His reluctance calmed Kendra but when she looked at smiling faces behind her she got annoyed again. Do they really think she forgot what happened before? One of the men tripped on protruding stone and fell so strangely that the rest of them fell down like dominoes.

Ta.s.sio looked at Lais and turned to leave while Isaa shook her head. She knew Kendra well. None of them will have all bones whole after she is finished with them. She snickered and earned angry glare from the nearest man.

"It's not my fault that you fell. Look at the stones. Even your midtown is in horrible shape. I really have no idea why you people think that you live good enough. Garbage everywhere. I just wonder that the town didn't get any serious sickness so far." She looked at the houses and pointed at the cracks inside of it."Even your houses are about to fall apart but you still claim that you are bored? Sigh..."

The men started getting up and turning their heads around and after a long time, they saw so many signs of negligence. The young man looked at Isaa and turned his eyes towards the house with most cracks and realized it is his.

He felt pain all over the body because all of those falling from a horse, walking all the way back home by foot and now failing with others, but when he saw his own home from child's view he forgot all the pain and felt ashamed. His father is sick and told him multiple times about the conditions in town but he heard only with a half ear. But being pointed at with finger from some child... He felt so ashamed and angry at himself.

"My name is Malek. This is I have to admit my home. It seems that our whole town is rotten." He sighed.

Ta.s.sio came forward and patted his shoulder. "You belong to the younger generation. If you have power users, it could help the town and change many things. Some power users will be able to go only a few stages up some even to the highest, but those of lower stages could help the country to be rebuilt. That is reason Caledon Valley made a school. To help the people learn many things so in case of need they could be helpful." He shook his head as he thought about the stage of destruction in the city. Since he met Lord Ca.s.sian and was in Caledon city, everything else couldn't compare so far.

Suddenly they could hear deep voice behind them. "So Lord Ca.s.sian's idea is not to keep the power users than to teach them?"

They turned around and saw a mountain of a man looking similar to Lokk. It seems this is head of the town.

Ta.s.s...o...b..wed and seriously nodded. "His idea is not to keep them. Some of them might get a chance to work for the King, but most of them will be going out after their training ends. He will keep only power users from his fief. After all his fief is just that big, where could he put all those power users?"

The chief thought about it and nodded. "True that. His fief is not big enough to hold so many powerful people. I heard your words from my home and finally, someone made these airheads change their minds. All they know is just how to spend money not thinking about future consequences."

He looked at Isaa and liked the little girl from the first moment on. "Child, what do you think about becoming my child? I have only this blockhead of mine as an only child and I always wanted a daughter."

But he got disappointed when he saw her shaking her head. "Chief, it is not that I want to deny your offer, but I have good parents and an amazing brother. But chief, if you want a cute daughter I have an idea. Lord Ca.s.sian is supporting financially an orphanage. And children there are taught there manners, speech and writing. So if you could take a child from there, you will not regret."

He looked at her and smiled brightly while clapping his huge hands together. "I shall speak about that to my wife. She complained as well that it would be nice to have a few more children, but if our son goes to study in your town...The house going to be even emptier. Good idea, really good idea."

Kendra liked this man and choose to forgive the young man with powers for his sake, but the rest of them...Let's see how they will act in the next couple of days.

Ta.s.sio went with the chief and explained to him how the Eye works and asked him about all the people, villages and settlements. Trough the story everyone found out the reason for the deterioration of the city.

A few years ago some n.o.bles entered the town and bought almost half town for a small amount. But when they were asked to pay their taxes they declined and kicked him out. Since then he lived in constant fear as they had their own soldiers and power users. He got treats that his son and wife might die if he continues pestering them.

But the worst part is he has not enough money to do anything for town. The people that might have, have useless family members that spent the money without care onto useless things like woman and food in establishment. The elders of the city protested a bit, got treats from same n.o.bles to keep quiet so the city got every day in a worse and worse state. And the youth of the lost a sense of life and achievement.

His laments were heard by one if young men that followed and he started chuckling. "So what if we spend money. It's not like you old people can take it to your grave. Ahhhh...."

His foot stepped into a hole between stones and with a loud crack it broke. His screams echoed in empty midtown and people started looking through their windows to see the happenings.

Few people that were same opinion got pulled by him and went down like a broken house of cards. Some broke hand, some whole arm and some same like that man a foot or leg. They fell on him breaking his legs and kicking his teeth out while trying to stand up.

Their screams attracted some people that saw the situation and started running their way. "Oh, my beloved son!" "My child, he is dying!" " My child is squeezed by all others, get up!!!"

The cacophony of voices and screams filled the air, but Kendra and Isaa just stood there with ghost smile staring at them with twinkling eyes. Marcus looked at the brother-sister pair of little demons and chuckled. If he were not sure that these two were humans, he would think of naughty demon children.

Kendra stopped smiling and gave him a stare, that made his heart skip a beat again. Strange, he is sure he liked women. How comes he is attracted to a man... And a child on top of it.

He looked Kendra up and down and realized if Kendra were girl, he wouldn't let go for a second. On other side, she felt excitedly uncomfortable by the weird scanning of this man. Since a while, she felt strange vibe coming from his body, but couldn't pinpoint what it was.

Unfortunately for her, even in past life, she didn't really have real relations.h.i.+ps. She had a men and knew about all body needs. But she never was truly desired. Her relations.h.i.+ps were based only on occasional relaxed relations.h.i.+ps with the consummation of body needs. That's it. But his stare stirred her heart and she didn't like that.

This body is too young for such feelings. She kicked her thoughts out her head and just ignored him. Her thoughts concentrated on current situation while Marcus felt grief as he realized that his affection is one-sided. It seems he needs to leave their sides or he might do something he will regret.

He turned his head as dangerous glint pa.s.sed his eyes. It seems the only thing he could do for this youth is making his way clear in advance so he doesn't get in trouble as much. What he didn't know is that Kendra hid her real powers. If he knew how strong she is he would not do such an unnecessary thing.

Ta.s.sio got close to one of the people and healed him just enough not to have excruciating pain. With a pretended sigh, he shook his head. "I indeed have a bit of healing power, but unfortunately it is to low to heal them completely. You need to go to bigger towns and find a real healer. I can help only partially with the pain." He knew Kendra's idea was to cripple them, but he trembled when he realized how vicious can this child be.

Kendra winked at him mischievously and Lais chuckled. She liked Kendra more and more the days pa.s.sed. She poked Ta.s.sio and gave him a big stare that made his body break into a cold sweat. Then she smiled brightly at Isaa and winked at her and gathered wink as well.

The whole procedure lasted just a couple seconds but the chief got it all quietly. He smiled mysteriously. It seems that this child is the same as her...