A Jaded Life Chapter 1073

Amusingly, the aftermath of the search for two children, too caught up with the power they had gained thanks to their magic, was just as exhausting as the search itself had been. Just a very different kind of exhausting, where the search had been slightly exhausting physically and a little worse when it ca to magical and ntal exhaustion, the aftermath was a thing of emotions, which could be incredibly exhausting in its own right, even if there shouldn’t be any real investnt on my part. Sure, I had t them and considered them quite talented when it ca to magic, but other than that, there were a few hundred children of similar age living in the Denver-Springs area and the number of children who had perished in the change was mindboggling enough to avoid thinking about it. Well, the number of people who had perished in and shortly after the change was sothing nobody wanted to think about, with children sadly being a statistically overrepresented subset of that number. Adults, even untrained ones, had an okay chance to evade and escape the Shattered but a child, especially one trapped in a ho with the Shattered who used to be their parents? None of them would make it out alive.

Maybe my desire to protect these two children ca from so sort of subconscious need to protect the young of the species, triggered by the knowledge that literal millions of children had died that pushed to find and help them, maybe it was a need to demonstrate my ability, maybe one of the reasons I had given Luna had been compelling , I wasn’t sure and now, in hindsight, I couldn’t really tell why I had pushed myself as I had.

Not that it truly mattered, I rely noticed an interesting data point and promised myself to look into my own behaviour so more, especially as I sought to understand the mysteries of the mind. After all, if I wasn’t able to understand my own mind, how would I ever be able to understand the mind of another person? Let alone extract the mories of Sigmir which might possibly, with a lot of hope, be encoded in so way into the Legacy of Morgana thanks to the EXP she had gifted in her last mont? No, I needed to understand my own mind, just as much as I needed to understand how other people functioned, though given just how important my mind was to , I would be a lot more cautious when it ca to the exploration of my self.

But that was sothing for later, first, there was the aftermath of two dumb kids to deal with. The first part of that ca when Maggy caught up to us with Silva and Jack, all of them looking slightly harried, only to spot , sitting on a comfortable seat of Ice and the two kids who had beco very introspective and quiet during my lecture. The sheer incredulity on their faces was sothing I would savour for so ti, especially the canine expression of disbelief on Silva’s face was one for the ages.

Jack was the one breaking through his stupor first, looking at Maggy with a bit of annoyance and confusion, asking why the hurry had been necessary, only for Maggy to shush him and grab the two kids into a hug, barely looking at for the mont. Then, once she had hugged the stuffing out of them, possibility breaking a bone or two in the process given how much Liam had groaned as he was hugged, she tried to do the sa with and it was only thanks to my supernatural resilience that I escaped crippling injuries. Maybe the woman wasn’t so sort of thief and spy, maybe she had missed her calling as an assassin, capable of killing people in a single hug. Bewear of the Maggy, for she is a hugger.

Once the hugging was done to Maggy’s satisfaction, or maybe because she realised us puny mortals needed to breathe, she demonstrated that she most certainly did not. There was no other explanation for how she could be able to deliver an impassioned scolding, lasting for multiple minutes without pausing long enough to draw a single breath, at least not one I noticed. Sure, there was the possibility that she had excellent breath control but given the volu and vigour of her address, I was personally leaning more towards so sort of ability that allowed her to absorb oxygen through her skin.

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Once that was done, and a short apology from Liam, Sandy and Maggy was delivered to a now fairly bemused-looking Jack, we returned to the tower and to the other part of the aftermath, the slightly unexpected part.

But I should have expected the situation, I certainly had seen a sign of it before. The second part of the aftermath ca from Luna, who I now realised was deeply unhappy about the current situation and feeling more than just a little neglected. As such, she barely looked at when we returned to the tower, though she was present and her entire body-language and expression scread that she was unhappy with , almost louder than any words could.

It only took a mont to realise where the problem was. Just earlier, I had promised her that she, Luna, was my priority, only to disappear from the spot I had been sitting on, leaving her behind. No matter how ntally mature she was, thanks to the effect of her system on her mind, there seed to be a component of emotional maturity and stability she hadn’t attained yet. The situation also drove ho that Luna had gone from what was essentially an only child to sobody who had to share their parental figure. Before, we had been spending nurous hours every day together, only interrupted by my experints, which she occasionally joined, her own interests or certain basic necessities. And if I wasn’t with her, Silva made usually sure that Luna wasn’t left alone and endangered, acting as companion and protector at the sa ti.

But now, with the amount of teaching I was doing and the fairly high security in the area, especially within the tower itself, Luna was left alone a lot more than she had been. Granted, she also had additional responsibilities, mainly when it ca to teaching and guiding the students we had collected, but I had a feeling that those weren’t enough to make my daughter happy.

Walking over, consciously separating myself from Jack, Maggy and the two kids, I briefly tried to find the right words to say, only to co up empty. So, instead of trying to speak, I simply placed a hand on Luna’s shoulder, even as she demonstratively looked away from , studying so object nearby intently.

“Would you like to show how much you have managed to accomplish with the Kara’kesh we found in the dungeon? You had it for quite so ti now and I’m curious if you found out sothing we didn’t know before,” I asked her, my voice quiet so nobody else could hear. Well, maybe Silva would manage with her canine ears, but nobody else.

For a mont, Luna continued to look away from before starting to walk, heading roughly in the sa direction Maggy and I had used earlier, when looking for her, thinking the two kids were with her. After taking a few steps, she looked over her shoulder and made a brief, almost curt, motion with her head, indicating I should follow.

If it was anybody but Luna, I would have utterly ignored the implied insult, the gesture that she had a right to command but for my dear daughter, especially in this particular case, I wasn’t about to chastise her for it, at least not harshly. We would talk, and I would make my displeasure at her behaviour quietly known, but I wasn’t about to throw away a chance to soothe the hurt I had inadvertently caused her.

So, I followed after her, waiting for her to talk if she wanted to. If now, I was perfectly content to wait until we reached her clearing, the place we were most likely headed to, and I had seen her recent accomplishnts with the curious device we had recovered in the nearby dungeon.

Thinking of that place, we might want to go there again at so point, get so extra EXP, maybe find out if the supplies we found there continued to be generated or if that had been so sort of one-ti thing.

Either way, that was for later, for now, I had so accomplishnts to observe and to assure my daughter that she was, and would remain, important to , not sobody I would leave behind for any real amount of ti. As long as she wanted to remain by my side, she would have her spot, just like I wouldn’t send Lia away, though that was an entirely different topic. One that might co up sowhat soon, depending on how her continued relationship with Samantha developed and what priorities she decided to set for herself.