Kidnapped to Another World

Kidnapped to Another World - Dreamweaver Chapter 38

Dreamweaver chapter 38

The good news was I had an escape plan that I'd worked out with gnome right before this came up. We had told the others that there was an escape plan but not the details so people weren't quite as freaked about the orcs trying to surround us. So we didn't need to piss in our boots quite as much as before. We'd gone over it on the way back from negotiating with the orcs. But after that, what comes next?

Of course the escape plan wasn't going to be for free...

That got me thinking; maybe what we really needed was an alternative choice for where to go after the escape plan worked out? But till now there wasn't anything spotted.

"Eh? Before we finalize details on that, Gnome-san, you say there is a dwarf settlement near here? And how many days travel to the Yayoi city and to this dwarf settlement?" I asked energetically.

"Dwarves are like sturdy folk right?" Akira wondered aloud. Akira had also developed a habit of stroking his goatee beard. Was it like a racial tick or compulsion to do that?

"Dwarves? Those are like little men right?" Rina was trying to picture what we were talking about. Because she didn't play games or read novels this was a new concept to her.

But maybe she was right. What if they were nothing like we'd read about?

"It seems like it's a better deal than orcs, that's for sure. Good job Shun! I knew you'd open up the road ahead!" Asakura cheered. She patted me on the back. Her hand lingered there for a little while.

Ahh that felt good. I felt very shy all the sudden.

Suddenly all the boy students were looking at me very jealously. But they didn't dare say anything for fear of losing faction with Sensei.

Gnome nodded but remained quiet. It seems he was studying us as much as we were studying him. That was alarming in a way because it showed how intelligent he was.

"Oh civilization? Can it really be true?" some of the others were getting excited. Suddenly there was a lot of noisy chatter again. Too much background useless comments too and people were all stirred up again.

But what can you expect? It was like the end of the world to these people so naturally they'd talk a lot and want to argue to get their way on whatever they thought would grant them survival.

We all wondered what it could be like. We'd struggled so far jut for an inch of ground and finally it seemed like a safe place might be up ahead...

I hadn't thought of trying to get help from other creatures near us besides the Yayoi mostly because I didn't know such things were possible. But if that were possible...perhaps new options were opening up. Until now I hadn't considered that a group besides humans might have better opportunities than being with fellow humans too. It's a natural tendency to think one's own people are always superior to others, but now it was time to realize that was a false concept sometimes.

"Should we continue going towards the Yayoi city, now that we know its direction from here? Or should we look for this dwarf city? We need a place we could rely on for a home base," I argued. The others agreed with this. They were even open minded about the idea that we might not be best on our own or leading ourselves. This also helped to promote the idea that having a king is a bad idea; which I wanted to remind them of any chance I had.