A place to call home

Keira walked into the mystic forest and let out a deep sigh as her heart was still worried about Frost. The fact that he took several months to find her and had to see her leave him again made her feel so heartbreaking for him. Those sorrowful eyes that looked at her made her heartache deeply, she had to shut her eyes and take a deep breath to suppress her sadness.

The more she saw that he was suffering because of her made she felt even more hurting. She hoped that he would be fine outside the forest and hoped he wouldn't wait for her.

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Keira walked to Arel and put herself into his warm hug, right now she was feeling so weak. She didn't know how to end this feeling, though she loved Arel, she couldn't cut off Frost's sympathy.

Arel knew Keira's softhearted and could only pat her head to soothe her. Maybe this was all his fault. If that day, he had first reached the place where Keira had crossed the portal everything wouldn't have been like this, she wouldn't have to meet Frost.

'Sometimes life is full of surprises and fate plays a joke, as how Keira likes to say' Arel thought while holding her to the treehouse.

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Inside the room, everything was still the same as how it was. The warm and familiar atmosphere calmed her mind to feel relaxed and cozy.

She walked closer and leaned against the wall beside the window, watching the lush green meadow filled with various colorful spring flowers which're blooming and showing their beauty after being covered in snow for months. The trees have now sprouted their leaves on their branches as if they had returned back to life and the tingling sound of the stream slowly flowed against the rocks, mingling with the sound of birds making this place so refreshing. She sighed in relief as she finally arrived home.

Arel had gone to cook while Keira was admiring the view, he came back with a pot of meal in his hands.

The aroma of the food caught Keira's attention, she turn around and sniffed. "Hmm.. what is my mate cooking?" she was excited and walked straight to him.

He placed the pot on the table and smiled kindly at the foody Keira "It's a beef soup with carrots that were left in the kitchen" he answered as he carefully put the soup into wooden bowls.

Keira sat down on the chair, watching the meal with pleasure. Now that there were salt and herbs in this house made it convenient to cook a delectable variety of food. The next thing she wanted to do was to grow some more crops to provide her with various ingredients, so Keira and Arel wouldn't have to be worried about food in the future.

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After the meal, They came down the treehouse, heading to the vegetable plot where she had planted the seeds.

When they arrived, the vegetable plot was now filled with mixed vegetable sprouts.

Since the sprouts of these vegetables were immature made she was able to recognize only some of them, and that surprised her when she found rice and wheat shoot within the plots.

She pointed at them and told Arel to come and take a look "The rice and wheat could even grow here" Her voice was excited.

Arel looked puzzled at them, as these plants, he had never seen before and he was surprising too that plants from Keira's world could grow here.

"Unfortunately, it grows slowly" Keira paused and squatted near the plot "It would take several months until it's ready for harvest," she made a thoughtful expression as she wanted to conjure more wheat grains and divide one portion for eating and the other for planting. This way she wouldn't waste too much power in conjuring.

After Keira got the idea, she quickly put her hand on Arel's shoulder "could you pick me up to the treehouse" she asked, and Arel lifted her up. He didn't understand what Keira was going to do But either way he did as she told him.

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When they came up on the tree house, Keira took out the sacks that they bought from the market in the Deer Tribe and took off the ring, conjured a one-kilogram bag of rice, and poured it into the first sack. When she felt that her body was still fine, she conjured one kilogram of wheat flour, poured it into a sack, and conjured 1 kilo of wheat grains, after this, she started to feel dizzy so she stopped conjuring.

Keira poured wheat grains into the last sack and conjured the empty bag back into a ring.

Arel frowned at Keira who was dizzy from the conjure's side effects, wrapping his hand around her shoulders, looking displeased that she had to torture her body just to conjure these grains "That's enough, Keira.. Your body is not strong to conjure up more things" he said as he carried her to the bench.

"I understand.. at least now I know my limits on how many grains I can conjure" she panted wearily, her dizziness was a good warning to let her know when to stop.

Arel sighed dejectedly "Be careful please.. don't overdo it and you should conjure only when it is necessary" He knew that he wouldn't be able to stop Keira, but from now on he would try to be careful not to let her use the conjure to the point of danger.

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After a while of resting Keira felt better. Arel rubbed her head gently "can you wait here for me, I'm going to collect some herbs and make a decoction to help you with the dream" He paused for a moment "And don't fall asleep while I'm away"

Keira nodded "Alright, I'll wait and try not to fall asleep" she replied in a sweet voice pleading for Arel not to worry, Though she was both dizzy and sleepy, She will do her best not to let herself fall asleep or suffer in that torture dreamland again.

Even though Keira had said that Arel was still tense, He didn't like to leave her alone like this.

"I'm fine, please go and come back hurry"

"Then I'll go.. and will be right back" Though he said that, he walked out of the house but still turned his face back to check if Keira's ok.

She waved after him to let him go and stop being so anxious. Though she nearly closed her eyes from sleepiness she couldn't sleep yet, She shook her head to chase away the drowsy feeling and climbed up the ladder to the bathroom to wash her face

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