After a few weeks when Camilla taught Lucien the oxvan alphabet, Lucien finally learned how to say and read each character individually.
Inside the Daycare, there are multiple children sleeping in the napping area of the daycare.
In the corner on the opposite side of the napping area, it can be seen that Camilla is still teaching Lucien.
But this time the order of magnitude with Lucien's learning seemingly increased.
"Boy." Camilla said while pointing at an imagine of a character in the picture book.
Lucien replicated Camilla's action and pointed at the character while also looking at her reaction.
"Boy."
Camilla cheered in a muffled tone celebrating Lucien learning a new word and adding it in his vocabulary.
"I'm exsited at how far you kan go!" Camilla encouraged Lucien in his journey to learn.
"Now then, let's muv on to akchon wurds." Camilla said while adding another book.
But before Camilla can proceed, Lucien started to bop his head.
"well..., it's seems like it's nappy time." Camilla said in hushed tone with pride.
Camilla then hoisted Lucien up while heading to the napping area.
Camilla tiptoed trying to not wake up the sleeping little ones.
With Camilla tucking Lucien in a comfortable position, she gave a quick smooch on his forehead filled with maternal love.
To not show favoritism, Camilla kissed each napping child in the daycare before leaving in silence.
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Camilla heads out to the kitchen where Gustav and the older kids are.
"What is going on here?" Camilla asked Gustav as she looked at the older kids putting boxes of different food on a pickup truck.
"The kids are stocking up items, as the stall at the Bazaar is running low." Gustav replied to Camilla.
Gustav is currently wearing a brown sleeveless vest with an inner white long sleeve that folded up to the elbow, and black slacks and brown leather shoes, there is a towel on his right shoulder.
"This time it's Rodney and Esther's turn to deliver the goods to the stall." Gustav said while pointing at the busy kids working on the truck.
One of the kids noticed Camilla and nudged the other while pointing at Camilla's direction.
"Hello sister Camilla."
"Hi! sister Camilla!"
The two kids greeted Camilla, one of them clearly more energetic than the other.
"Hello Rodney, Hello Esther." Camilla greeted back while giggling at the difference of their greetings.
Rodney has light blue hair with his left bang hanging longer than his right bang, he has light-puprle eyes, he is dressed in blue suspenders with a white long sleeve polo shirt with a blue bowtie, the pants he is wearing is blue slacks and black shoes and socks.
Due to his way of dressing and his listless expression he gives off a quiet and tired energy.
Esther on the other hand is the opposite she has quite an energetic and outgoing vibe.
She has blonde hair that reaches halfway to her back with eyes of the same color, she wears a headband, and she likes to wear clothes in warm tones, particularly in shades of orange.
Currently she is wearing a brown shirt with orange slacks and a pair of brown leather boots and socks.
With the greetings done, the two went back to their business of loading the truck.
"Well, they're about to be done, I'll be in the kitchen preparing lunch if you need me." said Gustav with a clap of his hands.
Gustav went to the backdoor that leads to the kitchen, when he opened the door, Camilla can see the children coming into the cafeteria.
While that was happening Rodney went to the driver seat while Esther is putting the final box on the truck.
Seeing that they're about to head out, Camilla hold her hand out.
Green energy seeps out from her hand before turning into plant roots forming a basket.
With the basket now formed Camilla puts out her other hand towards it, and just like before energy is expelled out of her hand before turning into a fruit.
The fruit is shaped like a dragonfruit with a mix of peach, the texture is soft like a normal apple.
"Here, have some creamberry as you go." said Camilla while handing out the fruit basket towards Esther who is about to take a seat on the passenger seat.
"Thank you! sister Camilla, we'll eat this while on the go." said by a gleeful Esther.
Rodney just nodded to show his thanks.
*Vrrrr-Vroom*
As the engine started, the pick-up then reversed backwards from the garage.
Camilla waved them goodbye with the two of them responded back, seeing that Camilla went back inside.
The pick-up went outside the orphanage grounds and into the depressing sorroundings of the slum.
A few broken and rundown skyscrapers here and there, while some of the building only having walls left, with the majority of them are just rundown or broken.
As the scenery passess by Esther talked to Rodney about a few things in the truck.
"Did you hear?, sister Bridgette finally gave in and went out with brother Nick!, Wow! brother Nick finally got sister Bridgette's hand after 3 years of courtship!" Esther said with clasped hands.
"M-hm, I heard as well, also did you know Brother Sanford got a Job as a police." said Rodney while his eyes on the road.
As the two gossiped during the drive, the roadside started to have more and more people, with most of them covered in rags.
When the truck went into the bigger road a few malicious eyes stared at the trucks cargo.
Just as the figure is about to take action, someone put their hand on the figures head forcing him to bow.
"What are you doing?!!, don't you see the emblem on the truck??." the other figure warned in hushed but panicked tone.
The warning caused the first figure to look at the emblem on the truck.
The emblem is a sprout being gently hold by a pair of hands with laurels on the remaining space on the top.
"That truck is part of the sanctum!, unless you want to starve to death better not mess with them." The other figure gravely warns the first figure which made them sweat.
With the truck finally gone, the two figures scurried back into the alleyways.
"What was that about?" Rodney asked Esther who is currently watching the two figures from the side mirror.
"Nothing, just some vagrants." Esther replied while shaking her head.
While that was happening, at some point they turned left into a smaller road filled with stalls of various kinds.
The atmosphere full of people enticing others to buy their wares, and the multitude of lights is very different from the desolate and sparsely populated area from before.
The people seeing the truck especially the emblem on it, quickly made way for the truck to easily pass through the overpopulated roads of the Bazaar.
It was not long before the truck finally arrived at the destination.
Unlike the stalls beside it, this one is a whole building big enough to fit 3 ordinary stalls.
Seeing the truck stop by the stall, people inside went out to help transfer the items from the truck to the stall.
With their job done Rodney and Esther dismounted the truck and was greeted by a figure.
"Well if it isn't Rodney and Esther, so? how was the trip?." a bright-red haired figure greeted the two.
The bright-red haired figure is wearing a brown leather overalls and with a top of white t-shirt, and with goggles on the figure's head, they are also wearing gloves and heavy duty boots.
"Same ol, same ol, I thought this time was gonna be different but they had a buddy to save them." Esther said in fake disappoinment.
"Oh?, well thats something." The figure replied with one of their eyebrow raised.
"Sister Melissa, I heard Kai is here somewhere?, have you seen him?" Rodney asked Melissa.
"Kai is at the back preparing for the feat that is about to happen in a few minutes." Melissa said while pointing behind her.
"Ah, It's that time already? I'm gonna help Kai, see you in a bit sister Melissa!" Esther said while jogging towards the stall.
Melissa just giggled at her action, while Rodney just sighed before following Esther inside.
"HEY!, WATCH IT!, DO YOU KNOW HOW EXPENSIVE THOSE ARE?!!" Melissa reprimanded the workers transporting multiple food items.
As Rodney entered the building, he went towards the kitchen where he finds a boy similar in age with Esther beside him.
"Hey Kai, How's your day been?" Rodney asked.
"Nothing much, how bout you?" Kai replied.
Kai has a chocolate brown skin with black hair with highlights of white tied in a bun while styled in locks, and he has grey eyes, he is currently wearing a grey shirt with brown shorts covered by a black apron filled with bloodstains and oil.
"Esther can you help with stirring that pot over there, and also, Rodney can you cut some vegetables for me?" Kai asked both of them while stir frying a form of rice covered in eggs.
"Okie dokie!" Esther replied while saluting.
"Okay." Rodney replied while nodding.
As the three are busy preparing, outside at the back of the stall multiple people are arranging a buffet style area.
As time passed the Buffet area is being cleaned, people started to enter the area.
Seing this, the workers that are done guided them before the others joined them as well.
With the Influx of people, the workers finally brought out the food and disposable utensils feeling a total of 5 tables worth of food.
The people are dressed in rags while some are in clothing that is not washed for days.
There are even peole with children trying to eat.
"Now, Now, no pushing there's enough for everyone." Melissa said to everyone present.
As Melissa saw the crowd crawl to a halt, seeing them being cooperative she nodded in satisfaction.
"I now hereby declare the weekly sanctum public eatery... OPEN!" Melissa said with both hands raised.
The crowd cheered as they can finally eat a proper meal after a week of 'dieting'.
"Kindly no pushing"
"Anyone who breaks the rule will be kicked out of the event, so please be in order."
With some of the workers trying to keep the multitude of people controlled so that no accident may happen.
Esther, Rodney, and Kai can be seen assisting the workers to distribute the food for the people.
This event will go in until every food is gone, as the waste of food is taboo in the Bazaar and the slums.
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Menwhile in the orphanage, Lucien is already awake.
With the other children are also awake, the inside of the daycare is quite chaotic with toys flying from here and there.
Particularly Lucien is surrounded by children playing tag.
Lucien is just there sitting spacing out, while two children are seen arguing about something.
"You didnt caught me, I didnt even feel your hand touch me." one argued
"I did, I even felt your clothes from my hand"
another fought back
"Well, you only touched my clothes not me, so you're still IT." one objects
As the argument is about to escalate, one of the caretaker quickly intervenes before someone is about to throw hands.
While this is happening in the background Lucien saw a pile blocks by the kid-sized shelf, which caught his attention.
Lucien then went to pick out the blocks by the shelves.
As Lucien carried five of them, two fell out of his hands causing the others to fall aswell.
Lucien just looked at the mess for a good while.
"Ow!!, Ollie hit me!" someone cried out from the back ground.
"Ollie! what do you do when you did something that hurts people?" the caretaker reprimanded Ollie.
Lucien then sits before the pile of blocks right before he grabbed one of them.
Incpecting the block in his hand, Lucien the brought the block to his mouth before taking a bite.
A good chunk was removed from the block earning a nod of approval from Lucien.
He then finished the first one, then the second one, then the third, then the fourth, before deciding to do something different to the last one.
Lucien nibbled on the last block which caused drool to fall on it.
Then suddenly, light came to the eyes of Lucien, in a stupor he dropped the fifth block whom two thirds are left remaining.
Lucien then looked around, seeing everything in his eyes as something new.
If before Lucien was in blank state where he can't put information into his brain as there is no words to describe anything he sees and do, now Lucien can connect the object he sees to words as well as his actions.
Lucien with bright eyes looked at the beauty of everything that he can see.
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A/N:
Lucien finally spawned in existence, I hope so far you guys are enjoying this.
Let me rant for a bit...
Why is it so damn hard to know who is talking during dialogue's in novels???
Is it just me or do people also encounter this?