Omen: 8, 20

  Adam awoke in the m, looking to his side.

  His finger was currently surreo a tiny baby, who clutched it tight in hand, refusing to let it go.

  ‘Uh oh,’ Adam thought. ‘I’m trapped.’

  He turo look at Jurot, who caught Adam’s look.

  ‘Jurot, help me.’

  Jurot nodded his head, uanding the thoughts behind those eyes.

  ‘I slept well, did you?’

  ‘Jurot, what are you doing? Help me.’

  ‘A bad night? That is a shame?’

  ‘No, don’t abandon me. Jurot!’

  Adam turo Sonarot, who noted his issue.

  ‘Help me, Aunt.’

  Sonarot smiled, nodding her head, uanding what he needed. For a moment, a thought passed through her mind, whether she should truly allow him free, since he always worked so hard and now he was trapped to rex o his sister.

  However, since Adam had spent hours yesterday pying with Lanarot, from crawling around with her, to pying with her blocks, or pying with the knitted bs she had made, hiding away from her and stantly revealing himself.

  What was it that he had said?

  Pikabu?

  She dropped down beside Lanarot and slowly rubbed her finger behind the girl’s hand, causio twitd let go of Adam’s finger, which he quickly pulled babsp;

  ‘Phew.’

  Adam owards Sonarot, thanking her for her assistance.

  He spent the m training, though he tio refuse sparring.

  “I’ll be entioday. I’m feeling especially lucky today.” Adam grinned wide, noting that he had guaranteed su amazing enting session that day.

  Kitool had also begun to train Brittany in using a staff and bow, though she didn’t seem to be that great with the staff, as the staff slipped out of her hands more than once.

  Ohey had bathed, and ate the food Jogak had made, which was still ridiculously spicy, Adam and the others spent the couple of hours together, just talking to one another.

  When noon finally came, Adam went to ent the sword he had been w on.

  Mana: 10 -> 8EntingD20 + 7 = 10 (3)Omen: 8, 20 -> 820 + 7 = 27

  The snow around fell. The man in white stared across it, seeing across the nd. His eyes were a mixture of blue and purple, his eyes almost starry.

  As his eyes passed along the horizon, he missed the lorahe very same stranger he had been tasked to find, who slipped past his gaze and infiltrated the town.

  Adam wiped his brow, staring down at the sword, which was already humming with great power. “Two 20’s so far…” He wondered if he could enting the bde perfectly. ‘Let’s hope.’

  “How did the enting go?” Dunes asked.

  “It went pretty well, though I had to bend Fate to make sure it went well.”

  “Is Fate so easy to bend to your whim?”

  Adam smiled. “No. You better pray that it goes this well when I ent your sword too, but that’s to the whims of Fate too.”

  Dunes nodded. “The us hope that Fate is on your side.”

  “You must be careful, Adam,” Sonarot said. “If you tio ent as recklessly has you have done previously…”

  “I’ll try, but I’m making no promises,” Adam replied, smiling at her.

  Sonarot brushed his hair, shaking her head. “If you are ill, Lanarot will miss you.”

  Adam narrowed his eyes at her.

  After their evening meal, Adam pyed with his little sister, helpiack blocks, before finally reading to her in the night with her on his p. She would pat the book every so often, feeling the paper against her skin, and babble as he read the story to her.

  Eventually she leaned back against him, rubbing her eyes and yawning, her arms out stretg.

  “Are you tired? Do you want to sleep?”

  Lanarot babbled affirmatively, yawning again.

  Adam pced her down onto the b and she reached up for his finger. Adam, recalling what happened earlier in the day, hesitated. However, when he saw those eyes peering up at him, he sighed and handed her his finger.

  “Why are you so cute?” Adam sighed. “You bad girl.”

  Adam y down beside her, and she stared at him for a few moments, before her sleepy eyes closed shut.

  ‘What a bad little sister I have,’ Adam thought, before smiling.

  Jurot watched, his heart still pounding in his chest. ‘Why does he sleep beside her? It is unfortable.’ Jurot couldn’t uand. He closed his eyes, removing those thoughts. However, something tio eat at his heart.

  Sonarot stared at the three of them.

  With Lanarot here, the house was the most cramped it had ever been. Of course, Jurot and Adam could always sleep in the empty room beside, but she didn’t care to ask them.

  It was still fortable to have them sleep within this room, the very same room she had raised Jurot in with her husband.

  ‘Are you not taking too long to return, Surot?’

  Omen: 4, 7

  “Are you enjoying yourselves in the Iyr?” Adam asked, rubbing his stomach, which was full of food.

  “It is quite the idyllic life,” Dunes admitted. “It reminds me so muy home, ahere are so much which is different.”

  “Like what?”

  “The children,” Dunes admitted. “They have so much freedom in the Iyr.”

  “Freedom?”

  “They may move as they please within the Iyr.”

  “They do not,” Jurot said. “There are pces they and ot go, and they obey these rules.”

  “Just like us,” Adam said.

  Jurot nodded.

  “Though, I get what you mean,” Adam said. “The children here are allowed to roam as they please. I saw Elder Zijin’s daughters… nieces? Well, I saw them move about the warehouse as they pleased.”

  “We keep an eye on all the children,” Jurot said. “Young children are eager to die, so it is a challeo stop them from dying.”

  Adam blinked. “What?”

  “What?” Jurot replied.

  “You make it sound like it’s some type of game.”

  “It is not a game,” Jurot stated, firmly. “It is a challeo us, and a responsibility.”

  “So you let children try to kill themselves and then stop them right before they die?”

  “We give children to do as they please, and it if leads to their demise, we stop it before they die.”

  “How close to death do you stop it?”

  “We allow them to drop from a great height, and catch them before they nd.”

  Adam blinked. “Jurot, that’s…”

  “It is the way of we Iyrmen,” Jurot said. “Children only learn ohey experie.”

  “So what happens if you fail to save them?” Adam asked.

  “We will shame ourselves for allowing them to die before resurreg them,” Jurot said.

  Dunes coughed, burrowing his brows together in arm, before staring at the Iyrman. “Excuse me?”

  Jurot nodded, exg Dunes.

  “What did you just say?” Dunes asked, his eyes wide in shock.

  “We shame ourselves.”

  “After that.”

  “We resurrect our dead children.”

  “You… what?”

  “We resurrect our dead children.”

  Duared at the Iyrman long and hard. “You resurrect your dead children?”

  “Yes.”

  “Why?”

  Jurot squiowards the Priest. “Why?”

  “Yes. Why do you resurrect your dead children?”

  “They are dead.”

  “Why do you not leave them to die?”

  “Leave them to die?” Jurot asked, furrowing his brows.

  “We do not leave our children to die,” Kitool said.

  “T back the dead, it’s expensive magic,” Dunes said. “If you are not able to save them quickly, the pricreases tenfold.”

  “Yes,” Jurot said.

  “Is that not a waste of-“

  “Dunes,” Adam interrupted, noting how Jurot’s brow twitched. “Perhaps to you, life isn’t worth a few hundred gold, but that isn’t the same to others.”

  “That is not what I meant. I just…” Dunes flushed, realising what he had said in his shock. “Of course that we should help our children, but is death really so easy to overe?”

  “We do not overe death,” Jurot stated, his voice low. “We pray to Baktu for his grace, to allow their souls to return to their body.”

  “Baktu returns the souls of your children?” Dunes asked.

  “Yes,” Jurot replied. “Baktu returns the souls of our children so they may tio live their lives.”

  “The Iyr sure is rich,” Dunes said, rubbing his head. “I had heard that the Iyr takes good care of its children, to the point of fanaticism, but to hear that it was true.”

  “Isn’t the Iyr amazing?” Adam said, smiling at the Priest. “When they say they care for their children, they put their gold where their mouth is.”

  Dunes couldn’t help but feel that Adam was taking a shot at him. “They are great people, certainly. Though I ’t help but think that their wealth could be used elsewhere, where it could be better used to defend its nds and to promote greater growth.”

  “There is no greater growth thaure,” Jurot said.

  “And our children are our future,” Kitool added.

  “Even if Raygak is stupid.” Jaygak smiled towards her brother, who ying with the other children nearby.

  Jurot looked at Adam, w if he was going to tell her off.

  Adam nodded.

  Rain fell, and the thunder began.

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  Dunes, man. Don't say that sort of thing in the Iyr, you idiot.