chapter21: Little girl in the forest

We approached the train that will leave us in the city that is closer to the town of the giants, on the way we asked some people the direction to take to go there, but it turns out that not many people had knowledge about the giants, and that is why some of the people we asked looked at us as if we were having something wrong in their heads and that they were telling us that the giants could not exist, but when we asked a woman who seemed to be a magician, she indicated the right way, and it turned out that we were traveling towards the opposite direction, so we no longer go to the city without sound and change course.

The trip on the train was long and exhausting and in addition to being very embarrassed because of a certain person who is sitting next to me who does not stop acting like a little girl, she was sitting at the window looking at the landscape we passed, and at each while I was wondering what this was, and what was this other, what was that called etc. I was asking all kinds of questions out loud and without worrying about the other people who were on the train with us, it was like a little girl, ..... no, ... I think it was worse than a little girl, because even 5-year-old girls knew how to behave. From time to time I could hear the laughter of the passers who were watching mikumo's behavior.

We traveled for 2 days until we reached our destination, I had to wake up the sleeping beauty who was drooling my entire shoulder.

-Hey, wake up, we're here.

-"Hey, what happens, it's already daylight," she said, yawning and still with her eyes closed.

-It's already night, and we've just arrived, so get up quickly, or I'll leave you here.

After we left the train, we entered the city, I must say that it was a very busy city of people moving from here and there and loud, with music playing everywhere and the lights shining in the dark night, there were food stalls everywhere and people shouting to sell their products. Apparently they were partying and that was why it was very loud. The celebration lasted about three days which is what I heard, do not ask the reason, why I am not interested, but if what I am interested in is the food they are selling already we spent two days by train and had not been able to eat enough.

We entered a restaurant that had the appearance of serving good food since there were many people who are seen to have a lot of money and who were high class like the nobles. We were met by a waiter who took us to a table and set the menu for us to choose the dishes we are going to eat.

The atmosphere inside was nice and elegant, all very tidy and clean. Soon after ordering our food they brought us several dishes of different food on the table, we proceeded to eat quietly and enjoying good food. After a while we finished with everything, and when the waiter passed by our table, we took the opportunity to ask him some questions.

-Excuse me sir, I can ask you a few questions!

-Oh, of course it doesn't bother me.

-¿Do you know where the city of giants is located, the town of the sun?

-Oh, so you go to that town. You know, several people have tried to get there, but it is said that it is very difficult to reach and that is why several people who have gone after they return.

-But why is that, is it perhaps very difficult to arrive?

Well, for some people it is difficult to see those mountains there, "the point to the mountains that you could see through the window", if they want to get there they just have to cross those mountains and behind them it is said that you can find what you are looking for.

Or, thanks for the information, I thanked the waiter and left the restaurant and went to find a place to spend the night to go out the next day.

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The next morning we prepared with a lot of food and water since apparently arriving there took between a day or two, they also told us that there could be animals on that side, but that is no problem for us. We had walked for about two hours and we were in a deep part of the mountains when I felt a small presence of a person who was ahead, so we kept going until we reached the place where the small presence was, was hiding behind a tree, and you could only see the little girl's head, she was hiding from us so I talked to her.

Hello little girl, what are you doing there? "I reached down to her height and asked her as kindly as possible, she peeked her head a little more and I could see her eyes, they were empty and dead. She had lost the brightness of her eyes, but she wasn't blind, only that the eyes of the children her age were brighter and full of life, but she didn't have them that way. "

Hello little girl, what are you doing hiding there, come over here, "I said and ducked a little more, but I did not go near and stay in the same place so that he does not panic, since he may not trust us."

Look, you want some food or something to drink ?, I showed the food in my hand and apparently that caught her attention, since very slowly she came out behind the tree where she was hiding and finally I could see how it was the little one

She was a small girl who was not more than 4 or 5 years old, had a little long red hair that reached her shoulders, had dirty hair and disheveled, she was naked and malnourished, and seemed not to have eaten in days. When he came out, he approached me at a slow pace and his legs were shaking, when she approached me, she hesitantly took the food that I had in my hand and began to eat it slowly and carefully not to scare her, I stretched out my hand to her head, and I began to pat them on the head to let him know that I was not going to hurt her, and apparently it worked as she made me closer to me.

I sat on the floor and she looked at me, I patted her legs so she could sit down, but apparently she didn't understand what she wanted to do, so I took her and sat her on my legs so she could eat the food that I gave her more calmly. I had also seen how her legs were shaking and she seemed as if she could fall at any moment. She looked at me for a while and then continued slowly eating what she had in her hand.

Okay, eat slowly that nobody is going to take that food away from you, I told her stroking her head and trying to comb her dirty and disheveled hair a little, then I gave her a bottle of water that she began to take it with pleasure.

Mikumo: What are you going to do with the girl? Also because she was alone in the forest, she would not have been left here to her fate or not, whether she lives or dies.

Yuujiro: Well, apparently that was what happened, someone who didn't like children or didn't like her, left her here in the woods instead of taking her to an orphanage.

After she finished eating, she just looked me in the eye and said nothing, just stared at me, I cleaned her mouth, pulled out some of my t-shirts and put it on her. As my shirt was large, she covered her entire tiny body, she looked at the clothes I put curiously on her face, and I took her in my arms and proceeded to stand up with her clutching me with her little hands around my neck and her wrapped legs on my waist. She grabbed me like a little koala very tightly.

A while ago we passed a river, let's go there! I told Mikumo, so we could return a little since we had passed through a river and that will help us to bathe the little girl.