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Chapter 10 - The journey to west (Part-1)

The non-humans were stunned at the luxurious interior of the metal ships, the lighting, air conditioning, the restaurent and bars in ship, the entertainment area, bathroom, latrine and everything inside.

{In elder speech} I am not imagining, right? How could those pictures moves?

{In elder speech} Did the western humans poured life in the pictures.

What's the matter? Is somthing troubling you?

The elven kids switch to common speech.

That board like thing, it is showing drawings that moves and talks.

The novanian looked at the direction where the elven kid is pointing his finger towards, and saw, the LCD TV with cartoon channel on.

Ah ha! That is LCD TV, a type of entertainment plus information devices. It shows varieties of recorded video which serves a modern drama or new channel where one can watch news provided by news reporter from distance, it also shows moving pictures known as cartoons or animations for kids or animation lovers.

How could this moving picture you called animation moves.

I can tell you but you won't understand, not yet, once you go to school and college in west and study properly, who will eventually learn the logic behind moving pictures and captured images that this artifact displays.

Meanwhile in bars and restaurents in ship.

What is this?! So delicious! I never drunk a wine like this!

That's not wine, it is Stolichnaya.

What Stolichnaya is?

Vodka.

Vodka?! Isn't that rubbish drink that is sold by human bars to non-humans in Kaedwen, they taste terrible, I had drunk vodka before and it taste really bad, but this Stolichnaya taste really good, are you sure this is vodka and not wine?

Maybe they don't know how to brew a good vodka.

Is that so? Then fuck those fraudsters! They cannot even brew a proper vodka.

{Having finished a whole bottle of Stolichnaya} *Hiccup* True *Hiccup* damn those... *Hiccup* profiteers... *Hiccup* I... {faints with head on the table}.

Wow..., I din't expect your elf friend to finish entire bottle and got drunk.

I apologise for my companion's rude behaviour.

It's okay, he didn't offend anyone, I am curious to know if he like this vodka so much that he finished a whole bottle.

Well, with alcohol like this, even if it is vodka it is hardly surprising, he drunk too much of this stuff.

While on another table.

This food is delicious, it look like thin rope like things poured in soup, but the spices and flavour is very good, what this thing is called madam?

This noodles, one of the tasty snack from our homeland, it is make from mixtures of flour made from wheat, rice or buckwheat with water and salt, some noodle required eggs but this one is purely veg.

I have no problem with non-veg, why there is pure veg and non-veg version of this noodles.

Because everyone is not non-vegetarian, some feels aversion to non-veg, or they might eat non-veg but due to certain reason including health issues, they might be forced to eat veg only.

I see.

In another table.

{In elder speech} This thing called pizza is so good! I feel like I can eat all.

{In elder speech} Hey leave some for us too!

{In elder speech} Sorry, I can't stop.

{In elder speech} We also came to eat, if you eat all nothing will be left for us.

{In elder speech} It's okay sweetie, let our son eat as much as he want, he has right to enjoy like this atleast once.

{In elder speech} Honey, I know that all three of us went through hardship in that hellhole of eastern continent, and you want the youngest of our family to to enjoy a day to forget the suffering we all went through, but still we must take care of our son's health. He will get stomach ache if he gobble the food like this.

A nearby male human noticed the scene.

It seems, your kid is eating too much of fast foods.

That's right my and my husband's son is eating too much, he just finished 5 pizzas and he still want more.

5 pizzas? Do elven children have such big appetite? The kids of our kind usually eat a single pizza while the foodie ones eat 1.5 pizza to 2 pizzas.

Well, that's because hill folk elven kids and teens have higher appetite than adults and elders, in fact in case of our cousins the alder folk, their kids and teens have even greater appetite.

I see, no wonder your son eating much more than what you eats.

Meanwhile in front of bathroom, there is a gnome waiting outside.

Big bro, how long you will bath, if I not wrong, who bath once in week in our homeland, no you are bathing for hours.

{From inside the bathroom} I can't help it, bathing with shower and bathtub feels great, these things didn't exist in our old home, besides there is a water heater allowing me to adjust the temperature of water.

I don't care, just come out, I have to bath too.

Just five more minutes.

You said that many times, I wonder if your five minutes will ever end.

In the hospital of ship, a halfling man quicky recover from his illness and taking an injection.

I am feeling better now.

See, I told you, you will recover soon.

Indeed, but what is that needle that pricked me and cure my illness.

It is called injection, it consist of hollow needle connected with a container in which liquid medicine can be stored and button to press, allowed the stored medicine to be injected directly in one's veins.

But why use injection couldn't I drink the medicine directly.

That's because while the modern medicine works it's effect is not immediate like medicinal potions, when you drink it, it will take time to show effects, some medicine become diluted while reaching it's destination to cure the illness, while other upsets the stomach if drunk, which is why injections are used, to speed up the process, to ensure the medicines is not diluted before doing it's work or even avoid stomach problems.

I see, because the medicine is effective but non-magical in nature, it has some obstacles.

Exactly, unlike magic that bypass the natural laws, the technology had to follow those very laws. Both magic and technology have it's own strength and weaknesses.

I see, thanks for curing me.

You are welcome.

The halfling left the ship's hospital.

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