The room was silent for a moment of time, Pharam spoke up saying "When did it happen", eyes staring at the map, his face full of defeat
"The letter reached us yesterday's night, so it fell around a week ago" replied Ramo
"This was unbound to happen, sooner or later" said the chief
"Yes," said Sarom "Because of you, you chose not to send them support"
"We have enough problems here, we cant be sending support every now and then forgetting about the shelter" said the chief
"Well guess what, the shelter is all that remains now, and it might not do for long, all because of your selfishness" said Sarom
"You need to keep your words checked boy, don't think that me letting you lot call me chief outside amongst the common folk lowers me to your level, I am the rightful heir, the royal blood" said the chief
"Everybody knows this already, from children to elderly, what help did it bring them, your selfish desires to have your blood live one" said Sarom
"Speak to me like that once more, and I shall rip your tongue, lets see how you will be preaching then" said the chief, Sarom went back into place silent
"So what will we do now?" said Pharam
"We shall keep this here, like everything else, until we find a solution" said the chief
"So we will continued to hide the truth?" said Pharam
"We shall do so, if it keeps them in place" said the chief
"How many lies will we tell, how many truths will we hide, if these break out none of us will survive the impact--" said Pharam, the chief cut him
"If" he said "With us being the only ones that know it, any info that leaves this room the source of it shall be known"
"So what is your plan? continue to cower here until they reach our door? you know that it is a matter of time before they find us two" said Pharam "And we have no way on knowing their whereabouts
"Then we shall make a way" said the chief "Pharam, you and your team shall be sent further away towards the camps of the Varish soldiers, and your supplies shall be increased aiding you in doing so"
"What?! instead of rebuilding what is lost you would rather waste supplies on the expedition team" said Pharam
"We don't have the man or the supplies of a side shelter, and we cant have people knowing we lost all 3 we had in the span of the last 15 years" said Baro, the chief
"They don't have to know, you can send volunteers somewhere else, I shall go with them willingly, our food shall be the wild's and our shelter shall be the trees, this is much more efficient" said Pharam
"We cant separate at these times, I need as much as I can defending the shelter, and the royal blood line, until--" said the chief, he was cut by Pharam who spoke saying
"Until what? we die? surrender?"
"Until we figure something out, until then we shall stay together" said the chief
"We can stay together whilst building other shelters, it doesn't need to be too far away from here" said Pharam
"Enough! the shelter shall stay intact, you shall be sent" said the chief, "None else shall be built,"
They weren't satisfied but none of them dared to stand up to the king, especially with his bodyguard their, the famous warrior Noor
"You are dismissed" said the chief as they left one after another, followed by the chief, leaving the room empty
With the rise of the sun, Jason woke up in the nurse's Room, she was making a medicine right beside him
"Oh, your awake, here have this" she handed him it to drink
Swallowing what ever she handed him he heard her continue speaking "So? can you speak for yourself now?"
He opened his mouth, just for hesitation and trauma to force it shut
"You don't have to force yourself to say anything, lets start with something simple, what is your name for example" she said
"Jason" he replied
"Nice to meet you! I ma Fara, a nurse in the shelter" she replied
He did not say anything to her, trying to continue the conversation she said
"have you heard anything about the shelter before?" she asked
Taking a moment to reply he said "No"
"I heard you were walking by the stream towards this place, did someone tell you to do so" she asked
Remembering the words of his father 'Walk by the river with your sister' he started breathing heavily, a panic attack struck his bones with fear
"No, no , no, you don't have to, just, breath slowly" she tried calming him down, it took a moment
"Well, Instead of talking about you, why don't I explain this place to you?" she said
She continued afterword saying "As you know, this is the shelter, it is the centre point for the revolution against the Varish around 100 years ago, we do have 3 other centres, but with this ruled by the rightful heir of our Royal blood line, it takes priority"
"Royal blood line?" Jason asked
She smiled at him liking that he started asking questions and replied "The royal blood line, was formed around 200 years ago, it was formed by the time our continent was invaded by the so called Varish, alongside the Kazar kingdom"
"They took the land and drove us into a corner, The royal blood line is made of people who's blood can lost longer than anyone else, it is known that hold abnormal strength, they say sickness doesn't affect them at all,"
"You can say" Fara said "They are considered inhuman in physic"
"How strong are we talking?" asked Jason
"Some stories say, they rip off trees like clothes, they can crush skulls and break ones with ease, no rushing raging bull can push them, and no poison can break them" said Fara
"Is their one of them here?" said Jason
"Well, my father is" said Fara
"You are one of them?" said Jason
"Yes, but before you get any expectations, I cant do such stuff, and I never saw my father fight, they say a curse brought the blood down, and with time it will regain strength, that is why we are awaiting that time"
she stood up straight wanting to walk out and said "When that day comes, we shall finally roam our lands free"
"until then, you need to get healthy, if you do, you might be allowed to join training, and maybe meet the chief yourself" she left him in there as she went out
Jason stared into the empty cup for sometime, remembering that bloody night, he clenched his hand onto the wooden necklace with determined look