Chapter 145: Moving
(Traytora POV)
I was taken to go and eat sothing, but I still felt hungry. I wasn’t craving to devour soone, I just needed more food. I did ask but was denied as rations needed to be saved so they could last as long as possible.
I felt weak, not just physically, but spiritually as well. I didn’t know what happened but I could feel that my soul was now broken sohow. I hadn’t taken a look as I wasn’t in the mood, and... I was also scared.
There was also sothing else about
that had changed, though I’m not quite sure what it was, nor did I care right now.
With nothing else to do I just kind of sat in one spot, not doing anything. I could see people passing by, carrying things to places and generally preparing to move the population to sowhere else, or so I heard.
I could hear them whispering about
but I didn’t pay any attention to what they were saying at all. Eventually a Harpy girl ca over to
and asked
to co with her, and with nothing better to do, I did.
She soon brought
to an infirmary, where several people lay in beds, either ill or dying. Witnessing this did not improve my mood. She brought
over to a private ’room’ which was just a curtain surrounding a bed, and in that bed was Dorrak.
"Ah, you’re here." He said with a tired and wizened voice.
*Cough* *Cough* *Cough* *Cough*
He began coughing and the harpy rushed to his side and cast her magic on her to heal him. He stopped soon after and signalled
to co over.
I did so and held the hand he stretched out to .
He spoke up but had trouble breathing so he had to stop so he could breathe properly "I’m... I’m sorry that I... I couldn’t... Fulfil my... Duties to you..."
His eyes seed faded and unfocused, and I could tell that he was just looking in my general direction rather than straight at . I lowered my head in guilt at my own failure.
I failed to protect my future wife and child, my ho and now him. Just how much more would I lose in my life? Who else would leave
in the future? What other horrors would I be subjected to?
"Ah... Don’t cry, Traytora... You need to be... Be strong... Be brave... Be... Be... Ha... aa... aa-aap..." Before he could finish what he wanted to say, he fell asleep, never to wake up again.
Tears imdiately began running down my face as I continued to hold his hand until I passed out.
When I woke up it the next day, and I was inside a very familiar room. It was her room, which quickly beca my room as well. It was rather dusty and only seed to have been brushed recently but not cleaned, leaving the dust to settle once again.
I looked outside at the rays of the sun, ray of light shining through the thick clouds in the sky. There was also no snow, signalling the end of winter.
’That explains why I woke up so early...’ I remarked to myself. Then I heard a growl coming from my stomach, so I got out of bed and went over to the wardrobe to get a set of clothes to wear, leaving a trail behind
as I shifted over the dust.
I went and got my serving of breakfast, but again, it wasn’t enough. I knew that I should make so sort of effort to sustain my body, but... I just couldn’t. I couldn’t muster the will to do so.
And not only that, but I also hadn’t bathed in months apparently. I don’t know how long I had been out for after... Then... But apparently, it was a very long ti, and I was well overdue for a bath. But just like my desire to consu, I had no desire to be clean. I didn’t care that I was dirty, or hungry, or in pain, I just wanted peace and happiness. Sothing I’d never been able to find.
’I just want to be happy... Why can’t I be happy?’
I was interrupted from my sobbing session when soone ca up to
and told
to pack my stuff, as we were leaving in two days. I just nodded in response and mindlessly went back to the manor, which I only just noticed had been partially destroyed on one side.
I didn’t bother brooding over that fact as I searched my room for so of my things when Ayuri suddenly ca into my room, wearing a full maid outfit, and not a provocative attire. Said outfit was covered in stains and dirt. She also seed a bit tired.
"I’m here to help you pack mistress." She said with a tired dullness in her voice.
I just nodded and we spent the rest of the day packing most of my things, along with so of... hers... Not big things, just a few items that were important to her...
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Those couple of days passed by rather quick for , and during those days, Ayuri had managed to get
to take a bath, but I still felt horrible.
Regardless, today was the day that we would be saying goodbye to Athenela, and moving to a new location. We would be bringing all of the dead along with us to bury in the new sanctified grounds on several wagons. We would also be carrying everything else that was of practical use besides any small personal possessions which we would carry on our own person.
Before we left though, a small ceremony was held, where the city would be lit ablaze in a glorious fire that would symbolise the end of an era. We parted for our unknown destination soon after.
The mood was bleak throughout the whole trip. We were attacked by the occasional wild beast-kin, but only the smaller, more stupid ones, which helped out our food situation, but not by much. We had to assign so hunters that would go ahead of us and hunt the creatures in the forest to help with that issue.
I chuckled inaudibly as this reminded
of when I first travelled to Athenela. It brought back mories of a happier ti. A ti I wish I could go back to.
But... That ti has passed... And here we are... Trodding along, onwards to our new destination.
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It took us well over a month of gruelling and tiring travel, through rain and thickets aplenty, but eventually, the hunters found a decent clearing off of the path we were headed and we all turned to head towards it, reaching it within a couple of days.
When we arrived, everyone was quickly assigned to certain tasks to help out. Most people were assigned to cutting down the trees on the outskirts of the forest to make more room for the temporary shelters.
I was sent to go and get firewood, and while I was out looking, I found a wild Boar-kin. It tried to charge at
so I killed it. It took
a mont to realise what I had just done, but when I did, I realised that this would help fill
up and appease my hunger to a certain extent. That, and I didn’t feel like lugging it back to camp. So, I made sure nobody was looking and ate it, sending it down into my second stomach imdiately.
After eating, I continued to pick up so sticks that would be useful as firewood. I’m not sure why I was doing this because we could just use the sticks from the trees being cut down instead, but I continued collecting anyways, I had nothing better to do anyways.
When I returned, I was proven right when there was a large pile of sticks off to the side. I just threw what I collected into the pile.
With nothing else to do, I went over to the wagons that were carrying the dead. And upon seeing , the people who were offloading them asked
to help. I then asked where we were taking them and they just said to follow them.
So of the bodies were wrapped up in an enchanted cloth and so weren’t. Either way, it didn’t matter much to
as I just helped them move everything near the middle of the encampnt that we were making, and I also saw people digging a giant pit, which I assud was where we would be burying the bodies.
I continued helping out with moving said bodies and found that there weren’t as many as I would’ve thought, as they burned so of the bodies into ashes in a mourning ritual and then placed said ashes into pots. These pots would then be buried alongside the remaining bodies in a funeral ritual, to purify them before returning them to nature.
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