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Slegs, right! Sorry, I mistook these with slogs  .
Double-sorry then (for saying that). |
It's okay Doc
well Here it is as I promised: A new chapter!
Chapter seventeen: The secrets of a Stranger – part one: Truth revieled
- Oh my! What’s this, the Grubb asked Stranger, has my Steef got himself a fiancée?
- What the…? Eh Stranger, congrats to ya, Maki added.
Stranger blushed and said:
- No this ain’t my… or anybody else’s fiancée. This is Yoanne, whom I rescued from a bunch of Slegs downside the hill.
- Slegs?! Oh, well… is she a…, Frayda asked.
- A what?
- A Steef?
- Uhm… I haven’t thought ‘bout that uhm… are you?
- Of course I am a Steef, Yoanne answered, what did you think I was? A Sleg?
Maki burtsted out into laughter.
- Ya know that girl o’ yers do got some humour, whahahahaha!
- First Maki, she isn’t my girlfriend and second stop teasing me, Stranger said with and annoyed voice.
- Eh, sorry I jus’ couldn’t help it.
There was a pause.
- So why do you wear this…baloney clothes, Maki asked.
- Baloney clothes? I beg your pardon “Mr” these are great clothes for sneaking and hiding in forests with high quality, Yoanne snorted.
- For hiding? And sneaking? Are you being nuts or what? Do ya think ya actually could hide in these woods without being noticed?
- Of course, why do think I would put these on for?
- Well you don’t have to hide yourself now, can’t you take it of, Frayda asked carefully.
- I don’t know… not outside I presume?
- Oh, but ya can change inside the hut if you want – it’s no problem at all.
- … okay but keep these two out of the way – I don’t like guys who are peeping.
- Sure, sure just walk inside and I’ll keep an closer eye on the boys, the Grubb said as she closed the door behind her.
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Fifteen minutes later she stood there in front of them – to her five and a half feet height and gazed at the little group with darkblue eyes. She had darkblond hair that touched her shoulder-blades and a small braid was seen from the right side of the head and was decorated with red and darkgreen pearls, lightblond fur and wore a leatherbrown dress and a orange shirt that seemed a little bit too large for her thin body.
- Well, how do I look, Yoanne asked with a tender voice.
- You look magnificent dear, Frayda said with a smile on her lips, What do you guys say?
- You looked more cool in the other outfit, Maki said and got an angry look from Frayda, but you look great in this too.
- Stranger?
Stranger didn’t answer. He just stared at her with his jaw open. “Stranger” someone called again but still no response from him untill he felt that somebody shaked his shoulder.
- What? Have I missed somat?
- What do ya say of Yoanne’s new outfit, the Grubb asked.
- Oh, it’s errr… suits you.
- Thank you, Yoanne said and blushed.
Later on, when they all had got inside the hut Frayda decided to make some food for them. Well in the kitchen, Stranger went in to her and looked out from a window close to the oven. She saw him and began to talk to him.
- Now, where could I’ve seen that face expression before?
- What expression, Stranger asked.
- The dreaming look you had when ya saw Yoanne, remember?
- I haven’t been dreaming!
- Oh ya sure did! Don’t fool me dude I know when someone’s in love.
- In love…? Oh, c’mon I’m not in love with her, even the wisest Oracle couldn’t tell if I was.
- Really, then why do you look at her right now?
- I’m not staring at her… jus’…
- Uhuh? Now tell me my dear Steef – everything – I promise to keep it secret.
Stranger looked at her and then back at Yoanne and sighed deeply.
- I don’t know where to begin… for almost my whole life I’ve been unintressted in female Steefs. When I turned eighteen my dad told me to get myself a bride, but when I tried to get one, no one seemed to be intressted in me – jus’ in other males that looked more muscular and handsome. So I laid of searching for a partner and started my life as a lonewolf. I didn’t tell my father though, he would jus’ get mad at me. Years past and when I returned after my first mission as one of the new protectors in the valley, I had decided to get myself a wife… but I hadn’t got the clue of that only a couple of hours after my arrival the village would be all destroyed. I didn’t know if there were any other Steef tribes than mine, so…
- That’s why you gave it all up as a protector and decided to become a bounty hunter.
- Not exactly. I remember the last words my father said to me “ Make your way to the rocky mountains in the south of our country…there you’ll be safe…” I did travel south, but for nothing. I didn’t know where to look for others, but when I was traveling along the way I heard some Clakkerz talked about a doctor that had the abillities to operate then I decided to go to him and ask him if he would help me. But I understood that I had to dress myself out to something else with two legs whom they would never suspect as a Steef. So I turned out to be a good bountyhunter. When I first met the doc and told him about my little secret then he expected a some kind of price. And I knew exactly what to do. So here I stand… among the all Steefs. I’m quite happy that D.Caste Raider found out that I was one, otherwise I wouldn’t have seen, heard or even felt the scent of Steefs again.
- No you aren’t. You’re extremely grateful that he found out.
- Yeah I’m extremely grateful.
- Hey, is there going to be any food or not, Maki shouted out from the livingroom, we’re starving!
- It’s on it’s way, be patient, Frayda shouted back.
- I don’t know how to act in front of her, I mean I haven’t seen anything more beautiful than her in my whole life. Maybe I should or… maybe I shouldn’t, Stranger began.
- Shouldn’t do what, the Grubb asked.
- Ah, nothing. How do you know if someone likes you?
- You jus’ have to get to know her and if you feel that you two have something in common, then why not ask her to become yours?
- That’s where the problem lay – how do I know if she… you know would…
- Love you?
- Yeah.
- It’ll turn out by time passing by, you have to be patient and wait for the right moment. Now you have to leave me alone for a while so I don’t mix the ingredients. You go and sit with the other ones while I finish this.
- Alright. Thanks for the help.
- You’re welcome dude.
~DS~