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Chapter 8 by Alum Alum

We need to get home, and Kori wants to come too...

Sure

Kori seems relived to not be left behind. I felt kinda nervous, my dad can be a very judgmental person.

The ride is quite long like the last one and I doze off from the fatigue of well... last night.

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"Wake up!" a familiar voice and hand grab at my shirt and toss me out of the transport. It was my father.

"Whoa!" I was tossed clean across the village as he yanked me from my seat. I crashed in someone's yurt. The old man didn't seem so happy about it, but tonight was a festival night and dad would probably have it fixed before I got up. Well, no use in laying around, I got a good four hours of sleep from that trip just to look up and see Kori giggling at me. "Hey, that's not funny." I laughed and stood up to dust off.

"So, your dad's the-" I cut her off, being kinda rude after being thrown out the ship.

"My name is Greystone, you know, I thought you were an ace detective?" giving her a smile she punched me in the gut.

"I don't keep up with the politics when I'm on a case." she said with a snide voice, but she smiled when the giant of a man, my father approached us. The man was all scarred up, wore a headband, and adorned a short but thick beard.

He took Kori's hand and knelt to kiss it, "You must be the young Kori Sunrider?" He gave a charming smile to her, "My daughter has told me so much about you in the last minute, and I'm glad you finally got to this boy's heart." he poked at me with a smiling silly attitude, "I was afraid he'd grow old like me before he got a girlfriend." he gave a bellowing laugh and slapped me on the back, "I'm Alum Isa Greystone, the Protector of earth, the Clan Chief of the Nutainia, ex cetera ex cetera." he said and then was diverted in attention when the old man demanded his help.

Kori gave me a look, "I didn't expect your father to be so..."

"Condescending and judgmental?" I said as I fixed myself up slightly.

"I was going to say silly, and what's your problem?" She put her hands on her hips and gave an angry look.

I was taken back by her sudden anger, not even a day into being in a full relationship and she's picking a fight. "Well, you see, he didn't want me to go to war, he wanted me to settle down and be the new chief." I explained to her and she became more sympathetic, "Of course, after I left, my sister also left to be a chronicler. She didn't get a month into her duties before she fell in love with a red mane who's mind has been twisted by an evil old man." I furrowed at my brow and then took a look around, he's coming this way with Namil.

"Hey Kori, this is my fiance!" Namil said to her and stepped aside to show a very quiet red haired young man. He had a robe on that was white and emblemed with a wolf head, his left arm looked as though it was horribly burned and had some sort of claw coming out of the top of it. "Isn't he just a riot?" she laughed and the man looked at her with a very nervous face.

He turned back to me and gave a pleading face. He didn't know what to do. I.. I know I can't blame him for what he did, he was being controlled, convinced since his birth that his own people were the evil ones, made to kill his own parents. His sins can't be forgiven, but I often have doubts they were his own. Namil seemed to find him interesting, she confronted him and stopped his anger, he couldn't hurt her.

"Hey, Rohland," Kori stood by me and asked, "where's your house?" I have my own personal yurt off to the far side of the village, so I could do most of my training in the wilderness. Maybe I should go off with Kori before the party starts?

What should we do now?

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