This time the book had a strange appereance, the cover was slowly turning greenish and a symbol was drawn into it. It was a little egg, with an eye pattern in the top and a dark red colour. The meaning of this change? maybe with the time it will be revealed, for now i just can let you read the new page written in the diary, maybe it will give you a tip...
April 24th, 2011
Today day was a blessing, its been a long time since i woke up withouth any body pains... wait its been just 2 days... well they were 2 long days. Either way i stood up today in a great mode, it seems ive been getting acostumed to this body for every minute it pass.
While i was dressing up, Erestor's daughter came in. At first i hide my body almost instinctively but, seeing the funny giggling of her i desisted on my ridiculous act, it seems that the view didnt make her shy, a mature girl for her age is what i thought at first. She told me that her father was waiting for me at his house and she apologize in his behalf for not going there himself, look like he was really busy. I kindly thanks her and accompanied her to the door, after all we were going to the same place so we talked a little on the way.
She told me that she was worried about her father, he was already really old and the tasks f an elder were exhausting, those words didnt help me a lot, because it was almost clear that i would be the next elder, that means to work until exhaustation... well is better than to be dead in the middle of the forest...
When we arrived at the tree "house" she opened the house and, with a hand movement, invited me to enter. It was the first time i was inside of the tree, Erestor made me walk though the village while telling me the different stories, so i didnt have the chance to visited it. The interior was really simple, just a few furniture from wood and a pair of stair, one going up and one down... wait, down? wouldnt the tree's roots be an hyndrance? while i was lost in my mind watching that stairs to the "roots floor" i heard the voice of Erestor from the first floor, inviting me to climb up.
Once on the first floor, Erestor guide me to the room at the right, its incredible how much space this tree has inside.
the room we entered had the appereance of a stody from the old stories, full of paper books and papirus, vials with strange liquids everywhere, and some pictures with weird diagrams, looks like they do know something about technology and dont rely completely in magic.
He showed me an small wooden chair and took another for himself, close to a table full of papers. I followed his example and took my seat, getting close to the table. The silence was a bit ankward for me, while he was looking though the papers, aparently looking for something, i started looking everywhere, but the view of the room was almost the same in every place of it; just books, drawings and notes; i wonder if he already had read every one of those letters... i cant even read one sentence properly yet...
I decide to talk a little, to ease the boredom i was acumulating; i still cant get over my surprise from what we talked; i told him that her daughter was really dependant and mature for her age. He inmediately stop his hands from moving and looked at me with incredule ages, then he burst out laughing and said "of course she is mature, she is already 50 years, a grown up woman" I coulnt said anything after hearing that... 50 years? she looks like a 10 years girl at most... seeing the surprise in my face, something not really hard to do, Erestor told me that elves have a longer lifespan that the other races and, for that reason, they grow slower than them. Then that means that the elder is... how much? more than 300 years? how much did he seen in his entire life... is hard to even imagine it...
While i was still thinking of this crazy things i just discovered, the elder let out a satisfactory expresion, looks like he found what he was looking for. He showed me a list of papers that had an strange symbol on the corner, it was like the creatures i saw flying at the forest, but with a more ferocious aspect and wings that looks like skin, when i asked the elder about it, he said it was the ancient emblem of the lost kingdom; the red dragon, fierce and strong; and the blue dragon, wise and calm. Dragon... i heard about them in an old fairy tail, but werent they imaginary? those were the things that remind me constantly that i wasnt on my world...
He started explaining to me the pages content, basically it was the rights and obligation of every elder that would lead this village. Because it was a big town in the past, there were some things that didnt make any sense now. It stated that the elder must know the basic of magic healing and act as the village healer if anybody need it; check the farms and the other production places personally, everyday; organize some events to ease the people boredom and, in times of war, their suffering; Will be free to share his knowledge with anyone that he wish, but he must not ask anything in exchange, just acept something if anybody offers it; and most importantly, be loyal to the king. The king... so in this world there is a governant too, eh? i wonder how are the disputes of power here.
The rest of the day, Erestor tried to teach me healing magic, because it was one of the necesities in being an elder, we walked though the village with a slow pace and stop ocasionally on some houses, where we begin to treat the injuries. Sometimes i would mess when healing someone, luckily enough the healing magic wasnt dangerous, otherwise Erestor wouldnt let me try it on people. When the day ended, i could close a small wound completely and eliminate a little of phisical phatige. Sadly there isnt any spell to eliminate mental phatige... because i need one so hardly... to use magic makes my head hurt like hell...
Finally i arrived at my house, after acompaning the elder to his house, her daughter asked me to and i had to do something to apologize for my mistake on her age, she just laugh it off and continued like nothing. How i miss my world medicine, it could take away my headache now that i need it... but well this isnt that bad, i mean, closing a wound just by touching it? that is really nice. Its time for me to go to bed then, tomorrow i will probably repeat the same routine... my mind need a rest.
Edited by Yumeshi - 24 Apr 2011 at 15:53
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The image i saw when we arrived was just like in a fairy tail, at my front there was a giant tree, completely alone in a clare of the forest and with strange carvings on it. It was emitting lights from the inside, and a big group of elves were waiting at the outside.
it was in one of my walk though the path hidden at the forest, where i discover something fascinating and scary. A giant ball of fire was heading to my way appearing from nowhere, if i reacted a few seconds later, i problably had been burn, maybe not to death, but it would have an ungly scar.
