Fervent Bite

Feast of A New Light

The two men sat by the desk. Facing each other in an uneasy silence. It was odd for Headmaster Avshino. The boy who he saw by the alley as a respectable and young person had shifted into a sort of being. Like a cold hearted killer. That is different. A warm-hearted killer? That's an odd way of explaining it,

Staring at him more, his body resembled a monster. It was as if he came out of a war that he fought alone. With a scimitar in hands and the tenacity of an elder dragon. Yet his eyes sung a different tale. Of a young yet mature man who worries for the safety of everything.

"I didn't expect you to find it easily..." the headmaster spoke.

"I wasn't the one who had it previously. It was a red hand member." Sultan answered.

The headmaster stood up, "They found it?!"

"But it's not in their possession any longer. This was the only one, out of three they had found. I took it off their corpse. After I interrogated them." Sultan said, "It was outside the school, in the outskirts of the town."

"But It hidden in a vault..."

"Then it has been breached."

Another silence echoed through the room as the headmaster began to overthink, "I'm sure you had been given the info that there maybe some red hand members in the first, second and third years, am I correct?"

"Yes..."

"Then they must be sleeper agents. Hanlerk taught me all about them. It's part of the red hand's tactics." Sultan placed the key on the table, "But I was never informed that there was a gate to Urkum's coil in this area."

"It's Dalsinor. I should've expected you to find it eventually. Not so fast though..."

Sultan slammed the table, "Excuse my manners please, but you don't understand. Even if my friends are slacking off, I'm not. You hired Soldiers of Hanlerk. And we will deliver. But in order for the most efficient results, we need full information of your goal. So it's detrimental for you to hide this information from us."

The headmaster sat in silence for half a minute. Going over hundreds of thoughts during that time. Before eventually releasing a deep sigh, "No wonder I was recommended an urban legend instead of the real group."

"With all due respect, don't compare us to the arrogant and barely-functioning I.T.A" Sultan sat down again, "Trust me, don't rely on them. Speaking off experience."

"Turning eighteen and you already have shelves of tales to tell..." The headmaster commented, "But I understand. And I hope you have acknowledged part of the red hand's goal now."

"But why though? What benefit do they get from it?" Sultan pondered.

"Even I don't know. Why do they never invade the one in Wadi Musa? Your home country?" The headmaster asked, "Do excuse my lack of knowledge. I haven't left this country for hundreds of years."

"Going into the entrance in Wadi Musa is impossible. Even if they get past security a thousand times tighter than a max-security prison, they would have absolutely no way to get pass the barrier that separates earth and its entrance. Or so I have been told."

"So they rely on the only other known location. Dalsinor." The headmaster took out a book, "Before my great-Grandpa handed me the position of headmaster, he warned me of an entrance to Urkum's coil here. Seeing as its impossible to move the school, him, and the previous headmasters of the school decided to work together to cover up the entrance. And make it difficult to open it. Even for myself.

"Each of them hid the key in a location only they know which they took to their grave. Except for this one, and the only clue we have is that it's all located in Dalsinor. The one you have was from the first headmaster. Which I found it myself first. Guess the vault was not good enough...But the other two, I have no clue."