Having breakfast with a god

-You could stop whining. You were the one who said he wanted to see a ring in action, now assume your mistake, cry baby-

-Snif-

Holding back the crying, he remains static before his father's complaints and quickly nods, giving the indicative that will stop his whining. Meanwhile Ray checks the box carefully to see if he gets any details that he has left out.

The box has inside and outside, writings in runic and common language. He was able to get the names of the saints and their respective rings clean. The thinnest ring is Sirius for Canis Maior and the thickest were Betelgeuse, Rigel and Bellatrix for Orion and a third name for an unknown ring that was not in the box. He also visualizes allegorical figures carved in the four corners of the box: a mirror, a scale, an hourglass, and a lily. On the sides are figures of nine men, each with a specific constellation.

He glances at Meraki who has already stopped crying and looks back at the box.

-For the moment we will leave the box and see what to do with the ring later. I have to study it in depth. There's something wrong with this-

-Yes ... sniff-

-Collect everything you want and keep it, at the end of the day it is ours. We'll use core tracking to see if we find anything more interesting amongst all this buck-

They began to save everything they saw that could serve them, but had to slam on the brakes when they felt something beyond their expectations. Ray knew this familiar, nostalgic feeling. He threw himself on one of the jeweled hills and began digging as if his life depended on it. Meraki was surprised, he was a very vague presence but quite dangerous if he approached, almost cursed one would say.

After a moment, Ray pulled out a box about 4"approx. It was a gold jewelry box, decorated with jewels and was closed with a special barrier. When he put his hand on the latch it opened by itself and what was inside left him perplexed.

Inside was a glass cylinder with metallic details, a kind of archaic perfume box, and a crystal suncatcher in the shape of a compass rose. Trembling, he holds the suncatcher in the air and looks at Meraki who also looks scared.

-Of all the things that could be in this place, there had to be a god locked up here ?! -

-Is that a god? Now I can feel the pressure emanating ... but why would someone keep a god, it doesn't make sense-

-They were hiding it deep in the background of all this, but from whom? ... Maybe it's time to get ready to leave, hurry up and take everything you can, let's make sure there is nothing left for this bastard, I'm going to the last consequences to find out what the fuck is happening-

Ray keeps the suncatcher in place and sends it to his space pocket. They do one last check to see that there is nothing else left and they leave.

**

Today everyone was busy. It had started to rain all day and the weather was beginning to change to start the first snowfall. Everyone was busy finishing stocking up on shelter and food. Doing the last shopping before the market closed, he had made a mess with the crowds lining up.

Last-minute purchases made the maids reluctantly carry all the provisions to Prince Kenton's room in the rain. They stored them in the cold room on the floor, brought more firewood, walled up the windows and brought more bedspreads.

- Your Highness do not let the fireplace go out, otherwise it will die in the winter. Meals are ready, you just need to warm them up, remember that no one will be able to come once the snow falls-

They prepared the logs so that more than half could not be ignited and the meals were with the usual poison and sleeping pills. Deep down, they expected the child to freeze to death. Once everything was finished, they closed the door with padlocks to prevent the child from escaping in any eventuality, returning to their posts in the castle.

-Sometimes I think I survived as a child of pure miracle, shameless bitches are going to pay me-

-Dad when we will go, it is raining in abundance outside, we must take advantage of that nobody bothers us-

The cat-shaped boy purrs and strokes his father's arm with his head. Ray was in no mood at all after his discovery in Espin's vault. He touched his chest and with an ominous sensation inside him, he took Meraki and went somewhere else.

They headed for the southern islands. It was just dawn and summer was beginning on that side of the hemisphere. Ray remembered the château where he spent his last years training with his team. They were only three people, but they looked after the fortified castle and farm better than anyone. They had found it by mere chance one day when they were shipwrecked and since then they have taken it as their base. The place, as back then, was abandoned.

It belonged to a very wealthy family that died from the plagues of the continent hundreds of years ago.

Ray saw his opportunity to return to the place he called home and showed Meraki exactly how to get there. The island is inaccessible and you could end up killed by the rocks and sweeping waves as with the surrounding eddies, unless you know the way to enter, it was also the safest place I knew since it did not appear on any map to date.

They kept hopping between many places over and over again, thus managing to accommodate the château to their liking. The move was not yet completed, the library books, furniture and moving the vault were missing. The hustle and bustle and the cleaning work that took them was enormous. They were here to rest a bit and prepare to receive a special guest. But first they had to be in charge of solving the issue of the cursed box to continue with the plan.

They took a dip in the pool and then began to prepare the table with breakfast. Ray had finished reading the scrolls that contained the cylinder and noted that it was the chain contract on The Brotherhood, now turned into The Commission. As he asked Meraki to move away, he placed the suncatcher on the other end of the table and began to recite the chant that the scroll contains.

A dark blue mist emerged and a humanoid figure formed. It was that of a blue-skinned, red-haired man in adventurer's clothes, two blades on each side, and a theatrical mask. He bowed to the hosts to greet them.

-I seem to have slept more than necessary, I apologize for the rudeness-

He sees Meraki smiling and greets him again.