Fire's Mage (Book One) Kyoko of Fire Country

Chapter Ten

Sheikh was in the yard with a blunt sword in his hand, a bow and arrow leaning against the wall when Dania walked up to him. She looked around, teams would be here in the afternoon to start fixing the unused buildings.

He thought she looked worried, but Kyoko was the one who knew her better then he did. He only knew her name because she was Lady Talia and Lord Conner's guard during the day, while they were guarded by Catherine Cashesegra during the night hours.

"Talia and Conner need you in their office," Dania told him, her face pulled into a blank mask. It made him uneasy, being called into the Leader's office wasn't light, more so, since Sheikh knew he wasn't being called for an emergency mission.

"I'll follow," Sheikh told her putting down his sword next to his bow. Dania nodded before setting a decent pace, thankfully he didn't live that far away from the main office building.

"Sheikh," Kyoko greeted as he entered the room, children sitting around her. A book in her hands, while the little boy in her lap was giggling and pulling her black shirt. Before yanking her hair.

"Kyoko," Sheikh replied.

"Sheikh, I was wondering if you wouldn't mind taking these lovely children into your clan?" Talia asked him pointing to the children around Kyoko. Strange tattoo's on their wrists, a bird in mid-flight. A piece of grass in its beak.

"Orphans?" Sheikh asked he wasn't going to remove children from their parents. He already knew what it was like to loose, but know that they were alive? That someone was stopping you from being with them? He didn't know how badly that would hurt, but he guessed it was worse then knowing your parents were dead.

"Evil man killed our parents," one of the older ones told him, a small girl tightening her grip of Kyoko's loose shirt, a look alike nodding her head on Kyoko's other side. "Then our new village was attacked. Leaving everyone for dead."

"They're not Mages are they?" Sheikh asked as much as he'd love to take in Mages, he wouldn't be able to help them. Not unless he had older Mages to live with them.

"They're not," Kyoko told him, her eyes taken off the book as the little boy fall asleep, along with the two girls. Another two boys had moved their heads to sleep on her legs. "Their parents were travellers exiled from Moon Country."

"They would have killed us because we saw the Rift move, destroying our village," anther girl told him, her red eyes drifting close as she leaned to the side. He was going to have to learn their names at some point, he didn't want to kill them 'girl one' or 'boy two'.

"I'm Sheikh Neci," Sheikh told him sitting down in front of Kyoko as the adults talked. "Head of the Neci Clan, and you are?"

"Dragos," Dragos told him before pointing to the twin boys sleeping on Kyoko's leg. "And my twin brothers Berengar and Gheorghe."

"I'm Alin," Alin told him pointing to the two girls sleeping on Kyoko's sides. "And my sister's Carina and Viorica."

"I'm Reveka," Reveka told him pointing to the small boy sleeping in Kyoko's lap, it looked like she was bored with the whole thing. "And that's Dumitru, my baby brother."

"I have three rooms that are usable," Sheikh told Talia and Conner.

"I have a bunch of spare blankets and sheets," Kyoko told them.

"Teams aren't due until tomorrow," Talia said tapping a pen against her lip.

"I keep the main house clean," Sheikh admitted. He also had a cleaner who popped in every three days to clean what he couldn't get to.