On the run, An encounter.

Kiddo remember, what I told you, never give up hope, because as long as you are alive, you can do anything okay, both of you should start going I have some visitors to attend to.

Aunty Li and Xin Yan began their new journey to the centre continent.

After they left Uncle Che went back to the house and died with their family house, what a tragedy.

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Ten years later.

Xin Yan is fourteen years old now.

At the northern entrance of cloud community, this is one of the subsidiary of the Northern centre continent .

This is one of the places you find marketers and travellers, especially those merchants who supply basic necessities to the nearby communities or counties.

Xin Yan and aunty Li are currently inside one of the caravans heading to the cloud community, since the centre continent was their destination both of them have been traveling from place to place, Xin Yan's appearance doesn't look like her appearance ten years ago because of the difficult life and right now aunty Li is currently holding her hand and whispering in her ear, don't worry we will get there soon and you know that we are still on the run, we will only be free when get to the centre continent.

After seven days journey they all arrived at their destination, the depot , Xin Yan and the other people began to carry out the goods from the caravans into the warehouse ( for the past days of travels all the people who followed the caravans had become familiar and since aunty Li and Xin Yan don't have money to pay they decided that she should work to pay for it).

After carrying everything into the warehouse, they were given some food to eat and water to drink.

After they rested for hours they all entered into town, Xin Yan and aunty Li to an inn which was the cheapest in town and lounge there.

Well the reason this inn was called the was the cheapest was being that from the house, food and wine down to the visitors are all cheap why? only poor people comes here because of the inn's poor infrastructure.

At night the guests would be listening to cricket songs for entertainment but there's another secret, those who do not want people to set eyes on them or those looking for a place without worrying, disturbance or stress usually comes here including travelling nobles who are in disguise loves coming here to hide.

Well staying here is very cheap, it's three silver coins, having stayed here for two weeks aunty Li and Xin Yan continued their journey today.

After walking for days, they came to a valley at the outset of the subsidiary community the whole valley is cloudy that you can't see who or what is ahead of you and this where the cloud community got its name from.

Seeing this aunty Li held Xin Yan's hand very close and tightly, being that they have been together for the past ten years they've become very close.

Surprisingly the valley is so quiet, there is no sound of birds or of animals. I know that you will be wondering what are they doing here, well if you are going to the centre continent you must go through here no other way.

After walking for a while they both came to a swamp filled with shallow water and besides it lay a body, they were frightened and don't know what to do they began to think if they should go back the way they have come but looking back they can't find any way back, the valley is just too cloudy, both of them came close to the body and tried turning the body to see if he or she is still alive and after turning the body surprisingly it is a lady with well defined face with good proportion even though the beauty was buried under the dirt on her face.

She's still alive said Xin Yan after checking her pulse, aunty Li shook her head and said, she's very lucky if we had come a little bit late, should would have died, give her some water to drink and use water to clean her face and her bruises, you can apply this to her injuries and let her rest over there. They both carried her out, cleaned and allowed her rest not too far away from the swamp. Because both of them were also tired they decided to rest beside the injured lady.

Because of how cloudy the valley is, any person here will feel it hard to tell the weather conditions, when Xin Yan opened her eyes it was as if the weather was getting dark, seeing this she stretched her hand to touch aunty Li and after some trying she woke up as well, they both got up to check on the lady who was soundly asleep.

She will wake up soon said Xin Yan after checking her pulse and not up to an hour later, the lady opened her eyes, and to her shock there were two ladies, one old and the other young looking at her expectantly, she asked, am I still living.

They both answered in chorus, yes.

Really that is good, thank you, she said after calming down her emotions, she looked at Xin Yan and aunty Li and said I am Lou Qin. I am aunty Li and she's Xin Yan, we've been together for years, she's like a daughter to me.

Lou Qin smiled and said then she will be my sister from this day onwards. And just like that Xin Yan and Lou Qin became sisters for life what an encounter.

After some days of resting, Lou Qin recovered and was always full of smiles and bagan to tell aunty Li and Xin Yan about her self.

Well according to her, she's from the centre continent, the Lou Family, it's a prominent middle class family and she's from a popular school called the moon school, and besides this moon school are other six schools namely the sun school, the star school, the life school, the food school, the craft school and the devil school.

What do you mean by devil school asked Xin Yan after listening to Lou Qin.