Chapter #42 months later. by: Othinox   I finally could walk. My entire body had healed like a snap but what delayed me from being mobile was nerve damage. Amazingly this soup Naika had fed me for a month and a half restored Nerves, It was made from a root called Jykadin Root. In its raw form it was bright blue but when it was cooked it turned green and slightly transparent. Over the past 2 months I began to pick up Volfakia which was the species name and language name. Naika also picked up on English. Overall by now she could speak it well enough so I understood her though she needed help on a lot of words here and there to describe things, I was the same though Volfakia was a hell of a lot harder to learn. The language did not have a normal alphabet, It did not go from A to Z simply, It had letters going the normal direction as well as 2 branches that branched off from the first letter which was called La and then curved in a half circle till it reached the final letter Ket. The entire alphabet was just the beginning. The writing was god aweful. It had ZERO similarities to Earth languages. It was made up of Squares, Circles and triangles that were all connected by a single line that usually branched out to more symbols and lines that branched out to even more. It gives me a headache trying to read that shit!. Its not read from left to right, its read top, down, left, left, left, diagonal down left, down, down, diagonal down right etc till you end up with the page of writing being a circle of lines with different shapes that had shapes inside them and sometimes other little symbols above those!. The language itself had to be spoken extremely fast which was god aweful. Naika loved English though. She easily picked up on the writing system and I made my own little ABC paper to teach her the alphabet and different symbols we used like the question Mark. I also got to know more about her a little more as she picked up on my language and I picked up on hers. She was the local healer of the town of Densholm and usually was gone for around 5 hours total throughout the day, Here they made home visits still and she usually had to go and find a solution for someones sickness or tend to a wounded soldier. From what she described the civilization to be like her race was much more....behind mine...A good two thousand years.
The Volfakia in comparison lived in a mix between Medieval times and the Roman Empire. Like humans they were the only intelligent race on there planet. There were 2 kingdoms, The North, and the South. The North was Ruled by the 675th Monarch Queen Kaiza while the south was ruled by there 433rd monarch King Stirralt, We were in the North, That is all the history I knew currently, I had not been able to discuss the religion or anything like that. "Good Morning" says Naika somehow appearing out of nowhere in the space inbetween the room I have been in and the other room. "Good Morning Naika, Sleep well?" I ask her curiously while I get use to standing on my legs again. Its not that I couldn't move my legs, The issue that Naika found out was that my legs would not be able to support my body weight, technically I was a cripple, But unlike earth that has medicine that shreds the hell out of your body instead of actually helping you the Jykadin root repaired my nerves and muscles, Thinking back on everything makes me smile slightly. "I sleep well" she replies and I smile lightly. "I slept well" I correct her and she smiles. "I slept well then" she says with her tail that pokes out the back of her robes where a humans tail bone would be wags.
I stand up and in a flash Naika is beside me and steadies me. "I guess being in bed for 2 months kind of messes you up" I say and she gives a small smile at my comment. "take" she says giving me a walking stick and I take a few practice steps. Its uneasy and I almost fall twice but after 20 minutes I find my balance returning though my legs are already exhausted. "My god I am out of shape" I comment to myself and she nods lightly before smiles. "Muscles will be better soon, Must rebuild strength with good food" she says with a hint of excitement before quickly moving into the other room and soon returning with another wooden bowl of stew. "I've already eaten 2..." I say looking down at the stew. It has a blue broth with small green chunks of some kind of vegetable and more Jykadin root with the same kind of meat as usually, It tasted like chicken with a hint of buttery taste. "More food is better" she says before turning around and walking out of the room. After a few more minutes she returns to view but walks to the animal skin that is her door to outside. "I be back in 2 hours, Make muscles stronger but not hurt yourself" she explains and I nod. "See you then" I reply before she lifts the skin and disappears.
For the next two hours I spend my time finishing my bowl of soup, Walking around the room with the walking stick and exploring Naika's house for the first time. Past my room is...well a storage/kitchen. On the walls that I could not see are all different kinds of tools. Things that look like scalpel's to things as simple as bandages. The scalpels of course not like earths were simply very small knifes without a hilt guard but they did look razor sharp. There were bowls and plates and other eating surfaces on shelfs. I also found a wooden jar filled with the Jykadin root and another filled with something else. On the other wall around the corner was a fireplace with a large square hole in the roof of Naika's house big enough for the smoke of the fire to escape. The fire was huge but what made it really cool was that its flames were flickering between blue and green. A pit had been made when the house had been build and around it was a chair that I expected Naika sat on usually. It was simple and made of wood. Past my current room I found a staircase leading downstairs and another animal skin over a door which I expected was Naika's room.
I approach the stairs and look down to see its quite simple, 8 steps and then a dark room. Sighing softly I slowly begin maneuvering my way down the stairs and make it without incident. I enter the dark room to find where all of Naika's healing herbs and all her other solutions are. The room is full of shelves with hundreds of wooden and clay containers. Like all the wood its blue in color and I find myself relaxed by the smell of the room from all the herbs. Turning around I very carefully make my way back up the stairs before stopping at Naika's room. Out of curiosity I lift up the animal skin to see its quite simple. The floor is covered in furs and her bed like mine in the other room is not nearly as well crafted as the ones they had on earth. It was simply a flat wooden surface with furs stacked up like a mattress and then furs ontop for blankets. Not wanting to make Naika think I was rude or weird I turn around and walk back into the main area. I am really curious what its like outdoors and what the civilization is like here but it will have to wait.
Looking to my right on the shelf again I grab a book and I look at the cover and its in Volfakia, Same with the pages. "Screw it" I say putting it back before Naika comes inside again and gives me a kind smiles. "Legs OK?" she asks and I nod. "A little weak but getting better" I say and she nods smiling before walking past me into her room. I take a seat in the wooden chair and rest my hands on top of the stick. "I feel old like this" I say for a joke to myself before Naika returns and begins making food.  | Members who added to this interactive story also contributed to these: |
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