Lost In Time (Druig)

Chapter 8: The Bonfire

The moon, a glowing yellowy white, loomed large and surrounded by an ethereal glow, started to shine just above the dense grown forest of the Amazon. Millions of stars were sprinkled behind it, a few large ones but mostly a multitude of little white pin pricks.

It became already dark as soon as Druig and I made our way back towards the village just in time for supper. Turns out, we were kind of forgetting time when we got back, but luckily the villagers weren't forgetting us for the meal.

It's not a rumor anymore for everyone, knowing their leader and I do spend a lot of time together. As friends, but still, rumors can go out of hand without even asking for them.

These whispers can be spread apart across the entire village, like a wave of an ocean creating a tsunami, tearing down everything you once had and loved. They don't have to be bad at all times, because that is what you make them to be.

It's most likely the whisper about the fact the mind controller and I are a thing. I try to ignore them as much as possible, even if you can't always avoid them.

Eventually, a lion doesn't concern himself with the opinions of a sheep.

Luckily the children, and therefore students, aren't really focusing on this rumor they've might once heard from others. They're too young to be focusing on these kind of things, and to be honest, I just want them to feel free of being a child.

Because otherwise I feel like I would need to explain myself every time the subject comes to their attention, and is that really a good thing?

But as much as I want to be with him right now, making these whispers almost true about us, I don't know what we are exactly because of what I've been through today. And to be honest, I don't want to talk about it, as we just made our way back towards the village to make it back in time for diner.

Maybe I've spent too long trying to figure this out with theory.

During supper, luckily everyone had a pretty good time like always, chattering about their working day, which made my day much better than it felt like it was before; it made me smile again, feeling this day had a happy ending after all.

This communal dining with all of the villagers doesn't happen that often if I'm going to be honest with you. It probably happens once in a week, just to become together and to know how's everyone doing at the moment, to sometimes express their worries or not.

And it's also because there are families here whom like to spend time with each other, obviously. After a hard working day, they like to be together, and waiting for yet another day to be knocking on their doorway.

However, I do really like these communal diners, because then I feel seen by the other villagers, instead of hiding in my small cabin of a home, making diner on my own. It's also because I don't have to cook at that point, and that's sometimes also satisyfing after a long working day.

After all, I am one of the few who's living all by myself in a cabin in this village. I do accompany myself sometimes with reading a book, totally isolating myself from the others and trying to understand a beautiful story, while my room is being lighted with this arc of brilliant gold in the darkness.

It even happened someday I didn't even got to take my eyes off the book, because I was so lost in the story, that the sun was already beginning to rise for the next day to announce. I was sleepy, a lot, and the students noticed this very quickly, which made me go to bed immediately after my working day was over.

Anyhow, this once in a week activity only takes place when it's time for another storytelling from Druig, and that's exactly what he's doing right now, while everyone is seated around a big bonfire created by the eldery ones.