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Chapter 4 - CEDER AND DREAMS

He went back to the house fell on his straw mat laid there till in the morning, as he woke up he could see the rays of the sun hitting his eyes, he stood went outside started a fire put a kettle on the fire with some he collected form the forest he drank it with the bread he bought the other day, after hu put out the fire as today he was going to explore the forest.

But as he was putting off the fire, he remembered what happened last night.

"How did i fall asleep somewhere like that", he asked himself as he was going just behind the mountain towards the water fall.

He remembered that there was something glowing behind the waterfall, "Is there something behind there", he asked himself as he was removing his cloth, he dived into the water and went straight behind the water fall.

He could not say a thing as the place could no be explained it was a scene straight from a sword play as there was a sword lodged i the middle of a cave on a platform, he was afraid at fist but he mustered the courage and went to lodge the sword but it could not be moved.

He just looked at the deep gushes on the wall that were probably made by the sword that was lodged at the platform, he was astonished to how could that be as the gushed looked like the were carved by beasts.

"How could a person do this to the wall?", he was asking himself.

As he could do nothing in the cave he just went back to the house, he sat down at the table and started reading the book that he got from the storage area, the book had nothing but illustrations all over it, and the descriptions on how to follow those illustrations, he did not know how he got immersed in the book that the time flew by so quick it was evening again.

He stood up went to the storage area where he placed his breads and took one out, then ate it with the water he had, after that he sat down thinking of what he learned form the book it was a martial art and swordplay book it was interesting that he could not wait for the sun to rise so that he could read more of it as to him now it was the best thing that he could ever got to read in the kingdom and furthermore for free presumed the owner never came back.

As he was asleep, he could not stop thinking of what he read on the book the swore and martial forms kept repeating themselves in his head as the were just exciting to him.

When the morning came he got up his straw mat went outside and started repeating the martial arts form as it was from the book he repeated them step by step as instructed and the book wrote that he should start with the martial form the to finish with the sword plays but the duration of the practice of the martial form should take more than one month as it was required to have a good foundation as to practice the swordplay's instructed by the book.

He practised the martial arts for the whole morning when afternoon came, he went back to the house sweating from head to toe and tired as ever but too excited to think about the condition he was in at the time.

He took off his worn-out shirt and paced it on the chair as he sat down, breathing heavily from the practice, the stood up and went to the kitchen to take some bread and water to hydrae himself, he gulped down some water and sat down to eat his bread it was getting tough already but that could no stop him from filling his stomach to stop it from (grumbling).

He went just outside the house on the balcony sat there and started to think of what he gained for the morning from his practices, the martial arts did not stop from repeating themselves in his head, but he had no strength to continue with any of them.

He stood up and went straight behind the mountain to his favourite spot on the water falls he removed his trouser and jumped straight into the water to refresh himself from the hard work he put in the morning he sat in the water for several minutes then got out of it so as he could return into the house as he was already energized.

He went straight behind the house where he had dedicated his spot for training the martial arts he learned from the book and continued to practice when evening came it was the same routine as in the morning went straight to the water falls to refresh as tomorrow was another day for more practice as he did not anything more to do.

He came back from the mountain ate his bread and went straight to sleep the same happened to him the martial arts kept repeating themselves in his head despite all that he fell asleep like a baby as he was tired as it is but the dedication did not weaver as he just felt like he was gaining something from what he was putting himself into.

When the morning came, he jumped right back to his daily but recent routine practicing martial arts despite being sore from yesterday but the dedication kept him going.

It was the same routine as yesterday, practicing, eating then straight into the waterfalls, the day was over with him tired from all the practice he was doing but he just could not tell himself to stop.

But he remembered that the next day he had work to be done at the training facility of Zest, so he jumped straight into his straw mat and fell asleep instantly.

When morning came, he went straight into the practices and ate washed himself as afternoon came, he trekked down the mountain the same way he took when going down to the city, but today it was just uneventful, no one was roaming the forest there was no animals running around just him the quite of the forest.

He came out of the forest and went directly to the training facility of Zest as he did not want to run into the gang members that was chasing him a few days ago.

As he entered the training facility he could see everything scattered as if rats and cats were playing the game of chase he could not lament as that is what is paid to do, he went right into Zest's office knocked twice and entered in it, Zest was standing looking at different kind of books from his training curriculum.

"Woah you are here young fella!", Zest said.

"Yes, hope am not late", Ceder replied.

"No, you are not but i hope you saw todays condition you have so much to do that the previous day", Zest said.

"Worry not, i will be working on it but don't be stingy on the pay hahahahahahaha", Ceder replied while laughing.

"That will be judged by how clean the facility is, it is not that i doubt your work just that today seems to be you may have more work to do", Zest said.

Ceder did not say anything he just laughed as he went straight in the training hall, he evaluated hid work and started cleaning everything and placed them in the order he saw fit as he went on he started to notice that he was as fast and also he did not get tired so easily, he went on an saw that the work that was supposed to take him half a day he was done within half the time.

As he saw he had nothing else to do he started his daily practices and time went on till he felt hunger, that was his cue that time has passed, he went to Zest who was resting in his office he knocked and went inside, Zest saw him drenched in sweat he was stupefied with the condition of what he calls young fella.

"Young fella what was you cleaning for you to be in that condition?", Zest asked.

"I finished early so i practised a little, i just felt hunger that i knew time was gone, you can go and inspect the condition of the hall", Ceder said.

Zest got out of his office and went straight to the training hall to check.

"Mmmmmmh! Young fella you seem to suprise me day after day this is clean work you have done here, you don't even have to say i should not be stingy you have earned yourself some extra pay", Zest said to Ceder.

"That's wind to my ears

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