User blog:Pollux83/Beyond Light and Darkness, Chapter 2

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I went to visit my old friends. I found out that Kai had joined the military and trained on the training ground. Once there, I grabbed a sword and a training armor and challenged him promptly.

Kai: "Hey, you're new here? I've never seen you here."

Mareus: "Yes, I just got here."

Kai: "Well then, let's see what you can."

We both raised our swords and started to fight.



Kai: "You're not so bad, but you need more work on your technique. If you would hold your sword more so, then you could parry your opponent's attack a lot easier."

Mareus: "Thanks for the tip, I'll try to memorize it."

Kai: "Oh yes", with a powerful blow he took me out of my balance, "in your footwork you have to work too."

Lying on my back, I had to laugh. "You really have not changed at all, but with the sword I could never beat you."

Kai thought for a moment, because I seemed somehow familiar. "Wait a minute, you're probably not Mareus. Oh, with this hairstyle I don't recognize you."

Mareus: "Funny, this said my mother to me too."

We both laughed.

Kai: "Come on. You have surely to tell a lot of stories."

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Mareus: "Well, not directly stories, but I can now this." I stretched out my right hand to the sky and fired a fireball.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Kai: "That also you can now? I'm curious about everything you have learned in Tegras."

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Mareus: "Quite a lot, but you were not idle as I can see."

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Kai: "Certainly, 2 months ago I was even promoted to sergeant.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Mareus: "Well then, congratulations for carriage."

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Kai: "Thank you very much. But tell me, what have you planned to do now?"

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Mareus: "Let's see, but in any case I still wanted to see Lara first. You don't know where she is, or?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Kai: "Mmm ... at this time she should be in Nerans forge."

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Mareus: "In the forge of Neran? Don't tell me that she is with him in teaching."

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Kai: "Oh yes and she is talented too. If she keeps this up, then she would be famous through the whole country."

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Mareus: "So now you really exaggerating. But what do you think if we both would pay her a visit."

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Kai: "I'm sure she is overjoyed to see you again. Assuming she recognizes you with this hairstyle at all." He grinned cheekily.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Mareus: "Really, what problem have all with my hair?"

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<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">After Kai had signed out in the barracks, we went to the forge. Once there, we went inside. A small bell rang.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Lara: "Look down quietly before I'll be around."

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">The shop was full of armors, swords and other weapons. So everything a soldier needed.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Lara: "Neran is on the road and will be back until the end of the week. Until then, you will have to content with me."

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Lara stepped out of the back room, where there was the actual forging.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Lara: "Ah Kai, it's you. You could come visit me more often. I see you almost only when you do any errands for the barracks."

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">She took off quickly something behind the counter and then came closer.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Lara: "And whom did you bring me here to..."

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">A smile from me was enough and she immediately knew who I was. Full of joy, she jumped into my arms with zest. A little too much zest, because the next thing I remembered was the wooden floor and Lara, who laid slightly startled at me.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Kai: "Hey you two, are you OK?"

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Mareus: "Ouch." *I had completely forgotten that Lara was so impetuous, already as a little child and had way too much energy. And why I'm again on the ground?!*

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Lara pretty hectic: "Mareus are you okay? I'm so sorry. Come, I'll help you up."

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">I took her right hand and pulled me up.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Lara: "Since when are you here again? What have you experienced in Tegras? ..."

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Mareus: "Stop, stop, stop. Take it easy. I'm happy to see you again too."

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">I noticed that I was still holding her hand and I realized that I never wanted to let her go, again. With my two hands, I finally surrounded her hand. When I looked over at her smiling, I noticed that tears ran down her face. She lowered her head, so I took my hand and pushed her long blonde hair to the side and gently touched her cheek. In this moment we were both aware of what we actually already knew all those years deep in our hearts.

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<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">We had been friends from childhood on, had experienced countless things together, were best friends a whole lifetime and yet, we realized the truth only when it was almost too late.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">3 years, 3 long years had passed, 3 years in which none of us could forget the face of the other. And now, after all these years, none of us wanted to be longer separated from the other.

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<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">This moment, the moment in which we both laid in the arms of the other and looked at each other in the blue eyes, the moment we kissed for the first time, this moment is one of the most beautiful moments of my life and I will keep this moment in my heart until the end of my life.

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<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">After what felt like an eternity, we realized that Kai was still there. I looked over at him. He smiled contentedly. Kai had not to say anything, his gaze was enough. I understood and looked back at Lara.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">I gently touched through her hair. "You're still as beautiful as then."

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">"Only as beautiful as then?"

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">"Um ... I meant, of course, you're much more beautiful now."

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">"Oh, is that so." She started to giggle.

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<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Kai: "So you two, you want to stand around here any longer? I can go if you want to be alone, that's no problem for me."

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">A single evil look of Lara was enough and Kai was clearly cowed.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Lara: "Say, what you have actually done with your hair?"

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Mareus: "Well, in Tegras the boys don't have long hair and so I came to this short hairstyle."

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Lara: "I think it is much better now. With this long hair you looked more like a girl than a boy."

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Kai had to hold back his laughter visibly.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Lara: "I am imagining it or is your blonde hair become even darker?"

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Mareus: "Yes, they are still somewhat darkened."

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Lara: "If you consider that you had as a young boy almost silver-white hair. That always surprises me."

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Mareus: "I can't change it. Your hair, however, still shine as gold blond as ever."

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Lara: "Well, what do you think when I quickly concluding here and then we go eat something together."

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Kai: "So I'm with you."

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">I looked deep into her eyes: "Gladly."

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Lara: "Well, there you can also tell us all you have experienced in Tegras."

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<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">*Really nice to be back and my stomach also already growls. Wait a minute, have I ever taken money?*