"Umm, since you offered. Can you tell me how I should go back. I am not familiar with the road. If it was still morning I would have tried and retraced my steps but it is night now and I don't want to get lost and you know..."

  "Make sense, come on I will walk you there."

  The journey back took less time than Gabriel expected, he hadn’t even seen the kitchen on their way back, it was a new route he had not know about before. Not surprising, seeing as he had only been around one week. Honestly the fight had put him in a less than good mood, reminding him of what he couldn’t be. And he had been so close too, before…..

  “What are you thinking about?”

  Monk Wu’ang watched Gabriel, he had watched him since they left the training ground. He was curious, an eighteen year old coming in and disrupting an organization as old as his, was not normal. It was certainly not recruitment, he was strange but undoubtedly human. Only the woodfolks were recruited into the temple after the age of sixteen. Not that there was any woodfolk below the age of hundred but that was a technicality problem.

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  “My home” Gabriel replied

  “Where? Where exactly is your home”

  “Aniu-lang”

  “Oh, and what brings you to the Indus forest? Do you know?”

  Gabriel shook his head.

  “I will be honest with you, you are strong, strangely so. When you picked up those children, I noticed it and I have tried, on multiple occasions since then to sense the strength of your aether and it is low, thrid tier low. Yet here you are pulling of stunts like lifting two children without stress. And add that to the fact that you don’t look physically capable of such of a fit. I have to admit, I am curious. So, what is going on?”

  “I am sorry,….. uhmm Mr.”

  “Brother Wu’ang is fine”

  “Brother Wu’ang, my case is rather sensitive and very dangerous”

  “I can imagine”

  “I would appreciate it, if elder monk Chen was present when I tell you about it.”

  “I understand perfectly, get some rest, today was exciting enough I am sure.”

  “Thank you senior.”