The earthen tribe (6)

Mars handed the rifle back to the stunned guard, then Solomon woke up from his daze and quickly asked Mars.

"Where did you learn to fire a rifle with such grace?"

"Well on another continent for starters, it was also a lifetime ago..."

Solomon thought for a moment before he asked.

"It may be rude to ask, but how old are you exactly Mars? when you say a lifetime ago how long ago do you mean?"

Mars thought for a moment before he answered the question.

"Me? I'm a little over 220 years old... I suppose it was about 100 years ago that I learned how to fire a rifle."

Technical it was in his past life but Mars was not lying about it.

"You... you're not human are you?"

"Nope~"

"I see... sorry for asking such questions."

"I don't mind."

From there and until the dwarfs left Solomon no longer spoke to Mars and at about sundown the convoy left the city and Mars received his reward from Alex.