Rhav's Holding Camp, Vicinity north of Empty Forest, Blu

After Rhav told Taylor he was leaving he stopped near the entrance and said, "Make sure to let Neo know where I'm off to, and uh, tell her to not leave the camp and keep Taylor safe until I get back. Taylor your in charge until I get back. Make sure Neo eats and both of you wash up. I'll be back as quickly as possible."

Rhav made sure to bring the cloth cart with him before leaving.

Chief's House, Blu, Blu

Gloria following Smith was walking towards the courtyard belonging to Taz. When the two walked towards the entrance gate, Smith recognized one of the guards and yelled, "Hey brother! Tell Taz'eye that someone is here to chat and brought along his daughter. Ask if he has time to see an oldfriend."

The guard smiled and said, "Mr. Smith, I'll have someone inform the Chief." The guard told the guard next to him to inform the Chief, and ask for 3 more guards to come to the entrance to releave himself so he can act as a guide. As the relief was within eye sight, two more people were also walking towards the courtyard entrance.

Harvy and Lance were the two people walking towards Smith's group. Lance took notice of Smith and yelled, "Hey yo Smith'eye! I didn't know you wanted to meet up with ol' Taz'eye too! Haha!"

The large group of people were gathered in the waiting room while Taz just got the message about his friends. He said to a guard, "Tell Rhav to come down too." He left the room to meet his friends.

After Taz arrived everyone got up. Taz said to his two friends, "Hey Smith'eye I have read your letter. Oh, and Lance'eye what brought you out of the forest?"

Smith smiled and nodded. Lance yelled, "Hey yo buddy! Whacha bin up to Taz'eye! I came over to talk about the expedition. As part of the Warrior and Mercenary Union, everybody and their mother got the message about a new dangerous adventure. Apparently opportunities to make money and risk life, why don't I see my only compatriot?"

Taz smiled and replied, "Alright buddy! Let's change our venue to my inner courtyard, I'll prepare some snacks and tea."

As everyone was preparing to leave, a funny scene was taking place. Rhav entered the room with what looked like an overly large cloth cart. Rhav continued to drag the cart to the stairs, then pull it up step by step. It looked like the effort he was using was very minimal, even though the cart looked so large.

Taz rose an eyebrow, wondering since when was Rhav able to move around while doing labour like moving heavy objects around. After Rhav brought the cart up the stairs, Taz yelled up to Rhav, "Hey brat, come down here and tell us what are you doing with that cart?"

Rhav came down the stairs then said with a smile, "Father, I'm moving some products and related suppliesfrom my room for a company I'm starting."

"Oh? Since when has my son wanted to run a company?"

"As far as I remember?" Rhav replied in a voice that sounded as honest as possible.

"Keeping secrets from your father now? Do you want to get hit?"

"Father! This child doesn't dare!"

"I bet you must be making lots of stone coins?"

"Hehe, I've become unbelievably rich. In the future you can ask me for an allowance." Taz thought Rhav was making maybe a few iron coins, little did he knowhis profit could be measured in gold coins.

After Taz remembered that ugly looking cloth cart he had to ask, "Did you make that ugly cart your self?"

"Uh huh, I did father."

Taz wasn't really thinking about why Rhav wasn't in bed, but dismissed him because of his friends he wanted to talk to and said, "You can run off and go back to whatever you were doing." Taz was shooing Rhav away.

Smith looked at his daughter and said, "Gloria, go play with Rhav."

Lance said something with similar intent but different words to Harvy, "You can go away too."

Gloria replied, "Okay." Harvy didn't even bother to reply with words and decided to follow the other 2. Rhav went up the stairs and started pushing his cart to his room. He started by placing the majority of his clothes into the cart, and a few blankets.

Gloria was watching curiously and asked, "Why are you packing all your clothes?"

"Hmm, that is because I have a warehouse were I build things, and I need clothes there."

"What do you build?"

"Things like this cloth cart or a type of rucksack and bag. I'm doing inscriptions on these. They can sell for lots of money too."

"Oh, I didn't know you were learning about inscriptions." Gloria thought this was an interesting topic, because she was learning enchanting.

"Well, I've been wondering if the price for my stuff would go up a significant amount if I had my products enchanted after they were inscribed."

Gloria wasn't like Rhav who was aiming specifically for money, but having it allowed things that she liked alot. She immediatelythought and said, "Well, uh, what if, uh, we work together to make some money? Most inscriptions are usually sold at 15 silvers, so they don't make lots of money. Enchanted items can sell for 10 times that amount. I'll charge you 100 silvers for interesting things and 150 silvers for anything else. The normal rate for enchantments normally run about 200 silvers. I like enchanting wierd and new things, and normally I spend all my time doing the same enchantment on picks or swords. It's very tedious and boring at times."

Rhav thought about this topic, but ultimately knew that the enchantments that she knew was probably limited. However when he thought about enchanting the engravings them selves, maybe she could reinforce his product's overall capabilities. He knew that enchanters could make expensive clothing tear proof, as well as act as an insulator and keep cloth clean. He decided to agree, but had an issue he needed to bring up, "Okay, but I'll have to pay you the agreed amount after I sell my products. Also, no matter how high or low the items sell for, you'll get the exact amount you agreed on. So you can't cry when I sell my stuff for 5 thousand silver coins?"

"If you can sell your little cheaply made cloth bags for so much, I might as well become a warrior. Haha!"

"When you become a warrior, no one willhire you. Haha."

"You can just hire me with lots of money."

Rhav didn't know how to respond, then changed the subject, "By the way, do you wana check out my two new servants I just got? One is skilled in sewing and leather work,and uh, the other is a tier 1 warrior. They both have serious injuries, but don't forget I also have inherited healing abilities from my mother. I finally have guinea pigs to practice my abilities and increase my proficiency. If they were not injured to the extent where one of them can't even move on their own, I wouldn't have been able to afford either of them. Unless I was willing to get two unskilled children with no discipline or obediance, and I have no confidence in teaching and training."

These children might not know, but Rhav's statements are very jaw dropping. First, Rhav is the only person on Blu that had the ability to heal others with energy. Second, he as a child himself wanted to skip training other children, because his views on his teaching and training ability? Lastly, he got servants to practice healing abilities? Many people would beg to be healed, but alas, he couldn't reveal his identity. Taz once told Rhav that he wasn't allowed to tell outsiders about his inherited abilities because it could lead to his life being in jeopardy and endangerment or losing his freedom. Rhav considered the two others the same as him, because they also have secret inheritances and also knew them. The trio had abilities that could lead their life in peril if not protected. Harvy being a warrior himself could protect himself, but Rhav and Gloria were in a situation contrary to Harvy's warrior status.

Harvy, who was watching from the side, intterupted, "That's very interesting, I wonder how strong other warriors are."

"Don't beat up on my warrior." Rhav started to frown.

"Okay." Harvy didn't really care and agreed.

"So are the two of you going to the new camp?"

Harvy nodded and replied, "Yup."

Gloria on the other hand flatly stated, "Yes," paused, then continued: "are you planning to go to the camp too? I would think your dad would tell you that you can't go though."

"Ah, that's right, your body is very weak isn't it. Well, with servants, It doesn't matter in the short term."

At this time, Rhav had finished pileing stuff into his cart. The content could be divided into different catagories.

Clothing and personal effects :

It had 8 sets of casual clothes, 5 sets of work clothing, 2 sets of nice clothing, 2 towels, a blanket, 2 large pillows, an extra pair of shoes, pair of boots, bunch of rags.

Materials and tools related to sewing:

400 yards of linen, 30 thin sewing needles, 12 medium sewing needles, 6 large guage sewing needles, 100 yards of medium brown/black yarn (cotton), 2 x 4 square yards tier 1 magical leather.

Materials and tools related to inscription:

8sizes of different chisels, 1500 yards of 18 guage tin wire, 800 yards of 18 guage iron wire, 500 yards of 24 guage silver wire, 20 yards of 30 guage gold wire, 30 square yards of tin foil (0.005 inch thickness).

Misc :

Books related to clothing and design, Calligraphy Scrolls, Books and scrolls related to inscriptions and energy circuits, (books on : farming, cultural art, cultural music and songs, language and lore, smithing, cooking), writeing tools and ink, lots of blank paper and scrolls and books, as well as all his notes about inscriptions and sealing abilities and energies into inscriptions and cores.

The cart looked full, and Rhav placed a blanket to cover all the books, scrolls, and papers so they don't fly away from the wind.

"Well, the cart is full... Can the both of you keep everything a secret?"

"Sure," Gloria readily agreed.

Harvy just shrugged and said, "I'm not going to make any promises."

Rhav knew he wouldn't be able to stop either of the two from following even if he wanted to, but at least he could tell them his wish for this to remain a secret. So the three left the room, with Rhav pulling the cart behind himself.

Rhav's Holding Camp, Vicinity north of Empty Forest, Blu

They were traveling their way to Rhav's Holding camp, Gloria and Harvy both thought it looked funny the small Rhav, who would normally be bed ridden and weak looking, effortlessly pulling the cart the size of a mini carriage. It was 6 feet by 6 feet, and a little over 4 feet tall. (AN: Sorry this is the first time I've mentioned the dimensions.)

Rhav arrived at his destination with the two childhood friends following him, and he said, "Welcome to my holding camp. I'll park this cart, and then I can show off my servants who in the future will leave others jellous."

"I like how you refer to them, so right now they aren't so great, hm?"

Just at this moment, Neo came up to the group seeing Rhav, looking panicked, says hurridly, "Young master, something major happened while you were away!"

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"What?"

"Taylor, she told me to say she is about to die..."

"What happened?" Rhav replied in a commanding voice.

"Urgh, well, after eating, Taylor told me that she was left in charge, and said that she had a task for me. She told me to say she was going to die. Urgh, Taylor explained it to me, but it was confusing, so, uh, young master," Neo started to fidget. She continuing after a short pause, "Young master! Please punish this one!"

Rhav felt that a bucket of cold water was dumped on him just then. He realised that he had been played by Taylor, and it was simply Neo who didn't understand the goal she had. Rhav felt very irritated at this point.

"Oh? I'll play your game, hmm, listen up Neo." Neo responded with a nod. Rhav continued saying, "This is not a game, you are to act like nothing is wrong, and you did everything Taylor said. Remember the following: Nothing went wrong, I believed it all, and I am very worried. Let's go into the tent now."

Rhav rushed into the tent, and took a moment to take a look at Taylor. Seeing Taylor still in bed and not moving, Rhav started to prove her condition with his ability. He felt she was in a much better condition than before they went to sleep. He noticed with his abilities that she was awake and her heart rate was normal.

In a voice as soft as possible he said next to her ear, "Taylor, can you hear me?"

She got goosebumps and shivered when she felt his breath on her ear. She tried her best not to respond, and decided it was safer to continue pretending to be asleep. She also convinced herself inthe belief that the question was for someone else.

Rhav feeling the light movements from when Taylor shook from that shiver, he knew she could move and said, "So you even dare not to respond when asked a question?" Rhav was feeling very heated continued, "Fine." He stood up and said out loud, "From now on Taylor is not allowed to communicate anymore, unless given permission or is simple nodding or shaking of the head."

Taylor sat up staring at at Rhav in disbelief.

Rhav sneered, "You only respond after a punishment? You want me to pitty you? Then get Neo to pitty you, she'll be allowed to talk with her free will, but you, Taylor, will not be allowed to talk with your free will. I thought we could be friends and get along, but alas, I don't trust you anymore."

Taylor started to cry, but made no noise of sobs.

"Anything you'd like to say before you aren't allowed to talk?"

"Why? Why did you ruin my life? I was living happily, the next thing I can remember, I'm in a cage with broken legs. They say that I'm captured, because someone will eventually want a servant. So you are the reason I was captured. The whole memory erasing is just lies. I never had memories that needed to be erased, you are all just liars. I just never thought about it, I bet you paid them to directly do this to me. Hahaha."

Before she could continue her laughter, Rhav said annoyed, "Enough! Taylor, You aren't allowed to communicate anymore. Taylor, You are only allowed to nod and say yes or shake your head and say no when replying to a question. Also, Taylor, You aren't allowed to start a conversation unless told to do so. From now on, Neo. Neo you are in charge of taking care of her from now on. Make sure she eats food so she doesn't die."

Taylor was staring at Rhav hatefully. Rhav sneered again at Taylor, "What, do you hate me that much?" Rhav didn't expect a response, but Taylor said, "Yes."

Rhav got infuriated over that. He jumped ontop of her and started to pull her hair then bit her right arm. Gloria gave a meaningful glance at Rhav, who at this point wasn't paying attention. He felt like he lost a possible friend just now, after 20 seconds, he stopped biting and crawled from off top of her.

Rhav said in a quiet and cold voice, "I hate you."

At this point, Neo started to understand what happened and felt very guilty. With conviction, she picked up Rhav like picking up a fallen doll from the floor by his arm. He grimaced from the pain of all his weight on his arm, but was suprised the next moment. Neo was hugging him. He felt very overwhelmed by emotions and passed out. Looking at the passed out Rhav, she just stared at him. After 20 seconds she said, "Ah, did he die?"

"This is normal, just move him to a bed. He's always been very weak, and has a very sick body. He probably got overly excited, because whenever that happens he will faint. When he wakes up, just tell Rhav that in half a million seconds I'll visit again for enchanting to make some money. Well, I'll be off. Later."

Harvy didn't even bother talking, and followed Gloria on her way out.

After some time passed, Rhav was inserted into his sleeping bag by Neo, then she stared daggers at Taylor complaining, "Why is it that I get the feeling that you think I betrayed you?" Taylor didn't even respond, and just continued to stare. Neo just sighed.

Some 15 thousand seconds later, Rhav POV

I woke up, and the first thing I notice is Neo. She is using me as a hug pillow. Still feeling groggy, I rub my eyes. I notice that my shoulder is wet, and of course, it's drool comming out of Neo's mouth. Knitting my eye brows briefly for a moment, I was perplexed. I calmed down and told my self not to get angry. After rubbing my temples to calm my self down, I start to look at the face that's next to mine in more detail. It appears that she's having a happy dream, but at the same time It appears she's also in pain for some reason. Then I remember that her body does have lots of scars and injuries. Maybe that's the cause? I just wonder how she can sleep so peacefully with pain on her body.

I realised that I can't stay like this for too long. Maybe just a little longer wouldn't be too bad. Then I remember all the time I used to spend in bed, and decided to get up immediately. I used to be jellous of everyone, because I was bed ridden most of the time. I still have health issues, but they are slowly disappearing overtime as my vitality improves. I end up getting very close to Neo bringing my mouth to her ear. I was going to wake her up, but after comming up with a wierd idea, I blow very gently into her ear.

"Hehe," I snicker very quietly watching the sleeping reaction Neo gives twitching her face after playing with her left ear that's close to me. Liking the feeling I get watching the sleeping Neo, I end up giggling again. I don't know what's wrong with me, but I think it's time to wake her up. Speaking gently, "Wakey, wakey, eggs, and bakey." I end up talking gibberish, and shaking Neo on her shoulder.

I end up pinching and holding Neo's nose, because she didn't even respond to my shoulder shake. I have the feeling this will definately wake this little girl up. After a moment of flailing her arms, my arm holding her nose gets nocked away, and my arm is in a little bit of pain. Bitting my lip, I decide just to use the brand to directly wake her ass up.

Staring at Neo, I activate the brand. I watch as she wakes up from the brand. She awakens like a cat that has it's tail stepped on. After a moment of befuddlement like glaze in her eyes, she stares back into my eyes with clarity. I can just imagine her saying, "I'm awake now," with the expression she has looking at me.

"After I had uhh, passed out, what's the status of the 2 guests I brought over?" I directly ask Neo, feeling awkward.

"Ah, young master, uh the young miss, she said In uh half a million seconds, the young miss said she would come again for uh enchanting, ah yeah, and, to make some money."

"That's good news I suppose. Hm, what's on the task list for us to complete?"

"Young master, oh, uh oh yeah, young master, how did your unsealing go previously?"

"Oh, I, uh, let me check then think it over."

Sitting down crisscross applesauce, I meditated and realised that another 100 thousand times were needed, however I have the feeling the amount would rapidly decrease as the seal weakened giving the unsealing ability more strength. So maybe I could cut that 100 thousand to 5 thousand. After feeling the effects of how much looser the limit on my powers were, I knew I got about 10% stronger. I knew I could probably already heal Neo before, but now there is no doubt anymore. It would take more power for Taylor's legs, but I'm not really in the mood to even think about her right now, I'm still unsatisfied with her. I don't like liars, because they are fakes. My fatherhas told me about the fake ally in which he calls the bloody dark forest event, I know it's an open secret, but it's taboo to talk about it. Liars are just fakes, they are going to stab you in the back for all your stuff.

Feeling I got off track in my mind, I nodded to my self, then expressed to Neo, "More good news, I already had the ability to heal you, but the amount of time needed to recover can be quicken without the loss of short or long term vitality as I get more proficient. Neo come over here and I'll start a mild treatment for you. Tell me where all your injuries are, let me see them, then we will decide together the priority for the injuries."

Neo looked hesitant, "Young master, I had my memories erased. I don't know if I know them all."

"Just show me your back, I'll just start with the largest issues first. You can lay down right in front of me on the floor next to my sleeping bag, you can borrow my pillow. We don't want blood on our sleeping bags afterall."

Neo nodded and layed down on her stomach, then lifting her top, revealing her back to me. I was very suprised by what I saw, some of the scars looked like they were recent. Thinking maybe she was still being beat up until I got her. The skin had coin patterned prolonged bruises, which are bruises that look like stripes like you'd see on a tiger. Some of the bruises were rounder in shape, that you could tell wasn't done with a whip, and blisters on some parts. I didn't have experience with blisters, but knew some raw poisons could do something like this, but that only means that the abuse was done very very, very recently. Which corresponds with the memory removal of recent events too. She wasn't too obvious about it, but I've had this gut feeling for awhile now. Simple rashes were very common, but this looked deliberate. She was obviously abused just because she could be abused. I started to feel bad, having her work and setup the tent with injuries that were in such bad conditions, but I need to think about this later and not now.

Deciding to work on the blisters first, I knew that this was the largest source of pain and itchiness Neo had been tormented with. I left to grab a thin sewing needle, and came back. Using my ability to target the poison, acting like a magnet to bring the poison to the blisters with my energy, I pricked some of the very large blisters. What I was expecting came out. Bloody puss oozed out that came with what appeared to be black sand like balls. This black sand was concentrations of the poison and other impurities that got into her body over long periods of time. The treatment so far had light pain, as the poison had to travel from deeper in the body to the surface. As soon as the bloody puss was oozing out, he felt Neo relax all her muscles.

I realise after removing 99% of the poison, that Neo probably has lost too much blood. She ended up passing out from blood loss. I need to pay more attention in the future. I could have killed her. I went to grab a jug of water and a rag. I cleaned up some of the skin as gently as I could as well as the blood that was dropped onto the tent floor. I'll just have Neo stay on her stomach for a while. The air will be good for her back too, at least aslong as she doesn't move around. After fetching more clean water another two times, I finished cleaning everything up and dumped the dirty water. I sat down on my bed, and decided to continue unsealing my self. I'll eat later, I was a little hungry, but Neo is laying down. I'll get something to eat when she wakes up later.

Taylor's POV

I've been awake, and have been staring at the two sleeping for a while now. I know Neo is a little girl, shit, I know they are both children, but I can't trust either of them. I've been staring daggers at them the entire time. This is completely unfair. I feel that there is a conspiracy somewhere and I'll get to the bottom of this.

I notice that the young master woke up. At first he appears to be confused, but then he starts to act deviously. I can see him rubbing his eyes then his temples, which is normal, but then he gets unbelievably close to Neo and starts to stare at her. I just have this feeling, I know that he is a devil. He gets very close to her ears and starts to whisper soo quiet that I can't hear him. I just knew he was a bastard. He started to snicker after that, I'm wondering if Neo is awake too. They are making fun of me or making jokes, I just know it. I watch as he starts to sniff Neo, and I grit my teeth, he is obvious a beast in human skin. Hearing his giggles after doing that isn't cute at all, it's just creepy. He starts to shake her and speaks tongue or secret code. Neo isn't responding, and is just continuing to lay there. After he started to play with her nose, she punched him, giving away that she's awake. She then pretends to wake up and make a big deal out of nothing. You aren't fooling me, I saw that punch, I knew you were already awake. They started to talk in a voice I could hear.

"After I had uhh, passed out, what's the status of the 2 guests I brought over?"

I hear that, I don't know what to think of those two individually, they are mysteries to me. But if they are friends with a devil, they are probably not good people.

"Ah, young master, uh the young miss, she said In uh half a million seconds, the young miss said she would come again for uh enchanting, ah yeah, and, to make some money."

Yeah, they only care about money after all. Everyone is a devil.

"That's good news I suppose. Hm, what's on the task list for us to complete?"

Feeling depressed that he'd still want us to do his bidding, I felt this was unfair. Why did this happen to me.

"Young master, oh, uh oh yeah, young master, how did your unsealing go previously?"

Oh, something interesting came up. He did say he would heal me, the least the devil could do.

"Oh, I, uh, let me check then think it over."

Yeah, just pushing it off. I ended up watching as he sat down on his bed and looked like he was going to sleep. I just decided to ignore the rest of it all.

"Young master, I had my memories erased. I don't know if I know them all."

I gained focus when I heard Neo asking that question. I don't believe I ever had my memories tampered, I feel they are making fun of me again. These brutes. Going to continue ignoring them. At some point when I glance over, Neo is sleeping, and the young master is sitting on his bed again meditating. Neo's clothes are left open as she is laying down on her stomach on the cold floor. That's no way to treat a lady. I'm going back to sleep. Maybe I'll wake up from this nightmare.

Neo's POV

After those 2 guests left, our young master was sleeping soundly. I ended up sleeping next to him. While sleeping, I had a nice dream. In my dream I was smiling at a picnic, and I was with someone, but I don't remember who. I woke up in pain from the brand. Staring at my young master, I notice drool on his shoulder, and instantly think that he's mad at me. I end up just staring back at him though. I notice he's holding his wrist, I wonder if he hurt it somewhere.

"After I had uhh, passed out, what's the status of the 2 guests I brought over?"

Not thinking clearly at the beginning, I replied, "Ah, young master, uh the young miss, she said In uh half a million seconds, the young miss said she would come again for uh enchanting, ah yeah, and, to make some money."

"That's good news I suppose. Hm, what's on the task list for us to complete?"

"Young master, oh, uh oh yeah, young master, how did your unsealing go previously?"

"Oh, I, uh, let me check then think it over."

I watch as the young master sits and calms down. He looks very smart when he calms himself down like that.

Watching the young master nod to himself, he expresses to me, "More good news, I already had the ability to heal you, but the amount of time needed to recover can be quicken without the loss of short or long term vitality as I get more proficient. Neo come over here and I'll start a mild treatment for you. Tell me where all your injuries are, let me see them, then we will decide together the priority for the injuries."

I replied, "Young master, I had my memories erased. I don't know if I know them all."

"Just show me your back, I'll just start with the largest issues first. You can lay down right in front of me on the floor next to my sleeping bag, you can borrow my pillow. We don't want blood on our sleeping bags afterall."

I just weakly nodded, layed down on my stomach, I removed my shirt, revealing my back to the young master. It wasn't too cold in the tent. He left and came back with a needle. I'm not worried, just curious. My body is in pain, but I've just been ignoring it. At some point, I felt a refreshing tingle on my skin, my body felt like it was going numb, and I felt very relaxed and comfortable. At some point I passed out.