Matthew-IP-7 t1_j2ew9gw wrote
“Look at you!” I know the voice. “Can you not even function without me?”
“Hallo, wife.” I slowly rise to my feet. “That old witch cursed me with his ‘world famous curse’.”
“I let you get a two day head start and you end up looking like this?” I finally pry my eyes open while she’s speaking. “It’s a good thing I brought the kids.”
“Yes it is good. I wouldn’t want to leave Marcus without supervision for more than an hour at a time. What with him using fireballs to cook his breakfast.” My wife is as beautiful today as the day I married her, even after having five kids. “And our little fury, Madartha, I bet she would shatter the mountain if we left her alone. Why did we ever put an axe in her hand?”
“The rain will start in twelve and a half minutes.” Hulda said, her voice always comforts me. “We need to find shelter before it hits, daddy. It will be a gully washer.”
“I guess I’ll take care of your wounds after we get a roof over our heads.” My wife glares at me. She must have been in the middle of something when my little prophetess told her I would be on death’s door. “Can you handle yourself while I round up the others?”
“Sure… I’ll see if I can locate some shelter. With Hulda’s help of course.” I know, even though she doesn’t talk like it, that deep down my wife loves me.
I watch as my wife walks away into the forest. Ooo, I should watch more often. Has she always been this good looking? “Well Hulda, do we make it to shelter in time?”
“I don’t know; it’s not coming to me. But I see a cave and a deer roasting on the fire.”
“Well I guess we don’t get a soft mat to sleep on tonight.” This pain in my shoulder would really like a soft place to sleep. “Well I guess we should go with mama.” She may have gone deeper into the woods than I expect. “HONEY, WE FIND A CAVE TONIGHT!”
“Okay, I’m not in to deep. I saw a ferumilia I wanted to grab.”
“Okay we’re coming.” I say before adding “Arahite gets a deer, you’ll probably have to leave it.”
“It’s pretty small, it won’t be too much for Madartha to carry.”
“I don’t think we make it before it rains.” I mutter to Hulda. She looks a little disturbed. “What is it?”
“We’re in the cave for a month.”
“Well the future will come sooner or later. But the rain is coming sooner.” I take her hand in my good hand. “Let’s see how big this ferumilia is.”
“You make a knife from it.”
“That’s pretty big!”
“No it’s a grade seven.”
“Woah, that’s pretty rare!”
“No, we grow a whole patch of them.”
“How? I thought they were wild bound.”
“Well they are growing—“
“There you are!” My wife says. Is it just me or is she getting more beautiful by the minute?
The unmistakable sound of Arahite’s horn comes flowing through the forest. It’s always had a peculiar divided sound.
“Well I guess we’ll go to him.” I said. “Do you see him and the others, Hulda?”
“Yeah they’re all together.” She says, then snickers.
Matthew-IP-7 t1_j2ewbis wrote
“Did you see that Huwda?” Madartha says as we enter the clearing where they’re at. Arahite has already gutted the deer and, together with John who is somehow surprisingly wet, is carrying it towards us. Madartha looks excited though. “I spwit that wog in one hit!”
“I did! I also saw rain coming.” She says. I’m glad she loves her little sister. “Can you go grab it for me?”
“Otay!” She says as she sprints away to the other end of the clearing.
“So rain is coming?” Marcus says. “I knew it! The shower cast always makes a lot more water when it’s about to rain.”
My hot wife and I snicker when we hear that. Then I ask “John got in the way didn’t he?”
“Hey I was trying to put out the fire he started!”
“With a shield? Come on, you know that wouldn’t work.” John and Marcus are twins in case I haven’t told you. “Besides, everyone knows that a good wizard always cleans up his messes.”
“Oh yeah? What about this morning? I had to clean your breakfast off the wall.”
“Yeah well I had to—“
“Boys!” My wife said. Even with her stern face she still looks stunning!
“Arahite did you see a cave close by?” I asked.
“Yeah there’s one right over here behind you.” He said. I’m pretty sure he can sense the terrain around him magically. And the wildlife too.
In the cave the deer was skinned and quartered. Part of it was roasting on the fire, but most of it had been dehydrated by Marcus. Madartha was off to the side, in a sound suppression bubble, splitting more firewood. Hulda was helping Arahite wrap the dehydrated meat in hickory leaves. John was building a tanning frame, he must have found out we’d be here a while. Marcus was resting after draining his energies so far. And my smokin’ hot wife was tending to my injuries.
All in all I’m a happy man. I don’t know how long this adventure will take but I’m gonna bring up everyone coming with me to my super knockout of a wife again. Something is wrong with me.
“Hold still!” She says. “And stop touching me like that: now is not the time.”
“Marcus, have you learned how to dispel a curse?”
“No.” He said. “The master doesn’t want us learning about dark mana until we’ve mastered all the rules of the others.”
“Besides I don’t think a dispel will fix what’s wrong with you.” My wife said
“There’s a nice secluded spot if you go through that hole right there.” Hulda shuddered. I can’t imagine how hard it is to be able to see things in the future, and all around her. The secrets she discovers even one of them would disturb any adult but she’s seen dozens of them.
Presently my perfect figure wife finishes healing the gash in my side and says “There, that should keep you together.” Then she points at a hole in the wall. “That one?”
Hulda nods. And my wife with the grace of an eagle helps me up. We go through the hole and find what Hulda prophesied. “You name him ‘Lightcatcher’.”
Well my wife was right. I mean she’s always right, but she was especially right this time. Of course it wasn’t the curse that made me act that way! I was already in love with my wife. But I was excited to be able to spend some time with my wife sooner than I expected.
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