The Beast and the Sword Book 2: The Changes

Page 34: The Sound of a Bell

-Months Ago; Hage Village-

    Some time had passed since Prism had stayed within the village of Hage, and Yuno had decided to take a day off of training to show her something he knew she would love after taking over looking after the kids for him, Asta and Feodora when they were busy. Prism herself didn't mind it as it seemed like she herself could use a break.

    She had allowed Yuno to have her eyes covered as he had lead her to a familiar place before he took her inside the building.

    "Keep them closed, and no peeking." Yuno told her as he held her hand.

    "Alright Yuno--" Prism said with a giggle, "--Because you seem like the kind of guy that wouldn't play a trick I'm trusting you."

    Yuno himself laughed, "Don't worry, they're no tricks."

    She soon felt herself stop as Yuno took his hand away from her own, "Okay--Now you can open them."

    Prism did just that as she had been awed by the sight before her. There had been an endless row of books as far as the eye can see, almost as if she had been in a sea of it.

    "Bime i elena!" She exclaimed as she looked at the many books, "This is--This is amazing!" She stepped over to one of the shelves as she had the brightest smile on her face, "It's--Even bigger then the shelf in my own room!" She soon turned to Yuno, "What is this place?"

    "It's called a library." He replied, "Have you never seen one before?"

    "A library..." She enunciated, before she shook her head, "... I've never seen one like this. The Elders of our tribe forbad our people from having Human knowledge. My parents always told me about a place like this though... And tell me stories."

    Yuno had a curious look, "What sort of stories did they talk about you?"

    "The usual--" She replied as she started to skim through the books that were available, "--Romantic stories, stories about Heroes, even ones that were never written on paper."

    Yuno looked intrigued by this as he started to skim through the ones himself, so that he was next to her, "What are your favorite ones?"

    "Hmm---" She said perplexed, "--That's a tough one. I guess--It would have to be the first one my dad read to me when I was little. It was the whole reason why I like reading books in the first place."

    Her expression brightened a little as she noticed a title in particular, "Ah, there it is!"

    Yuno looked confused as Prism ran to the book in particular as she tried her best to reach for it. Yuno went over and had gotten the book she was reaching for before he read the cover.

    "Fairies of Talents?" Yuno said.

    "Yeah--" She said as she opened the book, "--It's an old fairytale! They're fairies with a rare and unique Talent that they use to help change the four seasons! I can't believe this story survived for five centuries!" Just as this was said, the Spirits had crawled up on her shoulder as they gave her a look.

She gave them each a pat on the head, "Yeah, I know it's not true but it was still one of the best stories! It was sort of like how people have their own kind of magic. But this is the character I love the most."

    She soon flipped the pages to one illustration in particular as Yuno could see an illustration of a fairy that had been smaller then the others; she looked to be wielding a hammer as she had been on what fairies consider to be a workbench.