The master.

Part one: The teachings

“But that isn’t enough for me to tell you where my little brother go, so I hope you have a better excuse to not kill you right now, half-thing” Sylphy yelled stepping over the table and pointed at him, and Koshi the human killer looking absent for the future new job. Alydra sighed, hearing the love triangle story of Xereth was almost a solemn moment of her older sister and she wondered why Xereth told them this is story now and no before?.

“I do”Xereth defied Sylphy standing up, glaring at her. “I had to told you what happened on that day because I wanted you to protect you brother”

Sylphy looked at him containing her rage and her laughs.

“What are you talking about?” Spoke Alydra the question that was dancing in Sylphy's mind.

“Her highness found a very strange magical object” Added Xereth taking sit again and looking at his hands. “An orb with a blue gleam”

“I didn't find that a reason for don't kill you” chanted Sylphy climbing down the table and looking at her killer.

“It has” Continued Xereth, then he take from his pocket a pen, take a napkin and write on it a single word and give it to Sylphy. “If I were you I'll disabuse the story you told the royal family” Xereth then stands ups and leave the tavern.

“What a moron!” Alydra screamed calling all the attention on her. “Sys? Are you all right?” The look on Sylphy was stunned before the word written in the napkin. “What this mean?” She asked innocently before those two strange characters.

“We need to get back home” Ordered Sylphy walking, nervous.

“Sister? What's wrong?” Asked Alydra following her, Koshi went after them.

“They... they found it!” Sylphy declared in the middle of the street, she was scared and trepid, trembling and sweeping. “

“What are you talking sister?” Alydra stopped Sylphy and forced her to look at her, then inside her mind Alydra hear her sister, They found the orb of memories, the omodama.

“We need to go back” Was the last order of Sylphy crossing the street, without noticing three pairs of eyes following them. The half elf Xereth Mc'bright, the werecat Jeremy Jurman and the human child Kyrie Welsh.

“That was very intrepid of yours” Jeremy whispered to the little human boy.

“The correct bait bring us the correct pray” Kyrie said following with his sight the trembling female drow.

“She'll lead us to him?” Asked Xereth.

“That my friend, we will soon know” The child looking at Jeremy who in seconds transform himself into a beautiful white cat and begun to run after the female drows. Xereth quickly picked up the discarded cloth.

“She was pale when I show her the characters” Xereth commented turning around and begun to walk in the opposite direction. “And also forget about everything else”.

“She had her secrets well hidden, but this is one, is one she cannot keep hidden from him and my brother” Kyrie smiled and then ran to an ice-cream shop.

“Certainly clear why you must be the chosen one for open the new university, like in the olds days” Xereth raised Kyrie up in his shoulder and pay for a pair of ice-creams.

“Thanks” was the only answer of the genius boy before get lost in the magical park with magic trees raised specially for living in darkness with poor light.

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Sylphy returned to her home in the stalagmite in the shortest time she had ever done before, she was so uneasy.

“For Loth's sake, stop it!” Alydra yelled with all her voice in front of the door of their house.

“I will tell you everything you need to know, but not here” Sylphy pledge urgently, behind them Koshi, they never noted a stowaway inside the clothes of the killer.

“Fine” Alydra conceded, letting her go inside.

Inside, the winged demon was reading something, smiling devilish. Sylphy dragged Alydra to one of the rooms and closed it. Jeremy jumped out from his hideout and went to the door trying to catch the conversation, but he didn't, the sisters were talking inside their minds.

“The orb Xereth talked before, was the last job of the Ningen Moyu done” Sylphy explain. “All I know,is that the one who built them just made three for all the world, but one was in with the sea elves and the other with the mer people, so I assume the orb they found, is the one the Ningen Moyou had”

“But... I don't get it... why are you..” Asked Alydra.

“We done something awful and we duplicate the orb” Sylphy answered.

“What that orbs does anyway?”

“It's a vessel from memories you take from a person, leaving empty the body” She added closing her eyes trying to hear in her surrounding any strange sound.

“Sweet Loth what have you done?!” Yelled Alydra steeping back. “That is unforgivable”

“I know” Sylphy said coldly. “but what really matters is not only the orb by itself rather what is inside of it” Sylphy finished.

“And what is inside?” Alydra asked

“what do you think sister?” Sylphy opened her golden eyes and opened the door, finding the demon busy reading and Koshi still standing where she left him.

“Memories?” Alydra said following her sister “but of who?” she made her last question.

“If I told I had to kill you then” Sylphy answered in her evil tune.

“Problems thee had?” purred the winged demon.

“I had some of them to strive for and get some fun in this life” Answered Sylphy with pride.

“May I remember you that I can instigate for a demonic insurrection” added the winged demon with a smile.

“I know I know” Sylphy said looking at her, in that very moment, her first problem was her siblings, the demon and her demands were the lesses of her problems.

“Alydra I want you with Myrsha” Said at last Sylphy looking at her bodyguard.

“But sister...”

“I want you with her, this little problem is in my hands” She said. “come Koshi, we need to see Simcha” Sylphy exited the house close followed by Koshi. Alydra sighed wishing to have more trust of her older sister to help her in that kind of problems.

Alydra Oblodra after one hour of hear some random words of the demon, she exited the house, followed by a little withe cat, she walked to the royal house in the middle of the cavern which was the ancient Sin'urn house in the old drow glory days. All the entrances were heavily vigilant by soldiers and some royals guards, but Alydra knew a secret passage a one block before, hidden in a Museum.

She like other people, bought her ticket, to the spiders exhibition, she pretend to see the spiders and cursed under her teeth the ones who harmed those blessed creatures. Then she proceed to go the toilet, inside a cabin she find the correct stone that opened a door to a tunnel and went inside. Jeremy had to be so quickly and silence for follow the drow, in such publics places a wander cat was very odd and for him, enter the tunnel he was cursing his white fur.

The first tunnel was heavy carved on the live stone, there was a stairs and some places for put magical fire.

“For severals years is a custom now in our family, to bring our brother to this place” Jeremy heard the soft voice of Alydra inside his mind. He pretended to be a cat miaowing.

“Silly kitty” She returned and piked up the with cat. “I know you're follow me and also I know you're a werecat” She caressed the back of the Jeremy with lovely movements.

“But how did you discover me... we have strong mind powers” he thought.

“The Oblodra family was coursed with this power, we can read the mind, talk with each other members and also, move things” She thought back smiling. Jeremy noted, they were arriving to a new cavern, a tiny unspoiled cavern.

In silence both crossed the cavern, some mushroom offered a soft light that guided thorough the darkness, the path at hat point had meanders, in the middle of the cavern, Jeremy noted a natural hall in which five paths crossed, Alydra covered her eyes gently and choose one of them. The spy cursed his lack of luck but didn't try to stoop her.

Few minutes later, he was allowed to see the entrance to something, the door was carved by a single dwarf, at it was written at base of the door. Alydra opened the door following severals locks, inside the derelict chamber he saw a tomb stone.

“This is the dream chamber” she whisper to him inside his mind and she put him over the tomb stone. “Don't put a feet in the ground if you want to go back the surface” She warned, then he noted that the drow was using something to levitate.

Jeremy sat over the tomb stone and looked around. In one corner, was Myrsha in her kneels nursing his sleeping brother on the ground covered by a special blanket, in the wall were carvings very disgusting: Images of drows and spiders, skeletons walking after a spider, eyes with wings, dragons eatings wyverns.

And then in the opposite corner, he saw it. Red strings resting over the cold stone, silk covering a face, a body, a soft extra breathing coming from that silhouette.

Jeremy had found the thing Kyrie told about one day before this. He sighed deeply and jumped with all his feline strength, landing few centimeters of that silhouette. His pawn felt the ground under, it was quaggy, and soon learned why the warning of the female drow.

Slowly, small creatures begun to rise, creatures like little demons heavy armed. Jeremy jumped again hearing the screams of the females drows, he took some red string and jumped again avoiding the drows also, sprinted to the exit at the cavern and run as if his dear life depended on it.

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“This is ineffable” said Kyrie observing the red strings. “This is worst than I supposed” he declared walking in the room, the officinal air didn't bother him.

“I'm still amazed at this” Simcha Sosky was holding another little red string in front of his blue eyes.

“I just want her to get something to blackmail her and make her write down her waiver with the Ningen Moyu, but this...” Kyrie observed the blond elf.

“The room is under the royal place if my feline sense serve me well” said Jeremy still buttoning up his shirt, at his side Xereth looked troubled.

“What is you opinion, Sir Xereth” Simcha asked formally.

“This is a conundrum I want to solve, Sylphy always worked only for her ends and purposes, without thinking in the other, this is something very unusual of her” Xereth answered.

Simcha looked at the knights and officials.

“Dursha has the right to know” he declare in the end.

“My lord, he already knows, he was the one who help us with the plan” Xereth explained. “Without his help, both

us, Jeremy and I, had never lend help to Kyries plans”

“Then I suppose you're in charge little one” Simcha said and the child nodded. “What is next if you allow me to know?”

“This red string are a signal for a destruction for our city, I'm assure that neither of us wanted that crazy drow destroy our city, so I will ask help to the winged demon and put an end to this thread. After all, that was the demons come for.”

Simcha nodded and Kyrie leaved the room.

“Jeremy I want you to keep spying her, something told me that there are more secret that we need to unfold” Simcha added looking some papers on his desk. “She come to me asking for some permission to see the queen”.

Both, Jeremy and Xereth interlaced their sights in deep understanding.

“Yes sir” Jeremy answered.

“I don't like whenever she want see the royal family” Finally declared Simcha.