Tales from Fairy Town

Chapter 4: Another Beginning

An alarm clock rings.

In a close to the city center, a man wakes up in his pitch-dark bedroom and stretches.

He briefly looks at his girlfriend still asleep in the bed, then he goes to the kitchen to prepare breakfast.

Once in the room, he opens the window to let the light inside and finally, there's enough light to see clearly.

The man, 6 feet tall, seemed to be around twenty years old and while he was in good shape, it was clear that he wasn't an athlete, considering his slim physique.

He had black curly hair, that, if straightened, would at least reach halfway through his neck.

On his face two dark brown eyes.

While he was cooking, his girlfriend came out of the bedroom, her face still sleepy.

The woman, who seemed to be the same age as her boyfriend, had long auburn hair, very close to an orange tonality, that went down a little over her shoulder. She also had big eyes also brown, but lighter than her boyfriend's.

She too didn't seem to have much of a trained body. She was also 5 or 6 centimeters shorter than the man.

"Did you sleep well?" he asked her.

"More or less" she said.

"What do you mean?"

"You snore" said the woman with a harsh tone.

"Maybe, but I'm not the only one" replied the man with a sly smile that his girlfriend didn't like even one bit.

"You're mean".

After a while, the two of them began eating breakfast and chitchatting while the man read the news on the phone.

"Hey, hear this out" suddenly said the young man.

"They found historical artifacts buried under the campaigns near the city".

"And? Even if it's a rare occurrence it'll probably be some vase or something like that, just like always".

"Actually, I have to say you're wrong my dear. The interesting part is that they seem to be armaments".

"Like knight armors?"

"Here it says that there are a knight armor and sword with even a shield, but not only. For now, they've also found a bow and some sort of fur coat, but they think there's also something else".

"Now this is interesting".

"And the best part's still to come: the experts who examined the relics are already becoming crazy trying to figure out what period they were from. But the strangest part is that, even if the items appear consumed, they say that they are perfectly intact, only the esthetic seems to have been ruined by time".

"Ok, I take it back, it seems really cool. Do you know if they'll expose them?"

"It seems that the mayor is trying to convince the archeologists to make an exhibit in the city museum as soon as the findings will all be recovered".

"I think he'll have a hard time".

"You think?"

"You know how the experts of these things behave. If they can't even manage to understand what historical period they're from, I doubt they'll leave them to the museum so easily".

The man nodded, then briefly checked the time on his phone and gasped.

"We're late. We were supposed to meet with the other ten minutes ago".