NovelEnglish“It is a girl,” Damien explained pouringa serving and smiling.
“We sent the message to Nu-reeh as soon as you connected to us. The whole compound is getting a treat tonight, although the others do not know why.”
We ate in comfortable silence. My rib still throbbed, but there was no more inner discord. The dissension of opinion had been harder to tolerate than the physical pain.
The men knew that would have been the case. Pain through disagreement in the bond was always the worst thing imaginable. The cruelest thing to do to any man would be to seek to disrupt Long held opinions in just one Brother.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtThat surprised me. We had not always agreed. I’d believed I should not be a slave long before they’d cto that conclusion. We had never felt like we did earlier today.
“You allowed us to guide you, little Sister,” Bane said filling my plate back up. “You did not fight us. Damien, Evan, Kein and I were not confronted with your feelings on the matter. It also helped that our sneaky Brother with his Earth heritage agreed with you. Both of you,” he grinned at Christof, “held those opinions away from us and shared only with each other. We did not truly experience your disagreement.”
I thought of Vesa and her poor, stupid friends. The men knew ssort of punishment awaited such foolish slaves. They would never be told what it was, though. The General had assured them they would never know.
“sould we help them?” I asked softly.
“We are,” Damien informed me, “they are being saved the wrath of five Warriors that have been wronged. Whatever they suffer now will be Less because we are not there.”
It was done and settled. Even I felt at ease with the decision, I would not be to blfor any suffering Vesa faced. Admittedly, she did deserve sform of punishment.
Vesa and her friends had attackedoutright. While they probably didn’t mean to leave lasting scars, none of them expectedto truly fight back. Those foolish girls probably thought they could just scare the secret out of me.
“Our Littlest member is a true Warrior!” Kein said raising fist and pumping the air several times.
The other Brothers followed suit in what was a celebration of strength.
“Four against one and beneath the surface of the water,“ Evan said proudly, “you used what we taught you well and adapted it to a new circumstance.”
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmThat had been wonderful. It was decided next twe train we’d use sloping terrain or maybe two against one. There were things that would be fun to teach me, especially since I’d proved an adept student.
“You need to know how to defend your back against attack,” Christof said.
“Foes do not always cat you from the front, as you learned.”
The rest of the evening was interesting in a strange way. After dinner we sat around the fire and discussed battle strategy. It would be a lie to say I understood all of it on my own, but drawing on their knowledge it did make more sense. We sat and talked until bed.
My rib still hurt when we Laid down to sleep, but Kein had a pack of something cool he laid over it. That helped some. He even arranged it so it lay draped over that side as I rested. I slept easier and breathed better when it was present.
It was an uncomfortable night. It wasn’t until the moon set in the morning that I’d finally gotten fully asleep. I felt Evan wake up, but even that was not enough to truly causeto stir. I just watched from a dream as the men woke and stretched.
The Healers were at our door before the sun started to break the sky. Evan had not woken me, yet. The Healer’s Loud voices did, though.
“How did you Know?” they kept asking Damien as they bustled into the bedroom.
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