The Chronicles of Guertanna: The Sword of Light and Shadow

Chapter X

Kenor grabbed his thick long black coat and rushed on the back door of the kitchen. He slammed the door behind him and kicked the trash cube next to it. He wanted to scream, but feared for the people to hear him. He looked up and the sun was already setting, the sky looked darker and tried to distract him with the colors of the sky. He closed his eyes and breathed slowly, trying to calm himself down. In his mind appeared his gesture of kindness while holding Rinna's coat. He gritted his teeth just thinking about it.

He went on kicking the trash cube again.

A black cat cried out and jumped. He watched the cat running away from the trash cube, remembering the big cat that Rinna got as Dandelion. In his mind was picture those red terrifying eyes of hers threatening him with her large claws. He snorted and then laughed, after so much work on denying his past and life to anyone at such rich school; he has now affronted it to one of her worst enemies. How miserable his life will be now? What waits for him the next day? He rubbed his face with his hands, frustrated. He didn't know, he didn't want to know.

The back door opened and he flinched and turned around. It was the short waiter that replaced him with Rinna and her friends. He breathed relieved, "Hey, Ken, are you alright?" The waiter asked, still holding the tray in his hands with a worried face.

Kenor looked away, up to the sky, where some stars were already showing up, "Yeah, I'm alright, I'm just done for today, can you cover me up?" This time he does look at him.

The waiter smiled gratefully, "Sure, no problem."

"Thanks, Jay," Kenor says distracted.

Jay was about to enter again, but he hesitating returned to Kenor, "Hey, Ken, were those your friends from the Academy?" He smiled curiously.

"Friends? Ha," Kenor smirked, Jay tilted his head back and his smile vanished, as if the question offended him. Kenor shook his head rubbing it in his hands, "They are people I know from the Academy, yes." He says at least.

Jay smiled again and cheerfully entered to the kitchen again. Kenor finally uncovered his face and gave one last look to the back door, sighed, turned his heel and left. He walked into the narrow streets of the town, his head down and depressed, his feet dragging. He thought again of Jay's smile when he walked again into the kitchen, it was impressive how some rich people could impact in that sort of places.

Jay knew Kenor ever since they worked together, no more than a year ago, he discovered that Kenor was working hard and turned out to work at the Academy. Jay was so excited by this that Kenor became somehow his role model. He as well wanted to be at the Academy and for the first time learn to use his magic. With the secret revealed, he and Kenor became really good friend over the time. Jay was sometimes annoying and impressively compulsive to keep things organized something that Kenor seemed to be extremely irritating.

That didn't stop them from having a good relationship. Both of them worked as a team, and covered the backs of each other. Jay was the only person Kenor has ever revealed the secret and trusted him with other things. Jay didn't know, however, the past of Kenor or how he got there. Jay looked up at Kenor as a powerful man that worked hard to keep studying, and Kenor let him believe that. Which was partially true.

Kenor did work to pay some of the tuition at the Academy, and his life depended on it. But he also didn't reveal a lot to Jay of how he paid the other half. In fact, around the town Kenor Breaker was very well known as a heroic figure. He was known as the helper of their community and often admired. But none of them knew how Kenor came into the town, how he was conceived or about his family. Few knew that he lived alone, but his family was still missing in time and space.