Iny stood at the door of the house and opened the door. He was hungry, after a day of training, but wasn't tired and would not sleep today. The first thing he realized once he opened the door, thought, was the silence. This was a very odd thing, as usually Lyra was already waiting for him at the front door or she was cooking something special for dinner.
Iny did not like this. Instead of walking directly to the kitchen to get food, he walked to Lyra's bedroom. Through the holes of the wood, he saw that she was already asleep.
This was the first time Lyra had fallen asleep without Iny having to tell her a tale…A part of him was relieved to see her sleeping alone, but the other part told him that something very bad had to happen for her to do such thing…
He shook his head and, taking this out of his mind, ate a few slices of bread before leaving to the desert of the lands the humans dominated. He has just gotten a bow with an enchantment for infinite arrows and he wanted to train it in the heads of the brave explorers of the desert.
He left the house.
Footsteps.
Lyra was not asleep.
No, no. She had tried to sleep for a long while, but failed completely, out of fear. As she waited for her brother she started to think better about what had happened, feeling each time more curious about the "letter". She wanted to open it now…but couldn't bring herself to move from her spot to take it. She wished she hadn't put it the chest.
When Iny arrived, she realized she could move now, but she didn't. She wanted to read the "letter" alone…It was some kind of secret, she was sure.
Now he had left. Lyra stood up and, silently, took the book from the chest along with a redstone torch. It had only three pages. She sat on her bed and put the torch on the wall to illuminate the place just enough.
She opened the book and with awkward moves and, the whole time trembling, scared of someone bursting in the room out of the nothing, she started to read.
"My dear, if you are reading it, it means that I see in you a potential apprentice who should learn the basic of the basic of our routine, our mentality an-…" The rest of the page and the other one were stained with ink and unreadable, thought. Lyra hissed, frustrated. Who had spilled ink there? And twice?
She was about to put it back in the chest when she saw that, despite all the ink, the last page was still intact.
"Child, I am sorry. They are after me. You are superior than me and this must be why I am sending YOU this special note. Letters B were extinguished time ago, when we realized people could steal it and get to know about us. This is the last exemplar and the one I was keeping to send this note in… By the time you read this, I will be gone. I am sorry, they had been threatening me, now that I know this letter is with someone…I can give up and end this nightmare. I cannot tell many things on this letter. By tomorrow you will understand, thought. Count on my apprentices.
Catherine, The Tainted Child"
Lyra couldn't even breathe as she read this. All her thoughts could be reduced to "What?" This letter made no sense whatsoever…and yet, the part saying that Catherine would be gone by time she was reading that worried her. It said she would understand everything by tomorrow…But understand what? Would something bad happen? Were they going to do something big and dangerous? Questions, questions, questions!
Lyra went to sleep with those questions in her head, so confused she didn't even care to the absence of her brother. In her innocence, she, not even once, thought about all of that being a joke.
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Iny did not take long to get to the portal to the human world. He was way faster than his extremely clumsy sister and knew quite a few shortcuts Lyra did not dare to use.
In the moment he stepped on the extremely glitchy block, he felt the usual pain of the teleportation as some of his data almost became corrupt, being protect, however, by his natural glitches.
It took a while of loading and a little more standing in The Void while the chunks around him loaded but he finally could see everything around him. The moon was still in a 45 angle with the horizon, so it was the perfect time to attack.
He sneaked through the dunes, seeking for humans or hurt mobs, who he would finish off. Why to kill his own kind? Simple, because mobs don't die easily. It takes around one hundred deaths to kill one definitively, until all of its data becomes corrupt and invalid even for the depths of the Broken Far Lands from so many respawns and The Void eats it. Of course, no mob killed in the human world would die permanently (Except for VERY rare creatures, who are corrupted before even dying) as when they started to get corrupted they would be sent to their eternal home, the Far Lands.
It didn't take long before he spotted a human, an unknown man with a black and white skin. Iny did not care about his name; he was just a training target.
He aimed and shot, it hit the human perfectly. Iny swiftly walked to another place, taking care not to be seen. This was way easier with enderpearls, but he did not have any item to recover health or boots with feather fall, so it was dangerous to use them.
The human seemed surprised and started to search for the "skeleton" shooting him. Probably his player was screaming something at the screen, but Iny couldn't hear a word. The same way mobs were mute to the humans, the humans were mute to the mobs.
He ran from a side to the other, his pure white skin helped him not to be seen, as it almost looked like sand. In fact, the only things that were easy to spot on him were his red eyes and his enchanted bow.
The fight did not last much; the human couldn't find the one shooting the arrows and was almost dying so he obviously fled. He soon returned, thought, this time wearing an iron armor with enchanted pants.
This time the battle was more difficult and took way longer, as Iny needed to avoid the arrows the human was shooting everywhere. Judging by the way the human wasn't giving up on the fight, he must have had left some diamonds nearby, otherwise he wouldn't risk losing a whole armor set with a bug.
It took practically the whole night, but Iny finally defeated the human. Well, technically the human had fallen in a ravine inconveniently placed in the map and died by fall damage, but whatever. He was dead.
The sun was close to rise. It was time to go. Of course, Iny was lost, but it wasn't necessary for him to go back to the glitch block to go back to his home, he could simply finish the constant tick on his head, which represented the amount of time he could stay in the Human lands. This amount was, currently, equivalent to one week. Not too much, but still acceptable.
It was very simple, he just had to imagine the phrase, "TickLeft=0 Stay=false FarLands= true Broken=true LandHumans =false DataBroken=9 Name=True, Iny" and he would be sent to his last valid location in the Far Lands.
He closed his eyes and whispered the phrase, letting his skin become transparent and his data, not valid, vanishing as the first rays of burning sunlight appeared in the horizon.
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Well, another chapter! I wrote this one rather quickly, in fact O.o It is from here that things will start getting weird XD
A thing that is worthy explaining here, my headcannon for the deaths of mobs. In case you don't understand, a mob can be killed and respawn several times, and each time it gets a little more corrupted. When the corruption makes their data invalid in the Human Lands, they respawn in the Far Lands, and each time they die, they respawn at deeper levels of it, eventually reaching the Broken Far Lands.
Any mob sent to the Far Lands cannot stay in normal places for too long, they have a set time to return, depending on how corrupted they are. When they die enough times, the default phrase that defines their period of stay becomes ""TickLeft=0 Stay=False FarLands=False roken=false LandHuman=false DataBroken=20 Name=Invalid Name" where Name is the name of the mob and they cannot be kept anywhere and are destroyed in The Void, not respawning again. Keep in mind that this phrase does not really exist in programation language (I think) and is used to make this simpler XD Like, "TickLeft= Infinite Stay=True FarLands=false Broken=false LandHuman=true BrokenData=0 Name=Invalid" defines a mob that just spawned : )