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"Miss Moon used to have a tiger friend."
"For real? I an, a friend?"
Eon broke the bread in two and handed the smaller piece to Zoe.
"Yeah. She, well, she used to live in this big, pretty place where she used to have all kinds of things. I an, you know how her father used to be a rich rchant? He bought everything she whimsically asked for, even a tiger."
The past that Miss Moon and her father shared, the mory fragnt that her father had given her, also contained the mories of when she was younger.
She had forgotten so of those things when she started practicing dark arts, but thanks to the fragnt, she rembered those things. At least, so of those things.
"She did not really understand how her father actually sent her a tiger, a young, living tiger. She was just joking when her father asked her to ask him for anything. It was a playful father's rather serious offer, and she still took it as a joke and asked for sothing she thought she would never get.
Oh, ever since she was young, Miss Moon has liked the Tigers. She actually loved the more colorful ones like Taika so her request wasn't that surprising for her father."
Since her father could not be with her most of the ti after a point, he wanted her to have a friend who could be with her as well. Sadly though, the gift that he brought her, the tiger cub that did not have a mother, was going to die in the woods of that forest without any help anyway.
He had searched for the best option, and when he got it, he personally gave it to her. However, she was in no capacity to look after soone else in that… lavish, place.
There were servants, and there were tens of people to look after her, but since her mom was gone already, and since her father spent more ti with the people who ultimately betrayed him instead of her, she just did not want the token that would remind her of him.
"She sent the cub away to a safer palace, and then, the young being grew up over ti."
As anyone could guess by now…
"That cub is Taika? I an, really? Miss Moon raised Taika?"
"Technically, no. She surely is the reason we have Taika in our life though." However since her dad technically saved the young cub, she was the reason Taika was still alive.
She was also the one who sent her away to a place where she needed to fight for her life and survive against dangerous things, so she did not know how she should behave before soone from that forgotten part of her mories.
"She doesn't rember how long they spent together, but she has so mories of being with her. Still, she knows the current Taika would not rember that ti."
The creatures of the wild go through various transitional phases in their life. There are tis when they lose their entire selves and beco new individuals.
In the case of natural beings like Taika who are close with nature and hold a prominent position within nature, those who have gone through a certain kind of evolution along with those phases, mories of their childhood beco an obstacle so their minds usually hide it away from them.
They don't have to think back to those tis when they were the most vulnerable since it might also bring back the unnecessary trauma of that ti. They also consciously avoid thinking back to before they were sothing else so, creatures like Taika usually don't even rember what they were before they beca what they are right now.
"They have a purpose and they try to fulfill that purpose." Zoe poured a glass of wine for Eon, and for herself, she poured a glass of water.
"Miss Moon might end up hurting Taika, or so she thinks. She had avoided her until now, but now that we are here, she knows it's not going to be easy to avoid her for much longer.
In fact, there will co a ti when Taika rembers everything and confronts her. She knows that ti will co sooner or later, so she has to accept this fact and talk with her when she still has the chance."
Bread and wine.
It was a personal tradition of Eon and his master. At least, it used to be their tradition for celebration, and preparation for a great turbulence approaching them– in most cases, whenever Eon was going to enter a new phase of his training, they used to do this.
But this ritual was not related to just his training, but also to their life in this tower, as well as the life of various other beings in the Great Forest of Kamut.
"Hmmm… it's complicated as you said. You know what? It's strange as well… how did Miss Moon find out that Taika was the one-."
"She's a pureblood, Taika I an."
Apparently, Taika and Miss Moon were similar in more than one way.
"Both her parents used to be higher evolutions of her kind, creatures that had obtained mystical powers. Taika was born with special powers herself, there's a reason she could not improve with the common training thods.
She doesn't know what she is either, and she does not need to know that. Unlike soone like Miss Moon who needed to know about her lineage to understand more about the powers she held, it would only bring Taika pain if she learned how her parents passed away protecting her from a great threat."
They had started their training. It has already been a few days. Rein was soon going to find the room that belonged to Eon, and after she did, she started her training as well.
With the ti being limited, Eon was also thinking about testing out the powers that he had obtained, and see what was best for him.
He still needed to understand all that he could do with the power of his stigma, and in addition to that, he needed to help the rest of them improve their art.
"Miss Moon does not know about Taika's past, but the mont she learns about that, she will expose Taika to a chapter of her life that she did not rember.
By doing so, she might also end up opening the mories of when the cub spent the few fun monts of its life with its parents."
Miss Moon addressed Taika formally not because she wanted to show her respect. She knew she was close to her master's father– she was his familiar as well, but more than that, she was close to Anna, who her master was the closest to.
She had a certain past connection with this person. Rein had known about this connection of strings for a long ti now, but she never really understood what it was about.
The Monnem Extragia that used to live in a big palace and the maid that served the son of Nolen Heliox were different individuals. There should not have been any connection to that person and a familiar. Taika and Eon's father's eting was supposed to be a coincidence as well, but sadly that was not the case once again.
"So, big brother, you're saying Miss Moon knew who Taika was instinctively the mont they t? Isn't that quite romantic~? To rember soone you had been with so long ago~?"
Being with Tia and Carla did not seem to be a good influence for this little sister of his. She was getting new ideas about what is called romance.
"It isn't, you silly. I an, we can call it romantic in the sense that it's a unique situation, but it's not sothing we should interfere in.
I did not tell Rein exactly because of the sensitivity of the situation. Even if it's Rein, she would inevitably end up doing sothing that would confuse Miss Moon and a blunder would be made."
He did not want to interfere with this himself. It was complicated already, and he knew this must also be because of his presence, but he did not understand how his birth could change sothing that had happened before the ti he was born.
'What is supposed to happen has already happened…'
He was working on a theory that would explain a lot about his existence and how it could have actually reshaped the entire world. But it was incomplete for now, so he did not think much about this matter.
"Hmm. I see." Zoe nodded and when he was done with his wine and bread, she lit up the fragrance candles before them as both of them looked up at the sky, at the grand constellation of stars that announced the possibilities of the 'unknown' tomorrow.
"We can go through the Gate. It's actually much simpler than we expected." they were afraid of what they would do if the Gate could not take them all back at once.
Anna was still too weak to pass through the Gate, but Zoe had discovered that there was a way for them all to get back at once, and that too, with much less risk than what the two of them went through.
"How long do you need to get 'it' ready then, Zoe?" Eon already had the map of the next three months ready. He intended to be late for his academy ti if he could just finish all the things that he needed to.
"Not long, big brother. Not long."
Zoe wanted to help him however he needed, so she was going to work harder and prepare the thing that would take them ho.
She had everything she needed, so, now, she just needed to wrap her head around how this tower worked and find out the source of the energy powering everything within the tower. Discover more content at My Virtual Library Empire
After she finds that… they will be able to go back ho.
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