Tales of the Monk

Chapter One

The slow steady ride on the back of Goliath with Percival was sending me in and out of consciousness, the cuts ran deep inside of my body and I urgently needed a healer. I could heal myself with some herbs but there was none around for miles. I was sure I was going to die at the hands of the Trinity Guards in the Paladin camp but yet I somehow managed to fight my way through and escape with Percival

The journey had been long on horseback and we didn't have the faintest of idea in which direction to travel too, It would be a tough ask to find his Fey clan but I didn't doubt my tracking abilities; it would just take days to find them again

Young Percival was telling me all about his Fey clan; the Sky Folk. When I looked at the boy I only saw a lot of similarities between the two of us, both of us raised as orphans from a young age and relying on our clan for support. The only difference what that Percival was accepted into his and well looked after, I was cast asunder by the Ash Folk for being different to them with the cursed abilities I was given at a young age

'I can't wait to see everyone again' the boy replied happily. 'It feels like ages that I've been away from them when it's only been days'

'I'm sure they'll be glad to know that you're safe'

'I bet Nimue has been worried sick about me she always does when I leave the clan for a while'

'Who'

'The Fey Queen'

'The Wolf Blood Witch' I exclaimed, remembering hearing that name before from Father Carden

'Nimue isn't a witch okay' Percival huffed loudly

I nodded my head and listened to young Percival as he rattled off a mental checklist to me on how amazing she was, the fey queen was a leader, warrior and a symbol of the resistance. The young boy only talked lovingly about the young woman and I was glad he had a good role model to look up too, I could never be that to somebody

'She's everything to me' he smiled

'How can someone be everything?' I questioned, not fully understanding him

'Surely you must have looked at someone back home with only just love in your eyes at how amazing they are and you just want to be just like them'

Dropping my head I couldn't bring myself to answer the boy as I kept my gaze on the stone path we rode down on. Percival picked up on my apprehension to reveal much about my past, that was something I kept to myself to never to reveal to anyone ever, the only sleep I could get at night was when I thought about my family as I wepted myself to sleep missing them

'You don't really say much do you Lancelot'

'Has anyone ever told you Percival you talk to much'

'I like talking I could talk all day and I wouldn't get tired of it'

'That much I can guess'

I loved my silence and being on my own in the world, with all the hardship I had to endure the peace of the open world was the only thing keeping me sane. Knowing the boy was just scared and wanted to talk to keep his mind busy I shouldn't treat him like I did to the rest of the world and silence him out

'Is there a reason why you're like this Lancelot'

'You're just a child Percival, I shouldn't be bothering you with my troubles'

'But we're friends'

'Are we though I'm just taking you back to your clan'

'You saved me from those paladins scum and I helped you from the trinity guards'