As she spoke the words, she waited and meanwhile stared at the stranger standing beside her with his eyes closed as if he was praying.He was handsome.Though his hair hid his features.She could make it out.He looked like a man in his forty's.His muscular body would've stood out even if he stood among a group of knights.
The stranger who had threatened her just a few moments ago had now led her to her destination.Dark long hair ,tall fellow,scars on his arms and scar on his left eye cutting through his eyebrow and making its way to his cheek.He was almost a foot taller than Val and she was not the shortest female.
A cloth wrapped around his body like a bandage,dyed with the colour of an octopus's ink. The cloth covered his body up to his neck's upper most part and wrapped around his palm.A cloth wrapped around his bottom on his waist covering his genitals and nothing more,like a short skirt,exposing his muscular and scarred leg.A lightly tanned skin made him look all the more fierce.Thin,sleepy eyes with redness in his pupils, a piercing on his nose and most of his hair covered his face .
The scenery looked pretty.The hill top was visible but pretty colors peeked out of the top.Flowers.the top was floored with flowers.The hill had mysterious looking weirdly shaped plants on all of its levels which remained untouched by the water.
Nothing happened.Water continued to rush down the cliff and neither did the sound it made stop.
"Um...is this a joke?", Valecta asked.
The man didn't answer, took a deep breath and slowly opened his eyes.Flakes,red flakes started to appear in the limited area that could sense his body heat.Valecta was confused and tried to touch the flakes but they vanished the moment she touched it,disappearing into thin air as it touched her skin leaving a sense of warmth behind.
"What were those..?",she questioned.
"My energy.It is called 'zok'.Though i suppose your'e unaware of it since you haven't trained a day in your life by the looks of it".
Valecta remained silent as she knew it was the truth.Though she had always been interested in picking up a sword,she never had the status nor the wealth to hire a tutor.
He sighed,"You cannot open the gates".
"What?,but why?!",she said aggressively.
"A person who does not possess the 'zok' cannot enter the temple,girl."
"But you do.So can't you get us in?, I'll even pay you!..please"
"I'm a faithful servant of the SIX and do not attempt to bribe me or you won't be leaving these hills".
Valecta was desperate.She didn't know what she was to do.Her expression from an expression of despair changed to hope as an idea came to her mind.
"Teach me",she said
"What..".The man was confused as he looked at Valecta as if staring at a mentally ill patient.
"Teach me 'jok'".She grinned with hope looking like a maniac.
"Have you lost your mind little girl?.It's not something you learn,you need to have one of it's element's affinity in order to sense it."
"Do i not have any?".She asks nervously expecting a positive answer.
"Well,we'll.... have to check..".The stranger didn't like Valecta. Not her character neither her optimism.
"Then! i'll be in you care master..."
"Kyro. My name is Kyro and don't call me your master."He said in a tone that gave away him feeling annoyed.
"Kyro!".Her face lit up with hope.
"Tsk".