Chapter 3: Traveling alone

When Aladdin left to follow Alibaba, Nagi felt lonely. She grew attach to the blue haired boy as they travel together. Walking to the opposite side, Nagi decide to retire for tonight to the hotel. As night turn into morning, Nagi pack up her belongings for exploring through the land.

'You know my dear, old goats need to fall or the young ones cannot learn…' She remembered her grandmother said many times. Nagi believe her grandmother's words since older people live through the tough times and experience them.

Her feet guide her through the sandy plains to see pieces of abandoned rumble. The rumble seems to be stone pillars, Nagi stop in front one of the stone pillars to study it further. Her right hand gently touches the pillar to notice many bumps and strange patterns upon touch. The hood thankfully protects her from the sun's rays when her eyes saw infinite knot of patterns. Within the patterns, it has abstract animals similar to lion beast at the tip of the pillar to show dominance over the lesser the other animals that are under the king of beasts. Closing her eyes, Nagi can picture the image in her head. Her hand gently places her bag down to take out ink with a stick of a pointed end and a long scroll of blank paper.

With patience she draws the patterns in front of her. It felt like time past by as the tip her right fingers have dry ink from the point of the stick. Nagi looks at her work, admiring how it turns out well than she expected. Taking out a blue string from her bag, she carefully rolls up the paper and takes out a cylinder container to place inside for protection. Nagi puts away her work in her bag, to wear it on her back. She walks past the pillar to go further to the next town.

The town seems average since most of it is made up of large ship ports. 'I believe this is a trading town or fishing port.' Nagi thought when she walks past a few people. The bazaar doesn't show much for trade since she saw them before in different places. A small crowd of children run past her with innocent laughter.

She smiles at the children, remembering her large family. Her family is quite large with many aunts and uncles. They are traveling merchants, quite talented at bartering with their customers. Nagi at a young age took care of her little cousins with her grandmother while their parents are busy with work. It's rare for the adults to spend time with children. Mothers are expected to take care of their newborns until their children are old enough to stand on their own, usually at age six. They seem to be distracted of doing housework or helping their spouses with merchant work. For Nagi, her parents are quite busy to spend time with her since they are next in line to take over the family line. She grew close to her grandmother, learning from her and played with her little cousins. Nagi smiles at the memories of her little cousins calling her Onee-chan. Her family was called the Asad due to their inner strength and wisdom. Not much people know the Asad since they are secreted with their trade. Only a small few of people know them personally.

Nagi stopped at the port ships; she asks a few fishermen if they travel out to sea. One of them answers to her, "Well missy, one of the ships is going to Sindra. The others already left." She thanks the sailor and remembers of Sindra's rumor of having excellent hunt of sea monsters. She finally decides to go to Sindra to see if these rumors are true, secretly want to taste this cuisine.

Nagi abroad the traveling ship with other people who are tourists. It's been three weeks since traveling in this ship. Her fingers were occupied in weaving colorful strings together to create a bracelet. She sits against the wall on the deck with a few people watching the sea in front of them. A couple of children run around the middle of the deck, away from the ship's edge. Nagi watch the children play together with a game of hide and seek. The wind is lively today for sailing. She went back to her crafting until she stops to see a small shadow covering her from the sun's rays. Looking up, Nagi saw a little boy watching her movements. His eyes sparkle with curiosity, she smiles at the boy and speaks up.

"You want to learn on how to make this?" She asks gently. The boy nods happily and Nagi shows the boy of different colors balls of string. He picked his favorite colors of two different shades of blue, dark and light.

With Nagi's basic instructions and patience, the boy pick up soon. She smiles at the little boy's work. Soon after the rest of the children watch in awe of the little boy's work, they wanted to learn also. She smiles when the children try to make their own bracelets. In different times, Nagi help the children to make the correct pattern. When the day turns to noon, the children left with their parents waving bye to Nagi.

A/N: *Slams head on keyboard*...Forgive me, my followers. This is a short chapter but I been busy with summer classes. Also, we have many parties this weekend, including my birthday party. Ehhh I don't care if I'm older, I wanna be an awesome grandma (Not that old yet o_0").

Trivia:

-Asad means 'Lion'

-Nagi have a weakness for children.

P.S: I love you all with all my heart! Enjoy sushi...they are good...

-FancyBunny