A clear morning, I walked onto the balcony that opened to my bedroom because I heard some commotion . Sir ravis was back from the purge leading the knights and the party , and rows of civilians towards the manor. The sodden flag of the house bellerephon bearing a white Pegasus with golden mane and wings, rode ahead of the company . They took to the gate of the East wing, and trudged the muddy , soddy road rather than taking the cobblestone archway that lead to the main gate . I tried following them with my eyes but the procession disappeared behind the eastern walls. That night I was summoned to father's study , and found my mother was already there. I was informed that keymi and siyera are destroyed at the night of calamities. The storms that blow in that night create a few concentrations, and those are the areas that you ought to avoid . That's how people and animals survive unwarded too , but a high enough concentration point and even a lightly warded area could suffer the transfiguration. People, animals even plants become these mindless monsters of hunger and savagery. Keymi and siyera were small villages grown out of hunting hamlets to begin with , how will they have a mage strong enough to put wards . 'The civillian bunkers issued by the royal decree are far ahead on the road , seems like they really were caught unprepared' I thought . father's dear books, that he carried through the doom of his house and sought the comfort of whatever legacy was passed of the once great family in those , were arranged neatly on the great wooden shelf behind him . He sat there in his chair , and mother stood by the table.
" I have decided you'll be escorted by sir ravis , although aegis entrance test is a few months away yet considering the roads will not be fully purged it's better to leave early " he spoke as soon as I closed the door behind me , glanced at my mother and with a grunt continued " I've already talked to rayini , she'll host you untill you're admitted and teach you about the customs of Northern nobility" . He looked at my impatient mother again and with a frown waved her to speak.
" The scourge are criminals, and whatever their goals it's not your bag to toe . Our family is destroyed. Of the house of bellerephon only we two are left . Three now , you . By adopting you we've made you our own responsibility. I know scourge has a bone to pick with the Empire and so does my husband . They took his father , his grandfather, his only child and I grieve for them still. But I have him " she stopped, and gathered herself wiping her tears away as if embarrassed and surprised by them . My father looked out of the window , I waited. " Once you do something to the Empire they'll take you away , they'll take you away too yess and hound your father to his death . I want someone to burn the Empire but not you. Not you . " And then , as if in a bout of madness she took me in her arms . " Love don't let him go he's just a child , don't take my child away from me , don't take my fahir away from me " she sobbed and sobbed until my father pried her away into a chair where she slept , fainted . My father looked at me ,apologetic and unsure of what to say . I've seen her hate me when I came here , and pity me as if seeing a distant future through me and shower me with undeserved love as if seeing a distant past. My father had asked me to tolerate her fits , and sometimes I wondered if I had it in me to see it all and not feel something. Is this what a human is supposed to feel dobon , am I a human now ? . But dobon was long dead and so was my heart. I'm walking in the garden of burden and solace and I don't see our god . Just this ghost of me telling stories from my past . "What is there to tell . I came from death and visited death upon all I beheld , isn't that enough of a story ?" I asked my soul projection. The apparition looked at me with pity, I think, and continued the tale that my journeys of horrors and wonders was.