Buddy and I walked back to the girls, and I told them to be careful. I watched Buddy and Moshi walk off down the middle lane, and all that was left was the right lane and Rena.
"Ready to go?" I asked.
"Mhm," Rena mumbled walking ahead of .
"Hey, co back and stay closer to ," I said and Rena froze mid-step and waited for to catch up. "We have to be careful here, I don't want you to get hurt just because of a silly accident. Let's stay close and that way if sothing does happen, we can deal with it in the best way."
"Okay, sorry," Rena said while looking at the ground.
"Are you okay? You seem a bit off. Is it because you don't have your sword? I can protect you, you just have to stay close."
"No, I am fine, I can still fight without it, and I know you can protect "
I looked over and then looked away again before my face got red for no reason at all. Rena was blushing, but she was a warrior, a cyclone with a blade, but I didn't feel like I was standing beside Buddy or Breth.
We started walking again without either of us saying a word.
'Are you so used to them just throwing themselves at you that you can't see when soone likes you?' -Trinity.
'It's not that easy, I have responsibilities, and I have wives, or did you forget that?'
'I know that, but you also are a person Hyde, don't forget that. What you want matters too, and I think you should consider Rena. I don't an take her as a wife right now, but get to know her, that's not doing anything wrong. I know you're worried about Kyla, but as you said, spilled milk, so just get this done and get back to her, but at least start up a conversation with her.' -Trinity.
A person too...I was, and I did think Rena was cool, strong, and beautiful, but I wasn't here to rescue her. Still, it wasn't going to kill to be conversational while we walked.
"What's your family like?" I asked, making Rena look over to , but she kept walking.
"My parents have a farm, but I don't have any brothers or sisters," Rena said casually.
"Hmm, I bet pops didn't mind having you for a daughter! You must have been the apple of his eye! My parents loved to travel, and once my brother was eighteen he ca and stayed with while my parents went and traveled," I said, thinking about Dave and our real parents.
Mom and dad know about what happened to Dave's friend, but we had never told them what we were going to do here. They would never miss us, no one would know we were gone. Maybe on a tiline, different from our own, they would find us dead. Maybe, but it didn't matter, that was like a daydream, and this ever-changing ga was now my ho and the only reality that mattered anymore.
"My father always treated well and told mom that we don't need another one. He would say, what a father really wanted was a strong back and a big heart in his children. Since he had both in , they didn't need more children, but dad did want to stay on the farm. So, it was hard to tell him that I wanted to beco a rcenary, but he still wished the best."
"Eh! Now that's a good dad! Great saying too, your father sounds like a good man!" I said, while still keeping my eyes on the path ahead.
The last thing I wanted was to walk into a trap while yapping, so I kept checking around while we talked.
"You said you know how to fight with your hands? Where did you learn that? I haven't seen any arenas or martial artists in this world, so I'm curious who taught you to fight?" I asked.
"My father taught how to fight with my hands, and how to defend myself for three years before he would let leave the farm. After I told him what I wanted to do, he didn't talk to for half a day. He went and sat on a big rock the entire ti, just looking out over our field. When he finally ca and talked to , he made promise that I would stay until he could fully train ."
"Oh? Interesting! I will just take a stab in the dark and say that your father wasn't a farr his entire life?" I asked with genuine interest.
"Hehe, no, he was also a rcenary before he bought our farm, but that was before I was born. He actually got my mother and a cash reward for rescuing her and four other won from raiders that had attacked a village. After getting them all back he was offered his choice of any woman from the five girls that he had saved. My father didn't pick one though."
"What? Wait, then how did he end up with your mom?" I could see far ahead that we were finally coming to another room.
"My dad asked the five girls if any of them would like to co with him to live on a farm and raise kids," Rena said with a smile that I caught when I looked over.
"I would have paid money to see the looks on everyone's face when he asked that, haha! I bet your dad a big ox of a man too! Okay, so did they all jump at him for a chance to go be a farr? I an that would be a good life I guess, but farming is hard work!"
"No, only my mother would co with him, but he said that's all he wanted. He didn't want to pick soone to love him, that wasn't right. He wanted to be wanted because that's what the person felt and wasn't told to do."
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