Miargos' Quest
The Next-day. The village.
"Good day, mma."
The man dressed in a simple black robe with a small sword tucked in his side called at the middle aged woman washing clothes opposite the lone hut.
As soon as the woman raised her head, her face contoured into confusion as soon as he saw the man. She made her worries known through words,
"Oh Miargos? I should had sent for you. She's not here."
The woman said as she stopped washing. She sat up on the stool, looking towards the man standing few steps away from the door to the hut. She was by the side of the front of the hut to the left.
She continued,
"She went rogue immediately she lost her father. Your wedding with Prium is no longer a thing. I'm sorry that I gave you my words."
There was concern in her face but the fellow wasn't moved. He shot instead,
"That's not why I'm here. I'm here for Tahni. Your other daughter."
The woman stood up from the stool. Her contoured face smoothening into a sheet of gay. She was walking towards him.
"I've been thinking about that too. Since Prium wouldn't want you, you could take Tahni, her sister. Even though she isn't as beautiful as Prium but she has other qualities to make up for it. Nature wasn't cruel to her."
But the expression on the fellow's face betrayed the woman's expectations. The woman stopped few steps from him. They were facing each other.
Miargos made his contention known,
"We could talk about that later. But that's not why I'm here. I'm here for something quite important and I'd love to share it with Tahni."
There was displeasure in the woman's face,
"Tahni isn't good enough for you? You won't take her in the same regard as you take Prium? You think Prium is better? Tahni has been my favorite all the time and you'll have the love of her mother. A plus to you. Nobody knows Prium's whereabouts, you won't be foolish waiting for her all your life. I'm sure you are wise."
Twas obvious that she didn't want to stop talking but some force seemed to had pulled some strings in her.
Miargos walked to her and hugged her. He kissed her on both cheeks and held unto both of her arms. Their eyes locked.
"We'll talk about this later. Just tell me where Tahni is now. That's the most important thing. And when I'm back, I'll tell you what the priest sent me to give you."
She sighed and said,
"Your father has been nice to me. You can tell him to come over to my place anytime. Thank goodness retarded Vulcan is gone for good."
Miargos feigned a smile at that and asked,
"Now, Tahni."
The woman shook herself free and turned her back on Miargos and began to walk towards the clothes she was washing. She said over her head,
"You could give your mother-in-law a helping hand in washing or you could give your new bride a hand at the stream. She left with three vessels. If you catch up with her at the stream, she wouldn't have to return there the second for the last vessel."
The fellow forgot to appreciate and hurried towards the gaunt path which led to the stream. The stream was few metres behind the hut.
As he hurried through, the memories of the things which had happened lately raced through his minds in crazed velocity as though they were under the spell of Zeddicus or Shota.
There were thick green shrubs to the right and left of the path. Clumsy climbers spread across the path, and he could spot the tracks of reindeers. There was less or no worries of wild cats in that part.
As soon as he got to the scattered halves of rocks littered across the opening to the stream, he noticed Tahni with her back to him. She was on the last vessel and was filling it. Twas a wonder how she could be so bold enough to be all by herself in such lone and supposed dangerous place. If not creepy.
Miargos tried snapping at a dried twig to scare her but she didn't move. Instead she shot over her head,
"Think twice before creeping on a lady who understands the language of the trees and their forest."
His trick fell through. He walked up to her as she kept doing her work.
Tahni was thick, and somewhat voluptuous. She had ample bosom and nice curves. These were concealed by the extra large gowns she loved spending her beauty in.
"I'm here for an urgent business, Tahni."
Miargos started, even without offering to assist her.
"You want us to get married because my sister is no longer here? So that it can be even. Your father, the priest of our land, marries my mother and you, the son of the priest marries me?"
She concluded looking at his scrawny face.
He sighed and helped her up, holding her by the arms like he did her mother, there eyes locked.
"You'll have to believe me. I saw your sister and your father. They are in the forest. The thick forest at the outskirt of our land."
She chuckled and shook herself free. She bent to pick the last vessel up,
"Isn't it too early to be drunk? Like your father, my mother and several other made my father drunk that night and told a lie about him. Even in his drunk state, he wouldn't even assault the princess sexually. And y'all saw him beheaded. Now! You walk up to me thinking I'm drunk? Drunk to be lied to?"
She carried the vessel to the rest of the vessels and dropped it.
"I swear by the gods that your father is still alive. And your sister is with him. I can even take you to the cave where they live."
The lady shook her head and picked the first vessel, and tucked it under her right arm, supporting it,
"Which gods do you swear by? The idle, lazy and blind gods of this land? The gods who couldn't help my father and destroyed our family? You're getting on my nerves already."
She did the same thing to the other vessel, tucking it under the left arm.
"I'll help you with those but you've got to listen."
He walked to her, proposing to help her with the vessels,
"This has nothing to do with the gods."
He was trying to be convincing but he seemed to sound more shitty and crazy. She pushed him away from herself and one of the vessels dropped.
"Do not cross paths with me anymore and for all the things you cost my family, I bet, you'll all pay. I'll see to that."
She grabbed the other two vessels by the handles and stomped off.
Miargos only stood there watching. Looking like a cyclone just hit him. Everyone thought he was mad.
