POV Rick Caravela
As we left the house of Luck and Julis the lights of the town flooded my view along with the slightly icy breeze on my face, attracting the smells of excrement from magic beasts and also some smells of food.
I don't know how our friends could live here, but looking at the sky the truth was beautiful all clear to see those stars in the distance and the huge floating city almost above our heads, all those little lights of harmless magic beasts that have to live inside the grooves in its rocks.
Lost in my thoughts I observe my wife who comes to my side with our son in her arms half asleep. I could not believe that a few years ago we did not think we were in this situation and even more now putting our son in danger.
We had to continue to be angry or face the wave that was coming towards us. I didn't know at what moment it could happen after Arya's awakening, but we had to be alert to any eventuality.
"Rick, I guess you can't stop thinking about what Luck told you." Were the words of my wife when she saw me so thoughtful.
"Honey, you know like me that things can get a little complicated, not even four years have passed after our promise in that battle"
"Yes, you're right, ¿And what will you do think about it now? You will not gain anything worrying, it is to look for a viable solution”
"It may be, but it is impossible to stop thinking about it, at least I thought we would be about ten years old or maybe more before Arya could show signs of her magic, when we promised in that situation it was never said that it could be so fast"
"Yes, it was mentioned that it might be faster for her."
“Janette, if faster, not excessively fast, ¿Tell me that another child has awakened her magic before she reaches age? it is more common late than hasty.”
To see the expressionless face of my wife they made me swallow the next words that I wanted to say.
"Sorry love, I'm just a little stressed"
"Rick, whatever it is that we go to do, we will do it together, it is not just you and me, we are a team, all together we will think of a solution"
Her words made me control my nerves a little. "Also, we do not know in what time they are going to act, it may be tomorrow or it may be years" and I continue to listen to the sweet words of my wife.
She was right, we did not know when a wave could be unleashed against us, we could do nothing but prepare for that moment.
The minutes passed and I had not realized that we had already left the small town, observing the rice fields at night and later a group of four hooded people were waiting for us.
They had a kind of robe that covered their entire body, from their hood to their feet, by their way of hiding they already gave us to understand that they were bandits and were very common in the surroundings.
We stood a few hundred meters away and without giving me time to speak one of them put pressure on his feet leaving cracks in the ground to catch imposed and move towards us at extreme speed. At the same time pulling two short daggers inside her clothes.
For an inexperienced novice it would have been difficult to follow him, in the blink of an eye he positioned himself below me by the right side when I already had my fist wrapped in prana in position and with a magic circle behind the elbow to increase speed without giving him time to react my fist hit his face leaving a crater and his head buried in it.
I felt the bones of his skull destroyed as I pulled my bloody fist out of the crater, two magic red circles the size of my body appeared in both arms, I gave off a strong aura that made the bandits react.
"I advise you not to do that again if you want to live."
Before finishing my words, the bandits quickly dispersed, I had not moved my arms in this way for a long time.
"I think you scared them dear, that intention of yours was very strong."
"They only ran into the wrong people my love." I showed him an innocent smile and at the same time I took a handkerchief from my cup to wipe the blood off my hand.
"¿What will we do with the corpse, honey?"
"Love, I don't think they left him here, despite being bandits, I imagine they are comrades, but some magical beast devoured him."
We continued on our way home as if nothing had happened, the night became calm and once I opened the door to our home the floating orbs lit up instantly along with the magic that my wife had done to decorate the ceiling lit up in multiple stars.
I never tired of seeing this, I just admired her wit. Suddenly I see her who was going to take our son to the room, to lose myself again in my thoughts "This I think is going to get a little complicated."
"I'll go prepare something to eat." Those were the words of my wife when I raised a side of the curtain that covered the door of our room, to which I only did in gesture joining my two hands as if I was going to pray to our Gods. "Thank you…"
Reclining in one of the chairs in our living room, wandering in my thoughts with my gaze on the ceiling, I thought, what would have become of us in that battle if the events had been different.
I felt that time was not advancing, when our little house began to shake "¡Janette!" I screamed loudly and at the same time looked at the entrance to the room, when I see a light and a shadow trying to swallow each other.
In the midst of the trembling and amazement I impregnated prana on my legs and I moved as fast as I could to the door, when I see my son sitting in meditation form in his crib inside a sphere of prana wrapped between light and darkness a ray I hit from above when my lungs filled with air and I was able to shout "¡Bryan!"
I tried to move, but it was impossible with the strong pressure of prana that gave off his small body, at the same time I saw him open his eyes, eyes completely scarlet red but similar to the appearance of the decoration of the ceiling of our room.
At the moment there was a sling of shock dispersing all the prana that led me to instinctively raise my arm to cover my eyes, when I came to react, I saw my son falling sideways passed out in his crib and my wife appearing right behind me.
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