I was a grown woman, but I was still having trouble getting to sleep with Lesha already passed out on her side of the bed. I was curled up with my back to her, staring at my wall. If I wasn't going to sleep, then I wanted some answers.
'You just need to ask me, child, I can only tell you what I am allowed to, but I will not lie to you. I may seem heartless, but it is our nature to be as such. You will learn that you need to be ruthless to defeat the gods.' -Drania.
'Defeat the gods? You think I could get rid of them?'
'This is unbelievably frustrating, but yes, you will. You are so much more than you know, but enough of things that aren't yet. I will explain what you are, as you both you questioned earlier, but refuse to ask me.' -Drania.
'Both of us? So you can talk to us both?'
'Girl, please hold your questions until I am finished, but yes I can contact any of you servants that you are close to. You are a necromancer that uses blood as a medium. You, servants, are bound to you by a blood pact that will have far-reaching abilities that will even allow you to heal and halt death from healing, but you are a long way away from that. Now, questions.' -Drania.
'...What is a necromancer and how can I learn how to heal?'
'Good, Necromancers are the masters of life before and after death. You will learn to raise armies of undead minions to fire for you, Turn to blood mist, and many more things wait for you at the top, but we must start by eliminating the gods before they start causing real problems. To learn these things you will have to find more servants, and they can't just be anyone. We will have to find them or make them come to us.' -Drania.
'My head is swimming! The gods are supposed to help unite us!'
'I can't say more than I have, I am sorry, but heed my words! There is another reason for you to pursue the gods and the dungeons, your servants will need the prizes that they will be awarded and so will you.' -Drania.
'Is there anything else?'
'Plenty, but I can't tell you, yet. We have to work together and you will have to do things that you will find detestable, but over time you will learn to accept who you are.' -Drania.
This was what I asked for but, there was so much. How was I supposed to stop a god? Better, how to stop nine?
'You will need more than just the servant to do think, Kiada. You will need the guilds, and there are four men who might be able to be shaped into fine guild leaders, if you give them a chance and trust them.' -Drania.
'My brothers? Guild Masters? You have to be kidding me, right.'
'Don't be so pigheaded, girl. You will learn over time, but don't let your natural urge to distrust all men get in the way of seeing these for men's true potential. This is important for your success in finding certain servants. This will also be a chance for you to change the life expectancy of adventures.' -Drania.
'I will try, but…'
'Go to sleep, tomorrow you will be going to learn how to summon undead minions.' -Drania.
Suddenly, it was morning, my eyes were closed, but I could hear the birds chirping and the familiar warmth wrapped around me...warmth...arms...around me…Lesha was spooning me with her arms tucked under my breasts. I couldn't move, nor breathe, but at the same time, I didn't want to...move, that is. I let out the breath I was holding, but that caused Lesha to stir, then I was spun into a tangle with my blanket faster than I could react, even with my new speed.
Lesha was on the other side of the room, and her face was burning red, and she was staring at her arms. Now seeing her like this somehow made me feel better. I guess seeing that it was just as weird for her was comforting.
"Kiada, I'm sorry, I…" Lesha tried to say, but I cut her off with a wave after getting an arm free.
"Don't make a big deal about it, I might get the impression that you enjoyed it."
Woah, where the hell did that come from? Did those words just come out of my mouth? Now I could feel my own face burning up. What had just possessed me to blurt that out, and, just to make the matter worse, Lesha looked away from, with her face somehow darkening even to a darker shade of red.
At this point, I was worried that one of us was going to start a fire, but then I heard the floorboard outside my room creak. Any heat in my face drained away instantly, and my face went stone cold. Someone was about to die, or maybe all four someone's.
"If you value your life, I will see you at the table in thirty seconds, and I even see a sideways glance, someone is going to die."
The sound of scrambling feet, down the stairs and muffled laugh was in line to put me into a very bad mood, but then Lesha spoke.
'I didn't not like it, I just...I have never held a woman in that way before...and you are so soft…"
I clamped my hand over her mouth, and put my mouth close to her ear. My heartbeat almost drowned out my whisper as I shook, trying to control my voice.
"I-I enjoyed t-the feeling, but this isn't something I want to talk about here. Drania says we will need my brother to help take over the guilds, and if they heard what you just said to me, I would have to kill them."
Dad was already gone when we got downstairs, and my brothers had made themselves scarce. The Kitchen was empty, but there were four beaten-up apples on the table left for us. There was a note, but I could barely read what my father called writing, his hands were meant to wield a hammer, not a quill and ink.
"Your father doesn't do a lot of writing does he?" Lesha said with a playful voice from beside me, pushing into me to try and read the note.
"Hammer, not feather, still, this just says that he has to work late so he won't be home tonight, Leina's place is closest to the shop by a good distance. Grab an apple, my brothers are waiting outside."
I crunched the note up before Lesha couple really read what was in the note, maybe the old man had messed it up on purpose. I waited for her to grab two apples and I grabbed the remaining ones after she pulled away. Like a magnet, I was drawn to her, following her to the door, and taking a bite out of my apple to distract myself from what the rest of the note had said, stupid old man!
"Kiada?" Lesha said as I walked right into her.
It wasn't an impact, but I wasn't wearing armor or a wrap, and my chest pressed together with Lesha's, sending a warm sensation running through my body. I was looking directly into her eyes, but then I saw something I hadn't noticed before. There was a spark in the back of her eye, like a small star in the distance, then something inside of me clicked, and I didn't hesitate.
I moved my lips to hers, moving my hand to the side of her face, and stroking her cheek. Lesha moved into my lips, and the connection was like a lightning bolt going off in my head. Short flash hit me or other times we had done this very thing, as different people. I knew Lesha In a personal way that I didn't quite understand at the present moment, but I couldn't think about that right now.
I held the kiss, the flashes had stopped. They had only been moments of us being intimate with each other. I pulled away, not wanting to, even though this was something that had happened before, it was all brand new to me.
"We...should go, your brothers are waiting for us," Lesha said, straightening her clothes.
Oh, great, we were right beside the door. I really hope they have the sense enough not to make jokes. I looked at Lesha and smiled, the smile I got back warmed me up and bit and relaxed me. I wonder if she felt what I did?
I opened the door and all four of my brothers were standing about four houses away, trying to look like they had something to occupy their time, but they just looked suspicious. Then, when I got close to them with Lesha, they all got red-faced and walked ahead of us.
Serves them right for being nosey, but I could only imagine what was going through their heads. Everyone joked about it, but no one knew it was true, so it was nice to see that they were going to be stupid children. No, instead the twenty-year-old plus group of them were acting as they had walked in our parents, but this was better than the alternative.
"Boy's where are you going?" I asked, calling up to the speed walkers who were trying to put distance from us.
"Going to Healia, Hawk's vision, she is almost always there drinking, but she wants to see you! Hey, what if you just go? Then only two of you have to deal with her," Rick said from up ahead.
"Ya, we have been sending Pike in each time to collect and return the items we collect, She doesn't seem to bother him," Mike said, slowing down.
I knew what they were talking about, Healia was known for mooning over the men they came into our guild and she was almost always there with wine, and half-cut. I sigh and shooed off my brothers while turning to Lesha, who had a curious look on her face.
"She is a Letcher and she likes to make lewd comments to passing men and she also doesn't respect private space. The best thing you can do is to use something heavy and blunt, then just hit her with it if she gets too close to you. Depending on how drunk she is, you might have to hit her seven or eight times to get her to back off."
"We are still talking about a god, right? The big shiny people with unnatural strengths, and abilities? And we are supposed to hit him with sticks?" Lesha asked, now with a fully confused and worried look on her face.
"No, not a stick, that would just break. There is a metal fire poker to your right when you first walk into the building, grab it fast. Then we will try to beat her down so I can have a decent conversation with her."
"You know, none of this sounds like a good idea, are you sure you're alright? Did you see more than I did?" Lesha asked, grabbing my arm and stopping me.
"All I saw... was you and me, doing...but that was all, why?"
"I guess I just don't know you as I did in those times, but what you're telling me sounds crazy, like waving my hands in the air and rubbing mud on your face. You know you're talking about a god right? Or am I missing something here?" Lesha asked.
"Just wait and see, this one is a special case. She is a bit of a black sheep among the other gods, but she helped me get signed up here. Now I have to beat her off with a metal bar, since there are not a lot of female adventures, she treats me like a child."
"She can't be that bad, can she?"
"Don't believe me? Come we shall go see Healia, prepare yourself for battle!"
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