Meet Lunderberg Mother, Emma

I leave the room I am going to stay the whole Winter holiday, and head downstairs, where the rest of the Lunderberg family is. And there is also a family member I haven't met yet, who is Fiona and Diana person who has brought them into this world and reached them some valuable lessons, and that is their mother. A person I had for a short period of time and didn't know very much about it.

When I entered the kitchen, I saw there the mother. She was cutting some vegetables using a sharp knife and boiling some water on a handmade stove, probably by her husband, if it not, maybe somebody else, who knows, because I didn't ask her about the stove. I know some houses have stones, even ours has one, but that one was made by our neighbor, who is an excellent crafter in the city.

"Hello," I say to the woman.

"Hm..." says the lady who is turning back with her knife. "Oh, it is you." he was said in a surprising way, not in a mean one. "Hello, Judah!"

"How do you know my name?"

"The girls told me," she says continuing to cut carrots. "So say, are you happy working with Fiona?"

"Yes," I respond to the woman's question while I head to the table. "May I sit?"

"Of course you can," she say after he saw me close to the chair. "After all, you are a member of our family."

"Yes... A family member." I say in such an uncomfortable way who gave the lady creeps even to this day. "I was wondering about something."

"About what?"

"About these girl's talent, you know?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, I mean those two girls have some different talents. Fiona got fighting, communicating, and even a talent for hunting people. And Diana... Where should I even begin, she can do everything."

"Diana cannot do everything."

"What do you mean by this?"

"Well... When she was four years old, she saw her sister coming home with something. And the thing she brought home was a flute, a musical instrument. Do you know what a flute is?"

"Yes. I saw one." I respond to their mother while I remember the time I was locked up and saw a mage who was using his flute to make us or some of us sleeping in the cells.

"Good. When she tried to use the flute, she didn't sing as beautifully as her sister."

"Wait. you mean Fiona can sing at a flute? I didn't know that."

"That is because she is singing on special occasions, like the celebrations we are going to do in the following days. She will most likely take her flute and go sing in the crowd while Diana and I are going to cook."

"Thank goodness you let Diana cooking," I say that thing without realizing I have said it out loud.

Then, their mother turned around, feeling very insulted, and she just tosses me a palm on my left cheek, telling me that a man should never insult a woman cooking because it is rude and it will also make him single forever. But when she did that, she also said to me.

"She got her cooking talent from her father."

"Aha," I responded.

Then, Diana, who was bringing a wolf in the kitchen, told her mother that she finally caught the dinner. The mother turned around, she saw the wolf and she just thanked her remarkable daughter who is an expert in hunting. After she put the wolf on the table, Diana looked at me and she asks me.

"You want to go and see the village?"

"Sure," I respond to her request. "Could I take my wand?"

"Don't worry. If something is going to jump at us, it will just Meghan fat cat."

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A few moments later, I and Diana are walking on the streets of this village, I saw some people on the streets, I waved at them, but some of them did not respond by waving back or just welcoming me. And I know why they think I am some kind of a traveler who will stay there for a bit and he will later leave this village, but I will stay here for a much more period of time because the holidays are going to take a while.

Then, we saw an old lady on the road, who carrying a few pieces of wood, a few of them falls from her back. So, anyway, I have decided to go there, together with Diana, and help her carry those woods to her house, which it was a few meters from where we are. The lady thanked us for doing this, but Diana just said.

"We just do our job."

A few minutes later, we have put all of the woods on the property at the old lady, and then we left her and continue walking in the village. When we have taken a corner, Diana asked me.

"Are you happy helping people?"

"...Yes. People need to be helped, right? All of them. Need a hand."

"Yes. They need but not everyone. You will see people in life who wanted help just to get something from you. Something dear."

"... Does it ever happened to you?"

Diana took a long pause, while she and I are walking and she looks in the sky for a second, then she told me.

"It is. It happens to every human being."

"I understand."

"And... What do you think about this village?" says Diana who is trying to change the subject.

"It is cool. The people seem nice."

"Not all of them are nice. Some wanted to see the world burning."

"And those are?"

"Weaker than we are."

We then stopped in the middle of a bridge and looked in the water, because we have heard someone screaming "Help!". Diana has quickly jumped from the bridge into the river and win to the person who is trying to swim. I could've helped her by using a transportation spell, but I do not have my wand and book with me. Diana has successfully rescued the girl from the water and dragged her on the land. And I run there to see if the girl needs my healing spell.

When I arrive there, Diana has finished checking her pulse and she told me.

"Do it, Judah!"

I put both of my hands on her chest and apply the "Heal" spell. That spell could help her live cause this is not the first time I was trying to cure someone from drowning in the water. The first time was when I was with Fiona in a village to patrol, while we were in the war, and one man was in the water almost dead. Thankfully, with Fiona's pure strength and my healing spell, we could save the guy's life.

After a few seconds, the girl was coughing water from her mouth and she looks scared. We are trying to calm her, while she is crying she is trying to tell us who did this to her.

"T-T-Tw-Twins De-Debraco di-di this to m-me!"

"What?" asks Diana who seems confused. "These kids are still here?"

"Y-Yes." says the little girl who looks like she is starting to feel better. "Th-They have also taken my money and throw me from the bridge while they were laughing."

The little girl quickly hugs Diana, and she let her do it. Also, Diana looks at me and she says.

"Those are the people I told you earlier."