The Lost Son

Chapter 4 - A new friend

~Percy's P.O.V.~

At first when I come back to consciousness I can only hear. I hear cracks, most likely a fire, nearby. And there's bird song so I'm probably still on the same spot that I was then I fainted from something. I don't really remember what.

Then comes feeling. My body feels like it lies on the ground with a blanket between the ground and my clothes. I can feel the heat from in front of me in soothing waves so my guess about the fire seems to be correct, for once in my life.

Then comes smell and and taste. The air around me smells of smoke, trees and wet things. My tongue and throat feels dry.

I start to slowly move but tens when I feel that my muscles are sore from the run. I hiss in pain and slowly start to open my eyes. The first I see is the sun so of curse I close my eyes again.

Then something or someone stand in front of the sun and I start to open my eyes once again.

At first my sight is blurry and all I can see is a tall, dark figure in front of me.

When my eyesight regains it focus I see the man from my dreams. Okay, that was not what I mean if you think I think he's sexy.

"And you are?" I spout out randomly after a quiet moment. Stupid ADHD.

He chuckles and smiles a warm smile at me that makes me feel happy, but also a little suspicious.

"I see you haven't changed a bit, son."

I flinch.

"Son?! I'm not you son. My father disowned me for my pea brain of a brother that only tells lies. How can you, a guy I only just meet, be my father!?" I scream at the end in anger, sorrow and frustration.

My 'father' suddenly puts up a finger over his mouth in a 'shh' movement with a small smile on his face and motions me to follow him as he slowly and quiet moved to the tree line in the glade we are in.

I hesitantly started to follow him as he made his way through the forest. The trees and bushes seems to bend away from him so that he could pass, but that's just crazy.

I focus my mind on following the man in front of me as quietly as he does and I surprisingly succeeds quite well.

He comes to a stop at another glare and bends down to pick something up from the ground.

Then he turns around I see a little baby raven that tweet quietly.

He holds it in front of me and eager me to hold it. I deliberately receive it and holds to my chest. It tweets what seems to be more happier and I slowly starts to pet it. It leans in to my touch and I smile a sweet smile.

"It's so innocent and cute. Do you know how it comes that it's on the ground and alone?" I ask.

"It fell out of the nest when it's parents was out looking for food. Often the ravens, or birds in general, takes care of its children in the nest and don't care of the ones that falls out." The man answers.

At that I become a little angry. That sound a little like my life.

"You never said who you are." I stat and looks up from the baby bird.

He chuckles again.

"It seems like that, well better get it over with now than later. My name is Order, father of Nebular and the twin creators."

My eyes widen in realization and shock and I'm about to bow when I remember the baby bird that's against my chest so I just nod my head deep, if you can call it that, and resume with petting the raven.

"Lord Order." I chuckles at that.

Order looks surprised at my action.

"Every being that has meet me has dropped their thing on the ground, bowed and starts to babble about 'how it's an honor' and stuff. Why didn't you?"

"I'm holding a baby raven that I'm not intending to 'drop on the ground'. I don't want it to get hurt just because I have to bow to a being that don't even seems to want to be bowed to. Whoa, that may be the smartest sentence I've said in my entire life!"

Order chuckles again, then he does something I never thought he would do. He hugged me, and it feels nice. In a family way.

We stand like that for a long moment until we hear a muffled tweet. We quickly pull apart and the baby raven takes a deep breath and ruffles his feathering so it's stand out in all directions. Then he looks at us and tilt his head to the side as if saying 'What? Have I something in my feather or what?'.

Order and I start to crack and then belly out laugh and fall to the ground. After a minute or two we stop and get up on our feet again.

I look at the baby raven and got an idea.

"Hey little friend, would you like to be my friend?" I ask the baby raven as I put me down on the ground.

He seems to think about it and then nod his head at me.

I chuckle.

"What do you want to be called? Písti?" (Faith in Greek)

He shook his head.

"What about Trást? (Trust in Greek, but it's also a bird in Swedish😂, "trast")

He shook his head again.

I think for a bit longer this time.

"Alithinó?"

He thinks about it. Then he starts to do a little dance on the ground and tweet.

I laugh and pick him up again and he cuddles into my chest and falls asleep.

I smile and then start to pet him again. He leans in to my hand once again and feel that I starts to get sleepy.

I yawn and look up at the sky. The sky has a beige color so I guest that it's almost nightfall. But I still had a question to ask Order.

"Hey, Order?" I ask sleepy. "Why did you call me son before you lead me here?"

He smile at me and I can't keep a smile from forming on my face.

"Because I'm your father. And you are my lost son Nebular." He says.

I don't really get it but I'm too tired to think it through. I can feel my eyelids getting heavy and I lie down on the ground. I curl up into a ball with Alithinó against my chest in my hands.

The last thing I think is how the ground is dry when it was wet when I woke up before. Then I get transported to Hypnos realm.

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[A.N. The picture above is Alithinó. Do you want to have more than Percy's P.O.V. because I'm for the most part will write in this view? And guess what. It snows here in west Sweden right now (May 8th). It doesn't make the ground white but still.]