Reincarnated into a Snow Griffin Chapter 15 - 15

Chapter 15:

Sigh, why did I still have my hopes up? Didn't I learn it the first ti? How could a commit the sa mistake twice!

That mother... is not fit to be a teacher!

I was exhilarating after discovering that she knows how to read a little, even if she does not practice a lot, mostly just recognizing shop nas on the boards, but still, to be this bad at teaching... she should earn a prize for that, is not an easy feat.

"I told you, the snaky letter says like Sssss, like in ssssnake."

"Please mother, give up, it won't work." I sigh, resting my head at the edge of the nest as she tries to explain things to .

Now what to do? How can I learn how to read? After so much trouble to get a book and learn magic, it would be a sha to waste it just because I couldn't read!

Also is really uncool to be like this!

My tail swings back and forth in annoyance, differently from the rest of my body that remains still from thinking too hard about the subject.

Ok, let's not get hasty now, there must be a way that does not involve my mother teaching ... Wait, hold on, I turn to look at mother, head tilted a little sideways as I inquire:

"Mother, how did you learn to read?"

"Well, I used the rune to change to human when I was little and got inside a few classes, and once I knew the basics I got bored and stop going. Why hon?"

I don't know if I feel happy for finding a solution or mad at mother for not telling .

I chose to remain calm... sohow.

"Can I use that too? That magical thingy that changed you back at the store?"

"Oh, hon, I don't know, it consus a lot of mana to keep it up, and I have only one too..."

"Mana?"

"Is... uhm... magic fuel?"

First ti her explanation makes so sense, so MP is not Magic Point but Mana? Uhm...

"Can't we find another one of those? And buy it?"

"They are not easy to find like that hon, here, look." At that she takes it off to show , giving ti to inspect it close up for the first ti, and I see that the artifact has nothing grand in it, it is rely a wooden tablet with so strange engraving in it.

And yet I can feel so buzzing strange energy resonating from it, the numbing sensation that electricity gives.

"Want to know about it?" I nod, curious now.

"This is a rune. It has ancient knowledge in it. There is quite the legend surrounding it too, for there was a ti that such magic had been almost wiped out from existence, but after a great magical beast the Terror ca and changed the order of things and with his elven companion brought this knowledge back to life, and many, seeing the strength it held with new eyes, went after it, sohow a few books of the subject ca to be, so being disciples of the master elf himself, so many were able to learn, the only rule for that was that they had to use that information to grant magical beast fair treatnt, and that lasted for a while, at first at least, and that's how these magical runes like this were created for our use, to help us have an easier life." She nods in satisfaction after looking so knowledgeable.

"What happened to them? Are they still around? Perhaps there is more of these for us to find too..."

"Well, it may, but it has been a long ti since I went to the continent, and I have no intention of going down there for the next few years, at least until you have grown up enough to take care of yourself, we can even travel out and discover new places then if you like, like a family vacation, what do you think?"

"Sounds interesting." I say, trying to get the childish glimring of excitent out of my eyes, which only makes her giggle and bump her beak at my side.

But I know that smile, that sad smile that does not reach her eyes.

"... He is there too, right? Father..." She doesn't answer, looking down on the ground. "Why he is not here with us mother? Why did he leave us?"

"He... he did not leave us hon... he just had... bigger things to deal with."

"Bigger things than his own family? What can be more important than family?" I can feel a hot angry sensation wanting to grown and burst out against this reckless father of mine, but as always, every ti I bring him up, mother starts getting sad, and no pointing venting out on the only family I have with , distressing the most important person in my life.

So I close my beak before all my thoughts can leak out, and stay quiet, even if, in my heart, I had already regarded that father of mine as a degenerated man.

Still she doesn't want to let it go like that, and for the first ti starts talking about my father, probably thinking that I deserved to know by now.

"He is different from us, you and I are wild beasts, grown to be free, and he is... a contracted magical beast from the cultivating realm. He has a master, a human companion to follow, and many obligations alongside him."

"I just... don't want you to get the wrong impression hon. After all, I was the one who left him, not the other way around." Well, that's new, but I could not bring myself to hate mother, never would be, so I chose to stick with blaming my father for it. " I could not raise you there, I barely could live there, and such strong intelligent creatures as ourselves are in high demand on the continent. It was too dangerous to have you there, only to end up as soone's pet. I could not have that, even if he did not think it bad... that's when we greatly disagreed, so I left."

"But still he should have followed you."

"Seraph..."

"No, he should have supported you! Instead he just... left. He chose to stay. No, I won't have it." I wanted to rabble about it, to shout at him, but not only it would be too uncool but would be very childish on my part, so I take a deep breath and say: "Mother, is alright, we don't need him, we will do just fine by ourselves, then we can fly the entire world together, discover new sweet fruits, gaze at beautiful landscapes, so many things to do that he will be a far thought at the back of your minds by then."

She smiles at , this ti with a glimr in her eyes at the perspective, but she cannot help but joke around:

"Only if you haven't found your other half by then and wants to travel with her instead of , leaving your poor old mother behind that is...." She fakes a sob, covering her eyes with her bird paw, while I'm glad that my fur covers my blushing cheeks.

"Mother!"

"Hahaha!" She laughs at , making attack her and jump at her side, landing on her fluffy fur feathery side.

"I just wanted you to know love that no matter what happens and what is to co, I'm glad for having you in my life, even if that ans I had to let go of your father. You an the world to ."

We exchange looks, and I couldn't be happier than this.

"You an the world to too momma." I realize my mistake too late as she turns around to fuzz my fur.

"Owww, you said momma! Such a sweet cute little boy! I want to squish you!"

"I-I'm not cute! Mother, stop! Ah!"