Tyura and Nave sought shoulder to shoulder on the ground, as they watched Fade throw knives at a tree.
Tyura’s eye followed the knives as they struck the tree and then sprung back into Fades hand as if they were attached to a cord. It was the same power as before in the forest and yet he still hadn’t found out what it was.
He hadn’t found out much of anything since he'd been with them.
Tyura could have asked, but he had the feeling that these two wouldn’t tell him. They were secretive. Never letting anything slip.
Tyura glanced at Nave, who was still watching Fade with a slight smile on her face.
But now that they’ve spent time together they let their guard down a little. He could tell they didn’t see him as a threat anymore.
Tyura thought about it for a moment before opening his mouth.
“How does Fade make the knives come back?”
“Magic, how else?” Nave replied without looking at him.
Tyura’s mind went to magic shows from his world. They were mostly for kids and always had some trick to them. So was it a trick?
“So Fade is some sort of magician?”
Finally, Nave looked at him with a puzzled look on her face.
“A magician? No look,” She pointed at Fade, “Don’t you see it?”
Tyura, in fact, did not see it. He squinted his eyes and looked more closely at Fade before looking back at Nave.
She suddenly made a face Tyura had never seen on her before.
Tyura had a bad feeling and went to move away from her, but she grabbed his arm. He was still too frail to push her away so he was helpless.
“Fade!” Nave called as she continued to study Tyura.
Fade looked back at her, Knife in hand ready to throw. Sensing something might be wrong he jogged over.
“What?” He asked.
“The boy can’t see mana.” Nave looked at Fade with a grin.
“What?” He said again, this time looking at Tyura’s face. “Do you see this?”
Fade held up his hand and moved his fingers. Tyura furrowed his brows and looked at him. He felt like they were playing some joke on him.
Fade started laughing. “He really can’t!”
“Tell me what’s going on? What is mana?”Tyura said finally and Fade thumped him on the head. He winced at the pain.
“Don’t raise your voice.”
“There were always some late bloomers in the village but not this late.” Nave mumbled. “But I think I can do it.”
“I can fix it.” She said a little louder.
Fad laughed again and squatted down in front of them.
“Do it. I wanna see his reaction.”
“I heard it from granny back then. We just have to push some mana in his head and it should work. Like when babies are born.”
With that Nave forcefully grabbed Tyura’s head.
“This might hurt a little. Sorry.”
From the look on her face, she didn’t look sorry.
Fade also grabbed Tyura’s head tightly, to the point Tyura felt some of the thin hairs on his head pull out.
Involuntary tears filled his eyes as he grabbed Fades arm.
“Let go of me!” Tyura tried to move them away but he failed. As he struggled they continued to talk.
“You don’t have to help me. My mana’s more than enough. You’ll kill him.”
Tyura froze before struggling some more. They were willing to kill. They would kill him!
Fade shrugged. “We found him together so we should do this together.”
Nave sighed fondly. “Fine.”
Before Tyura could fully comprehend what was being said he felt something hot rush into his skull. And then-
His head exploded.
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