Let's dare to dream

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Varian recoiled with his legs frantically back until he hit the wall seeing with a horrified look that something moved in that dust haze, definitely that was not ruddiguer or anything normal that could be imagined in those moments.A few minutes ago everything was completely normal and now there was a part of his house destroyed with something inside that was completely unknown to him.He looked around and saw the mask that he used to weld metals or avoid burns, it was little but at least it could make he look intimidating, that had always worked.He gestured to Ruddiguer with his hand to get close and pointed to the shelf where his mask was, Ruddiguer immediately understood the message and went stealthily there while Varian mixed non-stop with the posions and powders that were on the floor to have makeshift defenses.Almost immediately after finishing Ruddiguer arrived with the mask between his teeth and handed it to him, Varian thanked him by bowing his head and putting it on his face.He steeled himself and got up to walk over to where that thing was.He approached slowly trying to stay calm and dispersed the colored smoke as he walked.He was soon completely in front of whatever he knew was a mere couple of meters from him with only a barrier of fog that was clearing them.When he finally could see clearly he did not know whether to feel relieved or more terrified than he was, it was not something, if not someoneThere was a girl with a bowl on her head who was still coughing and panting underneath it.she was almost lying down supported with one of her arms while with the other hand she raised the bowl to be able to see.When the stranger discovered her face, Varian instinctively raised her arms in an attack position to shoot her with her compounds, they were completely new and she didn't quite know what they could do to come into contact with the skin, but they weren't bubblers, that it was safe.However he froze in that position, he couldn't move even if he wanted to;While she was immobile looking at the figure of someone with a mask and strange clothes that pointed directly at her with something that she did not know what it was but did not make any movement or have another expression on her face, she just seemed to wait for the masked man to really start with anything what to plan.

Varian was looking her up and down, still unable to initiate the attack she had planned.She was just a girl, a girl that could be anyone from the village that he could have seen anywhere, she was not a monster or worse, but why was she so afraid of that image of someone who seemed so normal? The only thing he could do was lift the mask from his face and lift it over his forehead, he wanted to verify if what he saw was real or just some hallucination due to the commotion of the moment, in the same way the mask obstructed his view a little and in any way. So he wanted a completely clear and alert field of view to do something. And yes, she was quite real.She barely reacted when she saw the boy's face, it was good to know that he was someone almost her age that he didn't seem like someone who was going to hurt her, but the alchemy in his hands said otherwise.Neither of them moved and they just kept their gaze in the other's eyes.

Several minutes passed in complete silence.

It wasn't until the noise of the bowl falling from the intruder's head that broke the silence and almost immediately the two of them began to scream frantically.

The girl who could barely move from the shock and for the pain of the blow of the fall crawled behind a large chunk of roof rock trying to hide while Varian didn't even bother to hide he put Ruddiguer on his shoulders and ran straight to the door to go. to look for his father, he was so desperate to get out that he even forgot which way the door was opening but once he managed to open it he ran as far as his legs gave him in the direction of the forest.