Worth more than we give

The next day, we started off early so, we reached the capital of Isvain by afternoon. It has one of the biggest markets. It is called Isam. It has a huge collection of crystals. We were wondering around in Esam.

A boy came to m'lady and asked for some food. M'lady without thinking twice bought some food for the boy. He cheerfully waved to his mother and ran to her. Suddenly, a "kiwe" came at his way but the driver didn't slow its phase, even seeing the boy. I don't know if she had too much audacity or it's just the way she wants to protect us all, but she mindlessly jumped in front of the kiwe to get the boy and for the slightest gape, they saved. The kiwe stopped after crossing a little distance. While the mother of the boy was thanking m'lady for saving his life. Naturally, a good amount of people gathered around us. The driver of the kiwe approached us. We expected him to apologize for what he did but he took the other way. He asked why we saved him. We gave him a confused look. He then said that the boy's dad was affected by curse with a handful amount of their village people. They were all killed. We took a look to everyone standing there. Everyone had the same look on their face as if they were saying to kill both of them. The boy and his mother both were crying out of agony. The driver further said that we looked from another kingdom so, it was usual to feel uneasy to hear that and then that we should step aside. Everyone there was cheering the driver. The last that he said that made my blood boil that then he couldn't see the case an accident. I was going to burn him into ash but m'lady said that she got that the affected people were killed with cruelty but then why he was after the boy and his mother on which he gave us even more dull answer." He also knows water magic just like his father. Tomorrow, he would become like his father and would kill us all so, before that I am going to KILL HIM!!!" he said. "then Can you not use magic?" m'lady said. He fell silent." Don't the king and the solders know magic?" Everyone who was cheering stopped. "so, how do you know that you won't ever be affected? If I tell you all that you would be the next affected, then would you go and kill yourself? Killing an affected person and killing a person are no different, you are still taking a life. You are no better than an affected person." M'lady also said that she didn't know who actually made them think like that. I was shocked. As if there was a dark energy around them and yet it was so easy for m'lady to clear it out. The mother of the boy was shouting then saying that she would not step back if anyone even try to hurt his child. Guess what, that boy is now working hard to join the royal army. M'lady and we all go to their house to check up on them.

We afterwards went to the castle of water kingdom. Not all of the people there knew me but the general recognized me and we got the chance to get in. just getting in, we both knew that something was wrong. The king came. Even though I didn't like him, I felt he was trying to hiding something and I know that m'lady felt that too. The king of the water kingdom is Isaan. He came and started to say awful things that I would never expect a king to say to his kingdom's savior. But he…... ok let me call m'lady, the situation can be clearer if she come too. WAIT….

Hey I am back. So, m'lady I have already told them up to I should have. So, you mean, by the boy and the mother? No, no it's been said. I have told up to we getting into the castle. Oh! You're fast, Fien but if we both talk how would the reader know who is.... Ok let's just make paragraphs.

So, Isaan, the water dragon king came to meet us in the royal hall and all of his minister and coworkers were there. The moment I stepped in the hall; I knew something was off. I felt a huge amount of negative energy but It felt scattered. Then Isaan came into the hall. Even though Fien had already told me that Isaan was a least closed off, I didn't get any kind of negative energy.

Really???!!

Ya…well he said some inappropriate things but that was to alert us from the danger.

It sounded nothing like that to me though.

I don't remember everything that he said but the last word he used was "weaklings like you would never know how it feels live with this curse and deal with the circumstances every day. You should know where to stop. There is no other way than go forth with hard and heartless way. It's my duty to protect my people."

I still don't get where you see he trying to save us.

Let me then point that out. As I said that I didn't feel ant negativity coming from him and Fien said that he was pretty closed off, I tried to look at his words in a different way. Tell me what water refers to.

As much as I know, emotion, flow of life, neutraling, and words.

Yes. So, I felt that there must be something. I started to observe the words. Even though he had this rough tone to it but I figured out that he was letting us know about everyone else in hall. By "weaklings like you would never know how it feels live with this curse" he meant that 'we two don't know that the curse has taken over everyone else and he has been living with it.". By "deal with the circumstances everyday" he meant 'he has to see killing people every single day.' By "you should know where to stop" he meant that 'there are problems here'.

Wow…!! Now I see it.

Let the story be continued. I would be leaving then, bye, enjoy the story. Oh, and the letter will be from Isaan.

Ok so it's only me now. After these, m'lady asked if there was a problem here. For the longest time, I had no idea, now that I know, it makes sense. Then, all the people in there got up and started attacking us. Isaan ran to somewhere. While we were fighting there, I could feel the energy growing. M'lady and I were trying hard to fight back but fire against water ... you know what I meant. When I thought I am going to lose it, m'lady again shocked me with her power. Honestly speaking, m'lady has amused us for umpteenth time. I know everyone else think that too. M'lady smiled even after we were literally wept away by the enemy. I even said that it is useless to fight against them on which m'lady said that if the enemy is big , it doesn't mean you can't win, you just have to be harder, if the enemy is harder, you just have to be stronger and if the enemy is stronger, you just have to be clever and if the enemy is all of that, you just have to keep the will to fight until they lose it. What m'lady did next was out of my imagination. Any planet has a hot core, right? That is also fire. M'lady called upon the hot burning lava to protect us. Now yes as a person capable of using fire magic, we both got use to of heat. M'lady didn't hurt anybody, she just asked the reason that they accepted the negativity. They were in control so obviously they had accepted the power. M'lady called upon the lava because they can't distinguish it with the water and as they are sensitive to the heat, they got weak. M'lady tried the same trick on the people in hall, that she used on the people at the market. The people in the hall said that they eventually had to give up on their lives as there was no other way to stop this curse, at least this way they won't harm their own family. M'lady asked what about the people they were misguiding. They stopped. After a couple of seconds, someone from the crowd said that they did what they thought would be best for them. M'lady still calmly asked another thing that if I were asked that time, even, I wouldn't be able to answer it. "what do you all see magic as? A blessing? Or a curse?". Everyone started to say the obvious. A curse…. M'lady asked the last question "what to do about it? Do you all think that by surrendering to the power would do the job?" Again, the crowd fell silent. The people calm down a little. M'lady said that what you think as a curse, other thinks as a blessing. The crowd whose life seemed to be ended from inside, finally asked if there was a way on which m'lady said that she was sorry for being late. The crowd started to realize little by little. "Even though you have given up on your magic, don't give up on your life, it's way too precious than that we give it credits." The people have stepped aside from our way. We went after Isaan and looked for him everywhere. We finally got to the room of his father. And …..hmmmm….. I should stop here otherwise Isaan would get angry. He would tell you the next part of the story.

This was my part of the story. I will stop by and talk to you again. Until then, please wait for Isaan's letter.