The love of Curupira ( Valley of Portal - Book 1 )

To be a Myth or To be a Man - Chapter XIV

The Valley of the Portal 

Chapter XIV 

To be a Myth or To be a Man

Night fell and all lights of the Valley turned on. Clara was thinking on the roof. What Tibor had said was very significant and maybe much more people were thinking like him. Perhaps they considered her such a shame to community.  

Clara looked at the big moon in the sky and thought that Rico should be in your House of Tree lie down on the hammock under the same moonlight. She wondered if was wrong to have feelings for him and at the same time she thought how was possible doesn't like him. He was always so caring and passionate, looking sweetly at her with devotion. His soften voice and his gentle hands were always to caress her.  

Rico didn't keep secret about how important was Clara to his life and his feelings were so in evidence that nobody dared to doubt it.  

Lottero and Paul thought he was in transformation process. They believed that his human side would be bigger than the mythical side in the future. She wanted that so much because the animist girl couldn't imagine her life being far away from him, but she wondered if it would be really possible. 

Days ago there was happened an attack on woodcutters at the Venezuela National Park and had been the final proof that he depended on that to live. She never talking about this subject to him once she couldn't demand he stopped to energize himself. It was vital to his life and she knew it, but even had been a progress he doesn't make fatal victims anymore and has been careful to do that far away from her sight and from Valley, she couldn't let to consider how terrible his attitude was when he fed on the scary energy from human being.  

How could it be banished or it'd better to say, softened? She would like to find out but unfortunately she had no idea how keep him alive without energization process.  

Anguished, the girl guessed that she would like to see her boyfriend. She had been so cold and distant with him last afternoon because the Joshua and Tibor's fight and also the jaguar's word resonated in her mind made her felt dazed. 

Clara went down from the roof and decided rise the hill until the House of Tree. She walked up to portal avoiding the mains streets because she didn't want to bump anyone. Minutes later she was hidden by the total darkness of the forest and even being summer, the dawns were cold in the woods and Clara pulled the hood on her head to protect her ears from the cold wind.

She felt absolutely part of the forest. The sounds of the night were intense and the animal instincts guided her through the trials. Clara walked slowly and when she realized was already around the Victoria-Regia Lake. She smiled, a little bit more and would reach the secret entrance.  

A weird noise came to her ears and she stopped to heard better. The animist knew every single sound of all kind of animals of the forest and definitely that sound wasn't a good one.  

Clara followed the noise and crouched down to keep hidden by the dark shades. She stayed quiet and attentive. Using her animal body she moved silently. Concealed by darkness she turned to her human body to avoid that her animist presence was felt just in case the noise belongs to a myth.  

The animist girl thought she would have a heart attack when recognized Rico's voice. He was a bit altered even his tone of voice still was soft and paused. She tried heard him but didn't get, so decided to get closer. Trying to be as silence as possible the girl move forward some steps and got a better position where was possible to see them.  

Rico was beside Luara and someone else who Clara didn't know to identify. The guy was hung upside down in front of them. Her boyfriend made a sign and Luara raised the other myth until he was eye-to eye with Rico.