Claymore: A Tale of the living

CH 12: The Calm before the Storm

(Miria POV)

Its Day three in the ruins of the Head Quarters of the organization. Miria and a handful of comrads have been reading and serching trough the books the organization left behind. It took them all most a day to organize the books by volumes. Once they put them in order, then they begin to read them. But this is no ordinary reading, they are reading the records of past warriors,Name, symbol, which town they came from, the day they where promoted to a rank, a few summaries about them, and finally that day they die. Its like reading a black book.

"Miria have you found anything about this dame abyssal one?" Said Galatea walking in the room after a night of guarding.

"Not yet" said Miria

"Ugh! If only I can see I would help you with the serching"

"You can read?"

"Hell yeah, hate waiting like this"

"Thats what you get when you take away your sight"

"Hey I had no choice"

"Yeah right, you could just find us in the mountains of pieta"

"How should I know you guys where up thier"

"Wasen't your name; God Eye Galatea" said Miria continueing to read.

"Tsk" said Galatea ending the conversation.

Miria sets the book down. She finished this volume.
"Volume 40 finished" said Miria giving the book to Norma. Norma place the book on the opposite side of the shelf with the rest of the 39 volumes.
She gets the next one from the shelf. And again starts reading.

Miria wish she could find any clue about the Komodo king dragon, but so far no leads.

(Clare POV)

Clare stands outside of the inn that she and her comrads are stay at. She barely got some sleep. Last night she spoke with the town chief about the reason she and her comrads are staying in town. It took a while to convince him for them to stay, when she did it took harsh words and glares from her and Jean, who did not took too kindly to the chief. Then there was the four comrads that got too drunk and almost tear the bar down. They where supose to be under Deneva's and Helen's supervision, but Helen was still drunk and Deneve was too busy to control her. So Clare combine Deneva's and Helen's unit with hers, and supervise them with the help of Jean.

Just this morning she scould the four comrads that where drunk last night. Deneve and Helen had to apologize, and it was decided that Helen is forbidden to drink on the job.
But that was half of Clare's problems,  she could not sleep that night. She was thinking about The Komodo King Dragon. So many problems and worries scrambled in her head. So Clare end stay up the rest of the night thinking, and planing.

The next morning, Clare called all the Captains for a meeting.
Since they are still waiting for Miria. The warriors had nothing to do except walk around town. Clare strictly told the Captains they had to stay with thier units at all times. And to stay on guard and expect an ambush.

The Captains and thier units did what they are told. Thats what mainly happened last night to this morning.

"If your tired you should rest" said Jean.

"I am not tired" said Clare, looking at the people passing by. A mother and daughter doing some shopping at a tent catches Clare's eye.

There was silenc between the two warriors. Jean glances at Clare, then at the people walking by.
"May I ask a question?" She asked.

"Go ahead" responded Clare.

"Last night why did you let them off the hook?"

Clare knows who she is talking about. She almost forgot about what happen when her fellow captains inturrup them. Clare was really mad at them, no she was mad before that. She first felt the anger when the bandit group attempt to rob them. Since then she felt uneasy. Visiting Teresa's grave did not help insted it increase the anxiety.
But after telling Adam her story and with the Captains listening, a sense of relief took over and all the anger and anxiety vanished.