Hey guys! Finally got an Internet Connection (Thank you Nana!) here's the newest Chapter!
It had been 8 days since I left my village. I had come across another village to the west and settled with an elderly pair and helped them sell their crops so that I got a cut of the profits. Since they were elderly I didn't ask for much. Just enough to where in a couple of months I'd have enough to move again. It turned out to be 2 months when I had enough. I thanked them for their hospitality and left. Ever since I began traveling I haven't spoke too much. Every now and again I would have dream of my days in my own village, leaving me to wake up with tears.
It had been month 7 of my town hopping when I ran across a little girl who seemed lost. Worried, I summoned up the strength to speak.
"Are you ok?" my voiced cracked from hardly using it. "Are you lost? How old are you?"
"I'm 6. And I've gotten separated from my friends." The little girl replied.
"Well let's see if we can find them. Ok?" I said as I reached out for her hand.
"Thank you." She sniffled, and grabbed my hand.
All of a sudden there was a rustle from some nearby bushes, I looked at the girl, leaned down to her and whispered in her ear, "let's go." To which she nodded her head.
We walked through the forest until we came across a little clearing with a small lake, by the lake there were two demons.
I grab her and pull her back into the forest. And quietly say, "If we're quite enough we can sneak around."
"Don't worry those are my friends." She said with a smile.
"What?" I asked bluntly.
"Watch," she steps out from the tree and yells out, "Master Jaken!"
"Rin where have you been you silly girl!?" the imp cried out almost to tears.
"I got lost but this kind lady helped me!" she said running over to me, grabbing me by hand and pulling me out of the forest. "She was even worried for my safety when we first saw you."
"Thank you, Miss." The imp bowed to me.
"Not a problem. I'm glad I got to help." I said, not to thrilled I was conversing with a demon.
"Would you like to stay for lunch? Our lord should be back any minute." The little girl asked.
For a moment the only noise was the sound of the waves of the lake on the shore I didn't want to leave the girl, however if her two friends were demons it was almost garenteed the her 'lord' was a demon as well. After a lot of thinking I finally responded.
"No thanks. I really must be going." I said turning around.
"Are you headed home now?" Rin asked so innocently. "I bet your family is worried about you."
Tears began to stream down my face as I turned away.
"May I at least know your name before you leave, miss?" she asked her own eyes filling up with tears.
"Meyome" I said then ran into the forest.
"Miss Meyome, thank you!" she yelled after me.
After a couple of days of wandering in the forest, I finally ran across another village. I went to the shrine and thanked Buddha for my safe arrival. While I was praying an elderly lady came upon me.
"Why are ye, so young, traveling all alone?" the old woman spoke.
"I'm nothing more than a traveler curious about her homeland" I put on my best fake smile.
"What is ye name." She asked with a worried expression.
"Meyome, my name is Meyome." I said depressed I knew the question coming next.
"Where are ye from Mey-" she stopped because tears had begun to run down my face.
She took me to her hut at the base of the shrine steps, "Now what is it child?"
"It's about where I'm from." I said still sniffling trying to hold back my tears.
"May I ask what happened?"
I lost it. "It was destroyed. And everyone killed. Even my family." I said between my sobs.
"So ye are the lone survivor." She stated but turning the end to sound like a question.
Thinking it was a question I nodded my head. "Now I just travel from village to village making money so I can move yet again."
"My name is Kaede, and I'm the priestess of this village."
"Huh?"
"I shall let ye sleep here. And you said ye work for money."
"Yes ma'am."
"Then ye should talk to the villagers. They may have some work for ye to do."
"Th-Thank you, Lady Kaede."
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