We walked a few hundred meters and, behind a small wood, there was a hut with a chimney showing smoke.

Ragul arrived in front of the door.

It opened on a vegetable garden protected by a fire hedge (red with many prickles). He pulled a string that made a bell ring inside and a figure approached, deformed by the reflection of the poor quality glass.

As soon as the door opened, there was silence...Followed by a clamor!

"RAGUL!"

"IOLO!"

"After all these years? What have you become?"

"Ah.. I present you my son... Torin!"

The long, curly-haired figure with the Van Dyke beard crouched down and got to my eye level. He held out his hand.

"Hello young man!"

"My name is Torin..."

"What a beautiful name... "

Then he stood up and said,

"So Esme finally made it. Ragul confirmed, but didn't say more. One word too many and everything could change. He loved his family too much to risk anything.

Iolo said nothing and stared into Ragul's eyes... then exclaimed.

"Where are my manners!..."

then he beckoned Torin and his dad to join him in front of the hearth where 3 armchairs were waiting impatiently to be sat on.

The hut was not large, but it offered a humble but warm comfort

.It was dry, warm and the atmosphere was soothing.

In the atrium, there was a rack with a hanging pot, a revolving plate for cooking and grilling, and a grill on which there was a kettle with coffee in it.

"A cup, Ragul? And you, Torin, would you like to taste the coffee? "

Ragul: "It's bitter, I don't know if he will like it..."

Iolo: "With a little milk and a spoonful of honey, it works miracles! Here you go, kid..oh...sorry...big guy!

Torin smiled for the compliment... and he made big eyes...

"Ohh how good it is!!! It's great!

Say, uncle Iolo, where are you going to hunt honey?"

"HAHAHA"

said the big ones.

Iolo : "No, this honey is not the juice of the bees that we pressed, but it comes from a hive in the bottom of my garden.

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Torin: "Can I see? Can I see?"

Excited.

Iolo looked at his friend and stood up,

"Come on, Torin, so we can get to know each other better."

Torin ran out and collided with a girl his own age.

"AHHH!" both surprised...

Iolo "Oh, yes, I forgot... I have a daughter too.. Beth!"

"Beth, this is Torin. Ragul's son. We're going to collect some honey... then you'll go play?? okay?"

Beth: "Yes daddy!... "

Her eyes sparkled at the sight of Torin who was a beautiful boy with blue eyes and black hair. So we all went to the back of the garden and Iolo put a cloth over us, a kind of mosquito net.

"Keep the cloth away, with leather gloves. They have a stinger and will defend their nest! Then he took a wooden block and slid a wooden plunger too.

Smoke came out...

Torin: "What's that?"

Beth: "Dad put the bees to sleep with it!"

A few minutes later, we came back with some honey.

Beth: "You have to leave some for them to eat...Torin"

Torin: "You know your stuff. Will you show me around?"

Torin went to follow Beth. And behind a large hedge was the main road leading to the city of Britannia.

"Come on, Torin... we'll climb the hill. From there we can see Britannia over the ramparts."

Excited to have a new friend, Beth climbed the hill and saw several friends picnicking. Torin looked frightened... The food spread out like that could attract wolves or monsters! It was reckless.

Yet we were within sight of the house on the outskirts of the city. Several houses were organized around the walled city.

This was because there had been no war for at least two generations.

She pointed: "Here we are... Ah...Jasmine! Henry... Pierre! ... Uh... that's Torin... Ragul's son..."

They laughed and we went to join them.

Beth: "This is the tower of the castle. In the center is the throne room! You have to be famous to get in there. Sometimes dad is invited there for parties but now that Lord British is not there anymore, we don't go there anymore...

the new guards are mean...On the right, the belfry. The mail is sent by pigeons to the other village chiefs. Under the dome, it is the museum.

There is a copy of my dad and yours with the hero. The swords are fake.

The originals are in the hands of the heroes. And behind it, the tower of the mages and the academy of magic. And, on the hill, behind the castle, there is a big cave with...dragons!

They have been raised small since Exodus cried and now, knights manage to fly on them.

This is new.

It's the elite who go there because dragons are rare. All the adventurers are trying to capture them alive and find eggs!"

Torin: "You know a lot of things..."

"I go to school under the academy! and we have access to the museum all the time. There's lots of stuff like monsters..and.."

"TORIN! BETH! "

Horn sound!

Beth: "Ah, it's Dad calling us. We have to get home."

But Beth's friends started howling as soon as Torin started down the hill. Some wolves had calculated that there might be too many of us and decided to attack.

City kids, they were less experienced than Torin, who made a very quick move for his age, and in no time at all he had his fists in front of six wolves surrounding the three kids.

Beth picked up a branch and stood behind Torin.

The big wolf turned around and didn't have time to avoid a large rock that Torin threw at him.

Sensing the danger, Torin puffed up his lungs and screamed at the top of his lungs and his voice was amplified.

Almost like the growl of a great wild beast, like a bear.

The wolf groaned from the pain of the fist-sized stone. It hesitated and then showed its fangs, attracting the attention of the other five who turned their heads away from the children.

He jumped on Torin who crouched down and grabbed the wolf's mouth against all odds. He knew that opening the mouth was much harder than closing it.

His father had taught him.The other wolves came at him and he gave the Alpha a terrific kick and it whimpered.

The others hesitated, but one of them jumped up and grabbed Torin's left arm.But his teeth couldn't pierce the skin completely. A small cut.

But Torin took advantage of the opportunity to hit the wolf's temple with his rock. The others threw rocks at the others, but two wolves ran away.

Torin ran towards the other 4 wolves who were suddenly frightened. Torin gave an impression of strength, of power.

Like a great predator, the aura of a warrior. the aura of a future hero! But Torin was still bleeding, and the group went back down with Torin, his arm in a cloth to support his arm and stop the bleeding.

Beth yelled with the others, "Torin... hurry, we have to treat him.... The wolves... we were attacked!"

Iolo looked at Torin's arm and washed it with boiled water. The wounds were only superficial.

"You're lucky he didn't clench his fangs tighter." (Iolo)

Torin: "I have big biceps! "

Proud to show them off to the girls. Ragul was proud of Torin...

He was brave like him.

"Later on, you can even fight a dragon! I will have a surprise for you!..."

Iolo : "Let's go now. We'll eat something in town and bring the kids back. With the wolves roaming around so close, it's not normal. We have to go to the adventurers' guild to warn them about the children."

Then he bent down and gave Torin a warrior's pat: "Thank you for protecting my daughter... Without her, I don't know what I would have become since her mother joined the stars."

The incident passed, The little party lined up along the path leading to the city, and before them stood the majestic walls of the ship-city Britannia, as the name of the world and its founding king, Lord British...