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The emotion. The fear. The horror. The village during the raid was a pure chaos. Sounds of arrows chanting through the air and the snapping of the fire made the atmosphere even more horrifying, making the place Austin called his home a one big massacre. Austin hid in a small house, one that didn't even belong to him, but thats not important, the owner was dead. The village was big, so it had 2 iron golems who were doing everything to defend the village, well, now there was only one, since the other one gave up its life to defend.
Time has passed, the last iron golem has gotten rid of all of the attackers. The village was a mess. The fires had already burnt out, leaving some houses either just with the cobblestone parts of without roofs. When Austin peeked out the window, he saw a pillager, one with the banner, laying motionlessly on the ground somewhere a block away from the house's stairs. When Austin stared at the body, he saw the pillagers chest raise, signalizing that its still alive. . .. ... Something inside of Austin broke, and without a second thought, he swung the door open and yanked the pillager by its arm to the house. Austin grabbed the pillager and sat it in the corner of the house, moving its long black hair out of its face and his gaze meet a unconscious face that didnt look like a face of a barbarian. It had gentle eyes, pale skin, crooked teeth and a huge scar that looked like its skin got ripped off a long time ago. Also, there was a fresh cut on its forehead, the blood flowing down its nose and dripping on its clothing. When Austin turned around and went up to a chest in the house and searched through it to see if there is anything to cure the pillager's wounds, he heard a grunt coming from the corner of the house. When he turned around, the pillager was looking at him with one eye, clearly confused and in pain, but also full of shame and rage. Good that he was too weak to get up and harm Austin.
Austins POV:
`That Pillager.... Why am i even saving them? Why do i even care for them if they kill my people and destroy my land...? I can't believe im doing this...`
- "Wrat iv goign om... Wro arv yuo..?" the pillager spoke
` What the- oh, i forgot they speak a different language... Well, not that different honestly, if im right, he said something among the lines of "what is going on, who are you"... Its rude not answering..` i turn around and speak back
- "My name is Austin, i saved you.."
Sviatloslavs POV:
- "Mh nane ic Austinh, j sawhed yon.."
`Pathetic nitwit and its pathetic language... ugh, im too sore to think straight... Still, is he really that stupid? To save me? Doesn't he know i will just slaughter him once i get a chance? Idiot.`
- "You dont know what you got yourself in. Once you fall asleep, i will get rid if you." I threaten him, but all he does is grab something from a chest and walk up to me. He gets to my level so he can see my face clearly. I push him away and guard my body with my right arm, arm that i didnt have. Instead, it was just a stick on a iron plate, tied to my arm. It was snapped in half and useless at this point..
- "Yon anm.... Whan happehen..?"
`Stupid, stupid, stupid... Stupid nitwit, stupid language, stupid raid, stupid everything....`
- "None of your fucking business, retard!"
Austin's POV:
- "Nore of yuor fuckrng brsinegs, regart!"
`Hes not the nicest one isnt he... I understand his distress though, he did get attacked and almost killed anyway, plus kidnapped and encountered by a absolute stranger... .. i will fight.`
- "Hey, i don't want to hurt you. Im trying to help, youre bleeding, do you understand that, or do i have to explain that?" i cleared myself as i tried getting close to him a bit slower than before, this time, he let me touch his... arm? However i should call it, and his face.
As i was patching up his wound, he rolled his eyes and whispered
- "fuck yuo.."
- "i would like to let you know that those silly actions wont make me stop, so quit insulting or resisting already..!"
He clearly didn't like that, he spat on me like im just a patch of dirt in the taiga forest's these barbarians usually live in. I wiped it off using his sleeve.
- "I said quit already." i calmly reminded him. I wont be loosing my cool to some stupid complains...
Sviatloslavs POV:
- "J naid quil alheady."
`Hes clearly passive-agressive, i just cant prove it...
...
When will he leave me alone? I dont need to be fucking babied like that...`
- "When will you let me go? I wont stay in this hole for a eternity and do whatever the fuck you all do... Like plant crops and shit like it. All you do is fall into routines. Follow them every day like a puppy who didn't grow teeth and claws yet. Your kind wont get amywhere like that."
The nitwit paused before looking at me, his weird welcoming and warm eyes turning into threatening, empty green orbs. ..he was most likely fed up with me.. ...
He stood up, grabbed a leash from the chest and stormed back to me. He pushed me back and tied me up¹ (¹, ²: note from the writer: didn't leash him, he used the leash as a rope to prevent the pillager from running off), picked me up with little to no effort and slammed me on the bed. In reality, he just got a bit annoyed and just put me there to stich up the wounds on my body.
After what felt like a eternity for Sviatloslav, Austin patched him up. Then, he grabbed another leash to tie up² Sviatloslav and left him to rest for the night on the floor, covering him with a thin fabric made out of wool. Austin himself went to sleep on the houses bed.
Austins POV:
...
This still wasnt his house.
...
That thought didn't let him sleep. If anyone from the village sees him and the pillager together, he might be doomed to getting crushed by the hands of the iron golem...
...
Middle of the night, Austin got out of his bed, looked out the window to see the empty but nicely lit paths of the village, with some rubble after the raid laying around. No monster, villager, iron golem or whatever that could snitch on his devious decision in sight. He decided. He carefully picks Sviatloslav up, not waking him up, and storms out of the house, into his own home. Surprisingly, only one or two blocks of the roof were missing, the rest was perfectly intact, plus the missing blocks didn't make any holes in the roof. Austins home was a tiny bit bigger than a normal home and had front and back doors. Two doors and only one bed... Oh well, Sviatloslav sleeps on the floor anyway.