Luck in gifts 1

Alycante was a city in which everything was decided by luck. It didn't matter how much money a person had, it didn't matter how noble he was. If he wasn't lucky enough, he didn't get better treatment in Alycante than the one who really was.

As a city not belonging to the government, it was absolutely not worried about the habits of the nobility. Since Alycante was guided by the Church of Luck, that is, Infey itself, whose concern wasn't about money, everything that was happening in the city was purely about the luck of visitors. Not even the king could do anything with the system. Not that he wanted.

For ordinary people, however, Alycante was a place where they were able to be at the same level as their nobles for at least a moment. If they were lucky enough.

However, although the Lacrisians were in the advantage in Alycante, Ylre knew that no one of the people present was above him. The first thing he did before entering the city was to buy wide straw hats. As it was a heat outside and at least partially they were able to hide their identity, it represented both practical and pleasing tools. At least for Rue pleasing, as he started having fun with the hat immediately, as if he had never seen any.

And so they went to the city prepared.

The entrance to Alycante hasn't been closed or supervised by soldier. The whole city was freely accessible, calm and no one has caused problems for centuries there. However, there were patrols in the city itself.

As soon as they went through the gate, each of them focused on something else. Ylre planned where it would be best to hide at night while Rue went to nearby stalls. Ylre barely kept up with him as he was enthusiastic again.

Ylre, however, wasn't surprised by his behavior. Alycante showed itself as truly splendid city. Not only was it unusually clean, full of music, colors and free atmosphere, but its streets, houses and everything was decorated with gold.

The Immaculate High -quality Gold, which didn't represent any rarity in Infey, was the aim of the envy of the countless places that the government barely held on the kick, not even decorated the streets with a valuable metal. However, the Church was powerful and whealthy enough.

"If you have luck, you can do everything ... If you believe in luck, you will get luck ... luck is the way to happiness..." so sounded the main church words that filled the atmosphere of Alycante all day.

However, not all habits in Alycante were harmless. Some were explicitly annoying and dangerous, and Ylre was given the impression that if another person address him wanting to compare luck with him, he would kill someone.

Everyone in Alycante had the urge to compare luck. As soon as one in this city nodded, he had to fulfill the winner wish. Not that he literally had to, but since the whole city was bound by the laws of the Church, and the whole Church was followed by the fact that a person with higher luck could control people with less, he was usually forced to do so.

Usually the winner wanted money, luck or assistance in a work.

If a person who lost didn't want to fulfill the wish, he could be reported to the priests amd then could get to the blacklist of the Church with which countless disadvantages came.

Therefore, it wasn't clever to accept the challenges and Ylre ignored them, although he would win. He couldn't afford to be reported to the Church if something happened. Not when he was with Rue who everyone in Alycante was looking for.

,, Buy a compass! Buy a compass ... Welcome, buy a compass ... "

Ylre wasn't listening but Rue stopped as always and looked at a lot of compasses. It was slowly getting dark outside, as they walked almost all day and Ylre would like to find a place to stay overnight. However, he didn't intend to take Rue's joy of getting to know the places, so he waited.

"I don't have a compass," Rue said, adding, "I don't think I would use it, but they're nice."

"All are of good quality. Let luck to choose one." The businessman said and nodded to a large crystal in the middle of the counter.

"What's that?" Rue didn't understand.

"You weren't in Alycante yet?" The guy asked.

"No." Rue clarified, so the guy said.

,,It will tell what kind of things you can buy. If luck loves you and wishes you, you'll get offers from which you can choose, it's a classic system in the city, "he said," The more luck, the better the choice. "

"In that case, I probably won't be able to buy nice things," Rue said, and looked at the crystal.

,,A number of Rinselans think so, but don't be fooled, as luck loves you, it's not always comparable to how much luck you have. Many have a lot of luck from their Lacrisans, but they can't buy anything because luck doesn't love them. But many of those without Lacrisans and without luck are the loved ones and can buy better things. Try." He said.

Although the words were really reasonable, Rue wasn't sure whether the logic covered him, since part of his connection with luck was destroyed, and he had no way to find out if luck loves him. He couldn't get anything from luck, although he could feel the connection.

"Will you try?" The guy asked.

"I will," Rue nodded, although he wasn't sure if he wanted to know the result.

"Just drip the blood on the crystal." The guy nodded to a box with the needles that Rue gave a look at and took one.

He dripped blood on the crystal which transparency changed to brown. Then it turned into red, orange and after a while it was yellow. In confusion of what happened, Rue looked at Ylre next to him who smiled gently and declared:

"Good results," he clarified, "you can buy a nice compass."

"But how is it possible?" Rue didn't understand.

"It is a common result, yellow is a middle standart. Luck accompanies you and although you don't have the best luck, you have enough," he said.

"I don't have it at all." Rue laughed, knowing it was true and looked uncomprehendingly at the crystal.

"With yellow, you can have some of the compasses of the lower and your category, you can buy any of them." He nodded to compasses.

"Thank you." Rue was looking forward and looked at Ylre beside.

Ylre, who was the only one to know what was going on here, smiled lightly, and when Rue asked him about his opinion, he pointed out the beautiful diamond compass, "No other is suitable for you."

He looked at a compass for a while, which wasn't in his category and laughed, "Beautiful, but I can't buy it. Although I had very similar in the past."

"This one, no one has ever been able to buy it. It's more of an exhibition," the salesman laughed and nodded to a stone shop behind, "there is a lot of compasses inside, this one is the most precious of them, we attract customers with it," he laughed, ,,but you can visit our store."

"No, thank you," Rue smiled and pointed to one of the compasses, "I'll take this one, it's nice."

"White gold, an excellent choice." He said, and after Rue paid they went away.

"If you say, I can buy you better," Ylre clarified, but Rue didn't want to.

Although Rue didn't understand how he could even be lucky to get the one he bought, Ylre knew that Rue had just used all the luck he had given him in a wine cup. Rue used a bit in their dice game, a bit to heal his injury. Ylre knew he really didn't have more luck. And even Rue could feel it, although he couldn't explain the changes.

In all this time he was used to not having luck, and although he felt the last days as if he had some, he still got used to his lack again.

"So everything in this city is decided by luck. Even housing and food?" Rue wondered.

"Yes," Ylre nodded, "If someone isn't lucky, he can't buy anything. Many people are unable to live here, but again, this isn't a place to live. It belongs to the church and the church is trying to show people the importance of luck over money and titles, so it isn't expected to live here for a long time. They want to teach them."Ylre clarified and stopped at one inn," What if we stayed and relax? We walked all day. "

"I agree."

"I will take the room for us," Ylre added.

They came to a long reception, where Ylre said, "I want a room for at least two three nights, or longer." He knew they were clearly reported from the cave and knew that the patrols in Alycante will be looking for them.

He assumed that they would look everywhere, but it was unlikely that they would focus mainly on Alycante, where it wasn't logical to go, not to stay longer. However, Ylre intended to take the chance to hide here for a few days, at least until the patrols on the roads around the cave and Alycante were reduced.

The guy at the reception nodded to the stone at the counter, "Ask luck which room you get," he said.

Ylre took one of the needles, stabbed his finger, and dripped a little blood to the crystal, which in a second lit up white. The guy closed his eyes as the light hurted his eyes and blinkled in confusion, as it didn't happen for a long time that someone's luck achieved the best level.

However, since Alycante was no place where people would ask for unnecessary details, the guy wasn't interested in who Ylre is and nodded to the rooms, "They are all available to you."

"I'll take one of the middle ones," he clarified.

The guy didn't consider strange that someone with such luck doesn't take the best rooms, as not everyone had enough money. He pulled out the key from the hanger, had him paid and added.

"An escort?" The guy looked at Rue with Ylre.

"Yes." Ylre took the key.

When they reached the door, they walked in, locked and light up the room lanterns. They came to the main part of the room, made up of a spacious bedroom. To the right was a double bed on which sides stood bedside tables. A moonlight passed through the window and illuminated the wooden bath filled with daily-changed water bellow.

"Nice." Rue was happy to have a place to sleep while Ylre just nodded.

"I'll let you bring some food or do you want to go somewhere?" He asked.

"I'm not hungry," Rue lay on the bed and laughed lightly how nice it was to be in someone's company on a pleasant journey, "but if you are, we can go somewhere."

"No need," Ylre knew they shouldn't show up anywhere in the evening in case they encounter someone, as Alycante was filled with Infeys.

He sat down by Rue, who pulled his white compass and opened it. He knew how compasses work, but it was a long time he used it, and hesitated. After a while, however, he put his finger to the small needle at the crystals down and waited. The stone was lightly reddish, after a while it turned yellow, swirled white and changed again to brown...through red, orange, yellow and again.

Rue blinked confusedly and looked at the compass hand that usually showed the direction where luck was waiting for a person.

"Strange." He added.

Ylre frowned dissatisfied at the compass in which the hand began to spin without a tendency to stop. He looked at it for a while, then at Rue, who seemed that it didn't bother him, but Ylre knew how he really felt. He sat in silence for a while, looking at the rotating hand that only confirmed Rue that luck wasn't waiting anywhere for him.

"It'll be just broken," he said and easily approached him, "I will fix it for you, can I?" he asked.

Rue gave him the compass, the stone went transparent again, the hand stopped moving. Ylre touched the hand with his finger and although he didn't do anything, he looked like he did. He handed the compass back to Rue and touched him lightly. However, as soon as Rue wanted to pull away, as he wasn't used to it and thought that Ylre just wasn't aware he was touching his shoulder, Ylre said.

"Try now," He put it in his palm.

Although he didn't know what had changed, Rue felt that something might be different, he put his finger back to the stone's needle and lit it up again. As soon as the hand moved, he even forgot that Ylre was touching him lightly and laughed contentedly.

"How did you do it?" Rue didn't understand and smiled happily.

A crystal that wasn't able to set up on a color, was yellow, a hand that couldn't stop, now showed a clear direction, as if it were really just a mistake that Ylre solved. And in fact he didn't lie at all.

"Sometimes the compass broke." Ylre clarified.

"But how nice, see," laughed Rue, "it points to you." He didn't know what it meant, but it felt incredibly pleasing. As if luck was telling him to stay by his side.

Ylre pulled his own compass and put his finger in it. The crystal glowed into the yellow, the hand stopped in Rue's direction and Ylre smiled, "Luck binds us together.

Rue's eyes were filled with pure happiness, "Do you think it's true?" Rue asked, "Really?"

"I will believe it does, cause I want to be with you," Ylre said, ,,what about you?"

"I believe in luck," Rue nodded as he didn't understand where Ylre was heading, "But why is your stone yellow? Below it was white?" He didn't understand and looked at Ylre's compass.

"Luck's unpredictable. One day it loves you, the next day it slams the door." Ylre said, as if he was filled with anger for a while.

Since Rue realized that the words were true for him, he closed his compass and said, "It's not a luck's mistake. We just don't understand."

Ylre pulled out of Rue lightly, the stone in his compass turned white in a second, but before Rue noticed Ylre his the compass.

He wanted to add something when someone knocked on the door. Ylre went to open, looked at the guy behind, and asked, "What do you want?"