Ch 38: Naming Imps

Grima thought to receive some deep and professional advice from the mature woman Halla.

Turns out that was not it as what the woman did. Instead, just told her was more immature.

"I'm sorry, what was that again, you said, Halla." Grima had heard it but wanted to hear her say it again to be clear on it.

"Come on, you heard me girl, don't let the others' opinions get in the way of what you and Thorkell could have in the future," Halla says reaching to grab the girl's hand.

"I know what you mean. It's not just them, but it's my….." Grima chose to end her sentence short, not wanting to say what was next.

Halla took the hint that what was close to being said was going to be her father. The man is one of those people who will not give his blessings and acceptance to such a union.

"How about you come inside and stay for a bit to wait for Thorkell's return? That is if he doesn't take long with his return from somewhere." Halla offers instead of having their conversation going on outside at the front door.

"Sure, that sounds like a lovely idea." Grima takes it, entering inside as Halla steps to the side to let her in.

As Grima enters, she spotted Arfast just sitting down at a table. I'm not alone since the small boy was there as well, sitting on the opposite side, still stuck in his condition.

"Hey Grima, nice to see you here." Arfast greeted her.

"Hello, Arfast, same as well, and who is the boy there with you, I don't seem to have any memories of him." The girl tried, but there wasn't anything to find in that head of ever to come to know the small child.

"Oh, that's our neighbor's son. You see, something unfortunate has happened to them," Arfast said that much, not wanting to go into deep details in front of the child.

"Oh, I'm sorry to hear…." At the moment, she gets interpreted by the sudden feeling of being lightheaded.

As if someone who hasn't had anything to drink or eat for a long time is about to soon pass out at that very second.

"Grima, are you alright, girl?" Hall see the girl start to lose control of her footing she was falling.

The woman quickly caught the girl in her arms, allowing her not to get hurt when falling onto the floor.

"Mother, what happened is she OK." Arfast got out of his seat and hurried over to his mother's side.

"I don't know that this was an unknown thing to happen. She was fine, and now this boy helped me carry Grima to a bed."

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[Somewhere in the forest]

Xalroz began to summon another imp using the circle again created by his blood. Just like the last time, it didn't take long for that second imp to appear.

This time, it was a female Imp with Ashen-gray skin and yellow eyes with a scorpion-like tail just like the male in appearance.

Like the male imp, she does the same reaction of wondering where the creature could be.

Once her eyes come to land on a certain someone with pointing ears and a violent skin tone standing in front of their view. This imp shows to be on guard knowing if this person was to be a friend or foe.

"Come to me, little imp." Xalroz offers an open hand for the female Imp to jump on.

She takes her time slowly coming toward the hand. When the imp had come close, it tried to sneak in to bite at it.

"Watch yourself, my hand isn't for you to bite, so try again this time right, or those teeth are to find themselves on the ground." He warns her with that harsh tone of a threat.

She was watching carefully as she made it close again to his hand, this time getting onto this time obeying."Good girl, climb up now and get on my other shoulder."

The female Imp seems to like that praise from Xalroz happily walking up his arm. When seeing that other imp who was staring back at her with a wide and unattractive smile.

She seems to be disgusted with that imp expression quickly flying over to the left side of the shoulder. Sitting down nicely close to the face just then, the female Imp lays her face against his rubbing it.

"Now that I have you two, then there is no further need for this." Xalroz had the blood-created circle destroyed, needing not to leave it for someone to come across.

When that has been taken care of, he then starts to walk for a time in any direction and talks to the imps.

"Pay very close attention to the words that will come out of my mouth as I am sure you two aren't that intelligent to speak from your mouths. Nod your head if you understand me this far." Xalroz asked.

The two imps nod their heads slowly to his question."Alright, good to know in time. You both will become quite stronger and smarter as long as you two follow orders and don't try anything to stab me in the back. I don't take kindly to being betrayed."

The male imp shows to be greatly happy about the idea of becoming stronger while the female acts normal with open ears to listen more to what he has to say.

"First, you will need names to be called by as I don't intend to call you just imps or give you numbers to go by. So your male imp will be named Dron." Xalroz said.

The male imp shows to like that name by making a noise."And you female Imp is to be called Veez."

The female reacted by just smiling at Xalroz. He saw it for a second and then turned back to look forward.

"Now that I take care of that, I will get on to the topic of the reason you both have come to be summoned by me. Dron, I'm going to have you assigned to watching and protecting a human girl for me." Xalroz tells the imp.

Dron's reaction to that was being annoyed to have to do such a task for a human female."I don't care how you feel about it. You are to do as your master commands, or you won't get any nice rewards from me."

Hearing about the reward, the imp changes his behavior knowing to get such things for doing his job.

"Veez, I will need you to do a special job for me. There is a certain demon I would like you to spy on as she is called Sannoth."

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