Inside Eldrin's wooden cabin, Sebastian could be seen sitting in a chair and looking at the unconscious Eldrin in sadness.
"His having nightmares again, or it's more accurate to say that he is having memories."muttered Sebastian,due to their connection, he could see what Eldrin was seeing or dreaming.
It was 8 years after his parents death, our parents death.
In Eldrin's Mind
The sound of wood being cut by an axe could be heard, it was a 16-year-old boy cutting wood,his body was strong, perhaps due to his rather harsh lifestyle. His eyes were bright but haunted as if he had seen things that a 16-year-old shouldn't have seen.
And he did.
And with a final downward swing of his axe, he picked up three 20 kg logs and carried them to a small wooden cabin that he managed to build over these 8 years.
Creak!
Thud!
The boy wiped out the sweat from his forehead and muttered.
"Should be enough for 2 days, but I'm out of food."said Michael or Eldrin as he grabbed his makeshift bow and went out to hunt.
He walked around the forest with silent steps and slightly crouched until he saw his target,it was a relatively small deer, quite rare in this areas.
The boy grabbed an arrow and aimed his bow at the deer while crouched behind a bush,slowly pulled the arrow and let go.
An arrow pierced the unaware deer in the neck. It tried to run but collapsed after 2 seconds,Michael rushed towards the fallen deer and plunged his stone dagger through its head, finishing off the poor thing.
Whistle!
Thud!
An arrow pierced the tree beside Michael's head, but Michael did not even waste a second and directly started sprinting forward in zigzags until he found cover behind a tree thick enough to cover his whole body, and at the same time looked at the arrow plunged into the tree and realised.
"They are in the bloody trees!" thought Michael, but he wasn't really worried, unlike him they had limited mobility due to being in the trees, but the problem was that he had to find their exact location based on the arrow's trajectory.
Michael looked at the arrow again and roughly determined the position of the archer,he quickly aimed at a branch of a shorter tree and released the arrow.
Thud!
But it hit the branch however.
gasp!
Michael barely caught a small whisper and without wasting any time, he aimed at the same branch but a bit higher this time and released the arrow.
Pierce!
A faint sound of flesh being pierced could barely be heard and right after, a body fell from the tree.
Thud!
However, Michael did not come out of the tree they may be more of them after all. Michael turned to look at the fallen body, and to his surprise he was still alive. Michael suddenly had an idea but.
Whistle!
Pierce!
An arrow was plugged into the wounded man's head, finishing him off.
Michael was annoyed by this, he planned to threaten the man to give him the exact position of his allies, but his allies were not stupid apparently, and finished him off.
But Michael smiled and aimed his bow at a specific branch in a tree a bit taller than the previous one and released the arrow,but then, for some reason he grabbed his dagger and threw it behind him.
Pierce!
"You almost got me for a second" muttered Michael with a smile,the arrow had hit nothing because there was nothing there, the moment the Archer finished off the wounded man he had already left his position, trying to sneak up on Michael from behind when Michael was too busy trying to locate his previous position.
But unfortunately for the Archer, this was not Michael's first time getting hunted.
Michael However did not move from his position, grabbed an arrow and aimed it at the body of the Archer and released it.
Pierce!
The arrow pierced the head of the body, making it twitch for a final time.
"Fucking knew it"muttered Michael. Yes, the Archer was still alive even when a dagger pierced his chest.
Michael approached to inspect the wound that the dagger caused and muttered in realisation.
"No wonder he didn't die, the dagger hit a rib." Thankfully or unfortunately, Michael has already experienced almost getting killed by a seemingly ''dead body''
Eldrin looted the body but not before saying.
"Apologies"
What he found was an iron shortsword and a bow much better than his and of course arrows,He also found some silver coins around three of them.
Michael turned to the other body but did not move from his position. He grabbed the body of the archer near him and lifted him with surprising strength. Michael then with the body of the archer acting as a shield, walked out of his cover towards the other body,at the same time he scanned his surroundings finding a couple of escape routes in case there were more, and thankfully there weren't. However Michael still didn't let his guard down and quickly looted the other body.
"There have been too many of them in this areas lately, i need to move out, but where to?"thought Michael troubled.
Sigh~
"I'll figure something out"Michael muttered and started walking towards his wooden cabin.
Five minutes after walking he came across something,It was a corpse, a young woman's corpse, right beside her was a wooden basket filled with flowers.
Two arrows were plunged in her back.
Eldrins gaze turned pained, he had seen this many timesover the 8 years,people killed by banditsjust for some scraps of copper,he gently picked up the woman's corpse and walked towards the place where he buried all the bodies,as for the bandits bodies,they did not deserve a burial, let the wild beast's take care of them.