Chapter 7 The Conversation

Robert Lois continue with his discussion.

"Yeah! Where are you from?" Elias ask and Robert eyes became dark all of a sudden. He don't know if he should tell Elias the truth about himself. He remains quiet for a while not knowing what to say.

" It's okay if you don't want to say anything. Just stay here and recover for a while then you can leave after you recover" Elias said when he noticed the hesitation on Roberts face. He is not the type that probe into people's private life. He is just doing the best he can by helping him to heal his wound. After all his father told him to be good to people always even he doesn't know them and that is the principle he is living by.

They sat outside for a while without saying much,then Elias helped Robert into his hut where he spends the night peacefully.

Very early the next day, Elias woke up and took his Spear where he kept it. Robert is still fast asleep so he just left quietly to the borders without saying any words or making any sound.

" Where have you been?" One of the warriors at the borders ask immediately he saw Elias approaching them with his Spear.

" I had a running stomach so I couldn't return to the borders" Elias reply and stood beside the warrior with blonde hair by name Darus.

" That is what you get from eating too much of wild fruits" Darus reply with a chuckle and Elias just shrug his shoulder. He had to admit everything Darus said about him. He doesn't want them to know he took a stranger from the borders to his house. He knows I stop like someone who had been struck with talking charms.

" The others thought you were dead so they went to look for your corpse so that they can deliver it to the head ruler" Darus said with all seriousness after a brief silence.

" What! That is not possible you know! How can they wish me dead, I mean how can they say I'm dead? I only have a running stomach. I'm not dead" Elias talk non stop like someone who has been struck with talking charms. He really can't believe they actually believes he is dead just because he didn't show up yesterday.

"They waited for your return but you didn't show up so they became restless and thought maybe something might have happened to you. So they set out this morning to look for your corpse" Darus said calmly after Elias stopped talking.

" But I'm alive , I only had a running stomach and nothing else" Elias spread his hand wide as he talks. The word dead and corpse are not friendly to him at all and he is not even planning to die anytime soon. He hasn't find the love of his life and hasn't enjoy the beauty of this world so why would they be thinking he is dead.

" Then you should stop eating too much of wild fruits to avoid stories that touch next time" Darus said as he pick a guava fruit from his pocket and threw it inside his mouth. Elias mouth became watery when he saw how fresh the guava is and how Darus chew on it in his mouth.

Well Elias is a wild fruit lover. He don't mind feeding on them all day as he was well known for that among the warriors. He would have fed the wild fruits to Robert last night but the two squirrel he caught when looking for herbs saves Robert from eating wild fruits to bed.

" Where did you get that mouth watery guava from?" Elias ask as he felt his intestines intertwine in his belly.

" From the forest" Darus reply as he swallow the chewed guava and Elias gulp along with him as if he is the one eating the guava.

" Then I will go get some for myself" Elias eyes light up but suddenly became dark when Darus ask him to watch the borders that it's his turn to watch since he didn't return yesterday.

" What are you waiting for? Do like a warrior and start watching over the borders. I will go rest under that tree" Darus said and walk towards a huge tree and relax there.

Half an hour later, the other warriors return from the hunt of Elias corpse with thief Spears in their hands.

" Here he is" one of the warrior point towards Elias is standing and they all walk to where he is.

" We thought you were dead" one of them said and Elias just shrug his shoulders.

" I'm alive I'm not dead" Elias reply and the warriors didn't say any other word and walk back to their duty post.

" Don't sneak away like that next time" one of the warriors whisper close to Elias ear.

" Who told you I sneaked away?" Elias ask and the warrior just ignore him and walk away.

Robert woke up to the ray of sun splashing in through the window of the hurt. He was aware Elias left very early so he didn't bother looking for him. You may think he is fast asleep but he wouldn't lose his guard on his first night in a strange place.

He lifts his leg and a sigh escape his lips. He is healing but the pain is still there but not that much like it was yesterday. He saw baskets of wild fruits and pick three apples from it and start eating. At least here is more lively and reliable than jingle nation. He look outside the hut window and saw children running around and women carrying basket of grains and other stuffs. It's been long he see something like this. Jingle nation is a deserted place, he is the only living soul in it so he wouldn't see a view like this but now he is no longer there, the nation will be silent as a grave yard but will be lively if only he succeeds in setting the people of jingle nation free from the hands of Harold.

He watch them for a while and sat down on the mat he slept on.