Looking at his reflection in the bowl of green soup, grabbing a spoon as everyone sat around the table.
Tiffen after handing out a bowl to everyone sat beside Alex, while Roland was opposite Alex and Tiffen was opposite Eveline, Eveline then spoke;
“Well, I hope everyone enjoys it… After all it’s herbs from our garden, chicken from town, and Tiffen’s help that brought this dish together, and we all haven’t had soup in a while, so I thought why not, you know?”
The small chuckle came from Roland from what Eveline had said, taking up his spoon he spoke as well;
“It’s been a while since we have all sat around the table, if anything I am quite please seeing we have all grown up… I guess what I am trying to say, is I am happy I came early to experience this again, and as a matter of fact it’s almost time we thought about school for Alex..”
『 I hadn’t even though about school… Well there goes my childhood, *sigh* 』Cael thought to himself, seeing Tiffen’s hand by his mouth, he looked over at the maid.
She was bent over with a spoon of soup nearing Alex’s mouth, Alex shook his head at the request saying;
“It’s okay, I can eat by myself now…” This struck the maid harder then a hammer, her feelings and total devotion to keeping Alex alive was almost shattered in an instant.
Remaining officially she pulled back her hand putting the spoon back into her bowl, almost going on strike she stayed silent as the look of defeat slowly piled into her eyes like a shallow gaze.
Eveline spoke over the top of this facing Roland, her concerned look matching her blond hair;
“Isn’t school a few years away? Like around five or six? Ah, Alex your already getting so old…”
Roland put a hand to his chin in thought; “Mmm, I have a feeling the time will fly by, right Alex?” Roland then went for his spoon taking a good spoon-full of his soup, waiting for an answer, Alex then spoke calmly;
“It might fly by, it might not, I don’t know at all…” Alex said without a doubt, thinking;
『 I don’t know how much longer this will last, it may just be a big gap between fragments, or I may be like this forever, regardless I need to lay low and enjoy my new life even as a child, so maybe school isn’t so bad?
I mean at least I would get to go into town and see other people… 』
Alex zoned out a little, thinking about his life and what’s to come, that’s when it hit him he still knew nothing about Roland, despite there fruitful conversation before he hadn’t know anything about his farther.
So seeing as the time was right, and nobody else was talking he questioned Roland saying; Visit novelping.com for the full chapter.
“Dad, where are you going later? What are you doing?” Roland didn’t respond right away, he didn’t even look for a few moments, then he spoke calmly revealing his job to Alex;
“I work as a historian, so I spend my nights late out at the great library of the tree, there I work to organize history and discuss with anyone who needs help.
I am sure you have seen that big tree, it’s the stable of the town, there the inside of it is a library, carefully carved from the monks and woven to not hurt the tree.
Inside there are thousands of books, organized from time-periods to alphabetical order, I work to cross-reference books and organize them under the guidance of the monks.
Most of the monks come down from the mountains at night so that’s why they need me at night, does that answer your question?”
『 My Farther is a historian?
And better yet one that works in a tree, with monks… Mmm, it’s weird this world also has monks, I wonder if they are like the old monks or just landed on the same name… But that explains why he has been so absent, he has been a historian reading though many books to cross reference time frames, that’s actually really cool.
』
“Yes it does, I never knew…” Alex said, eating his soup respectfully, the weird flavor of green ran down his throat but the chicken made up for it.
Eveline watched him eat his soup, while Tiffen was also quite amassed by how fast he had picked up the spoon skill, wondering how he had become so good at it.
“So…” Roland said, looking at Alex; “Alex, it is some time away I am afraid, however, would you want to go to school? There is a small quite school right in town…”
Roland said Finishing his bowl of soup, resting his dry bowl down on the side, Eveline piped up at this talk of school saying;
“I don’t want him to leave, it feels all to sudden, plus he has to walk all the way into town and back alone…”
Roland turned to Eveline’s concerned face; “We will get there when we do, for now we are just talking we still have a few years before he can even go.. And if you want him to be safe in and out Tiffen can always walk him there and back or even you and I… But I want to know if he even wants to go, if he doesn’t I will start looking for books to teach him ourselves…”
him or teaching him if it came down to it.
Of course Alex was already smarter then most his age just from his prior knowledge from his past life, Cael also didn’t mind going to school, if anything it would give him time to relax and think about his life.
Roland turned back to Alex who struck a thinking pose, doing, well, just that, thinking;
『 Mmm, school will give me time alone and the schooling isn’t that hard so it should be easy.
If I stay here and learn I might never get out of this house..
I think the choice is obviously clear, plus I might even get to see that great tree and look at all the books inside, not that I am a reader, but to see the history of this world… 』
Alex looked up with a newfound courage, his face smiled slightly as he made another declaration, or well request;
“Yes, I would like to go to school when I am older… That would be very nice…” Alex said in a happy tone, Roland stood up also with a plaster smile, along side Tiffen and Eveline aswell, Roland spoke;
“Well then it’s sorted, school for Alex, well, it’s been fun but I best be off, see all of you later if your up that late…” Roland said putting on a coat, Eveline also spoke saying her farewells;
“Good bye, dear, see you later..” With a wave back to his family the door shut, in typical fashion Roland was out of the picture as fast as he got in.
Tiffen then stood up preparing the empty bowls and dirty dishes,
Tiffen also spoke along the chain of speaking;
“Well, now that he is gone, I shall get the table clean, please excuse me..”
She said walking off with some dirty dishes into the kitchen, Eveline couldn’t get that warm smile off of her face, waiting for Tiffen to leave she spoke to Alex;
“It’s been a long day hasn’t Alex?”
『 It sure as hell has been, to many things happened over today… 』He said saying something nicer;
“Yes a lot happened..”
“I think it’s prime time for your bedtime though, Mr…”
“Yes…”