My Beginning After the End

Ashber Pt. I

After about fifteen minutes of riding in this carriage, pretending to be a slave, I started to sense the people inside of Ashber, I could feel the blood inside of them. I sat up in my seat, looking at the ground, focusing on using my blood magic.

I didn't sense anyone that strong, however, I did sense Alacryans underground, but that could always be a ploy. They know how some of my powers work now, so they could be trying to trick us.

I looked up at Aya, she was looking at me, she talked with the other slaves while I sat there in silence for most of the ride. "How much longer?" I asked her, wanting to get out of here, if I had to guess maybe another twenty minutes.

"Ten." The dwarf said, and I nodded, I knew my sense of direction in this world sucked. "You in a rush to get there?" This dwarf was full of goddamn questions, remember, he's a slave, gotta be nice.

"I am." I admitted, and that's when I felt it, or should I say him, Sebastian was here, I remember what his blood feels like from controlling it that one time.

"Veer?" Aya said, noticing the smile on my face. "You good?"

I nodded. "Yeah."

Why were there only thirty soldiers underground? That doesn't seem like a force they would have here. It obviously is a trap for us, I mean come on, thirty soldiers are a piece of cake for any of us. There probably is a teleportation gate down below, so sooner or later a Retainer or Scythe is going to step through.

In the ten minutes that passed by, I thought about our situation some more. We are here to draw out a Retainer or Scythe, there is not one here at the moment, but I know, one will show up, at least we hope.

Currently, we are pretending to be slaves, heading into Ashber, where the slave market is large. I could sense Sebastian getting closer to us, and as we entered the town in the dark, I noticed that it felt empty.

The buildings were kinda crappy, trash littered the street, ehh, our family lived here before I was born? I cracked my neck, preparing myself for what was to come. We finally stopped in front of a Tavern, and coincidently, inside the Tavern was Sebastian. A smile crept over my face, I actually hope he recognizes me, yet again, I have dirt in my hair, and all over my face, he probably won't.

I heard Arthur and Benjy hope to the ground, I wonder what they talked about. Aya nodded her head at me, telling me to be ready to act, so I nodded back to her.

"Here we are, Ashber!" The muscular Benjy said, exclaimed as Arthur and him appeared before me. "Come on out, you six." Aya and I slowly got out of the carriage, and the four other slaves joined us. We stood there in a line, waiting to be told what to do. "Come on in, you said your father wasn't going to be here for a while, right, have some fun with us, you may even find your father a buyer for these two." Benjy eyed Aya and me up, mostly Aya.

"That seems great." Arthur said nonchalantly, and we followed them inside.

"You can go find a table over there with your slaves, I have to talk to a friend, and then I'll be over." Benjy hit Arthur on his shoulder playfully, and then turned to us. "My slaves, come with me." I was surprised he didn't try to kill Arthur and try to claim us as his slaves.

"I will." Arthur said, and we separated from them, Aya and I followed Arthur to a table in a corner. Everybody in the tavern stared at us, I ignored it though, we sat down at the corner table, the tables next to us were empty. "How was the trip?"

"Shut up." I said smirking at Arthur.

"It was fine, we really need to help these people." Aya was an elf, so it made sense she felt that way, don't get me wrong, I do too, just not right now, actually, why not right now, couldn't I just kill everyone? "They were very pleasant for being slaves."