The refugees, 2nd draft

Coranations

Kara

20th month December 55th

On Christmas day 2996 Saint Nikolas was making his rounds around the planet when he noticed that the formerly empty valley of Diag was populated, he decided to head towards it, thus carrying Lothringin into the village and giving gifts covered in the chemical. Lothringin is extremely radioactive, it is not lethal, it is too powerful to simply kill, instead it overrides body systems and destroys limiters in one's mind. With the limiters destroyed one has more strength, speed and energy and can access magic. Those from physic-based universes merely see their talents increase slightly though.

The problem with teaching is that the kids and higher ups do not listen, you barely get paid and go home with a massive headache every day. Eventually the pain of a headache does not hurt, and you learn to write faster, neater, your memory sharpens. We, as teachers for the children and adults of this village teach everything from grammar to self-defence, thus we also know those subjects better than anyone else which is why we refused to join Lenox's little cult.

We were the ones that reduced fear and mistrust for the wolves, adults do not listen much to their children, but children know how to be persistent. We completely changed the school system so that each child learns a few basic subjects in elementary school, in middle they focus on what they are best at, and in high school they are studying for their faction that they will join.

A class is merely students of the same learning level, so we have some classes with teens and adults. We have an entire sector of the city reserved for our use. The sector is known as the great school or as we call it the Acarya sector. On Christmas there were celebrations and joy but there was also fear of the divides among the factions. To sate people's fears of a civil war all the faction leaders and two of each of their seconds met at the recently made council room made for just that reason.

In the market builders had put up many decorations for Christmas and one week before Christmas Shiani showed up unannounced riding Fenris with eight deer herded by wolves with a tree on a sled. Shiani was dressed as Santa and many kids then sat with him to ask him for presents. He wrote them down and gave them to parents. What we had not expected was for Santa himself to arrive.

On the day before Christmas just when the day ended to begin Christmas at 40:00 o'clock sharp a great clatter of bells was heard in the east side of the inner wall and a great man in a red suit sitting in a sleigh of red pulled by nine reindeer arrived. The lead reindeer had a nose red as a cherry but sadly it did not glow. We felt then upon seeing him an instinctive name, we knew who he was. He arrived in the middle of a council meeting and thus he delivered presents to the leader first.

A great rush of people rose from their beds to see the development and then most ran after him. When he reached the market, he greeted us with a great booming laugh saying, "Well I'll be! More physic born! Merry Christmas to all!" He then got off his sleigh and six very peculiar looking people jumped out. They all seemed to be only five feet tall with ears as sharp as a knife. We bowed to him then stood in a lose circle about him.

Saint Nikolas then pulled out a list and gave each person one present. Presents were anything from weapons to boons and while some were incredible in their own way to save time on 289 gifts and names, we will only say the ones that the leader's got. The leaders will write their point of view on what they got.

Alizee was called up first. 'I walked up to saint Nikolas and bowed my head, he said, "Well you are going to need this in the days to come." He snapped his fingers and one of the elves handed me a set of golden scales. "It does not break." he said, "it can tell if words on a piece of paper on it are lies or truth, it can work normally as well. Remember though life is not black and white but silver and grey." I bowed again and said, "thank you Saint Nikolas"'