She was weeping out of relief, that I was sure of. She was still screaming at me about the baby, but I was so relieved when there was no problem with her. My heart was melting, I thought there wouldn't be a child after being wiped of the face of Union, but there is still hope for us, for our family to grow.

"There, there honey...hic... it's fine... hic.. we'll be okay out there...hic" I said sobbing of relief as well "We need...hic...to find shelter now." I take three deep breaths "So let's go, the safety of you two is the most important thing right now, okay?"

"Unhum.... " she gasps "Le-le-let's find a home for ourselves...uuuhhhh..." she says as she calms down.

"Drink some water over there, there is a creek and we should follow it upstream, there should be a village upstream?" I ask not so sure about the dream in the White Room, since it was very weird, it said Miuni and mutated beasts? There should be alien fauna different from Union, but what would "mutated" mean?

"We should follow the stream upwards now okay? The fauna is probably more active at night. Let's take this opportunity to hurry there..." I said.

"All right, hubby!" she smiled "We shall face everything with all our strength!"

We follow the stream up for quite some time, hate not being able to tell the time in this place, we spot a widening in the width of the stream, it seems like a barrage was made, but I can't find the construction, weird? Suddenly we hear a high voice.

"Halt! Who goes there? Identify yourselves!" said the high voice "What are your intentions coming to our water reservoir?"

"Argh!" we shout together at the voice creeping us.

Suddenly there is a hard clunk, then we hear a deeper voice "The heck you think you are doing scaring them? Don't you see one of them is a friend of the forest? What kind of devilry do you think both would do? Just because the blue one scared you, there is no need for those sharp words."

"We are sorry, we do not mean any harm we are lost, we aren't from here and don't know how things work in your settlement." said Nordya.

"Yes, we were searching for food and shelter close to the river and we got here." I said "My name is Amatiron and that is my wife Nordya. Please, help us! My family is going to get bigger soon and we have nowhere to go!" I beg on my knees.

"Please!" she also kneel.

"See, dumbass! You almost scared a small family away from our village which need hands!" the deeper voice said "Lower your spears! Introductions are in order!" he shouted and then appeared from behind the bushes "My name is Vermont and I am captain from this small company!" Vermont looked like a Dwarf with red hair and brown beard, had a nose as big as potato and shining red eyes, like the sunset was shining through the sky, he had yellow teeth as he smiled and shouted "Come here you two!"

Then a halfling and a pixie a bit smaller than Vermont came out too.

The pixie had green eyes and hair, looked like a 12 year old on her face, she had a frow on her face, her nose was pointing upwards as if to look down on us, she had beautiful pale pink insect wings on her back fluttering as if mad. "Corporal Metania here! They still might be thieves running from law Captain!"

The halfling had black eyes and hair and eyebags as big as mine, he looked young still, and had hair coming from the palm of his hands and out of his boots "Soldier Jivs here, sir! Like hell they are Corporal Madam! If he was a good thief they would heard the racket you made with your crap landing on training a minute ago, right, sir?!" but had a sharp tongue too.

"Enough! My eyes never deceive me! Honest folk is hard to come here, even harder for bandits to pass without being gruesomely ripped apart by the monsters. Let's take them in, okay?" said Vermont.

"Thanks, captain! We are very grateful and excited!" said Nordya.

Then we followed the Patrol Team into the village.

It was a village full of houses made from hardwood, very fine craftsmanship, it's amazingly beautiful, my wife had sparkly hazelnut eyes while looking around.

There was one with a huge brick chimney which would sometimes spew flame, there was a farm, but I wasn't able to see animals there, and many others I couldn't quite make the details out.

"Welcome to Gartwood, free village of the races on the Arto Island! You three" Vermont winked at us "shall be brought to the elders for a presentation of yourselves and confirmation of you abilities from the Eyes of the Gods! Please, always be courteous to the Elders!" as he finished speaking we found ourselves in front of a building that looked like a baroque type church, without gold but with a bunch of colored glass and maybe jewels? It made a beautiful and gorgeous artwork at the top, then the great doors where open with a screech...

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