Revelations in Green
Things are so much simpler when you're young. I had always been fascinated by the Scarlet Moon Empire. The succession wasn't by blood, or alliance, but by war and battle. Back home, that was considered mad, barbaric, and by some, even evil.
No one understood my fascination, so I was all but ostracized. Eventually, I decided to to some `in person' research. So I left. I didn't mean to hurt anyone, honestly.
I encountered a village of humans who were rather militant. They were literally beating a man to death, and so I jumped in to help him, fool that I was. I was nearly killed as well, and we would have died if the Imperial Army hadn't intervened.
I think of it as both a bloody-minded joke, and a gift. As it turns out, the kid that Alen was being attacked because of later joined a rebellion that well, you know already what that led to.
It also sounds like the boy had been hurt, and Alen was trying to help, but the billage, a bunch of hotheads, Flik's a perfect example, took in the sight and assumed Alen had done the damage. He doesn't talk about it, but later they sent him a formal apology. The kid, Flik, made all of the village warriors sign it. Did I mention that Flik's almost impossibly stubborn?
Well, when we recovered, Alen and I swore allegiance, fealty, loyalty, whatever you want to call it, to the leader of the soldiers who saved us. We never regretted it.
Well, maybe we did when he died.
So when Alen got fed up with standing beside the President's chair all day after the Empire became the Toran Republic, we both took off. I was curious about this `Matilda' he spoke of, so I went with him when he decided to go home.
We discovered that they wee looking for people to lead the newly reformed knights. I'm still not completely sure how that came about, comes from being on the sidelines. But neither Alen nor I was willing to take the job, so we left Matilda to wander around Muse for a few days.
Then I decided to show him my home. He almost got strangled when he said, "What, the Grasslands?" Yes, I have a temper, but bunching Rune, Parmecia, Granseal, Karaya, Chisya, Camaro and Iom together like that just pushes my buttons.
When we reached Tinto, we encountered this curious fellow called Max. He walked about with a sword strapped to either side of his waist, and was followed rather closely by this metal- thing- that spoke eloquently enough, though it continually called him `Master Max' no matter how many times he asked it not to. There was a blonde guy traveling with him as well as a guy with whitish- purple hair. I never caught the names of the other three, as Max glanced at me, froze, looked again and blinked then walked right up to me.
He said my younger brother was `rather peeved,' and quite likely to' beat the snot' out of me right after he greeted Alen.
The two humans with him seemed as flummoxed as Alen and I when he did that, but even the mechanical oddity looked nonplused when he waved, turned and just seemed to disappear.
What'd he do, train with ninjas?
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Things are so much simpler when you're young. I had always been fascinated by the Scarlet Moon Empire. The succession wasn't by blood, or alliance, but by war and battle. Back home, that was considered mad, barbaric, and by some, even evil.
No one understood my fascination, so I was all but ostracized. Eventually, I decided to to some `in person' research. So I left. I didn't mean to hurt anyone, honestly.
I encountered a village of humans who were rather militant. They were literally beating a man to death, and so I jumped in to help him, fool that I was. I was nearly killed as well, and we would have died if the Imperial Army hadn't intervened.
I think of it as both a bloody-minded joke, and a gift. As it turns out, the kid that Alen was being attacked because of later joined a rebellion that well, you know already what that led to.
It also sounds like the boy had been hurt, and Alen was trying to help, but the billage, a bunch of hotheads, Flik's a perfect example, took in the sight and assumed Alen had done the damage. He doesn't talk about it, but later they sent him a formal apology. The kid, Flik, made all of the village warriors sign it. Did I mention that Flik's almost impossibly stubborn?
Well, when we recovered, Alen and I swore allegiance, fealty, loyalty, whatever you want to call it, to the leader of the soldiers who saved us. We never regretted it.
Well, maybe we did when he died.
So when Alen got fed up with standing beside the President's chair all day after the Empire became the Toran Republic, we both took off. I was curious about this `Matilda' he spoke of, so I went with him when he decided to go home.
We discovered that they wee looking for people to lead the newly reformed knights. I'm still not completely sure how that came about, comes from being on the sidelines. But neither Alen nor I was willing to take the job, so we left Matilda to wander around Muse for a few days.
Then I decided to show him my home. He almost got strangled when he said, "What, the Grasslands?" Yes, I have a temper, but bunching Rune, Parmecia, Granseal, Karaya, Chisya, Camaro and Iom together like that just pushes my buttons.
When we reached Tinto, we encountered this curious fellow called Max. He walked about with a sword strapped to either side of his waist, and was followed rather closely by this metal- thing- that spoke eloquently enough, though it continually called him `Master Max' no matter how many times he asked it not to. There was a blonde guy traveling with him as well as a guy with whitish- purple hair. I never caught the names of the other three, as Max glanced at me, froze, looked again and blinked then walked right up to me.
He said my younger brother was `rather peeved,' and quite likely to' beat the snot' out of me right after he greeted Alen.
The two humans with him seemed as flummoxed as Alen and I when he did that, but even the mechanical oddity looked nonplused when he waved, turned and just seemed to disappear.
What'd he do, train with ninjas?
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