Part II – New ways



“Stolen.” Trisha repeated and sighed.  “How could anybody steel this ring? Or let me ask another question ... why the hell you are leaving this ring on your desk?! It’s an artifact!”  Sanix looked beside and grumbled. “Hey I thought he was safe in that place … okay I was wrong. And now we had to start our journey sooner than we planned … great”
Trisha nodded and blinked at her back, they left their old home and went outside to something new and this had some reasons. Actually it was planned that they would leave in one or two weeks. The reason for this was simple; Trisha. Since they decided to stay together Trisha concentrated herself on her own wild-magic style and for this she needed one thing; calmness and less people. It was strange; the more people were on a place with her it was more difficult for her to concentrate and also to perform magic.
Sanix decided the only right thing; leaving their old home and looking for something new. They decided to look after Trishas old home-place near the temple and maybe the little camp was already standing.
But now the thievery of Sanix ring forced them to start their travel sooner than they wanted. “Who would steal a ring and especially on that place?”  She asked thoughtful. “Well, that isn’t only a simple ring, you know that …”
“Yes I know Sanix but who should not that evens this ring … a forget it. It makes no sense to think about it we should concentrate our self to finding the thief at least. But I would advice that we’re gonna search the camp-place first, maybe I can help us when I’ve got a little calmness.”

And so they began to travel, it was a little unfamiliar; they used all the time Sanix ring to travel per magic to every point on Felarya and now they were forced to walk, fortunately the camp wasn’t too far away. “You know a safe route?” Sanix asked and Trisha nodded. “Yes we could short the way but then we have to cross the big tree and you know who lives there.
I don’t want to meet Crisis again. Well we helped her but I don’t think she is very thankful to us at least.” Sanix nodded. “I don’t want to find out if she is thankful or not … let’s go the long way.”
“But then we’ll have to rest near a lake, the jungle is too dangerous and the only risk there are some Nekos but I don’t think they’ll attack us.” “Sanix blinked thoughtful. “Nekos … well the last time they were friendly. How long it will take until we’ll reach the camp?”
Trisha raised her shoulder. “Maybe in one or two days don’t know. If we are near enough I could try to use my magic to open a portal but actually we are too far away. Maybe to …” she stopped and gasped.  Suddenly all the world between her seemed to bloom and she felt a strong headache; she fell down on her knees and gasped hardly.
“Trisha!” Sanix rushed to her. “Are you okay? Hey …” but she didn’t hear him she felt something strange, like she could hear many heartbeats, a feeling which was amazing and unbelievable but she felt it … the whole world was let her feeling that it lived. She could feel the life-stream of every being in this world. But as fast as it happened it was over and she could see everything and also Sanix who looked concerned to her. “Trisha … are you okay?” “Let us rest now … please.”
They did as she permitted and she told Sanix everything she felt but it was hard to describe such a feeling with words. “Mh I cannot imagine such things but it sounds …big” Trisha rolled with her eyes but she was silence.
“The last time you felt something was a few months ago, wasn’t it? At these waterfalls she nodded. “Yes this was a great feeling and I think it was a good decision to leave the bowl. Maybe I’m now able to perform really magic and not only a few time when my mind wants to do it.

” She sighed and Sanix examined her. He knew that Trisha couldn’t cast magic like he was doing it. When Trisha casted magic it was even more powerful than Sanixs magic but the magic came only intuitive when Trisha had some special feelings like fear, anger or others and this made it hard for her to perform magic whenever she wanted.
This status depressed Trisha often and so she was right; it was the right decision because now she was happy again like he had never seen her before. Sanix prepared some defense runes for the night; he didn’t want to risk a attack or the chance that some of the bigger predators would find them, not this time.

Trisha slept not very well. She could feel so many things, she could hear the world around her living and existing, growing, why she felt all this suddenly so exactly? But then she didn’t felt the world around her, she heard a voice.
“Follow me … follow me … find your way … follow me and find your way … where the jungle has no place and where you’ll find the hunters of the plain …” and then she felt in a deep and good sleep.  The next morning she opened her eyes and looked beside, Sanix was still sleeping. Typical, even in this dangerous area he could sleep like a baby and after she woke him up with a gently kiss they continued their journey. Trisha also told him about her dream and the feeling she had.
“Where the jungle has no place to life and where you’ll find the hunters of the plains”.
He replied the word many times but he couldn’t imagine which place that should be. Trisha blinked thoughtful “Before we learned each other I sent often my projection trough the land … I remember one place which could be the described one. It is far away from here … a place which is called Rocky Fields or else … but the most important fact is that there are living centaurs.” Sanix coughed. “Why we have all the time travel to places where creatures lives which wants to eat us?
Why this place can be a nice flower field with much cute rabbits or else? Why?” Trisha began to laugh.
“Oh it would be boring, wouldn’t it be? Well let … ahhh I knew it.” Sanix blinked beside. “You know … WHAT?” “I can feel the connection to my campground … wait I’ll try to summon a portal.” And with these words she stretched out her hands and closed her eyes. She concentrated herself on it; she tried to feel the portal, to hold it and then she took it and opened it.
In front of them there was now a portal, a hole in the air which was shimmering in a soft green. “And this will work?” Sanix didn’t look very convinced. “Sanix, please trust me, we’ll going in and stepping out at my campground. Trust me, okay?” The mage only nodded. “Well … okay …after you” and he followed Trisha who stepped through the portal.


She opened her eyes. She could feel her; she knew she was on the way. The thief would come to her … he wanted to have it … but there was something other … something … yes she heard her, the girl heard her. She smiled and she closed her eyes, only thought a short time about it and opened her eyes after it. Everything was all right …


Vale stood in front of the commander. “Mission completed.” And she threw the bag into his direction.  The black haired man caught it and opened the bag very fast. As he held the ring in his hand he smiled cold.
“Very good … very good Vale. I’m proud of you. And now you’ll come to bring me the last artifact … we’ve located it already. Shey will inform you.  Don’t disappoint me, we are very near to our goal …” Our goal, she thought. At least it was his goal and not her goal but she only nodded and stepped out of the room to the briefing room. Shey was already waiting for her. “Good work Vale … how are you?” “It was easy, no fighting, no problems.  And if you wanted to ask … the suit is already. He is without any energy lost or anything else so tell me my next goal.”

Shey sighed and nodded. “Thought you want to have a break …” Vale shook her head. “No time for it … the commander wants that I’m continue my search, so?” “Your next goal is not as far away as the last, you’ll reach it soon but this time it will be more dangerous. It is a place where no much hiding are available and you have to be careful because of the predators, a mix between horses and humans, but very very big. They are called centaurs and they are hunting humans. So try to sneak around them or similar. The artifact is in a whole I don’t know if there lives somebody, you’ll have to find it out. I’ll update your suit.”
Vale only nodded and thought about her words. Human hunting monsters, not good but not a problem at all, she had killed similar monsters in the past. “Alright confirmed. I’ll start the mission now.” And with this words she turned around and left the base.

Shey looked behind her and blinked with a sigh. What would happen if everything was over? She was concerned about Vale. The commander needed Shey because she had the knowledge how to combine the artifacts but Vale … she was his tool and when tools began to be a waste the owner threw them away. But she wouldn’t let happen this … never.


Yes … it started … sooner or later it would happen. She had to prepare the arrival …


Trisha and Sanix had just passed the portal as they opened their eyes and looked around. But instead of standing in front of a big cave which was Trishas camp-ground they stood in the middle of a rocky desert. Sanix blinked only two times. “Trisha?” Trisha starred confused around “Mh?”



“Didn’t I tell you before?!”