Cassey got strong again, he and Scotia stared at the trident on top of the bed. They had been awake all night watching the trident, while it laid dumb.
"Isn't it glorious?" Asked Cassey
"You can tell. I mean this is super great, but do you think this is a Good Idea? I don't even know what it is, and It's staying here in my house…."
"I think. I feel I know what it is." Said Cassey thoughtfully
"After getting weird last night? Of course you should. Now, you tell me."
Scotia faced Cassey now, suddenly acting different, it was as if he was against it and never wanted any of it to happen, so Cassey got to wonder why
"Wait, did you just say "my house"?" Cassey asked ignoring the important things he should reply to
But a Knock on the door interrupted them, so Scotia didn't say anything else, he walked away to check who was at the door.
Scotia opened the door and saw nobody.
He went out too but saw nobody. He closed the door behind him, and decided to inspect around the back yard.
****
Alby walked up to a road that led to Trentshire. As she walked, she saw a chariot coming behind so she stopped it. She had changed her clothes and looked better than before, she got life back.
"Hey madam where are you going?" Asked the chariot rider
"Trentshire." Alby replied, without an expression.
****
Scotia got suspicious of the surroundings, and noticed something around the garbage bags. He picked up a stick frightfully, and as he reached near, getting his stick ready to strike, the fear was building up as he walked closer, his heartbeat was enough to escape from his chest... then…. A cat meowed and ran away. He exhaled. Cassey called from inside
"Scotia?!"
"Oh, yes, I'm outside!" Answered Scotia trying to calm down himself
Cassey went outside to meet him
"What are you doing with that pal?" Asked Cassey
"Nothing. What"
"Whatever. Hey I'm going to umm walk around. Just some stroll. Will be back at night."
"Oh fine, breakfast will be ready… dinner will be too." He said smiling to his joke
"Don't touch my thing."
Cassey walked away and headed down the street. Scotia yelled out.
"Hey, come get that thing off my house!"
Cassey didn't even look back again, he continued walking ahead.
Cassey strolled around the market streets admiring the setting. All he did was to go to a shop, price their goods as if he was going to buy in bulk but will just walk away after they had told him the price. He would spend the time checking up on the products.
He kept on walking around. Until he saw an apple store with a beautiful young girl who was the seller. This time around, he got a bit serious. He approached her like a gentleman
"Hey…. How much are these?" Cassey asked, putting his whole attention on the apple, and started to touch and pick the apple. The girl just stared at him
"Don't people hear something around here?" He didn't receive a response from the girl on the first question
The girl kept on staring , wearing a dead look
"Oh right, right,so you gonna tell me how much these are or what? Oh by the way, you're beautiful."
The girl smiled shyly. Cassey thought he had initiated a connection. But he was going to destroy it soon enough
"And where I am from, if you get complimented, you give something. You know, and in this case, a fresh apple representing your beauty is best." Said silly Cassey
He winked at the girl, but she pushed him away.
"Hey! Easy damn it, not like you're beautiful or something. Well just saying."
Cassey walked away and upon reaching some metres away from the store, suddenly the girl cried out!
"Help!!! Thief!! He stole my money!"
Cassey heard it and stopped, he was surprised, so he checked himself to see if by mistake he took an apple… but no he didn't.
"No, I didn't steal her money. Did I ?"
And before he could turn around, a group of men chased the thief.
Time slowed for Cassey as the thief passed beside him, looking at him, he saw who the thief was!
"Allen???" Said Cassey, unbelievably, his best friend, a thief,? How come? What happened? Those were the words that ran across his mind. He still couldn't believe it.
Allen stopped, surprised as well...but, he got knocked down from behind and falled dead flat on the ground!
****
Allen was laid on the bed, he woke up and grabbed his sword and was afraid, because he felt strange in a strange place.
He thought maybe he had been kidnapped or worse. He ran down to the dinning room where he met Cassey and Scotia eating.
Cassey and Scotia stopped eating, looking down straight to Allen's sword. He looked terrible and poor. Cassey still couldn't believe his eyes. He thought maybe something went wrong when he left, or his best friend was broken because he left
"Cassey?..." Allen rushed towards him and gave him a big hug!
"Cassey, look at you, you are doing great my friend!"
"Yes my friend, never thought we would be meeting again under this awful circumstance." Said Cassey
They broke off. And Allen rubbed his eyes.
"Are you crying?" Asked Cassey
"Oh yes he is crying. Eat my friend, food is the only cure! to a good life! Cry no more!" Added Scotia. All he cared about was food.
"Why did you steal, boy?" Cassey asked Allen, genuinely trying to understand what went wrong. Allen sat down to explain
"I needed to, I was hungry." Said Allen sadly and with a soft tone
"H-how did you get here?"
"It wasn't intentional, I found myself wandering in Trentshire." Allen said, still wasn't understanding himself and the whole thing, he was confused as well. One could see it in his eyes
"Mmm, never thought trentshire is enchanted. Good news actually." Scotia said, always interrupting with what didn't matter. So Cassey had to caution him friendly
"Could you say something meaningful or just shut up?!"
He blinked his eyes, and just continued eating.
"After you moved out,I just felt alone, you know,all the good times,the troubles and everything, it just got all boring and shity for me. I had to leave Krinxville." Allen continued
"And you are now a warrior?"
"Oh no. Well basically I got into a gang. Sort of." Said Allen raising his sword
"Gang? Seriously?" It was a surprise to Cassey
"Sort of. I trained to fight. Cassey you need to get out of here as fast as you can please." It was as if something touched him so he quickly changed the topic
They became curious,tensified and serious
"What?" Asked confused Cassey
"There is something after you. After something you are holding…"
Cassey stood up terrified. He locked eyes with Scotia.
"How did you know,?" Inquired Cassey hastily
"I don't know, I just know, I just know I'm going crazy. Look enough talk, let's get going. What are you holding anyway?"
But it was enough talk. Cassey knew that he really had to get out.