Chapter 3

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“can I help you miss?” asked the barman.
“just a glass of water please…”
Embria sat in an old dusty inn. She was tiered from her travelling and still had no progress on finding where she came from.
“here you go.” The barman arrived with her drink. She had been so deep in thought she hadn’t realized he was there until he tapped her hand.
“oh… I apologize… I’m in a world of my own… how much do I owe you?”
the man put out his hand, and shook his head, “it’s on me. You look like you’ve had a hard day.”
She quietly thanked him and took a sip of water.
She bent over the bar, hiding her face with her tall hat, and long flowing black hair.
She started to think again. Thinking about where she should go next… was there anywhere left to go? …how many years had she been travelling? Easily over a hundred…
‘lets see… four… five…six… wow seven hundred years…’ a slight shiver rippled down her spine, a glare… she looked up slightly. A man at the other side of the bar was watching her. He must have seen her looking because he smiled and stood up.
She took another sip of water and straightened up.
“well hello, beautiful… do you believe in love at first sight or shall I walk past again?” Embria looked around to see the young man who was watching her, sat down next to her, flirtatiously smiling.
His black fringe covered the familiar markings on his tanned face. Embria had similar markings on her face. She lifted her head to take a better look.
He saw her face and looked shocked. She raised a hand and moved his hair to take a closer look at the markings.
“do you remember any of your past?” she questioned.
“um… no… not much of it…” his smile had now completely faded and he began to fidget.
“excuse me for being forward and intruding… but… what do you remember?” she brushed her hair being her ear and pushed her hat up a little.
“hmmm I woke up… in an abandoned factory… I was in a… I don’t know what to call it… an… incubator you could say… that was about seven hundred and fifty years ago… on the plus side, I haven’t aged a bit!”
Embria smiled slightly, “I woke up on an open area of land. It looked like an explosion had taken place. Looking back I think I may have been involved in it and that’s I can’t remember anything…” she turned back to face the bar and took another mouthful of water.
She reached into her pocket and took out three coins and placed them next to the empty glass. She stood up and began to walk out of the bar.
“hey! Wait… you didn’t tell me your name!” the strange man followed her out of the inn, and held out his hand, “Lonek. Your name?”
Embria shook his hand, “my real name is unknown to me… call me Embria”
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Lonek and Embria had been talking for quite a while now. They had talked about their travels. Lonek had been travelling a lot too…over the past hundred years… he said he was amazed they hadn’t seen each other before…
“hey… do you… have anywhere to stay tonight?” he asked. Embria slowly shook her head, she had a bit of an idea where this was going.
“do you wanna stay with me?”
Embria thought about it for a while. She thought she could trust Lonek. He seemed like a nice guy. But what if he was looking for more than a friend ship? She didn’t care for things like that. She kept her mind on her future only. Well… if he was looking for that, she could tell him how she felt, he’d understand.
“sure, I’d love to” she said. Lonek smiled and stood up.
“you don’t have to worry about any revolting room mates by the way, I live alone. Oh, and your gonna have to sleep on the sofa if you don’t want to sleep in my bed, even though its a double…” he stretched and looked at her out of one eye. She smiled to herself and stood up.
“oh I don’t mind. I’ll sleep anywhere. As long as it’s above water… or not in a volcano for that matter…”. Lonek put his hands down and laughed quietly.
“right. Lets go and you can tell me more about yourself… do you fight?…”
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