91. Rebellious era

After the day spent in the secret cave system with waters of different temperatures in the Vojks territory, the team of Athamanas returned pleasantly tired to their accommodation, where they slept twice as much as the night before, knocked out by alcohol. And the next morning, they participated in the breakfast much more enthusiastically.

In the beginning, everything went well, the breakfast that day was no different from the previous ones that the team attended. However, after the meal Wandi was called by his father, so the Vojk boy, leaving his team on their own again, followed his father to the house where he spent his childhood. There, too, straight to his parents' room, where his father began to pack nervously.

"I have a couple of questions for you, Wandi." His father's question came, but the voice of the chief danovus revealed concern.

"And I try to answer them to the best of my ability." Wandi nodded as he folded his arms behind his, as he always did when he talked to his father like this. The man finally sat down on one of the chairs after a big sigh.

"Let's start with the day before yesterday." The man said seriously.

"What about the day before yesterday?" Wandi raised his eyebrows, not understanding what the person sitting across from him was thinking.

"Your impression, do you remember it?" His father asked seriously.

"No." The boy said measuredly, with which he managed to get his father to nod.

"Your chosen one, who is the boy?" The tribal chief narrowed his eyes.

"My best friend." That was all Wandi gave his father, but he looked straight into his eyes to indicate that he would not say anything more about Citar, no matter how much his father asked about him.

"Where were you yesterday?" With this question, the chief managed to get a faint smile on Wandi's lips and tilt his head to the side.

"In a place where I feel safe." He answered ambiguously, but his father did not react to his words as he usually did.

"Do you have any idea how irresponsible it was of you to leave without saying a word?! You are my heir, you have a duty! The days of doing what you want are over! I need to know where you are, if you get lost, the chieftain's seat is empty, and everything that is the essence of our tribe is over." His father explained, before Wandi pulled his mouth in a grimace.

"I think it's better if I tell you in advance." He started slowly, then looked into his father's eyes with a cold look. "I refuse to do what you say. I have one duty, but it is not to you or the tribe." The boy explained, with which he managed to get his father to stand up and stand in front of Wandi with a fiery look.

"You are the chieftain's son Wandi, it's time to stop your games and do what is in the interests of the tribe. So, don't you dare talk to me like that, don't want me to threaten you, son, because we both know that your little friends are all guests on my territory, but if you don't hold back, that could change quickly. It costs me a word to make them free prey." He hissed between his teeth, but his son, famous for his calmness and obedience, did not react at all as he expected.

Wandi's muscles tensed under the gaze of a danovus, his lips pulled back, revealing his teeth that gleamed white, his irises took on a reddish purple color, a clear sign of danovus abilities breaking through, his hands clenched into fists and blood slowly dripped from his fingers. Then, as if cut off in an instant, his face became emotionless, and then he slowly pulled away and looked deeply into his father's eyes. Although Wandi was a head or two shorter than the man, at that moment he had a much more respectable aura than anyone the other danovus had ever met.

"If anyone from the tribe even touches a single hair on my friends..." He began in a harsh voice, then stepped closer to his father. "I pull the nails with my own hands first out of them, and then out of you." He finished, then simply turned around and left the room with his father, and then the house as well, to go back to his team.

"Wandi! What does your father want?" Citar caught the danovus' arm the moment the boy entered Etele's summoning circle.

"He just wanted me to stay at home and fulfill my duties as heir." Wandi rolled his eyes, then put his free hand on Citar's hand. "But I solved it, don't worry." He smiled at his friend.

"How did you do that?" Benkó asked.

"I told him that my duty is to you and I have no intention of letting you down." Wandi shrugged his shoulders, then suddenly narrowed his eyebrows. "Teveli if Suk screams and says 'May the spirits of your ancestors anoint you with honeyed milk.' is that good or bad?" The question came so suddenly out of nowhere that everyone looked at Wandi in surprise.

"That's horrible!" Teveli's eyes widened.

"But that's good." Citar blinked.

"He is a Zovárd, for them it means that something is very wrong. But where did that come from?" Tev looked at Wandi curiously.

"He screamed first and said this." Wandi answered.

"What?" Rahul blinked.

"In theory, it's in the rules that we shouldn't eavesdrop on other tribes' territories, but I've decided to enter my rebel era, so it doesn't matter." The danovus shrugged.

"Is this what you call a rebellious era? You have broken your laws, oh, it's a big transgression, even my rebellious era was worse than this. I led Achilleus through our capital." Benkó nudged the Motumisz boy sitting next to him.

"Hey, you made me dress up in your clothes, no one noticed that I was a stranger." The aforementioned pointed to himself.

"As for his transgression. By breaking the law, he not only contradicts his father, but also quarrels with Athira himself." Razvan noted.

"What?" Benkó's eyes widened.

"The laws were made with Athira, this is a contract between Athira and the danovuses, breaking it has dangerous consequences." Razvan explained with folded arms in front of him.

"I can get a little relief from the rules, thanks to you boss, right?" Wandi smiled at the team leader, and the Zaukán boy smiled faintly.

"You're lucky I was his twin." He giggled.

"I don't want to spoil the situation, but Wandi, do you know what happened to Suk?" Teveli interrupted.

"He was grounded..." He blinked a few times, then grimaced. "Why is Suk happy that he got a normal grounding?" The question came, which caused the color to disappear from Tev's face.

"Boss... I think we need to head west sooner than planned." He swallowed a big one.

"Sooner?" Razvan blinked a few times, but several people shared his surprise. After all, whatever the punishment is, it can't be that Suk gets hurt by it. "Why?" He finally asked the more pressing question.

"If he really got a normal grounding, then we have to get him out of there before his uncle lets him out, because if not, all our plans are done for." Teveli declared.

"Why would they be done for?" Citar explained, but Teveli just sighed.

"His uncle finally gave him a reason to kill him with a calm heart." As soon as this sentence left the boy's mouth, a surprised silence settled over the team.