Book two: After the nightmare“aaahhh!!!!” I yelled as I sat up straight on the sofa. The blanket that was coving me fell away I was back in the cottage dripping with sweat, me breathing was heavy and hard. I looked up at the covered painting over the fireplace and said “Well that was new. Something isn’t right.” Just then both of the upstairs bedroom doors came flying open. Opal, Anakin and Warrior came running out on to the walkway.
Opal was dressed in a long cream colored shirt that almost touched the ground, her quarterstaff was in her left hand and her right was raised as if she was ready to cast a spell. Anakin was right beside her with. He was wearing a pair of breaches and nothing else. His two handed sword was in his right hand raised in a defense position as if he was expecting an attack from somewhere. Warrior had come running out a few feet down the hall from them wearing a long shirt that came down to the middle of his thighs where you could make out his black breaches. In his right hand he held a long sword at the ready.
“Easy my friends.” I said as I turned to look at everyone ‘Just a bad night’s sleep.” I turned swing my legs over to sit up with my back to very one on the balcony. I rubbed my hand down my face cleaning away some of the sweat. “Go back to sleep my friends.’ I stood up carefully ‘I’m going to head into town to get a few things for breakfast.’ I started towards the front door as Opal and Anakin turned and head back into there room. Warrior stood there and watched and waited for Opal and Anakin to get into there room and close the door behind them.
“Father what’s happening to you.” I stopped just as I reached the front door “The green eyes. A bad nights sleep, this cottage and the valley. None of this is normal. Not even for you.” Warrior set down his sword and placed his hands on the railing waiting for me to answer him.
But none was going to come not now anyway. I myself didn’t have the answer he was looking for. I simply grabbed hold of the door knob and open the door “Go back to bed Warrior.” I said and walked outside. Closing the door behind me I carefully leaned against it and looked out across the clearing in which the cottage was sitting. Thoughts of the dream and what it all meant and the truth of it all started to run thought my head. I did not like what it all might mean in the end. I looked up to the crystal blue sky over head and said in a very tired depressed voice “Oh I’m getting to old for this.” I then pushed off from the door and started to walk down the path that leads to the small village a few miles down the road.
I slowly walked away from the cottage leaving it and the nightmare behind. As I entered the forest again, the events of the night or should I say dawn they where a little hard to take in. I thought of someone of thing being able to move thought the blackness of the dawn was not a good thing. This hidden Valley was a sanctuary for me. Here nothing could hurt me. Nothing wants to kill me. This valley was the only place where I ever felt peace. When I was younger I would spend days, weeks here. It got me out of the hassle and basal of my everyday life. Now with someone else was here. They could move thought the darkness of the dawn as easily as I could and they had attacked me. With those two abilities they had taken this sanctuary of peace away from me. I knew things would change with the passing of time, but I didn’t think that this place every would. I was going to have to have to fight to return that peace. As I walked through the forest heading to the village now I was regretting what I had to do. I would have to do my job in the one place I hopped I would never have to do it and that more then anything is what distressed me.
As I walked I closed my eyes to clean my mind, I didn’t want to think about it. I listened to the wind rustle throw the tress. The water falling over the edge and crashing down on the rocks below, Animals moving about in the under brush. The past couple of hours had taken there physical and mental strain ion me. The physical one was something I was more then use too. Fighting, being shot at and tossed around was something I had to deal with for far too many years, but the mental strain out side of a fight is something I hadn’t really had to deal with for far too long. I was no longer use to it which gave someone else the advantage.
Closing my eyes was not going to take away the mental stress O was taking on, but it would help me relax and be better prepared to deal with it. I slowly opened my eyes and breather out slowly. The fresh air felt good in my lings and help to clear my head. I looked around at the green forest, feeling the fresh new life all around me. This valley had been hidden from everyone for a long time. Most people who travel through it don’t pay to much attention and those who live in here never told anyone about it to even left. It was a place where you left your weapon at home and started a new life. The green of the forest, the sound of the river and the feel of fresh air was all helping me forget the nightmare from last night.
I came around the bend in the path I was walking and one of the first huts of the village came into view.
Opal was dressed in a long cream colored shirt that almost touched the ground, her quarterstaff was in her left hand and her right was raised as if she was ready to cast a spell. Anakin was right beside her with. He was wearing a pair of breaches and nothing else. His two handed sword was in his right hand raised in a defense position as if he was expecting an attack from somewhere. Warrior had come running out a few feet down the hall from them wearing a long shirt that came down to the middle of his thighs where you could make out his black breaches. In his right hand he held a long sword at the ready.
“Easy my friends.” I said as I turned to look at everyone ‘Just a bad night’s sleep.” I turned swing my legs over to sit up with my back to very one on the balcony. I rubbed my hand down my face cleaning away some of the sweat. “Go back to sleep my friends.’ I stood up carefully ‘I’m going to head into town to get a few things for breakfast.’ I started towards the front door as Opal and Anakin turned and head back into there room. Warrior stood there and watched and waited for Opal and Anakin to get into there room and close the door behind them.
“Father what’s happening to you.” I stopped just as I reached the front door “The green eyes. A bad nights sleep, this cottage and the valley. None of this is normal. Not even for you.” Warrior set down his sword and placed his hands on the railing waiting for me to answer him.
But none was going to come not now anyway. I myself didn’t have the answer he was looking for. I simply grabbed hold of the door knob and open the door “Go back to bed Warrior.” I said and walked outside. Closing the door behind me I carefully leaned against it and looked out across the clearing in which the cottage was sitting. Thoughts of the dream and what it all meant and the truth of it all started to run thought my head. I did not like what it all might mean in the end. I looked up to the crystal blue sky over head and said in a very tired depressed voice “Oh I’m getting to old for this.” I then pushed off from the door and started to walk down the path that leads to the small village a few miles down the road.
I slowly walked away from the cottage leaving it and the nightmare behind. As I entered the forest again, the events of the night or should I say dawn they where a little hard to take in. I thought of someone of thing being able to move thought the blackness of the dawn was not a good thing. This hidden Valley was a sanctuary for me. Here nothing could hurt me. Nothing wants to kill me. This valley was the only place where I ever felt peace. When I was younger I would spend days, weeks here. It got me out of the hassle and basal of my everyday life. Now with someone else was here. They could move thought the darkness of the dawn as easily as I could and they had attacked me. With those two abilities they had taken this sanctuary of peace away from me. I knew things would change with the passing of time, but I didn’t think that this place every would. I was going to have to have to fight to return that peace. As I walked through the forest heading to the village now I was regretting what I had to do. I would have to do my job in the one place I hopped I would never have to do it and that more then anything is what distressed me.
As I walked I closed my eyes to clean my mind, I didn’t want to think about it. I listened to the wind rustle throw the tress. The water falling over the edge and crashing down on the rocks below, Animals moving about in the under brush. The past couple of hours had taken there physical and mental strain ion me. The physical one was something I was more then use too. Fighting, being shot at and tossed around was something I had to deal with for far too many years, but the mental strain out side of a fight is something I hadn’t really had to deal with for far too long. I was no longer use to it which gave someone else the advantage.
Closing my eyes was not going to take away the mental stress O was taking on, but it would help me relax and be better prepared to deal with it. I slowly opened my eyes and breather out slowly. The fresh air felt good in my lings and help to clear my head. I looked around at the green forest, feeling the fresh new life all around me. This valley had been hidden from everyone for a long time. Most people who travel through it don’t pay to much attention and those who live in here never told anyone about it to even left. It was a place where you left your weapon at home and started a new life. The green of the forest, the sound of the river and the feel of fresh air was all helping me forget the nightmare from last night.
I came around the bend in the path I was walking and one of the first huts of the village came into view.
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Ok so is any of this starting to make sence to anyone yet or are you all completey lost in linbo where I want to keep you. I'm sure if you go back and read other parts again you can figure it all out as more and more parts come up. if you look you'll see most of them are from book two, because i think right now it the best i got. I keep reading parts of book one and go um need to rewrite this and well I don't have that enough of book three right now to give to anyone so what you got of that is what you are going to get. Now you have read the page and half for tonight it's tome to go off and do something else enjoy the rest of the night.
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