Reminiscing The Past

Allan checked the time, noticing it was getting pretty late, Alan hurriedly exited the smithy while shouting "See you tomorrow, Uncle Fan" and made his way towards the herbalist shop to buy his mother some mana pathways mending and healing herbs though it wouldn't heal her pathways like others it would provide her some relief, hopefully, then he also thought back to his first meeting with Uncle Fang.

The 4 year old Allan was making his way towards his home with his usual cold expression though it looked a little down cast but he was still trying his luck on the shops along the way.

That's when he stepped into Uncle Fang's smithy, after looking around and seeing no one around he rang the bell twice and waited.

Meanwhile Uncle Fang who was sleeping behind the counter on a laid back chair, couldn't be seen by Allan's relatively short stature(though tall for his age still a tadd shorter for him to see him sleeping behind the counter) ,Fang was jerked awake by the bell's sound almost toppled over with the chair only to flip back easily with one hand before straightening up and looking over the counter "Damn, been hearing alot of things lately, must been' growing old." he said in usual heavy accent before sitting down on the chair.

"Ahem, Mister "Allan replied in a deep and childish, mature tone(more like trying to sound mature).

Fang immediately jumped from his chair and look at the right and left windows and then straight towards the entrance lobby and warned in a deep tone "Boy! ya' better come out and stop playin' games or don't blame me for bein' heavy handed."

"Sir, I'm down here" Allan replied in an exasperated tone while his lips twiched a little.

Fang immediately looked over the counter and down towards Allan before casually asking "Wat ya doin' here lil kid, You lost or something" in order to mask his embarrassment.

"I'm looking for a job sir would you kind enough to hire me" he said in his usual deep and bubbly mature tone

Fang hearing this immediately thought the kid was pulling a prank or something said in an irritation "Sure, if you can stand there close to the smithy I'll hire you" he said in an attempt to make the kid go back or dissuade him from wasting his time while pointing toward the still hot and burning smithy.

But Allan didn't say anything because he didn't feel any malicious intent from the man so he move towards the smithy and stood right in front of the smithy. Fang seeing this thought the kid would go away in 3/4 mins after feeling the terrible heat, he got back to catch up on his afternoon nap. After an hour or so, Fang woke up, so that he get back to his usual daily routine of weapon crafting looked towards the smithy, where the kid who was supposed to be gone, still standing where he was looking towards his direction with cold eyes with little sweat running down his forehead, Fang was terrified, not by the lil kid cold eyes but the thought he was standing there for an hour, infront of 1000*C heat, coming from the smithy immediately caused him to rush towards the kid to check his condition though upon checking and touching the kid's face and wrist, he was confused, the lil kid's body was cold to the touch except for the heat on skin surface. He asked in a concerned tone tone "lil kid you alright?"

Allan replied in a cold and deep tone"A little uncomfortable by the sweat" though he looked at him coldly and gently pushed Fang away because he thought Fang would not keep his words, after he slept after giving him a test. Yes, he thought it was a test to hire him for the job but seeing him sleep he got a bit angry and irritated, and thought he was just tricking him, the only reason he didn't leave was because he didn't feel any malice from the man from the start.

Fang immediately seeing this took out a mana recording inscripted device and after seeing Allan standing there for an hour, replied in a hurry "you're hired kid but do you have your parents permission for the job"

Allan replied in his usual voice "I don't have any father"

Fang seeing this didn't say anything just asked him to come from tomorrow at 8 for work.

Allen left shortly after, soon after Allan's departure, Fang said in a normal tone to seemingly no one and a flame that seem to be alive appeared in his palm "You can come out now, he's gone" after he said that a women, that seem to appear from the shadows in the smithy, with a veil and cloak that covering her whole body said in low tone with blood lust oozing from her voice "Treat him well, don't go easy on him only give what he deserves" she said as though she was giving him a command and then the women disappeared from the smithy.

Fang was a bit taken aback by the threat he could perceive from the the women that seem to have her mana pathways damaged even though he was close to becoming a prismarine ranked magi.

But before completely vanishing the women said in a soft voice" Why did you hire him?"

Fang replied in a casual tone "Boi, seem to have strong will, body and was willin' to work. So I hired him" hearing this the women seem to think a little, then looked at him in the eye for a moment then seemingly deciding on something, before vanishing from there like she was never there to begin with.

Seeing this Fang shrugged his shoulders, after all he didn't take advantage of the kid though he was curious about the kid's constitution, he wouldn't pry in to other people's business that wasn't his nature, though if the kid was willing to tell or he had a close relationship with him that would be a different matter all together, for now he will just letting things play out as they are supposed to.

And Lil Alan still thinks his Mother and Fang hadn't ever seen each other.