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Bab 59: Chapter 59

Twisting his head to the side Alvar dodged the ogre's mighty swing by only a few millimeters. While he did so his eyes never strayed away from his opponent and thus only passively took in the sight of the wooden splinters sailing through the air after the stony mace of the ogre had smashed into a tree standing right behind Alvar and pulverized it on impact.

Exhaling steadily Alvar prepared himself for his own counterattack and swiftly went into action as hesitation could mean the same fate for Alvar the poor tree behind him had experienced only a few seconds ago.

Tightening his grip on his two-handed sword, which was dangerously gleaming under the dim morning light of the just rising sun, Alvar dashed forwards with only one goal in his mind at that moment. Slay the ogre and finally get himself some breakfast! The bloody thing had interrupted him while he was just preparing said breakfast and he knew he may become an ogre himself, in a manner of speaking, if he didn't get something, anything really, to eat first thing in the morning…

While the humongous figure of the ogre was stumbling forwards after he had pulverized the tree instead of the enemy before him, Alvar had moved forwards as well and clothed his blade in mana in preparation for what was to come next.

Bending his knees slightly Alvar guided his sword to his right side with the blades point pointing to the ground and with another exhale drew his blade over the kneecap of his foe who roared in pain after which he made to turn around and ram the boy into the ground without preamble.

Unfortunately for the stinking beast Alvar had never let his eyes wander away from it and thus was able to see what it tried to do. With a fast jump backwards Alvar managed to get himself out of harms way, just in time before the ogre blew a hole into the hard ground where Alvar had stood only a second ago.

While the ogre was still stunned that his prey had escaped his mighty blows once again, Alvar was already in motion and managed to slip by the ogre and promptly used the opportunity to sever the other Achilles tendon causing the four meters tall ogre to wobble shortly and buckle over once he had completely lost the ability to stand tall any longer. Not wasting any time Alvar brought his blade down on his whining foe and with a thudding sound split the beast's skull nearly in half like a woodworker its lumber.

Silence fell upon the small clearing inside the forest afterwards, only slightly disturbed by the relieved breath released from Alvar for various reasons. For one: he had just survived a fight against a foe twice his size. Secondly: he could finally grab himself some breakfast…

With a grunt Alvar freed his blade from the beast's skull and with a swing to the side cleaned it of most of the blood on its body. The rest he would have to wipe away later to deny any chances for the steel to rust.

Trudging over to his small camp Alvar let himself fall down next to the glimmering bonfire and began to roast himself some squirrel. Not the most delicious meat there was but beggars can't be choosers in some cases.

While Alvar was wiping down his blade his mind wandered to the last few weeks and what had happened in that time.

The entourage of children and adults had managed to escape the Shiverpeak mountain's most dangerous territory in which they would have still had to worry about Jormag's troops. But once they managed to reach the lush green forests at the border to the Shiverpeak mountains those worries had faded to the background, even though none of the refugees ever truly forgot what had happened to them, nor would they want to in most cases.

After some deliberations the group had decided to make camp near the forests while two of the adults would leave for the capital of the Humans, namely Divinity's reach, and hopefully gain its protection for a while so they could think about the future of their people without haste.

While the two adults had left, the children were kept busy with various studies or tasks which resulted in a not too shabby campsite. Alvar and Veli though had only helped with the basic constructions and afterwards left the group behind in order to hunt for food and scout out the possible enemies that may roam the forests in the camp's vicinity.

And just like that a few weeks had passed for the two. Constant battles against ogres, wolf packs, minotaurs and even creatures the Norn had never seen before, sometimes able to project illusions and confuse the enemies if unprepared, had resulted in valuable experience for the two youngsters. After all they had made it their duty to protect the remainder of their people until they reached saver territory.

When Alvar thought back in time those creatures had been an interesting battle for Alvar when he met those for the first time. But in the end they had fallen to his blade like all the others before and after.

Today Alvar would return to the camp and meet back up with Veli and supply the camp with another bunch of hunted animals. Hopefully the messengers would return soon as Alvar had grown curious about what a Human settlement would actually look like.

Thus Alvar, while still munching on the last bits of his breakfast, began to gather his few things he carried in his bundle and after pouring some dirt into the fire slung his sheathed sword over his shoulder and began to march back towards the main camp, soon disappearing behind the lush green trees and bushes that were so rarely seen up in the Shiverpeak mountains. At first he had felt a little bit out of place as he had never before seen such lush vegetation. And yet the fauna provided Alvar with something he had rarely felt while out in the wilderness, back in the days when he ventured out with his uncle Olaf, namely peacefulness. These forests, filled with life and untainted by any kind of influence, truly were a sight for sore eyes and Alvar enjoyed every second of his time in between the green scenery.

With a small grunt escaping his lips Alvar realised that their escape had not only brought bad things for him. Then again maybe it was just his mindset that made life better for him? Life certainly became a little bit happier if you tried to see life as a jar half full, instead of half empty.

With a shrug Alvar shoved those thoughts to the back of his mind for later contemplation. Already he could hear faint clamouring in what he knew to be the main camp. With a small smile on his face Alvar increased the speed of his marching as he was looking forward to see Veli once again. The both of them would have a lot to share with each other about their time in the wild, Alvar was pretty sure about that.


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Yo my darlings, hope you are all doing well^^

I found myself yearning to write something, anything really, so here you go. Even though I had some difficulties to get back into the swing of things I hope the chapter did come out somewhat alright :-)

Later!

Alright, read over it again and rewrote some parts as well.

Bab 60: Chapter 60

Stepping out of the thick foliage Alvar was greeted by the familiar sight of their campsite. Tents of different forms and sizes littered the clearing while a few swaths of smoke rose up into the air here and there, no doubt with food cooking or clothes drying besides them.

Here and there an adult was handing out food to some child who swiftly bolted over to the friends they had made, or still had from their days and lives in Hoelbrak, in order to join them while eating. Their breakfast roused even the most sleepy of the lot as Alvar observed bouts of laughter or small quarrelling between the small groups of children which sometimes even required the intervention of an adult but all in all the scene he came upon, once he stepped out of the thick foliage of the forest, had something homely to it and Alvar couldn't help but smile at the sight.

After observing the happenings of the morning for a bit the lad, with his sword hung over one and his bundle and prey over the other shoulder, marched over towards the camp. His form was soon spotted by one of the adults that sat at a bonfire nearby, cooking breakfast for all, and was thus waved over to join them.

"Good morning Alvar. Are you well? We were worried that something had happened to you when you didn't come back even once in those last three weeks." The woman said while she waited for Alvar to put down all his things and once he had done so was handed a bowl with steaming stew inside of it, smelling of cooked vegetables and smoky meat, causing Alvar's mouth to water at the aroma that wafted through the morning air.

"You didn't have to worry you know? I told you that I would be gone for some time. Oh, before I forget. Those are for you." Alvar motioned over to his bundle. Next to it laid the prey he had brought back with him. A few hares, birds and squirrels. Not much but Alvar had never been the best of hunters out there when it came to gathering food.

"Thank you. We've been in dire need of some restocking of our supplies. Those will do just fine." The woman replied, a mesmer if Alvar remembered correctly, after which she turned back around to the cooking pot boiling over the bonfire.

"Have you seen Veli yet by the way? We wanted to meet up today if I'm not mistaken." Alvar asked after a while of simply eating in silence and filling his stomach with the comfortable warmth the stew supplied him with.

"Oh, Veli came back two days ago. The lad got bit by a snake and wasn't sure what to do so he returned to not risk anything. He's fine though so you don't need to worry. One of our healers drained the poison out of the wound swiftly without lasting damages to the boy. I bet he's still sleeping in his tent. I swear, not even a horde ogres could awaken the lad if he doesn't want to wake up…" The old woman said with some mirth tinging her voice towards the end when she recalled how they had tried to wake Veli up one morning but could do whatever they want. He simply did not wake up but continued to snore away.

Thinking back to his encounter this morning Alvar rather doubted her statement but remained silent as he knew just too well how deep his friend slept. Suddenly a wicked idea sprung up in Alvar's mind and with a grin he gulped down the rest of his meal and after slinging his weapon and bundle over his shoulders went towards Veli's tent with a small wave of goodbye towards the friendly woman, sitting at the bonfire, who waved back with a small smile after which she returned to her task at hand.

On his way over to Veli's tent Alvar unclipped his drinking hose filled with water from the side of his bundle, all the while dodging energy filled children that ran like maniacs through the camp, and grinned wickedly to himself in glee at what he had planned for his friend.

Stepping silently through the tents entrance Alvar had to crouch down in order to fit into the tiny tent but didn't mind that and, while holding the drinking hose on a cord between his teeth, crawled over on all fours towards his victim.

Slightly lifting the covers up from his snoring friend Alvar cackled like a witch to himself before he poured the ice-cold water onto his friend's groin who promptly was awake and began to clamour as if there was no tomorrow, jumping up and down like a lunatic in the tiny tent.

Alvar meanwhile was roaring from laughter, rolling on the ground at the show his friend supplied him with. But he had better done so elsewhere as his friend soon came to understand what evil had been done to him and thus promptly began to wrestle with the still laughing Alvar, which caused the tent to collapse onto the two, all to the amusement to the rest of the camp who came to spectate the ruckus the two were making.

After a few minutes of venting the two friends sat on the ground with the remainder of the tent they had taken down in their wrestling strewn all around them while the spectators slowly scattered and went back to doing whatever they had been up to.

"It's good to see you, asshole…" Veli grumbled out, picking a few strands of grass that had found their way into his hair all the while, to which the still chuckling Alvar only replied: "Ye, you too dumbass, hehehe…". Afterwards the two stood up and began to repair the tent they had destroyed in their grappling.

Truly, the camp felt like a home away from home to Alvar. 'Or maybe it's just the people inside of it?' Alvar mused to himself but soon forgot those thoughts as another occurrence spiced up this rather eventful morning, namely the two adults who were tasked with visiting Divinity's reach had just returned. It was promising to become an interesting day…


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