Chapter 116 - 116. The child

They stayed in space until night fell. When they appeared outside the last bits of light struggled to shine upon still sleepless city. Kendra summoned slight wind to cool down the air.

When the moon started rising on the sky, the city became quiet and they slowly descended. Kendra, Isaa, Lais and Tassio used the Eyes and after Kendra used sleeping spell upon the city, they started scanning the whole town.

Kendra realized last time, if they use multiple Eyes at the same time and infuse them with enough energy, they can scan bigger space, more people and even deep in the earth or sea. So she took ten Eyes, put them together and started to infuse it with energy.

Lais, Tassio and Isaa joined in and soon the Eyes first connected but then spread in a circle having huge net between them. The net became larger and large as it enveloped the whole town, but one of the Eyes still tugged on one corner, trying to enlarge net even further.

They saw that and continued to infuse the energy into the net. Soon the net covered city and part of the forest not far away from the city. The trees started losing their colors as the city was lacking rain for a while. Isaa felt sorry for the almost dead trees and infused them with some nature energy and some rain.

Suddenly a little creature shot out the forest and looked around searching for something. Kendra looked at it and realized that it was a small child, maybe aged 2-3 years. It was all in rags holding a bunch of berries in his hand and munching on it. The child suddenly rose its head up and rose his hands to them.

Isaa almost yelped. "Does it see us?"

Kendra shook her head. " No, but if it has dual cultivation of nature and wind high enough, probably can feel our energy."

"How high is its energy level if it can feel us?". Tassio wondered.

" At least sixth boundary..." whispered Lais looking at the baby.

Kendra nodded. "So far I realized that over sixth boundary people can feel released energy from others if they are both hiding the powers. We feel safe on clouds, but we forgot to hide our powers. Next time we have to be more careful."

Everyone nodded while looking at the child with risen hands towards them. Lais sighed. "What now?"

Kendra waved her hand and send one cloud down. The child saw a small cloud descending towards him and giggled. As soon the cloud arrived it climbed on it and started jumping and then snuggling in it like its bed. Soon it curled up like a little animal and fell asleep, using the cloud as his sleeping place.

Kendra sighed and put cleansing and sleeping spell in the child while the cloud rose. What she saw now was clean face of a little baby girl. She had golden blond hair and cute little face. In her sleep, she smiled a bit and two small dimples on both sides of the face. Isaa stared at her in awe and looked at Kendra's with pleading eyes.

"Can we keep her, hmmmmmm, pleaseee ..." Isaa begged Kendra while tugging lightly at her slaves staring at her with stars in her eyes.

Kendra looked at Tassio and Lais that conveniently looked up in the sky as they had nothing to do with that situation. She sighed. "Isaa, do you plan to gather every cute kid on our travels? What if this child has parents or siblings? Maybe they worry about it like we would for each other."

Isaa thought about it. True. If she got lost, Kendra would have to be worried about her. She nodded looking at the slowly healing forest. "I can't feel any human being in the forest. How we will find them?"

Kendra waved her hand and used the mist as the traveling agent to see is there any human life there. But all she could find are some stray animals that were hungry and thirsty. She summoned her senses and found a small earth well deep in the forest.

Unfortunately for the animals, it was deep in the earth so they couldn't use it. She digged it using her powers and it appeared as a small pond and soon groups of animals smelled it and came to calm their thirst.

Isaa, Tassio and Lais saw her actions and shook their heads. Kendra seemed always indifferent but she was actually a kind person. She just had a slight dislike towards dirtiness.

But that is as well just Kendra. She had dust all over her sometimes, but that didn't bother her. Just disgusting dirt and nasty people made her feel itchy to make new spells that could be used as cleaning or healing.

Kendra took back her senses and shook her head. ''If there is a family of this child, it's definitely not in the forest. Let's go to Chiefs house. Isaa it's your time now. Make invisibility spell. Yours is good enough against commoners. "

Isaa nodded and closed her eyes while waving her hand. Soon their bodies slowly faded and couldn't be seen. The clouds blended in and disappeared as well. They flew down to the city and floated over sleeping town.

When they arrived over Chief's house they slowly descended and walked into his house. Everywhere everything slept. Even dogs and cats were in deep sleep. They went to the living room and saw Chief in a comfortable chair sleeping in front of the window. It seems he was mulling over something.

With a snap of her fingers, Kendra woke him up and as his glossy eyes were still not focused they kept standing. Suddenly he concentrated and realized that there was a group of people staring at him. As he was still a bit sleepy he didn't realize who they were.

"Who are you? What do you want?" He yelled as he jumped out his recliner.

Kendra softly pushed him back into his seat and smiled. "Just us. We came back as we found someone and we are not sure who is this."

Lais softly held the small child in her arms, still in rags. She slowly approached the Chief and showed him. He looked at the sleeping child and scratched his head. Then he thought about it and remembered.

"A few days ago, a woman came to me asking for help. It seems that her baby went into the forest and she couldn't find it again. Maybe its this child." He stared at the child but then he shook his head. "But her hair is black and I know her husband and children they all have black hairs. I need to check it out. "

Kendra shook her head. "Even if they do all have black hair but one of their ancestors had golden, it's still possible that the child is theirs. I will check it out. Come, show us their home."

Chief nodded and was about to walk to his carriage bit Tassio just shook his head and took him on one if clouds that appeared out nowhere. He held Chief tightly and the cloud slowly ascended.

Chief looked at his town and realized just now in what state I was really. His heart trebled not because of the height then because the ruins. Yes, his town is almost a ruin. The houses in middle looked still somewhat stable but those of commoners were literally just ruins.

The roofs had holes. Most roofs were patched with dried grass and some branches. The walls had huge cracks filled with a bit of mud. Some of the houses already looked like they are about to fell apart.

As he saw the state of it, his eyes filled with tears and his face reddened in shame. He was always in an argument with nobles and forgot for years to check the people. No wonder his town had less and less people. They just wanted to escape from this death trap.

Isaa flew towards him and held his hand. "Uncle Chief, we will leave soon, but you will stay. Do you really plan for this place to become a ghost town? Think well, this was their plan all along. If you give up, they will win and will turn this town into something you would hate. If you need help I will ask the mother and father to send you helpers. Trust me, they will help you."

He looked at a small child and smiled but then his eyes constricted. "Uhm, you said your parents will help me... Who..." He stopped himself shaking at his own thoughts. "Impossible. "

Isaa smiled at him brightly. "Let me introduce myself. I am Isaa of Caledon Valley and this is Kendra of Caledon Valley. Our parents as it seems you know, are Lord and Lady of Caledon Valley..."

He stared at smiling children and two grown-ups. "You mean..."

Tassio nodded his head. Isaa patted Hus head and then twirled with her fingers. "Well, do you think we would travel around with these people if our parents weren't important."She still didn't plan to tell him about their powers, so she winked at Kendra.

He thought about it and realized that he really was lucky this time. Be directly connected with Lord of Caledon Valley. He patted Isaa's head and smiled.

" I will send our parents to notice about your predicament. And to the King, you will get help soon. Trust us, please." Kendra stared at the town as she scrunched her eyebrows. She could feel a bit of dark energy from one of the houses.

Suddenly Lilly jumped out her hand and flew down to the house, followed by the annoyed Fluffy. Chief stared at two animals that flew on respective clouds.

Kendra looked at his expression and saw his eyes clouding for a moment. "What is it?"

He pointed at the house that the two animals were already standing on and felt anger welling. " That is the house you need to go."