“Learn from the past”
“Fight in the present”
“So you will change the future you once despised”
“Holding the strength you once desired”
“In which the future you desire is made when you decide to stand your ground”
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*Ugh I don’t want to wake up yet*
*I just want to sleep for a little while longer*
“Sigh” *Light shining in my eyes. Is it morning already?*
“I have nothing to do right now”
“I might as well collect my thoughts I may be able to think of something I didn’t consider before”
*After traveling for a few days eating from the hunt thirst started getting to me although I did find enough water to drink before, when I reached the end of winter forest I started finding less water with every passing day.
Despite the lack of water the forest seemed to be in full bloom the only thing I could think of there was some underground river flowing here so if I wanted to drink I had to look for water. After some time I noticed that more and more animals were in my surroundings. Thinking there might be water nearby I followed the trail, though on the way I did notice that most of the animals didn’t really look very healthy but back then I thought it might just be my imagination.
Now though I really begin to realize how wrong I was*
“Isn’t this just like the middle ages with taxes so high the farmers are starving and their families are with the aristocrats partying on their hard work throwing it away with the garbage”
“The creativity of the unicorns impressed me a lot, even though they were forlorn making everything look hopeless they forged a path with their own strength working on building their own future day after day with an unrelenting determination. Continuing their battle for a home with bodies battered and crippled by time longing for a future tears dripping down from their eyes they worked so hard and held on for so long now but they haven’t been rewarded at all”
*That just doesn’t sit right with me, why does it have to be this way? Why is it like this* the disparity in this world is just so unforgiving, it is unfair but what can they do? Even though they did everything only pain and fear are left to them but even that not for long.
It is only a matter of time before the Ynni find this lake even though they don’t seem that strong they are all powerful in this place for they are the children of Ysbryd.
Ysbryd the ‘Guardian’ of the lake protecting it from all the ‘threats’ of outside.
*Why am I despising her so much?* Isn’t it obvious. She is suppressing everyone she doesn’t like, the Unicorns, the Ezekiel, the Wolves. *Why the wolves?* I ask myself. Isn’t it obvious. They are all living inside Winter Forest when here it is so much better, The Wolves are nice they let everyone live in their home they even take care of someone like me who found himself lost and freezing in the cold forest. These Ynni just look too much like the people in my hometown, the hating, self glorifying, condescending… “Sigh” *I am just like them thinking poorly of them behind their backs* “I should have known better than that, didn’t I learn anything from the pain I have felt all of those years?”
*Despite all of the pain Ugo has felt he is still so kind to others* The corners of my mouth go up smiling in awe “Those who are hurt the most are the wisest. Was the saying, right?” *Could it also be like that with Jamie? He was always so kind to me even in the hardest of times. I always miss Jamie at times like these. He would always be there for me at times like these, helping me get back up when I was feeling down* “I have to do it on my own now, don’t I?”
“Come on Jamie isn’t here now I will have to make myself stand up now, I can’t afford to sit around all day anymore”
“It is time to go” I force myself to stand up even though I am feeling so insecure, I don’t really know what I can do.
“Urgh, my body still hurts when I try to move it” But I won’t give up now even if every part of my body hurts I can’t let the people so kind to me going through the same pain I did for all those long years suffer that same fate before my own eyes.
Feeling like blood is burning through my veins I recall a verse from a game I played a long time ago
“I am the bone of my sword
Steel is my body and fire is my blood
I have created over a thousand blades
Unknown to Death, Nor known to Life
Have withstood pain to create many weapons
Yet, those hands will never hold anything
So as I pray, unlimited blade works.”
”Recalling this verse always makes me feel like I have the strength to go on.”
*How must he have felt while chanting this? I can’t even imagine how he must have felt* “Hiraeth was that you just now?!”
I think I can hear Ugo off in the distance “Well then. Lets go!”
“Hira was it you just now who shouted out “I despise Ynni!”?”
Huh what does he mean?
“You can talk in Medi Lydd now! How did you suddenly learn it?”
“What do you mean I am just thinking?”
“Hiraeth, by any chance do you not come from these lands?”
Though it would be dangerous to tell others carelessly after all of the help Ugo gave me up till now how can I hide something like this from him “Yeah, I think I come from a different world. Where I come from something like Egni doesn’t exist” If you don’t count something like Physics four forces of nature there would be nothing right? “How did you know that though Ugo?”
“I recall old, now lost documents in the old library talking about the appearance someone without Egni in our lands, this being came from a far away place unknown to us it tells the story of a person who called himself “He who longs for a home that never was” interested in his story I searched for more about him but despite there being a lot of documents before I could read them our lands fell and we were banished”
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I am feeling delighted now I am finally able to talk with Ugo “I can finally talk to you now can’t I Ugo?” “Hmm did you say something Hira?”
“No nothing, Ugo could there still be some remains left from those documents over there?”
“The kingdom should be fine even though they did banish us from our home plains the reliques should still be there, those who banished us do not have the knowledge of how to destroy the structures and buildings afraid of losing the progress we worked hard to create for our children we created our buildings with technology that repairs it on the records it has of our building those records are spread out through the building so every part of the building has every other part of the building as a record and a nearby area when destroyed will be repaired by the remains of the building. Everything up to the individual letters in books were recorded, it was one of the masterpieces of our civilization and up to this day everything should be there”
“But if everything was recorded why would you keep all those books stored?”
“We found out that even though recording would hold all the information the books have nobody enjoyed reading or dream about the world’s stories would tell off. Recordings simply weren’t the same as stories even though they held the words they did not show the dreams off the writer, they simply could not convey all of the dreams and thoughts of the person writing it… It simply felt empty”
“But how did he simply get the ability to speak like this almost out of the blue if he did not have Egni?”
“We would have to go to the library of my land to find the answer. I am sorry Hiraeth but for now I can’t guide you to my lands I have to take care of my people”
“I know I can’t take you away from your people in this forlorn place, Uguane Irian Kashua. I want to honestly thank you for the kindness you have shown me. You helped me a stranger you know nothing about. You taught me how to fish while still giving me fish to eat and live.
You even went as far as showing me the hidden lake that your life depends upon” “Sniff”
“Don’t cry Hira o boy eeehm, eeehm what do I do, what do I do”
“Heheh, “Sniff” I am fine now Ugo ha seeing you such an old man so flustered calmed me down haha”
“Hey I am not old, I’m still in my prime! … although I did lose count after a thousand sun cycles sigh.”
“Holy, do you unicorns live forever?”
“Well we die like everyone else but some of us were allowed the remedy to aging so we could help our people for longer. Unicorns that were great inventors or those who have proven their skills or expertise but most live for about 550 sun cycles before they die of old age”
“Ugo how long does a sun cycle take to be exact how many days” *I made a sun clock before and measured the time in seconds and a day is about 15 hours both day and night so around 30 hours a day knowing that I can figure out how long a year is in here*
“A year has around 1230 days and a day has about 15000 heartbeats”
*Wait, 15000 heartbeats I measured about 30 hours so that would be 30 times 3600 heartbeats how can that be*
“Hmm… Of course unicorns have a lot slower heartbeat.
This world is different after all so how big an animal is doesn’t mean his heartbeat has to correlate with that over here”
“Oh so you figured something out, tell me Hira I want to know”
“It is nothing important really I just made a stupid mistake comparing your heartbeat to mine”
“That doesn’t sound right you talked about something you called ‘hours’ while measuring it in heartbeats”
“It is nothing really”
“Don’t go out on me like that you are leaving me in the dark here I want to know!”
“Haha! You sound like a little child Ugo”
“First calling me old and now a little child your rascal I am going to teach you a lesson”
“Waah, don’t pick me up all of a sudden”
“You are going to take a ride on my back try to not fall off young one!”
“WAAAAAAAAH! THIS IS TOO FAST!”
“Don’t tell me I didn’t warn you hahaha”
Looking at the surrounding we are riding through talking with Ugo for the first time in my life I think *I am glad to have been born* I don’t want this feeling to end but at least before I go I have to do one last thing.
“Ugo, before I go I will at least repay your kindness. I am going to try and find a solution for you and your people”
“Sigh, don’t even bother kid I have tried for the last 500 years and found nothing it is hopeless”
“Sometimes when facing a seemingly insurmountable mountain no matter how high you are right now sometimes the only way for you to climb over it is to climb down and start anew finding out what there is to do along the way”
“You won’t overcome a problem by giving up or staying stuck where you are but by trying again from the very start not giving up until the end. “Sigh” how could I have forgotten that. I am indeed getting old. Very well Hiraeth I will trust you with our future, show this senile old Unicorn the way!”
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“Learn from the past”
“Fight in the present”
“So you will change the future you once despised”
“Holding the strength you once desired”
“In which the future you desire is made when you decide to stand your ground”
“Show me how you will forge the future with your own two hands, Hiraeth and also you”