to say. But after sometime, I remembered something. I then looked at the sister and asked, "People aren't leaving this place due to danger of beasts, monsters and war, itself?" She looked at me and nodded, then I asked, "Has this town truly been abandoned?".
"I highly doubt they we were abandoned but rather people most likely think we are dead here since we are the closest to the border." She replied.
That intrigued me because from her tone she seemed confident and had a differing opinion than the people. I asked her, "How are you so sure?"
She pointed at herself without an elaboration. When I was about to ask for elaboration. She requested me something,
"Please agmine(help) him" she said as pointing to her brother. "You seem to be a satis(pretty) good conjurer yourself so please agmine(help) him use his powers properly." she added in a pleading tone. And coughing up some blood. She seemed desperate for it.
I simply nodded as the idea of having an disciple is pretty intriguing.