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Chapter 60: Art Expert

Lesha and I curled up in the front seat inside the carriage and slept well into the afternoon, and only just got woken up as the wagons stopped.

I woke up with a bit of drool hanging out that I quickly cleaned up with the back of my hand. Lesha was stretching and turning to me with a sleepy smile.

I smiled and leaned in for a kiss, and she met me halfway. This was a nice way to wake up, but where were we?

I heard a knocking coming from above and then the boys hopped down on either side of the carriage. Then, I noticed a small farmhouse with a small red one-story building that must have doubled as a barn, but it led out and then down into the water, disappearing.

"Corbit, is this your parent's farm?" I asked as I helped Lesha get off me.

"Yup, but don't ask me what they are, it's just a waste of my breath, they will tell you all about it! I don't bring friends here, cause we lived in the middle of nowhere. I only met kids that traveled with the merchant parents. Then I left home three months ago for Healia, and then the magic happened, but my parents don't know yet," Corbit said, holding the door for the girls and me.

"Do you want me to keep quiet about it?" I asked.

"No, honestly, if you could tell them, that would be great. I just feel like it coming from you as the leader and all might sound better. I don't know, I just said I was going to make something better for myself than a lonely farmer, so you know…"

I did know, and I understood.

"Yes, I can explain it to them, but then it's your job to apologize as the idiot son that insulted the way of life that allowed you to live the way you did. I don't mind helping explain things, but it's your job to learn from your mistakes and correct them."

"Yes Ma'am, my mother is going to like you, you kind of remind me of her. Head to the house, I already waived and they saw me. They should be coming out by the time you get over there. I am just going to show the men where the wagon, and carriages go," Corbit said, running off.

"Wow, just throws you to his parents and runs away," Gloria said while laughing, and stepping out of the carriage.

"Welcome!" A cheery man's voice came from the direction of the house.

I looked from Gloria over in that direction and found a short man, but not out of shape. This Must be his father; the man seems nice enough.

The four of us walked over to the house where the man was standing with gray shorts on, and a bright blue vest and sandy brown hair. I reached out my hand to offer a handshake, But The short man opened his arms wide.

"Any friend of my sons is family, and we," the man was cut off as the door was opened and a woman darted out quickly and hit him in the head with a soup pot.

The man was knocked out cold and hit the ground like a sack of potatoes.

"Sorry about my husband, we don't see visitors often and well you all are quite the group of beautiful women. He's an idiot, but he will wake up and apologize for being a buffoon or take another pot-nap, before checking the Oysters. Come inside girls, Corbit will help his father inside when he is done. My name is Celia, and This is Norbert."

Celia waved us inside, and we stepped over Norbert, following her. It was a cute little house with wooden planked walls. There were many different paintings on the walls, but none of them went together. It was like they were all from different places and done in different styles of art.

"Traders come and bring Norbert all these God-awful paintings, so he insists to hang them all up. The traders always come in for tea, so now it is a game for them I think to see who can bring the weirdest art," Ceila said while rolling her eyes.

"I actually think this is really amazing," Gloria said walking around the room, looking at each picture. "They are from all over the world! Look, K! This one with the man, and all the paint blurring from the side? That is from Kren, in Westoff. The one over there, with the lady in the dark blue and the sunset? See the way the colors bleed together? I saw an artist in New Geth that did work like that!"

"Wow, I didn't know you liked art," I said, looking impressed.

"There is a lot you don't learn from not talking, hehe," Gloria said laughing.

"Fair enough," I said, and it was true.

We had mostly just talked about the trip, Dyster, and the combat things we were learning. Maybe I should try to get to know my friends better before we got to the city.

Mei was now asking Gloria about every painting on the wall. Gloria was doing her best to try and guess where they might have originated from, but Mei was like a non-stop stream of questions.

It got to the point where Gloria had to grab Mei by the face and smother her in a kiss to get her to shut up for two seconds. Lesha slipped her hand into mine and squeezed, making me turn and kissing her on the cheek.

"Oh? Really? Are you girls...couples?" Corbit's mother asked, sounding a bit confused.

The four of us turned and looked at her smiling, I think that we all had almost forgotten that she was even there.

"Yes, we are couples. My name is Kiada, Leader of the Red Legion Guild from Healia, and this is my life partner, Lesha. The art expert is Gloria and the one that won't stop talking is Mei, her partner."

"And here I thought I was going to have to keep my husband out cold the entire time you were here, but if you swing that way this will just be funny, hehe," Ceila said laughing.

"What will be funny? And why does it feel like I got hit by a wagon, but only in the head?" Norbert said walking into the room rubbing his head.

All five of us burst out laughing.


Chapter 61: Food Shortage?

Norbert was looking at Gloria's point-out paintings, but then almost fell over when Gloria smacked Mei's wandering hands from her chest.

Norbert turned to look at Lesha and me, who were holding hands, and then back to Mei and Gloria. Mei was wrapped around Gloria and kissing her, well doing something to her face. It looked like it might hurt, and I was pretty sure I could hear her teeth clicking.

I looked back to a sweating Norbert, who was now only looking at his wife like she was the only real thing in the room. Celia was keeping a poker face and letting him think about whatever was going through his mind. This was obviously not a thing that the man encountered, ever.

"Where are we?! Is this our house? What is she doing to that poor woman's face?!" Norbert was clearly stressed out at this point, thinking he had just lost his marbles; I could also agree that what Mei was doing was quite questionable.

Finally, Ceila started to laugh, and the mood broke. Norbert was shocked, but then looked back at me.

"Lesha and I are a couple and so are those too, but I really don't know what they were doing."

I looked over at Mei climbing off Gloria and wiping her face on her robe. Poor Gloria looked disgusted and her face was gross.

I think Mei just licked her entire face the whole time she attacked Gloria.

Gloria turned to Mei and grabbed the front of her robe to wipe her face off. I couldn't take these wild animals anywhere.

"Would you like to try some fresh oysters?" Norbert asked, after clearing his throat. "I can take you down to the farmhouse!"

I turned to him, and he seemed to be looking a bit better, but he looked like he could use some air. I nodded, then Lesha and I grabbed the other two and went back out of the house ahead of Norbert.

Celia said she would get some clam chowder ready for when we got back as we left. I still wasn't sure what an oyster was, but I really hoped it wasn't like a crab.

Tim and Corbit were just walking towards the house but turned to the long red building dipped into the water. Getting closer now, I could see that the roof opened up just before it hit the water, and there were some small boats pulled up onshore.

Corbit and Tim waited outside of the building where there was a sliding door.

"So, what did you think of my parents? Weird right?" Corbit asked with a smile.

"I am more worried about what they think of us, the girls weren't behaving inside and your father looked like he had walked into a dungeon when he came inside! Your mother let him think he was too, it was quite the experience."

"That's good! He normally talks endlessly about how shucking good it is to be a shucking oyster farmer!" Corbit complained, but then straightened up.

"That's 'cause I'm shucking good at it boy! You would be too if you tried!"

Norbert came walking down from the house. He seemed in a lot better spirits now, and he didn't sound mad, just talking.

"Dad, I hear you had quite the time inside, not used to the girls liking each other, hmmm?" Corbit said with a smile to his dad.

"Bit of a culture shock, that's all my boy! Now, you and the other get in there and start pedaling. Since Ma is cooking you some of her famous clam chowders, you better get two lengths before supper! BWAHAHA!" Norbert laughed as he slapped the boy's shoulders walking by them.

Peddling? Oysters? I feel like I am the one who has stepped in a dungeon, and what was shucking, was it like an Oyster curse?

Norbert pulled open the door and I was even more confused. Inside on the right side were weird seats with places to put your feet, and there was a weird metal rope wrapped around a wheel. The rope led to a set of gear that had the metal ropes going around to a big rope that went out into the water.

"This is my little oyster farm, not much but you will see once these boys get into gear!" Norbert yelled at the boys who both jumped and then ran over to the seats.

The two started to...peddle? I guess that made sense, and as they did the metal ropes started to spin.

"Those boys will pedal now and you can see that the chain, that thing moving there, moves the big line, but it moves slowly. There is a lot to move so we use multiple gears and chains to make it easier to peddle, but it takes a while. So, while they are doing that we will grab the nets, you girls okay with getting your hands dirty?"

"These aren't like crabs, are they?" I asked, I was getting flashbacks of Gloria chasing me with the little demons.

"Crabs? No, there are just shells, but they are damn good to eat raw!" Norbert said as a strange-looking net basket came out of the water.

The baskets were filled with dark gray and silver ringed shells that had things attached to them. Norbert unhooked the basket and passed it to Gloria, who gratefully accepted and took it to a big metal tub on the left side near the front.

I turned back to see Norbert reach in a barrel of disgusting green water and pull out another basket, but this one only had little chips of shell in it. It wasn't like the one Gloria was emptying out.

Mei was over playing with the ugly things, not caring the least bit what they looked like. Gloria reached over to the shelf and grabbed a stubby-looking knife.

"Here, come and you can try one," Gloria said, waving me over and picking up one of the shells that were half the size of my hand.

She shoved the knife in the back of it where it was thick and there was a crack. After a bit of wiggling, she turned the knife and the shell opened a bit, revealing a white inside.

I moved closer, now interested, and watched Gloria wiggle the knife around, scraping at the top of the shell. When she popped the top off, I stepped back.

Uck, what was that! It looked like organs! I really thought I was going to be sick, but I couldn't stop watching her as she scraped the bottom of the shell, loosening the mini pile of guts.

"Bottoms up!" Gloria said as she put the shell to her mouth and let the things fall in.

I ran outside to get some air, what the hell was wrong with these people? Was there a shortage of food that I didn't know about?


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