The Demon Sword: Sorataki

Chapter 20: Notice

This chapter goes to @jbramwell for being a dedicated silent reader. Though I wish I knew you're through on some of the chapters just seeing your votes helped put a smile on my face :)

Andrew, Natalie, Flynn, and Sophie run through the pastures that cover the slopes of Aqua falls. Around them laid a great network of small rivers waterfalls, the defining reason this land was dubbed such a name. Scattered on the land where wild boars and cattle that grazed in herds. The low hanging sun painted the caves in a golden spread. Truly a tranquil place for any who witnessed it.

Andrew leads the others down a beaten path that memory served him as the route to his old home. Sophie takes, this time, to look over the arching sunset to the west, a rising question budding from the end of her lips with each stride.

"Isn't Aqua fall more to the east?" she said unable to keep it in.

"Yes, but mums house is a few miles from the town itself," Andrew replied. "Not too far now."

Both Natalie and Sophie look at another rather baffled by this reveal. Even in the land known as the safest in the world, given the circumstances they live in to reside residence away from the walls of a town or village was asking for trouble surely.

Being the first time hearing this herself Natalie wanted to press questions on the reason for their residence so far outside but the town's haven. But looking upon Andrew's sprinting back however she opted to hold her say on the matter.

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They all came to a halt near a charming cottage house near a great big pine tree. Andrew recalls the two story cottage being somewhat bigger in his mind's eye. An internal smile shimmered on his face when he realises that age maybe playing a big part in this scale trickery, it fades as soon as it came earning none it's witnesses save himself.

The others all break their strides behind him as he makes his way to the pine door, hoping that his beloved mother will be there. Seeing no damages to the property his heart raced in his chest as he prays that she too will be in one piece.

He knocks on the door repeatedly, calling out for his mother in the hopes it will keep her from simply remaining silent within the confounds of the walls. With no answer, he steps back silent and at a loss.

"Andrew," Natalie said passively just out front the game with the others, her purple eyes now on display.

"Maybe she around back so I'm going to che-" Andrew moved with the forming words leaving his mouth only stopped by Natalie's response.

"I don't think, there is nobody inside." She said as to disguise her sight from Sophie and Flynn.

He stopped tight there looking at her with a wanting brow until he saw her eyes and remembered her powers. With his aim lost once more he closes his eye to think of all possible outcomes.

Maybe she stepped out for a bit. The more local and optimistic side of him echoed.

However, from it, a starker counter argument came to mind. As battle or odds raged on in his mind Natalie looked onwards almost helpless by his painful silence. She yearned more than anything to reunite him with his mother almost like it's her own.

"We can scan the nearby town for her." Sophie picked up, breaking the hanging silence. "I suggest that while some of us do that one says behind in case she returns."