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Authors: Noah Porter
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Ajuhn’ and ‘atry omnizar’?” I curiously ask.
Although she still looks slightly annoyed, she relaxes slightly when she proudly replies, “Ajuhn founded our village, so if you have his blessings you’re supposed to have good luck. Atry omnizar is a respectful goodbye, almost like saying that you regret it but, if the other person is so kind as to let you go, you must leave. If you’re the second person that says it, it’s giving you permission to leave and saying goodbye as well.”
“So you have your own language?”
“No, just a few words that we use in place of English, which Ajuhn spoke as well. It makes it simpler to say long, polite things when you have just two or three words that mean the same thing.”
I nod, reaching to take a bite of the food. My stomach turns and I begin trying not to cough and splatter the mush all over the table. It tastes almost as bad as eating salt and sugar together in one bite.
A glance over to Lily, Ben and Aria’s table is enough to prove that they’re having the same reaction; Aria, the one who can stomach the most disgusting concoctions the best out of everyone in the group, looks squeamish. The others are all in varying stages of nausea.
Arcya and the rest of the villagers, however, are having no trouble eating the mush.
When I’ve finally eaten all of my mush (which required alternately telling myself there would be no midnight snacks and trying to pretend that it was something at least semi appetizing), I see Arcya walking away with her wooden plate and I follow her, my own plate in hand.
Arcya puts it on another table (wooden, of course) and walks up to the head table again. I wait for a minute, watching to see what she does. It’s just the ‘blessings of Ajuhn’ again and ‘atry omnizar’, so as soon as she’s left the building, I imitate what she did and follow her out of the hall and into the still sunny village area.
I lose her for a second, but she reappears a second later. I notice a bulge in her shirt I never saw back in the food hall when she goes through the tree-door thing we went through to get into camp.
Arcya turns around impatiently, just as I’m about to catch up to her. “Go back to your hut. The curfew starts soon.”
“Then why are you still out?”
“I said, go back to your hut.”
People sometimes tell me I have a death wish. I just think I’m incredibly stubborn.
“No.”
She sighs, sprinting away. I follow her until she disappears around the edge of a tree. I strain to hear her, hearing only the sound of splashing water off to the side. Maybe she thinks the sound of the water will cover the sound of her walking?
I walk towards the sound, stumbling through foliage until I come into a clearing. When I look around, I realize I’m on the edge of a cliff.
Arcya’s there too, primed as if she’s ready to jump.
Before I can say anything, she jumps into the nothingness of the seemingly endless abyss!
Chapter 4
My mentor just jumped off a cliff!?!? (Well, sort of mentor. I bet she’s younger than me, in which case she has no business bossing me around.) I wait for the sound of the sickening thud on the ground. (Yes, I know it’s a long distance to hear, but remember.. I’m still superhuman through and through, and that means superhuman hearing).
Instead, I hear a splash, and she’s swimming through the water that I only saw just now. When Arcya sees me, she groans. “I told you to go back to your hut.”
That’s when I see the tigers. They’re everywhere- swimming around her, sunbathing on the rocks, snoozing in the mud. At least, until she brings the packet out from under her shirt. Then they’re all circling her, and I panic, thinking she’s going to be attacked.
Then I do the world’s stupidest thing ever. I jump off the cliff.
Jumping off a cliff isn’t as bad as you’d think. There’s just you and the air and
Although she still looks slightly annoyed, she relaxes slightly when she proudly replies, “Ajuhn founded our village, so if you have his blessings you’re supposed to have good luck. Atry omnizar is a respectful goodbye, almost like saying that you regret it but, if the other person is so kind as to let you go, you must leave. If you’re the second person that says it, it’s giving you permission to leave and saying goodbye as well.”
“So you have your own language?”
“No, just a few words that we use in place of English, which Ajuhn spoke as well. It makes it simpler to say long, polite things when you have just two or three words that mean the same thing.”
I nod, reaching to take a bite of the food. My stomach turns and I begin trying not to cough and splatter the mush all over the table. It tastes almost as bad as eating salt and sugar together in one bite.
A glance over to Lily, Ben and Aria’s table is enough to prove that they’re having the same reaction; Aria, the one who can stomach the most disgusting concoctions the best out of everyone in the group, looks squeamish. The others are all in varying stages of nausea.
Arcya and the rest of the villagers, however, are having no trouble eating the mush.
When I’ve finally eaten all of my mush (which required alternately telling myself there would be no midnight snacks and trying to pretend that it was something at least semi appetizing), I see Arcya walking away with her wooden plate and I follow her, my own plate in hand.
Arcya puts it on another table (wooden, of course) and walks up to the head table again. I wait for a minute, watching to see what she does. It’s just the ‘blessings of Ajuhn’ again and ‘atry omnizar’, so as soon as she’s left the building, I imitate what she did and follow her out of the hall and into the still sunny village area.
I lose her for a second, but she reappears a second later. I notice a bulge in her shirt I never saw back in the food hall when she goes through the tree-door thing we went through to get into camp.
Arcya turns around impatiently, just as I’m about to catch up to her. “Go back to your hut. The curfew starts soon.”
“Then why are you still out?”
“I said, go back to your hut.”
People sometimes tell me I have a death wish. I just think I’m incredibly stubborn.
“No.”
She sighs, sprinting away. I follow her until she disappears around the edge of a tree. I strain to hear her, hearing only the sound of splashing water off to the side. Maybe she thinks the sound of the water will cover the sound of her walking?
I walk towards the sound, stumbling through foliage until I come into a clearing. When I look around, I realize I’m on the edge of a cliff.
Arcya’s there too, primed as if she’s ready to jump.
Before I can say anything, she jumps into the nothingness of the seemingly endless abyss!
Chapter 4
My mentor just jumped off a cliff!?!? (Well, sort of mentor. I bet she’s younger than me, in which case she has no business bossing me around.) I wait for the sound of the sickening thud on the ground. (Yes, I know it’s a long distance to hear, but remember.. I’m still superhuman through and through, and that means superhuman hearing).
Instead, I hear a splash, and she’s swimming through the water that I only saw just now. When Arcya sees me, she groans. “I told you to go back to your hut.”
That’s when I see the tigers. They’re everywhere- swimming around her, sunbathing on the rocks, snoozing in the mud. At least, until she brings the packet out from under her shirt. Then they’re all circling her, and I panic, thinking she’s going to be attacked.
Then I do the world’s stupidest thing ever. I jump off the cliff.
Jumping off a cliff isn’t as bad as you’d think. There’s just you and the air and
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