Chapter 5: Dr. Baker

I've always wanted to come back home, I can't even remember the last time I was here. Just a few minutes and I'll be witnessing my our old house again. It will be nice to be home, to live a simple life. I don't have a huge laboratory but still I can do little inventions with my small study room. I will sure miss that mad genius friend of mine, I hope he's doing fine. I can't wait to write him when I reach home.

(After 18mins of walk and endless thought)

I'm here! I'm... here...? It's not what I remembered it to be. Half of it was gone, and half of it are barely standing. I can't believe it's been destroyed. I can't feel anything for a moment, all my memories as a child in this house are rushing through my head. And after it, I felt longing and agony. I was sad and angry at the same time. Sad that the house I used to call home is gone. Angry that I cannot do anything about it. I surely blame myself too, it's been forever, I should've visited from time to time.

Mom and Dad died during the war, since then I continued studying as a scholar and the school always provided me everything. I left home, and now it's gone. I studied hard to help people who suffered and still suffering from the bloody war. Our home probably was destroyed because of the war too. Helping people is not enough, the war should stop. I'll think of something but right now, I have to rebuild home. Where? How? When will I start fixing it? It will be a lot of work if I were to work it alone.

I sat down the old dusty porch, thinking and planning the rehabilitation of the house. I redesigned it too, to fit my lifestyle and that includes library and a small laboratory. I went around to the backyard and was surprised. There were two Cat elves playing in it, they were Leonins, a tribe of small elves with cat-like features so we call them Cat elves. They were arguing, one is a girl who has brown fur, pink hair and pink clothes. The other one has white fur, white hair and white and blue clothes, a male Leonin. This is not surprising at all since Leonins live in the Enchanted Forest too. I saw Leonins before but never did talked to them because they hide right away after seeing humans. I walked closer to where they were. The male Leonin saw me, and stopped arguing with the girl Leonin.

"Let's go, Nana", he told the girl Leonin.

"We're not done playing yet", the girl answered.

The boy pointed at me and said, "There's a human", the girl turned and saw me. The girl seems so shocked and couldn't utter a single word. The boy grabbed her left hand and run so fast they appeared to just disappeared into the woods. And I'm alone again just like that. I want to see them more, or maybe I'm not used to being alone yet. I wish I could befriended with anyone, even the Leonins.

I continued and planned for the house. I build my tent next to it because it's getting late. Tomorrow I will start this rebuilding, it's gonna be a lot of work and I drew tired just thinking of it. "Oh well, right now you need to rest Baker", I told myself. So I went inside my tent and rested for the night.