Iny had just left the house with a polite "goodbye. The hybrid watched through the window as her brother walked away from home, feeling each time more nervous his comforting presence got each time more distant. Lyra did not enjoy being without her brother, becoming scared and slightly paranoid, even if she was with friends. There was nothing she could do about it, thought, Iny had to go and her only solution was to wait.

That was her everyday routine, she was always either with her brother or waiting for him to return home, which he only did to eat and occasionally sleep. Well, this last one he didn't do often, but when he did, he would sleep for says straight.

Finally, long after Iny was out of sight, Lyra decided to leave her home. It was a habit of hers, always waiting one or two hours before moving from her spot at the window, she didn't quite know why, but she felt like moving before would make something awful appear from behind and kill her.

Slowly, she turned around, a low hiss coming from her mouth and feeling some pain as the reactions that would make a normal creeper explode burnt her from inside. There was nothing behind her. Lyra sighed in relief, as well as a creeper can sigh at least, and left the house, still trembling, scared, but at least free from one imaginary danger of life.

We have seen many things about this Far Lands village, but we didn't talk about its natural structures yet, it's interesting and important zones that will be very important to know from here on.

The place had exactly 66.047 squared blocks, distributed in a irregular area. This area of the Great Far Lands, in particular, was called Star-Blood Fields, because of the mysterious fields of red grass that had many world holes, which resembled craters (at least for those mobs who had seen mods that added such things) and couldn't be fixed at all.

Two world holes there were especially famous, the Black Dog chunk, that showed an area of bedrock that resembled a sitting black dog, and the Fountain Chunk, where mobs often threw flint in order to get their wishes to become true, somewhat similar to the fountains of the Great Dream.

Finally, an enormous house had a lot of fame, there, it went across it's own platform, having a floor made out of Nether brick and a very irregular basement made of glass and glowstone, which made it look like a bright, majestic stalactite when seen from below.

This is where Catherine lived.

Catherine was one of the Void Children, the great creatures that ruled over small things in Minecraftia and were created by Herobrine himself, being powerful, but also really weak against a human (Exception for the Loyal Child, that had of the Ender Dragon's power and it's size). In particular, Catherine was the Tainted Child, which had only a vague power over disgusting, broken things and had no physical abilities at all.

She was known for having many apprentices, mostly Freakers who wanted to become stronger,and some greater commanders that were bored and wanted to get more information about everything surrounding Catherine.

This Catherine was the person Lyra was going to visit.

The hybrid was already in the field of red grass where Catherine's majestic house was located. She walked slowly, trembling in fear. No matter what, Catherine's figure scared the living hell out of her.

Why was she visiting such a scary creature? It would be to expect that Lyra would stay AWAY from Catherine! Oh, but one has to remember the following, it made a long time Lyra longed to join as one of Catherine's apprentices (or students, as she called them). She was well aware that most of them went crazy, but she didn't care, becoming as crazy as the others was just another advantage, in fact. The possibility of becoming stronger, the mysterious aura that surrounded the apprentices…it was just so tempting! Sadly, Lyra had never been brave, and was too scared to ask Catherine about joining them…

Lyra walked and walked, too a while, but she finally found herself at the door of the majestic house that belonged to Catherine, somewhat scared to touch the doorbell, afraid of finding the owner of the house in a bad mood.

After thinking a while, she decided that it would be safe to try to enter and moved the lever that was the doorbell. The sound of a song played with noteblocks echoed around and everything went silent.

The hybrid thought of giving up and running away before it was too late, but, before she could even turn around, the door was opened.

"What do you wan- " She had started the phrase in a harsh tone, but, upon seeing it was an human hybrid, she stopped, her expression becoming calmer and sweeter.

"H-hi, Catherine…It is m-me, L-lyra…I came to visit y-you"

"Oh, I see. Why don't you come in, then? I have some of my students here right now, but we won't too take long, that is, if you are willing to wait a little!" The creature was clearly more eager to welcome the creeper now that she knew that it was a semi human (thought she couldn't remember who she was or if they ever met, as she wasn't good with names)

Lyra went pale. They were there? Oh Notch, why? She had never been at Catherine's house when she was with her students! Why did she have to come here today?

Anyway, the hybrid, not wanting to annoy the older creature, entered the house, shaking like hell.

"Sit in that sofa, soon we will talk!" The insane creeper said, pointing to sofa-like structura made of wooden stairs and signs. Lyra obeyed and sat there, without saying a word.

Catherine left the room, locking an iron door, which lead to a dark room, leaving Lyra alone for the second time that day.

The living room of the insane creeper wasn't all that fantastic, compared to the basement, but it sure was interesting. The walls were full of different paintings and, the oddest thing, apparently, the whole place was illuminated by locked chests, which were rare, even in the Great Far Lands.

The hybrid looked around, nervous, not wanting to leave her spot, it was better to wait…Inside, she wanted to take a peek to see what Catherine was doing, to get to see the faces of the apprentices, to know a bit more about everything, but she was, as always, too scared to dare to.

Almost half an hour had past. Lyra was shaking, she got out of the sofa and, as silently as she could, she approached the iron door that separated her from the insane creeper. If before she was afraid, now she was terrified, almost in panic.

Putting her head close to the door, she could hear their words faintly, along with the sound of something falling over and over, maybe some parkour? Most mobs failed terribly when it came to it.

Despise she could barely understand their words and she didn't want to risk looking through the holes of the door, the simple fact she could hear whatever was happening inside was more than enough. This lasted for a long time, how much, exactly, she didn't know, too distracted with the sounds of the room.

In fact, she was so distracted she didn't even realize that the footsteps sound was slowly going near the door and only realized what would happen when she heard the terrible sound of a lever.

Lyra's instinct told her one only thing, "Hide!" but she didn't have time to do it. Before she could even move, a really pissed off looking Catherine was standing in front of her, hissing, while three smaller figures stood behind her, more confused than anything.

Another chapter! 8D It took a while to figure out what exactly to do, but now I am certain of what I have to do to make this story progress how I want it too uvu I hope you like it : )

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