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Chapter 4 - Home

 {In the middle of the night}

 hearing that annoying ringing Gale Wake up in fear his heart pounding to the point that he starts feeling pain in his chest.

 Gale leans a little bit backward taking one long breath feeling the freshest air in his life like he has not taken a breath before in his entire life because it assures him that he is alive and not dead.

 Gale smells the delightful home' scent of the old wooden house they live in and feels someone holding both his hands looks around in the darkness but cannot see anything except the dim moonlight in the room coming from the window in front of him.

Gales feels the soft bed he sleeps on but cannot think clearly of where he is.

 Gale lay down in bed waiting for his eyes to get used to the darkness to see himself in his parent's wooden bed his mother Neva holding his left hand tightly putting his hand on her cheek seeing her sitting on her knees beside the bed made him feel guilty to make her sleep like this giving her more problems. Gale pulls his hand slowly away from his mother.

On the other hand, he sees Anya put her hand on his wrist and feels annoyed by seeing her, he pulls his hand away quickly moving his hand like as if she is gone infects him with disease.

 Moving his shoulder away makes him feel enormous pain like a fire burn on his face.

Gale put his hand on the right side of his face spot where the shot came out from, feels a scar spot on his face giving headache and pain the more he put pressure on that spot.

 Gale is curious about what happened when he aimed at the back of his throat, the bullet should have killed him but no he survived what must have killed him back then, how did he awaken a power like his father, trying to remember that a moment.

 Gale tries hard to remember that feeling at that moment when time moved slowly for him, Gale knows for a fact that it rotated inside his mouth but how did it happen all he remembers is his fear of death at that moment but that wasn't what makes him survive at that time. There was something he felt something unusual something new to him.

 He was feeling the bullet moving slowly the more he tried to remember that strange feeling the same annoying raining in his head again louder and louder the more he tried to remember that feeling the more he felt dizzy again, his heart started to pound roughly can't breathe freely forcing him to make scream in pain: ahh...., but doesn't that last long before he faints again.

 His tired mother Neva wakes up from her sleep but does not last for long as her son Gale screams in pain seeing him falling on her body cannot help but feel fear and worry.

 Neva who's sleeping holding her son's hand so she can have a grasp of comfort that her son is still with her not like her lost husband Ian, who had disappeared for two years.

 But to wake up can't feel her wounded son's hand by her hand when she left them while she was asleep at the moment can't feel anything but terrified and to top all off to her to see him laying his back on the wall in her bed before he passes out and collapse on her body with his helpless scream.

Neva wants to cry to scream but cannot do either of these as she is his mother, does not matter how young she is, she must take responsibility for him, Dmitri, and Anya.

She lay Gale back, her eyes widening in shock and fear, extended her hand, and started shaking Anya roughly telling her: Anya wake up Anya, Anya, Anya.

 Anya has been healing Gale all day nonstop since morning despite she can't heal in one time like her grandma that is all they get but it is better than nothing for a lethal injury that destroyed part of the right side of her face and jaw.

 Anya wakes up to her mother telling her to treat her brother again who has been healing him without holding any effort: Anya heals Gale quickly.

 Anya Who is partly asleep cannot see anything and does not know really what happened and questions where she is right now but does her mother as she always does without asking twice and extends her hands above her brother's wound and starts healing him again as she did it in the morning.

'Whistle'

 {in the morning}

Dmitri inter home rushing sweating, tearing, his clothes covered in blood his own brother's blood can't speak.

Anya who had been reading a book bigger than her face stopped and looked over her grandma's book to see Dmitri holding Gale in shock while Gale dripped blood at the door.

She used her healing magic as soon she saw the right side of his face covered in blood drabbing from him to the ground while holding him with his arms crying, she could see him suffering barely breathing, without asking or even thinking.

Anya is eager to help her brother without thinking twice she raises her hand with what she has been taught by his deceased grandmother and what she practices with her, she uses healing magic that her brother needs but isn't fast nor good like her grandma whose power that goes beyond what she can ever do or try to do with her young age.

When she used her magic made her veins start to turn greenish with dim light while illuminating green particles go out of her palm and come around surrounding her covering Gale's right side of his face and making the blood stop from draining out of his body and start to form Layer of flesh in damage spot slowly till she reaches the point of exhaustion when draining out of her mana and can't use healing magic aging for hour or so. that her bother was in need for the time to pass quickly so she can use her magic aging to grow the skin back slowly, and so on, step by step.

 In the end, her brother was showering signs of relaxation as he started to breathe normally again after hours of healing him, she waited a few minutes then Anya sat on the ground breathing heavily but with joy as Gale was safe and well, she said to her mother: I think Gale will be better now. Neva looked at the mark on his face and asked nicely: can't you heal back to normal, Anya?

Anya answered while she was sweating on the ground: I can't heal the rest of his face now I will try aging later; Neva nicely asked her youngest with a worried smile after she relaxed a bit: are you sure he is going to be alright my sweet angel. Anya with a joyful smile answered: surely, he is going be alright, grandma taught me that…

Anya stopped talking as she felt exhausted.

Neva said to herself: relaxed Anya said he is going to be alright then he's going be alright. But she can't ignore the sight of her wounded son in her bed, can't ask her tried daughter so much if she can you Anya heal his face to go back to normal.

 Anya assured her worried mother even if she asked: I will heal his face shortly after…

 Neva looks at her daughter for the first time since Gale injured himself to sees her sweaty barely opening her eyes fighting herself to still be awake shocked at how bad the small Anya looked.

 Neva felt anxious and sad: oh no sorry sorry I didn't know my little dear Anya how bad I have treated you today. While going immediately to her, Neva sits beside Anya wiping over her sweat and taking her in her arms can't stop her guilt as she is their mother but can't do anything but ask Anya to help him and not her.

 Anya said softly and slowly while sleeping in her mother's arms: but it's not a problem I want to... help ga..le...

 Anya slept in her mother's lap with a smile before she could finish her sentence making her mom shed some tears in silence Neva tried to get her in bed beside her brother but her hands shook in pain because of how weak she was, didn't eat, struggle to sleep Despite that she do it anyway she picks her up and put her in bed eventually and sit on the ground looking at her children wiped her tears and said to herself: everything went alright.

Time goes by doesn't care about anything anyone except for her family telling herself while smiling wishing Dmitri and Ian were on the bed with Anya and Gale how it would be a wholesome sight for them all to gather like the old days were grandparents were alive.

Then she slept her legs on the ground while holding Gale's hand beside her bed.

{in the evening}

 'Whistle'

 Neva looks at Anya raising her hand with sleepy, closed eyes.

'Whistle'  

Neva turned her sight to the window to see a green light pierce through the window far away in the sky without thinking, the window as if she had been charmed to see a green light leaving a trace of light behind it Accompanied by a loud whistle that becomes louder and louder echoes in distance hurting her ear shock at what she is hearing she says: no no no that can't be right it can't be one of the intem.

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