The InkHeart

Chapter 14: Darius

Walk, Walk, Walk. Walking below the clouds and above the mountains,  This never ending feeling came to a rest after all. 
They can see the town where Darius stayed. "This must be it. We should walk more faster" said Dustfinger. 

"Gosh! I thought we're gonna be dead and be in heaven before even reaching here." exclaimed Lisa. 

Resa couldn't stop smiling from now on and Gwin was jumping from one place to other. They entered in town at last and all they saw was crowd and colorful sky. Perhaps fireworks. Everything was colorful here. 
"No wonder this town is so colorful yet Capricon's village is near from here." Continued Lisa "I wish he would never get here to ruin their happiness, Just look at their happy faces." 

This town was big and they saw many kinds of people here, Long Beards, Short Beards. People with different faces and styles. Clothing was a more fashion here. This was the most utmost town Resa ever saw. Of course because she didn't know things about this world. All she knew was to be captive in that castle.

They couldn't talk with much people here because everyone was busy dancing and singing here. It must be a some kind of festive here. Houses were decorated either. Dustfinger tried to ask a people what this was about and all he said was "Don't you know about the Big Thing that Capricon is about to do." With that being said, he ran and disappeared in the fog where everyone was dancing.

"Big Thing, Big Thing, Big Thing" This caused a flashback and reminder for Dustfinger that he had heard this before at Capricon's house somewhere and this was all about it. This words caused shivers in the Dustfinger's body. He couldn't move for about much time until Lisa shook him that what was he thinking about. He just nodded and neglected to answer her. 

They reached the reader's house by now. They ringed the bell and there came a man. He was an awkward nerd.

He was small and thin and couldn't be any older than Dustinger, but his back was bent like an old man's, and his arms and legs moved awkwardly, as if he didn't quite know what to do with them. He kept nervously adjusting his glasses. The frame was held together over the bridge of his nose with sticky tape, as if it had often been broken.He was an insecure man.

"Ah Dustfinger, I knew you'll be here at some time." Said Darius with his wrinkled eyebrows 

"Wait...I don't know you, How'd you know my name?" Said Dustfinger that failed to Investigate. 

He went inside without answering his questions and sat on a couch, The Dustfinger and other went inside the house and closed the door. It was a quiet house and kind of broken too. It was middle in the city but in a hideous spot so that no one could recognize it that whose house was it or was it even a house. 

"Who doesn't know you Fire Dragon, I was there in the castle when you were invited, I ran off and they're after me. I wanted you to run too and glad you did so before the Big Thing" said Darius in a deep voice. 

"Why do you want us to run off and please what is the Big Thing, I'm really curious and tensed about this Big Thing about mine?" said Dustfinger. 

Darius stood up and started to walk without answering again. He was really an awkward man that what Lisa also thought. 

He stood behind the window while Rain drops were dripping and sliding through it. 
"I worked as a teacher, but in my free time I read aloud now and then in libraries and schools, or for children's parties, and sometimes on warm summer evenings I even read in a square of cafe. I love reading aloud."

But then, of course, Capricorn came along and ruined all that. Darius doesn't read well while he's being frightened or intimidated, so the quality of his reading plummeted, and Capricorn's brutes started punishing him. 

"Whenever they shut me up in this room [...] they gave me nothing but dry bread. And they took my books away, too, but I managed to hide some of them, and when the hunger got too bad I looked at the pictures of them. The best was a picture of apricots. I sometimes sat for hours staring at the painted fruit with my mouth watering." 

"I botches up my readings and gets thing messed up a lot, that's why you lost your love, Resa. I'm really sorry to bring you up in this world, I didn't mean to but Capricon forced me to read him loud."

 Resa was shocked that she thought that her husband did it but darius was behind it? Or maybe they both were reading the opposite direction books that caused Resa to transfer and losing her voice. 

It was all confusing but Dustfinger cut his talks. "Um we need you in something." 

"I probably know it, But Sorry go away, I can't help you." 

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