Mana: Before The Rise - Chapter 284

The moment she got back to sleep; her dream started her again at the sunset while overlooking a town she had not seen before on the overpass. She decided to get a closer look at the town, the wolves of the forest where happy to give her a ride their but not to close to see what was going on.

She said the town bustling with life, and everyone had smiles on their faces. Patting the wolves, she had them wait for her as she walked into the town, She walked into the a store that had dress in it.

“Welcome young lady.”

“Hello, Sir” Faith could not help but walk in the dress in the front interested her. She was in clothes made from fibers from the forest.

“Would you like to try on something” the Shopkeeper smile his face full of generosity. She looked at the strange symbol on the shopkeeper’s front desk. A Sun, two crescent Moons and a Star. The shopkeeper saw her gaze and smiled. “You aren’t from around her young lady are you. Well, let me tell you this sign symbolizes the Krirrian Order.”

“Krirrian Order?”

“It would be best to call us a religious group like Christianity or Buddhism” He laughed and then went right back on topic. “Now how about them dresses, would you like to try on one?”

“Yes” Faith said embarrassingly twiddling her fingers. Sometime later after trying on a dress she likes the first one and fell in love she wanted it, but it took her awhile.

“Don’t worry about the money, its on the house” The Shopkeeper then crouched down and patted her head. “But if you really want to pay me back then there is a big building across the place that pays for simple task. You can work for them to make money for yourself.” He smiled and waved the little girl off who hurriedly ran to the building across.

Her heart did not feel to good about not paying for her dress. She saw the rough looking people them moment she walked in and immediately got nervous. They went quiet for a moment as Faith walked further into the front desk that had the same symbol as the shop owner.

“Young Lady are you looking for work?” said a rough looking older man with an eye-patch. He was intense at first but then a smiled popped on his face making him look less menacing. “The tasks bord is right there, the easier ones are on the right. Just take the paper down from the board and bring it back once you have finished the task to the front desk. They will then give you your pay.” She said polite.

Faith saw the atmosphere lighten in the room and the intense rough looking people started to party. She quickly went to the board the man was talking about as she watched the people party. She took one of papers, collecting herbs and hunting certain animals was what was on the bored.

She happily ran off in the next moment.

Faith woke up in the morning, she saw the fresh morning sky and smiled. After that she seemed to have gotten better, as the next two months passed. She stopped caring about the dirty looks she had gotten from the students and teachers, she continued to be quiet and not really talking much with anyone other than Gaze sometimes. But even those would be light conversations.

The Girl had often taken to daydream as well.

“I would like to thank you for all your help, but Faith has gotten so much better that I don’t think she’ll need anymore sessions.” Said Faith’s mother to Gaze who sat swirling her cup of coffee with an indifferent expression. “You’ll see extra in your check this month” she smiled, got up and left without looking back.

Faith’s mother was an overly confident women who cared about reputation she didn’t like that her daughter had to see a therapist in the first place and when she saw her daughter’s improvement wanted to take her out as soon as possible. Her husband also most likely agreed with this sentiment.

And hour Later she saw Blake walk into her office.

“They are ending her session. They just told me.” He said in a grave tone.

“It seems you investigations ended up fruitful”

“….” He said nothing these days he had been looking worse for wear. He sat down his face full of struggles, “he seemed like such a good kid. It’s hard to believe he would do such nasty things in the dark.” Blake struggled to say, “If I give that evidence to the police it won’t be just him that is ruined. A lot of young students who have futures will always fall.”

“Their future’s where already bleak the moment they decided to commit the crimes in the first place. One day what they had done will be known, Blake, think of your family your two little girls one in middle school and the other in elementary.

When they hear about this what would they think when they are older, that their father turned a blind eye on someone in need. He let the teenagers of his school do such things and experience such things. This type of thing will hit the media hard and society may even judge you for it harshly.

Blake your choice is to bury this in secret forever hope no one will find out or expose it.”