Chapter 6: Returned
Today is my twelfth birthday. Tori gave me a me bright red dress that she made herself and some potions that her father had made. Valdis made me a flower headdress. My step mother gave me a bigger pair of shoes as I don't like go around shoe less like most kids.
We are now on our way to Wayer's blacksmith. Him and Rhonda are making me a new weapon. Kazbar, Tori, and Valdis are with me. Kazbar is going to teach me how to fight. We soon reach the blacksmith forge and Rhonda waves at us. I wave back as Wayer walks outside.
He smiles when be sees us,"Hello guys." He greets us.
"Hello Wayer!" The four of us say in unison.
"Happy Birthday Vicky. I have your hammer inside the shop whenever you are ready for it." He says.
I smile big at this,"I'm ready for it now!"
"Haha alright inside the shop then!"
The six of us go inside the shop and Wayer goes into the back room and comes back a minute later carrying a iron warhammer. He gives it to me and Rhonda says,"Hope you like it Vicky! We spent hours making it for you!"
I smile at them both and say ,"I love it thank you both!"
"You're welcome!" They both say smiling back.
"I'll see you later at the Sanctuary." Wayer said.
"Alright by see you later."
We leave Wayer and Rhonda to get back to their job and start walking. "Where to you want to train?" Kazbar asks.
I think about it for a minute before deciding,"Let's go train in the field by the tree house."
"Alright let's go!"
The four of us take off running with me being the fastest usual. Tori being the second fastest was about 10 feet behind me. Everyone else was about another ten feet behind her.
"You're too slow!" Tori teased them laughing.
I laughed with her as we soon made it to the tree house.
"Tori you're a jerk." Said Valdis pretending to be cross.
"Yeah I know I am." She said which made all of us laugh.
"So you ready to train?" Asked Kazbar when we were done laughing.
"Of course I am!"
Later that afternoon after we were done training we went back to the Sanctuary. I looked around in confusion because no one was in the front room. When we went into the back room I opened my mouth in shock and happiness.
There in the middle of the room was my father who had been gone for almost two years. My step mother was sanding next to him while Valdis was giving him a hug. "Papa!" I yelled and ran over to him and threw myself into his arms.
"Hello Vicky." He said with a smile. "I'm sorry I was gone so long. Things didn't go like they are supposed to.
"It doesn't matter papa you're here now." I tell him.
"I wasn't about to miss another of you or your sisters birthdays."
"We missed you papa." Valdis said from where she stood next to us.
He smiled at her and pulled her up into his other arm so that he was holding both of us and said,"I missed you too. I promise I'll never been gone that long again."
Later that night I lay awake in my bed thinking about what my father told me about his trip. It turns out that the contact he had been given was very hard for him to find and when he did find him he got caught in the act by a guard and had spent ten moons in prison.
After he got out of prison he started traveling back home only to get sick and had spent another seven moons recovering. After he told us everything that had happened to him in the last eighteenth moons we had to break the news to him about Monet.
He was very upset when he learned his cousin had died. And even more upset when we couldn't tell him who had killed her. All we could tell him his was that Darby had found her body in the river on his way back to the Sanctuary one day. She had been stabbed in the neck and she was missing her clothes.
When he heard that he had got really quiet and didn't say anything for quite some time. He went to bed not long after that. I sighed. In a couple of days I was going to go to the bitch woman's house. It had taken sometime but I had decided that this would be the last time I would go there. I was going to take anything I had in my room and then I would never have to look at their ugly faces again.