11 Chapter 10

As she left a limped person was getting closer, scraping his dirty long brown hair; his green eyes were shining in the darkness, he grinned and softly said "hey can I ask you something?"

"Of course Jimmy, anything", He said surprisingly.

He was the person who always used to tell unique stories, one of them was escaping from shadow marsh giants who tried to smash him; no one would believe his words. They said drugs spoiled his brain and made up all those fantasies.

Jimmy came out of the corner, took two steps further to get near him, and asked, "who is that girl?"

He smiled and said, "Is this your question? She is my friend! Why?"

"Did you know that your friend is an elf?" He said that in a weird accent and a shallow voice.

"Oh my lord, what a bad day! You used drugs again. Please stop it. I'm not in a good mood today", said that and left to his place, but Jimmy tried to prove his words so while trying to keep his voice down, he said innocently, "I did nothing today, she is an elf."

Athor sat down on the ground and took his boots off, massaged his feet, and thought "how could I trust her so easily, why did I feel like I know her for a long time?!"

The sky was shaking by the thunderbolts and clouds which started to rain in this sad, but beautiful season of love; he reminded a funny memory about Ferssi, and he suddenly burst into laughter and forgot the cold weather.

One day Mrs. Ferssi saw a lizard in the living room, screamed very loudly, fainted, and fell on the floor which sounded like a big stone fell on the ground from a mountain! She was afraid of a small lizard as if she saw one of those dwarfs that she always talked about. Her husband tried to help and woke her up, but it didn't work, so he had to pick her up from the ground. She was super heavy, and her husband was too skinny, he hardly managed to put her on his back. He was completely hidden under Mrs. Ferssi's body when suddenly his trousers got ripped off, and the sound made Athor laugh slowly.

He tried to control himself, but they were so coward that he was always wondering about their strange lifestyle! All those simple smiles had harsh punishments every single time. Most of the time he had to wash the dishes, clothes and had only one meal in a whole day, beside that was handling the pain in his back made by Mr. Ferssi's belt, definitely pure child bullying. He couldn't forget the sharp pain of his belt which burnt his back and left deep marks.

His memories were moving across his sight just like watching a movie; the rain was whipping the earth sharply and was angry at the ground's citizens. The only light in that gloom was his lantern. He also had a small flashlight but didn't use it regularly. He used that only on special occasions, the battery was expensive, and he couldn't afford to spend his whole income on buying it.

Time goes faster than the past like an invisible person was running away from people who were trying to stop it.

"Hey Athor, are you there?" a soft voice said from outside

His eyes just got warm and about to sleep, but jumped up quickly as the voice was known "who's there?" "I hope it's not another trouble."

"It's Sarya, I must talk to you",

She said that standing next to an unknown person under a dilapidated roof.

He was amazed and thought "why would she come back at that time? It is too late; she said she would be here early morning. Perhaps she couldn't leave in the bad pluvial weather, the flood was possible every moment."

"Ok, I'm coming now." He cried out that and got up, took a plastic with him, and moved out. His eyes caught on Jimmy who was sitting beside the doorway looking at those strangers. Athor found Sarya who was besides a tall person, wearing a long green cloak, and hid his face under the hood; he didn't like that, so she broke her promise, he got closer, "who is that?"

She was completely different than a couple of hours ago; she looked very serious and said "He is one of my family members who wanted to speak to you."

"I have no business with weird strangers, you promised me not to tell anyone about my place," he said.

"I'm sorry, but I said no man," she said.

His eyes widen and wondered, what is she talking about "What?! You meant he's not a human?! If he is not so what is he? I'm listening. Please explain."

The man in the cloak heard and took his hood off, a very young man who was similar to him, but had an icy face, and seemed like a severe person. He reached and to shake a hand "that's what you do during meeting someone". They shook hands and he added, "It's a pleasure to see you, I'm Suran."

At the same time, he had two different feelings; fear and besides like knowing them from a long time ago, but how was it even possible!?

"Why are you wearing clothes like this? I don't think I've ever seen people like you, seemingly you are foreigners. You do not look like us."

"Hmm, something like that. I'd told you about the place that I live in. It's far from here; I got the permission to take you with me," Sarya said.

Athor was confused about all her unclear words which made his thoughts unstable. "Oh my lord, my head is going to be exploded. I can't believe this if it's far, how could you get back this soon, even you're clothing got changed," he said, but suddenly scared.

"You can't understand it, but when everyone consented, I decided not to waste time and came back quickly. We chose the shortest path."

Suran pointed to Sarya, "She is right, and I want you to listen to us carefully, first of all, we are not human, and just our look is the same, but not completely, the second thing is the question of how old are you?"

"Well, I'm 16," he said with a dizzy face and his head pointed out to Jimmy who was hidden behind the wall listening to their conversation and mentioned, "Jimmy thought you are elves, but unfortunately I can't believe him."

Athor didn't know whether he should believe them or not. On the other hand, Suran didn't know how to prove to him the facts about themselves. It was the most difficult thing in the world to explain unseen, and he didn't know how to start.

"Have you ever disappeared in public, that no one could see you or hear your voice?" Suran thought "oh no, how should I make it clear to him? It's the hardest thing that I did in my whole life."

Athor thought "Wow, crazy fanatic people again. What… what happened to this world?" and after a short hesitation said, "You are the same as Ferssi's family, some superstitious people."

Suran almost lost his tolerance, making a connection with the others was always hard for him, and now he had to explain what he is! "Who are they!? Anyway, It doesn't matter now, have you ever been invisible while you were standing in front of someone whom you didn't want to see you?"

Athor had no intention to talk about his issues, but when he saw that his eyes were getting narrowed and reminding the last day of his life in that house. He changed his mind and decided to tell them said: "hum, yes. Two years ago, when I was afraid of Mrs. Ferssi and had no way to escape. I never talked about it till now".

Suran got happy. Finally, this weird boy shows some interest in them so started to explain with a little preface and made questions to get some answers because he believed that it will help him to achieve his goal as soon as possible "you know there are so many different creatures who live on this world, right?"

"Yes, so what?" he said.

"We are one of them; our look is kind of like humans, but in case, we live in a different world,"

Athor burst into laughter, and they got shocked, he laughed "I said that you are fanatic, it became obvious now. Then, I'm one of those dwarfs." and pointed to his height.

Suran was looking at him even more seriously than before "no, we are not dwarfs, we are elves, Jimmy was right."

His smile dried on his face "huh?! You say nonsense stories to bring me back to that house of those humanoids. Well, I'm not scared, I live alone, and you're trying to frighten me with your myths, Jimmy lives in his fantasy, it seems he's not the only one, were you guys in the wizard's bar?" Smiled bitterly.