Chapter 45

She couldn’t perceive Fiarca’s kindness. Actually, she had by no means understood the habits of the folks of the Nervana forest till now. Nobody had ever run by means of the streets at night time to defend her and her man on this manner.

As Enya glanced up at Fiarca with a dazed face, who gently disregarded her dirty knees, at the moment, Servia shouted to the folks of Nervana Forest in a transparent voice.

“It’s previous time to take heed to the witnesses! Outsiders who don’t have anything to do with this incident, please return to your house!”

Then Lehizin, an previous man from Nervana Forest, who had considered standing nonetheless till then, spoke up. From the gaping mouth between the total beard, a booming voice that was exhausting to imagine belonged to an previous man got here out.

“Then, we will’t keep away from this place all of the extra… as a result of a member of Nervana Forest is concerned on this.”

With these phrases, the faces of everybody current darkened.

Enya additionally hardened her expression. The one particular person concerned on this trial was Fiarca, who saved Gernan when he tried to assault Enya. Furthermore, wasn’t Fiarca now denied to face on this trial as a witness?

Servia mocked Lehizin in a sneering voice.

“…Plainly the previous man is deaf and might’t perceive what’s occurring. No have to suppose twice. Expel them instantly.”

Kiyan, who had been silently watching all this, took a step ahead.

Servia, who trembled as she thought she was coming to her, noticed that Kiyan was not heading for her however was heading in direction of Enya, who barely raised her physique, supported by Fiarca within the nook. She frowned.

He stood in entrance of Enya with none hesitation.

Upon seeing this, Tarhan’s face additionally hardened into an expression of doubt, disbelief, and uncooled anger. Finally, he stood in entrance of Enya as if defending her and proclaimed.

“I want to take this chance to divulge to everybody right here that this lady is a member of our Nervana Forest. Any more, all of the insults and mock towards this lady will likely be thought to be a direct assault on Nervana Forest, and I’ll reply actively.”

Enya wasn’t the one one shocked by that surprising assertion.

Everybody within the room froze in amazement at Kiyan’s comment.

“…Wait. No manner. That fool is from the Deserted Fields! Some halfwit Aquilean lady who didn’t even know that the child had a illness and nursed her and raised her, after which deserted her finally! How can that lady be from the Nervana Forest…?!”

Servia shouted in a high-pitched voice.

Simply then, as one other pressing sound of hooves got here, Kiyan, who heard the sound, muttered with the nook of her mouth barely raised.

“They arrived on time.”

Quickly, everybody there acknowledged a stout Nervana younger man driving on a mule had arrived.

Reyhald shortly obtained off the mule with a critical expression in distinction to his traditional cheerful look. The shadow of a really small particular person was mirrored behind him.

“I’ve introduced a witness to show my phrases.”

Kiyan added an evidence, rigorously dragging the particular person Reyhald introduced with him, and gestured at Reyhald as he approached.

Enya opened her mouth when she noticed the wrinkled face of Previous Woman Piache, who was revealed beneath the torch. Whereas Piache clearly revealed that she was not glad about being right here, when she noticed Enya and Tarhan, who weren’t speaking, she seemed shocked and widened her eyes.

“Isn’t it Piache who runs the pharmacy? What the hell does that loopy previous lady need to show—”

Servia shouted, throwing her ferocious stare upon Piache, however the elders had been faster. They hurriedly answered,as in the event that they knew that it was this newly appeared witness who would give a solution to the sudden flip of occasions.

“I will provide you with an opportunity. Converse.”

It was unknown if Piache had heard of the scenario upfront, however with a reasonably calm face, she glanced over on the folks current. As she hesitated for a second at Gernan’s utterly muddy face, she lastly stopped at Enya.

Enya might learn the anguish and ache on the face of Previous Woman Piache, whom she had identified for a very long time. She started her testimony with a timid mouth, regardless that she couldn’t disguise a touch of reluctance.

“I keep in mind… after I first discovered that little one, Enya. It was a chilly winter when the barley began to freeze. On that day, flocks of crows within the empty subject cried noisily.”

Enya couldn’t disguise her shocked expression. She gazed intently at Piache, who slowly opened her mouth.

“As a few of you right here know, and really gratefully over absolutely, I’m going and have a tendency to the sick within the deserted fields… simply an previous lady’s little pastime. That day, too, I heard that there was a lady’s corpse close to the sector. I hurriedly arrived with the intention of burying the physique, and certain sufficient, it had already cooled down and was on the verge of turning into prey for birds. Impulsively, I heard the cry of a child in my ears.”

Previous Woman Piache’s cloudy eyes got here to Enya and didn’t fall.

“She was a really weak lady. Whereas was virtually nothing however bones, there was a new child in her arms… it was like a lump of blood that had simply been born. It appeared sure that she was the lady’s personal little one, judging from the marks of childbirth left on the lady’s physique. It appeared that the child would die together with the mom who had gone away like this.”

She paused for a second earlier than persevering with.

“Nonetheless, I don’t suppose I’ve the expertise to nurse a new child child. Inevitably, I left it with the mom of a younger little one who had not too long ago taken a bunch of herbs from me and didn’t pay for it. She mentioned that she would care for it till she was weaned and that it wouldn’t matter if the village left it to develop by itself.”

As silence fell over Piache’s testimony, she started to talk in a low voice.

“I heard that the kid was not strolling regardless that many solar’s had handed and it was time for her to stroll. Once I went and checked, certainly, one among her legs was deformed and twisted. If the folks of the tribe came upon that the lady who was taking care of the child nursed a crippled child, she would stone her to dying… so I needed to let the kid return to the deserted fields.”

Enya felt her eyes develop distant.

By way of another person’s mouth, her previous was uncovered in entrance of dozens of individuals. One thing she didn’t know, whether or not it was shock or a tingling ache, got here dashing in and disturbed her eyes.

“That little one is Enya… She was not the kid of an Aquilean lady.”

Finally, when Previous Woman Piache spoke as if to affirm the phrases, Servia shouted together with her raveled hair shaking like a mad lady.

“Nonetheless, there is no such thing as a proof that she was a Nervana forest lady!”

Then, Piache despatched tiger-like ferocious eyes to Servia. Servia flinched backwards on the blaze-like anger emanating from the cloudy eyes.

“The girl’s forearm had the identical mark because the Nervana Forest folks right here. I keep in mind it clearly.”

With these final phrases, the scenario spiraled uncontrolled. Everybody current was now taking a look at Enya.

Enya endured the stares pouring down on her with confused eyes. Along with her swaying eyes, what she discovered at that second was Tarhan, who was on his knees, subdued by many males like a legal, regardless that he had not dedicated any crimes.

She couldn’t see his expression within the shadow of the fireplace.

Kiyan, who had been silent till Piache gave her testimony, stepped again in entrance of her and opened her mouth.

“That isn’t all.”

With Fiarca’s assist, she barely stood up as Kiyan strode in direction of her with a heroic expression. Her scarred physique growled as if she wouldn’t stand by if anybody tried to hurt Enya, and he or she opened her mouth.

“She was not an abnormal Nervana Forest lady. I’m sure that she is the organic daughter of Eireke, the ‘daughter of the forest’ who was born with the blood of the forest, my daughter whom I misplaced many years in the past.”

At that, even Avisak took a step ahead in shock.

“If she is the daughter of the forest, then she is the legend that was mentioned to regulate the Cranium Spider, a catastrophic monster in Nervana Forest…”

Kiyan answered together with her eyes shining.

“Precisely. She is indispensable to us, and he or she is my household that I don’t wish to lose once more.”

At her phrases, she put her hand on her cheek with a glance that dared not categorical in phrases. Enya instinctively flinched on the contact on her cheek, then opened her eyes, startled by the heat of her hand.

She couldn’t imagine it.

There have been so many issues that got here to gentle instantly that she couldn’t come to her senses. Finally, Lehijin, who had been ready for Kiyan to complete her phrases, led his hunched again to the elders of Aguilea and opened his mouth.

“Effectively, that ought to have sufficed.”

The eagle-like eyes of the elder of the previous Nervana Forest got here with a flash and demanded.

“Now, all the protection and authority of that lady not belong to Aquilea. The job of defending her will likely be taken over by our Nervana Forest. So all of her offensive remarks in direction of her, any insults, will likely be interpreted as antipathy in direction of the entire of our Nervana Forest. Now that we’ve got managed to seek out the valuable daughter of the forest, we are going to stand by this place with out retreating an inch.”

“Who says so?”

At the moment, a deep, low voice that might hardly be considered belonging to a human rang out.

The voice was so highly effective that everybody within the room pulled their heads away from Lehijin and turned within the path of the sound.

Enya’s shaky eyes adopted a voice she might by no means mistake.

On the similar time, she felt excruciating ache, as if somebody had stabbed her coronary heart with hundreds of needles. The second she noticed the expression on the kneeling man, surrounded by 9 males, she had the urge to go all the lads round him and stroll as much as him and hug him by the neck.

She was gasping for breath with out realizing it.

“…Who says that they wish to defend her and take accountability for her? Did you guys simply say that you’d defend Enya in entrance of me proper now?”

Tarhan’s expression is so badly distorted that nobody dares to talk recklessly. His mouth opened, quivering barely as if revealing fangs.

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