Just like that, I was riding on Reverence through the jungle with the forest girl jumping on trees, taking to her tribe.
"Hey!" I call her but she doesn’t reply back. I know she is listening so I just ask, "How far is it?"
An inaudible mumble got out of her and she lowly said, "15 minutes."
We were going at a soft but not slow speed so 15 minutes wasn’t a lot. Though it also ant that there would have to be a lot of ground to cover to find the place by myself.
"How about sitting back here?" I pat Reverence’s back, "There is a lot of empty space here."
"Hnngh?" That wasn’t her but Reverence. The guy twisted his head at with a questionable look like ’You’re already heavy and you’re bringing more?’.
But I ignore him and turn to forest girl who also ignored .
"Hey, are you listening... helloooo.... Damn, she might be deaf, which is why she’s able to ignore my aweso voice?" I say jokingly as I knew she was listening very clearly, "But, she did listen to back then."
"Was it a ruse? A false thought or was I just being too thoughtful?"
"And if it wasn’t a ruse and she actually talked to then why isn’t she talking to now? Is my voice going through so problems?"
"Is she ignoring ?" I said and waited a bit as I saw the girl’s body relax a bit in relief and smile, "Nah, that can’t be. I’m too aweso, even the bandits running away as I kill them don’t ignore , how could she?"
"Perhaps she’s shy. That’s the only reason I can think viable." I nod slowly, "I’m a handso guy and she’s a young girl who’s susceptible to love so it’s no wonder she would try to avoi-"
"Can you shut up for a second." Ca her groaning and pleading voice.
"Only if you reply to my words."
An audible sigh of acceptance went out.
"So, wanna sit here and ride horsy with ?"
"Not even if the gods tell to!"
"See! Was that so hard?" I say as I feel her hate filled eyes stab into .
"Alright, alright, I’ll start the conversation with sothing basic, what’s your na?"
"Why would I tell you my na?"
"Because you didn’t say it when I asked you the last ti. I traded my na, you can at least do the sa for court-"
"It can go take a shit!"
I smile, "Ahh, a woman after my own heart with such vulgar words. You sure you’re not trying to seduce ?"
The look she gave... WHA, you could just feel her inner animosity waiting to gush out and drown .
"So no na?" I ask while sliding past a tall tree.
"No na." She said while jumping to another branch.
"I can’t keep calling you, hey, you, woman now can I."
"You can, I actually insist that you do."
Hearing her I smile, "SO you can Insist huh."
She groaned.
This was so fun.
Letting go of the jokes, I ask a genuine question, "How many people are you guys?"
"Hm? You really think I would tell you that?" She thought cautiously, which was understandable.
"Hey, I’m not trying to hurt you guys here. We have an understanding and I’m here to prolong it, I just want to know how big your tribe is. Like 200 or thousand or more you know, just a general number."
The Wodonic girl was silent for a while before murmuring, "A few thousand."
"Do you guys use sigmat crystals?" Just as I suspect, her shoulder tensed for a second, "Like the rings we use?" Then it relaxed.
I knew why she tensed, which is why I asked it like that.
"No, we don’t and if your trying to learn my tribe’s secret thods, don’t bother."
"Okay, I understand the secrecy." I say as a careless curiosity ca to my eyes, "But why aren’t you willing to sit behind ?"
"What?"
"I an, you sat before, why not now?" I say.
"Back then, I wanted to safely guide you through traps so that’s why."
"Oh? So there aren’t any here then."
"There are... I’m just hoping you would land on one of them." Ca her undisturbed voice.
"Only one? You must really start to like then." She groaned again.
She wasn’t lying about the traps. There were traps here but not like the previous ti.
Back then, she guided closely because of the multiple traps laid around. This ti, she took through the route with zero traps but if I moved left or right, Reverence would quickly get caught by a bear trap or two.
"Hey, do you know soone called Illythia?"
The Wodonic girls body tensed further than it should, "Why do you ask?"
’So she does.’
I try not to say anything too much and speak casually, "Well, I heard that she is a very strong warrior and brave in many ways."
"You have?"
"Yes, I heard that she is the strongest fighter in the tribe." Her smile lifted, "Well, the female strongest actually." It went down.
"But even then, her praise has been nothing but big from both sides of the gender."
"So you’ve heard such of her." She said with a hidden smile, "Who did you hear it from?"
"Well, it was from..." I lengthen the ti and she focused directly on , "Why should I tell you?"
"Hah!?"
"You wouldn’t tell your na or act nicely so... why should I tell you?"
"Well you have to!"
"Why?"
"Because... Because... Grrr." She groaned and quickened her speed as she went ahead.
Even though she sounded angry, I could still see a curved up lip at the corner showing that she felt happy... prideful even. Either she’s a fangirl of Illythia or she knows her personally and is on the good spectrum.
Illythia wasn’t just anybody but a heroine if you haven’t noticed already. She is the chief’s daughter and a future bride of Arthur, and I an future as in, not yet.
Illythia also has a rough character.
"Speed up, if you get lost, I won’t bother finding you."
’She’s definitely close with her.’ I smile and speed up Reverence.
It was in the 15 minute allocated ti that we reached the place.
Finding a large wooden door covered by long wooden walls and sharp barricades by the side. What greeted us to the door were 10 guards, presumably waiting for us.
Their eyes went to and curved down.
"Don’t talk too mu- You know what, don’t talk at all or I can’t guarantee your safety." The Wodonic girl said as she walked up to the lead guard.
"What is this? Why is he here?" The lead guard was a tall guy with slightly dark-brown complexion. He wore the sa clothes like her, except his upper half wasn’t covered. His words were the sa language the kingdom spoke but there were so slurs and curves that differentiated us a bit, but divided us nonetheless.
"There was a complication. The situation is changed." Her words changed to match his. Before, she was talking perfectly without any slurs just like , but now she felt more blended with them.
"What complication? Even if its big, you know we can’t let a stranger co in here, know us."
"Of course I know." Her words were getting angrier, "But as I said, it’s complicated."
"Doesn’t matter, he needs to leav-"
"The Chief will decide what must be done to him, not you Calric." A small disagreent but the guy stepped back, sowhat angry.
The girl had grit. She ca to , "Stay here, I will go talk with the Chief first about you."
"And if he doesn’t accept?"
"Naturally... you go back."
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