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«Can you propose me something?»
Tero moves his eyes from TaMu to look at Christoph, at his question. «What?»
«Just for tonight, have fun. Don't think about anything, just live the moment and enjoy it. Just for this once, live as your age, as a child. Promise me that.»
Tero narrows his eyes, but gets filled with mixed thoughts at his words. As he ever really loved as a child, in his life? «I will try», he mutters.
Christoph smiles at him. «We'll be cheering for you, me and TaMu.»
«He doesn't even know. He never woke up, how can he cheer?» He frowns.
«If he was conscious he would cheer for you for sure. Meaning that it's as if he will do it, even if you can't see it.»

Since Christoph can't leave TaMu, it's Benjamin who comes to teleport Tero to Crowley and to accompany him to the huge theatre where the competition takes place.
The competition itself is divided by categories depending on the instrument. For violin, the timing is set for 9 pm and it is the last category to perform.
The competition last three days, each day with eliminatory system, with only the ones who pass the test allowed to perform again on the next days.

Tero arrives at the theatre with a lot of advance, so much that the others haven't even arrived yet and he is alone with the priests and the first people from the audience who came to stick their noses around before the beginning of the show.
He was learnt a violin from the priesthood, that he will have to return at the end of the competition. A good quality one, though.
He knows he should probably spend that time practicing, but in the end he just walks around like a lost soul.
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1 | 46 Comments | Mar 20th 2020 07:37

Winter.


The tiger rushes the two brothers through the forests for a long wild, until it reaches a cliff, falling over a semi-frozen river.
Tero tries to climb down, but there is no safe path and eventually, his hands slips on the wet rock, causing them both to fall.
In the air, Tero struggles to reach TaMu, always unconscious, and cling to him, making sure it will be his own body to hit the water and not his.
The impact with the water is paralyzing at first, due to how cold it is, but thankfully, the fishes and other creatures of the river hurry to support him and actually help him to get out.
The cold, outside, is unbearable, but he can't stop. He changes to another guardian and starts to walk again, with TaMu on his back.

He is followed and assisted to many animals on the way, but his own shape is not the best. He still has the arrows he was shot with in his body and the cold turns harder at every step. Plus, the fact TaMu doesn't seem to show any sign of life doesn't make it better.

To cut things short, walking through the wilds, including a quite desolated iced wasteland, he manages to cross the Northern Border undetected.
He walks by foot all the wilds siding with Heinmenhos until he finds a spot he studied in the maps previously.
He takes out a piece of map he had previously torn off and on which he had written 'meet me here now, I need help' with the spot marked, places it on a mail amulet he stole from one of the eunuchs and sends the mail. He isn't even sure Christoph will come at all.

Boy of little faith, barely some minutes after sending that message, Christoph indeed shows up. He finds Tero half naked, as he put all of his top clothes on TaMu to keep him warmer.
The man rushes to them. "Tero?" he gasps, totally baffled.
Tero collapses shortly after, but still conscious. "Save my brother... he is human... only you can save him..." He is totally exhausted and shaken.
"By the Gods..." Christoph kneels to check TaMu's pulse, making a strange expression, then focuses on Tero. "Wear this, hurry!" He takes off his own cost and hands it to him, then picks the other boy up in his arms.
"Aniyo, give it to him, he needs it!" says Tero, but Christoph just hands him a pair of sunglasses.
"Wear them, you can't be recognized." Then grabs his hand and teleports with the two near the city where his home is.

Christoph makes sure to cover the identity of the brothers, but there aren't people around. It's winter II and the cold is simply deadly. No other words to describe it.
The doctor hurries to unlock the door of his home and they all get inside.
"You have to save him", Tero repeats, struggling to keep himself conscious too. "You must..."
"Tero, your condition is critical, you need to be treated... Try to remain conscious, Tero... Tero!"
Blackness.
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Arrival.


Suddenly in the night they captured the savage General, some fuss occur in the camp.
Some fight noise and eventually people running around to warn the officers about an intruder who entered with force, but without killing anyone, just beaten them for good, and refuses to leave.
He can't not make some noise when he arrives somewhere. He is not for a quiet entry.

He finds TaMu almost right away, since for some reason only he knows, he wasn't inside the tent to sleep with the other soldiers but was outside in the freezing cold.
He remains close to his brother while he whispers the situation to him.
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1 | 24 Comments | Mar 11th 2020 06:24

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After leaving home, he goes to get his hidden backpack and heads to the forest nearby, where he spends most of the day. Playing, surrounded by animals.
He is still upset for the flashbacks he got, that caused his crisis and left him in a stunned state for the rest of the day.

For that reason, he totally forgets to bring his backpack to its hideout, when he is supposed to return to the camp, on Sunday evening.
JaeMinJong is by the entrance, waiting for the recruits to return, to check they all come back, and when Tero arrives, he gets immediately stopped.
Since Tero is always so disrespectful towards him, JaeMinJong claims to check the backpack to make sure the recruit isn't trying to sneak forbidden items inside the camp.
Tero doesn't want to cooperate and tries to convince him to just let him go to bring the backpack home, but JMJ isn't willing to be accommodating with someone who constantly disrespects him.

There is a little struggle, but in the end Tero is forced to let go his backpack and JMJ opens it, then pours all the content there on the street.
There is mainly random stuff like a jumping rope, a ball, some wooden toys and plushie, but also something of a weird shape, wrapped in a blanket. "What's that?" JMJ says, crouching to pick up the item and uncover it.
It's a violin, actually a small version of a violin, destined for children's learning.
In Xhuanghen violins literally don't exist, as much as any other instrument not traditionally eastern. Only someone who spent enough time in Heinmenhos knows what a violin is, but that's definitely not JMJ. "What is this, recruit Yi? ANSWER!"
But Tero doesn't say a single word. He keeps his head bowed and avoids to look at the other..
"Whatever it is, it's clearly not a change of clothes." Even more triggered by Tero's attitude, JMJ slams the violin on the ground, causing it to break irreparably.
"Now get in there and prepare to receive your punishment! You'll do push-ups until you pass out!"
"Hope you have enough time for that, 'Sir'." He gives him a death stare and just sends a quick glance at the broken violin before walking in, leaving all his stuff in the street.

He goes to wear the uniform quickly, leaving the letter he wrote inside the book near MoonBin's bed and returns to JMJ to receive his punishment.
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Riddle Manor.


While Mortian returns to the prisoners, Boo and Tero are left to the cares of Christophei whom, after visiting the two, escorts them to his father's house, as he was instructed.

Tero is still unconscious from the sedative when he is carried there, and Christophei leaves him in the hands of the servants to be washed and dressed, since he got wet and cold due to the pouring rain.

Boo, still holding MaRan, looks around in the house and whistle. "And there we thought they were in some dark and scary dungeon... they've been treating themselves well here!"
He puts MaRan down. "Umma, are you here?"
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