"You should all understand me, right?" The rude, but super sexy, grown up abruptly asked.

"Uhm"

"Yes"

While two of the children verbally answered her question, the others only made affirmative a head motion… And she does not seem satisfied with the all over the place answers.

"From now on all of you should answer me with 'yes' if you understand and 'no' if you don't, very simple". She said with a very, very angry voice, but also seemed a bit, forced? Maybe… is she also uncomfortable with the whole situation?

The child that did answer yes is now visibly more relaxed, while all the others are even more frightened.

"My name is Adel Di Hanne, generation 858. I'll be your instructor for the next year, you can call me Adel. But only ever call me in an emergency, otherwise just keep to yourself, understand?"

"Yes", all the children unsewered in unison, not very loud, but she seems to be fine with that.

"First, thing and most important for you to understand and take to the rest of your life. We do not need weak people. I'll recycle you if I find you weak and unworthy of serving Mother. By 'recycle' I mean remove your head from your body just like what you saw a few minutes ago, to make sure most of Mother's mana that is still within your body may return to her."

She stopped, gave us a look of surprise, I don't think she expected to see extremely frightened faces looking at her not knowing what to do. Well, how bizarre, after this little totally normal lovely advice that she will FUCKING KILL US if she judges us weak... nothing to be afraid of!...

"I don't like to recycle people, but I'll if I have to."

Was that she trying to amend things? Seriously, after saying such a thing, I don't know what she expected, really. Then, she stops for a second, seeing no mood improvement she just decides to ignore it and keeps speaking.

"Good, now I'll be naming all of you, this will be but a temporary name that won't even be registered, it is just a way for me to refer to each of you if I need. Those of you that are still alive in 3 years will be able to choose your own name and register it with the Mother". She points at the giant tree that just bloomed children, I guess it is accurate to call it Mother.

"Oh, I almost forgot, you should know that you are generation 866. This is extremely important information that you MUST remember. Now… for your names...". Not even taking time to think Adel started to point out each child.

"From left to right you will be Einer, Zwei, Drei, Vier, Funf. I'll repeat one more time, so, be sure to remember your own name" This time she talked a lot more slower and touched each one as she stated their names. "Einer, Zwei, Drei, Vier, Funf, understand?"

"Yes!". Everyone rapidly answered, louder and faster than last time.

By the way, I'm linked to the third child, named Drei... And I'm pretty sure 'Drei' is the number three in German, she basically counted us... great name sense Adel, super creative.

"Great. Let's make sure you really understand. State your name once I point to you." And she started with the same order as she named us.

"Einer"

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"Zwei"

"Drei"

"Bir"

"Wrong!" she slaps Vier in the face, with enough strength to leave a mark. "It is Vier, V-I-E-R. Now repeat"

"Vier"

"Good, do not forget it again, next time I may recycle you". She declared as if it was the most normal thing to kill someone over such trivial facts as getting your own TEMPORARY name spelled a bit wrong. Seriously, something is just wrong here.

She continued on to point to the next now-super-nervous child like nothing happened.

"Funf"

"Good, now I can believe you all know your own temporary names. When introducing yourselves to someone that you still do not know, you will give this temporary name plus my name and your generation. For example, Vier, you will say 'I'm Vier Di Adel from generation 866' got it?

"Yes" Oh, This time the answer was almost in perfect sync. They sure adapt fast.

"GOOD! Lets thank Mother and go home. Turn around and face mother, now kneel, both knees on the floor" She did the same to show us how. "Place your hands on the floor near the knees, touch your forehead on the floor and repeat after me" she gave us a few seconds to copy her posture.

"Thank you for allowing us to serve you Mother"

"Thank you for allowing us to serve you Mother", said in perfect unison after her, Damn, these children are getting good at this.

"Get up and follow me now, we will walk in line to that path " she pointed to a glowing dirt road close to us. "And follow that path until we get to the village. Be sure to walk in a single line"

Now that we are just walking, I'm actually paying attention to the surrounding details. Some squads are already walking towards the road in front of us, others are thanking mother or still on the 'explanation' part.

It seems that only this section of adults got children to look after, it wast obvious before since we were apparently in the middle of the section that received the children, but since we are now walking past the other sections it is. There are lots of people just looking at the children's parade on the glowing road… I mean I would be looking at it too if I were in their place.

Everyone is walking in dead silence and in a perfect single line behind Adel, and it would be pretty boring if not for the once single detail that I had not noticed before. The women here are sexy as hell and I cannot stop looking.

I mean, I'm a woman too, or I was and now I'm a spirit, but regardless, I'm not saying that I'm sexually attracted to them, just... these people are BEAUTIFUL! I cannot NOT appreciate this.

Their clothes are simple, somewhat provocative, showing lots of skill. Their hair is extremely well kept, the posture is imposing, their eyes are glowing in the faint light, their body… damn, their body… are very mature. For all tastes, big or small boobs, taller or shorter people, stronger more defined bodies or a little more to the skinny weak side, tho I did not spot anyone that does not have an extremely fit body, its like they are all athletes of different sports.

Before I know it we get to a big red and golden gate. It is a big gate but not fancy, on the contrary, it is of a very simple build, imagine sticking together 3 thick wooden logs making a square-ish gate with the road, secure the joints with a golden rope and you have it. It is not adorned in any way aside from the golden ropes, but it is pretty nonetheless.

As soon as we step across the gate, I can see a city! We are currently in a more elevated terrain, a small mountain maybe. There are stairs in front of us leading to the city, like the road the stairs are glowing faintly. The city seems to be built around the Mother tree, though I could not see the city from where we are, I can clearly see Mother from here, in the center of everything.

The stairs are not very long, it descends through a forest, the trees are not too tall, maybe 3m or so, but I do not recognize this tree, I don't think I have ever seen this type of tree, not even on the internet. They ALSO glow, everything here is descendant of a pot of glitter, i'm sure of it now.

The tutor-children squads continue to descend the stairs in line, until we get to the city, it did not take too long and Drei is not even feeling tired from the walk, the others are fine too, even if it is their first long walk since birth.

The buildings are not very tall, most 3 floors, but they have a light glow just like the road… and everything for that matter, even though it is night I can see everything here. But the most weird thing is that I can't see a single living soul aside from those there are leaving through the gate.

Not a soul.

I can only guess that the entire population of this area was at the ritual.