After my breakfast, I went to sleep and tried to make contact with the Dream World. Dhuradhan and Dhanthas haven't showed up yet, so I thought they were in the Dream World, doing whatever they want. They were probably having the time of their life, which I was pretty sure that did good for them. They've been only able to be inside my head, watching or just being there. And now, they had a whole world to explore and just do what a living being would do... live.

The thought of seeing Dhanthas, raging over a 'Game Over' screen and Dhuradhan surfing on the internet, was amusing, to say the least. I think I even let a small smirk to adore my face. A house like that and for the two of them? And occasionally for me? And in a beautiful landscape, where no one disturbed their free-time activities? Who wouldn't want that?

Well, I did, but didn't manage to get there. Over the important events and trying to start a new life, I completely forgot to ask Dhuradhan about entering the Dream World. It would have helped me to start my training finally and perfect my new abilities out. As you know, I had difficulties at keeping up that state. I just couldn't shut down my mind, after hardly getting connected to the nature itself.

Dhuradhan was right: Power Tuning meant that the power comes naturally... and not by forcing it out.

But what could I do, if the Benders were in that certain era, when we used the energy respectfully? I've grown up in the era, where we USED the energy in the air and not asked for its permission to be used...

Though, Equestria's energy was different. When I've managed to get in contact with the vegetation in the garden, the NATURE kicked me out, not the energy, which was inside the plants. And now that I thought about it, I was relived to discover this little bonus. Maybe Equestria will be the perfect place to Tune Powers, try out the noted After and Side Effects, break my limits and experiment with my current abilities, given that the energy in the air wasn't 'stubborn' to be used. And since it was 'brighter' as I mentioned, it allowed me greater usage.

Again, I got reminded to thank that doctor, for forcing my body to get used to this new energy...

And from the smell of my body, I got reminded to take a freaking shower, finally. My luck that 'Crossy' just came into my room, to bring food for snack. Shaking my head to get the dizziness out of me, I felt around again. But the nurse was faster...

''The same thing like this morning. You skipped lunch, so her Majesty sent double the food. Enjoy your meal, Outsider!'' I noted that her tone was finally normal, not meek and quiet like a mice's.

''What time is it, Nurse Recross?'' Still not gonna call her by that nickname...

''Just past four o'clock with a few minutes.'' She replied. I was glad to hear that, because that meant, that my sleeping routine was starting to get better. I decided that this evening, I will have to go to sleep earlier and catch up with a few more hours. If I repeat this for a few days, I might be able to wake up with the sun... and with Celestia, considering how early she woke up last time...

''Aham... where can I find the showers? And what happened to my clothes?'' It was information gathering time, again. And I had a slight fear, that they did something to my gear. I needed my gear! If you haven't noticed, I needed those for my own fighting style. Magic and technology, my combination and choice of offensive ways... and defensive ways, of course. And from that, comes the countering ways, at last...

''The bathroom is next to the door, inside this room. These rooms are for longer staying patients and there must be two bathrooms, for both patients.'' I didn't have the time, nor need to explore the room any further. I haven't heard anyone lying in a bed in this room, so I was pretty much alone... not big surprise... the other patients probably wanted to be in the same room, with a mad man, yeah...

''And your clothes have been brought to Princess Celestia's chamber. She personally wanted to keep them safe.''

''Fantastic...'' I let it slip out.

''Why? The Princess cares about you. Isn't that a good thing?'' Okay, my first mistake, but I still had the situation at hand...

''Yes... but I'm just too tired to respond. I do appreciate her care... but now, I just want to eat and take a shower...'' I changed my voice to a tired, yet grateful one.

''Oh, oh. Yes. Of course.'' I heard her backing out of the room. ''Then I'm just gonna leave you be, Outsider. Hihhi, bon appetite!'' And she was out... what a nurse...

I started eating and thought about what she had said. Celestia had my gear... my clothes... my WEAPONS! Shit, she will probably ask me about that and I just can't lie to her after that... or more like bend the truth to be nicer! She had a clear proof, that I had deadly weapons and I used them... countless times!

When I finished my meal, I searched for the bathroom door, to the right of the room's entrance door, where the wall was. When I finally found it, a thought, which was both bad and amusing at the same time, came to my mind...

''Wait, Celestia had already started this game, from the beginning of my awakening?''

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After the shower, I came to a conclusion... two actually...

One, EVERYTHING was smaller in this hospital. I hit my head in the shower two times, thanks to the lowly placed curtain-rod. Seriously, every patient in these rooms walks around with bent back and knees? What kind of sickness is that? Burning stomach? You get a burning stomach, when you eat something terrible and not by having a temporary blindness!

But I just ignored it, leaving it to the hospital. If they wanted to help the patients to move around easily, then I can't complain, but actually praise them! Hospitals on Earth just don't care about the patients' comfort...

And the second thing I've come to conclusion... was about Celestia. I just fucking KNEW that she was a good player... but to make me to walk into her trap? She had planned this game out very well and already started playing it, before she even mentioned it to me! Again, someone just used MY tactic against me! First Markhar made ME feel uneasy by the attacks and now Celestia used my disadvantage, to gain information! What the Hell was I supposed to do now? Leaving my tactics behind and just doing what I need to do? Yeah, sure, but this situation wasn't a fight this time and just saying out loud things before doing the same inside my head, was absurd!

Well played, Princess... at least it didn't hurt and her motivations were thanks to my state... I couldn't blame her for worrying about me...

But the evening will be harder than I thought. I know it sounds like those kids on the playground, but it's not about the fact that this is a game. We just called it a game, to hide our intentions. The 'game' was about gaining information... for me at least. For Celestia, it was about calming down her curiosity, getting to know me AND gaining information! Yes, I wanted to get to know her, but if I remember, getting to know someone is a slow process, not throwing out everything from yourself and saying: ''You know me now!'' I may be bad with my social skills, but at least I know what is normal! And what Celestia was trying to do was not!

Then again, I made her curious... too curious, actually, so I can't blame her...

''I should have talked to her more before the evening. She would have been forced to tell me some things and I would be able to stay silent, since I wouldn't need more information. Curse the tiredness. Damn this fucked up sleeping routine! And fucking duty and shit! Preventing me from doing what I want... ugh! Well, this opportunity had slipped away a long time ago...'' I let my fury out inside me, while I was walking down the corridor, from time to time, letting go of the wall. I tried to get to the garden, without using support, but as expected, it was hard to navigate and found myself leaning against the wall for direction.

When I was at around ten meters from the garden's glass door, the wall ended and left me with nothing, but my memory about the rout. So not stopping, I kept on walking forward, slowly extending my arm towards the glass wall.

When I got there, I felt around for a few moments, to find the handle of the door. Meanwhile, I heard the 'Ooh...'s and 'Aahh...'s behind me, as the people finally realized, that I was blind...

''I don't think you should go outside.''

''Why?'' I didn't look back at her, just kept on searching for the handle.

''Because there's going to be a raining really soon.''

And I was really not in the mood to even talk to her. She was a walking information for me, but I doubted that I will be able to swindle her into spilling out gossips and such...

''Look, Nurse Redcross, I will be outside and when it will start raining, I'll come back.''

And with that, I finally found the door handle and pushed open the door. Taking a few steps forward... well, let's just say, the sky itself told me that I was rude.

I felt like someone just dumped a bucket of water right onto my head, soaking me completely. Great, my hair just started to be dry, along with my underwear. Since I was forced to wear the same thing, I washed it out, so I wouldn't walk around in dirty clothes. And now, my pants received the same experience, without my contribution...

However, the best part was that all of a sudden, from complete silence, the rapidly falling raindrops started blaring into my ears, most definitely shouting at me a big and wet 'Fuck you!'...

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Remember what I had said before? That no one fucks with me? Well, the world itself doesn't count, so I could only swallow down my annoyance. Why do I say this? Because all of a sudden, after like twenty minutes, the raining just stopped. I call bullshit! How in the fucking Hell was that possible? Was someone playing with me? Give me a freaking break, there were already two people who have played with me!

And wait, there's more! Like the world wanted to earn my forgiveness, the sun started shining... I'm not joking, the raining just stopped like that and the clouds moved away under three fucking seconds...

The world is a pain in the ass... exactly...

Well, at least I was able to dry my clothes too, by standing in the middle of the garden's terrace, glaring at the uncovered sun...

When I considered myself dry enough, I took the warning of nature and went back to my room. She does NOT wanted me to enter her... nope... Nature wanted me to stay in my room and eat my dinner!

That indicated that it was evening... the hour of truth will soon arrives and the game starts...

The dinner was some sort of soup, with vegetables in it. Not my favorite, but why should I care? It was healthy and finally, I received a proper meal after so long. The fast-food on the base was eatable, but not that tasty and healthy. It only served to wash away our hunger and pump us up with energy.

But that dinner, was energy pumping and tasty, so I shouldn't have thoughts about complaining...

Back at the base, we drank water from the sinks... and now I just received mineral water... a huge difference between that rusty liquid and this fresh one! Also, on the napkins, I found a piece of bread, too.

So in short, a proper dinner...

Finishing my meal, I decided to go out to the garden and wait for Celestia. She said she was coming in the evening, but she didn't mention a correct time. Also, I found no moment, where I could have gathered information from Nurse Redcross and plainly walking up to her, just to talk, would have been suspicious. I may have wanted to get a better reputation, but not by force or creeping out the poor girl... I've already managed to nearly kick her on purpose...

Whilst waiting for my 'date', I tried making contact with the nature there. I've skipped many opportunity to Tune this new power and the wasted time was long. Becoming the Balance of the Nature was the first step of learning to Bend Nature and I just couldn't hold this up for any longer than a second.

But no matter how much I focused on finally doing some progress, I just did it for killing time. Unfortunately, as I was waiting, little did I know, that I was able to see the garden. Further more, I didn't even think about anything, just watched myself from the aspect of nature. I looked bored... for the first time in my life, I found myself bored!

And that was the thought, which made me realize what I was doing. My point of view turned, got junked away from before me and I was back to my own self, not being able to see anything. I remember seeing my face, twitching once, when I realized what I did. But only for a moment, before the connection broke...

I don't really know how long I had that state up, but I was sure that a few minutes had passed, before I returned to my own perspective. It was a huge progress, even if I didn't do it on purpose! The small success made me forget about the awaiting questions from my long-time-no-see savior, too!

And that was something, which I shouldn't have done...

*thump*

I heard her last footstep behind me and my hand was still on the tree. I doubted she had that much sneaking skills, so in the end, I blamed myself for letting my guard down...

''Good evening, Adam!'' At that moment, I didn't feel happy to hear her voice, nor my name from her mouth.

I stepped away from the tree, took a few steps backwards and stopped next to her. I decided to face away from the hospital building, to make sure that my facial expressions will remain hidden from the nurses or whoever wanted to spy on me. It was time for the game and I had no idea what Celestia will ask from me or tell me, for that matter. And because of that, I was sure that I may get angry or sad and it will be visible on my face... yeah, I preferred to leave these for only Celestia...

''Good evening, Celestia!'' I said the same thing and sat down on the ground. ''I take it we can start our... 'game'?''

''Indeed, we can.'' As she said that, I heard her sitting down strangely. When she got comfortable, I didn't hear her saying anything. She was probably thinking about a good question, which will leave me no choice but tell her the complete truth...

I couldn't let that happen and to be honest... the silence was getting too awkward for me...

''This garden is really small. I expected a hospital's garden to be larger, in order have plenty of space for the patients.''

''How do you know the garden's size?'' She asked.

''Oh fuck me!'' That was all I could think of. Messing up like that in a friendly conversation? Okay, as friendly as I considered it, but still... now you know why I was socially awkward, if my lack of expressions haven't clue you in...

I decided to use a cheap escape. ''Information for information.'' Thankfully, I managed to say it rather calmly and my voice wasn't panicking...

''Hm, alright. This garden is the highest garden for the Canterlot Castel's Hospital Wing. The hospital wing itself was constructed to be tall and not wide. In that way, Canterlot city can remain on the mountainside. There are five more gardens below us and if we put them together, we get a large garden, which you have expected from a normal hospital.'' She explained quickly and I, in turn, quickly imagined how gorgeous it must have look from the outside. And she said Canterlot Castle... and mountainside... the city was on the side of the mountain? Damn, suddenly I wanted to see that...

''Your turn...'' She reminded and I was pretty sure that she was enjoying it... I had a slight guess, that she was aware about my slightly nervous state...

I hesitated and tried to come up with a way, so I won't spoil too much. It wasn't about the power itself, but the purpose of the power! My only fear was about revealing her more about my skills, is that she will ask why I have those...

''As long as I am in connection with nature, I can see the vegetation, if I get into that state, which I have no knowledge how it is called. And I noticed that the grass ends a good twenty meters away from here.'' I explained, pointing back to the staircase. ''When I got into that certain state, the surrounding nature got cut short by some sort of edifice. From the wines position, I figured they're walls. Further more, the bushes and trees are taking away even more space, leaving the area before the stairs and this small, ten meters wide clearing for us to move around.''

She remained silent for a while. I told her how I know the garden's size, not how I acquired such ability, so I found my explanation acceptable. Also, I told her as much as she told me, so again... I did right.

''Your turn to ask.''

That was a good subject. What to ask? If I asked something, then I was forced to share information, exactly what I didn't want. I spent a lot of time on that, wasting the time on purpose. Meanwhile, I tried to look like someone, who is in deep thoughts. I pulled my mouth to the side, bit my tongue visibly, hummed to myself. I did everything to look occupied...

After about a good ten or more minutes, she still hasn't spoken a word, or voicing out my consumed time on 'thinking'. She was REALLY patient, something which I was glad for and found her more respectful in my none-working eyes...

''Does magic is an everyday thing in Equestria? And I shall tell you the reason, why I want to know this. This will be the information in exchange, too...'' It was something I had to know and the information, which I was going to share with her, was something I could allow myself, too.

''Go on, then.''

I nodded and started. ''I know that the doctor had used magic on me, but is it foreign for the inhabitants? Because in my world, magic is something I and other powerful beings, MUST keep as a secret. But I can feel the energy in the air... it is really strong and bright... so, am I allowed to use magic visibly? Not like I want to, but maybe if I get into trouble... or my training, for that matter! I will need to use my energy visibly, when I will start my training.''

''Yes, magic is an everyday thing for the loyal subjects. Everything is around magic... and not about such mechanisms, like those things on your limbs.'' Limbs? What a strange way to talk about arms or wrists for that matter. Her voice indicated a slight disgust, so maybe they DID try to take them off... and they had probably seen the needly stuck in my veins... and believe me, it isn't a pretty thing to look at...

''What are those for, actua-''

''Holy fucking shit!''

I heard his voice... Dhanthas. But it came from my right and the worst thing is... Celestia heard it as well...

From my right, I saw a dark-blue energy, showing him, being a bit transparent. He had his hands planted onto the ground, after he pretty much got thrown out of my right shoulder, where the shadowy marks were. I saw them burning in the same dark-blue like Dhanthas, but he was actually flaming, instead of burning. And THAT is the thing! I was able to see him! Only him, though, as everything else around us remained pitch black.

But as always, his timing was the worst... I was so going kill him...

''Steady, steady... okay. Phew, that was really freaking strange...'' After he regained his balance, he resumed sticking out from my shoulder, only his upper body being visible. Then looking around for a second, he spotted me. ''Damn, being blind sucks...''

''Inside... now...'' I said slowly, gritting my teeth.

''I see, I mean... I don't see, but from the sound of your voice, I just arrived at the perfect time?'' He grinned, thinking that I had absolutely no problem with his presence.

I extended my left arm and grabbed his neck, squeezing it tightly. His grin was now of a pained one and I hissed in anger. ''No shit. Now inside or I force you back, you fool!''

''Hehhheheeheee...'' That was all he managed to let out, before sinking back into my right shoulder, leaving me and Celestia in silence... in a rather awkward silence...

I slowly shifted back to my sitting position, since I jumped up to my knees at Dhanthas' arrival. This time, I sat in front of Celestia, who remained silent for this whole event. I could just feel the dumbfounded expression she had on her face!

So I sat down, sighed once and said the only thing I could think of...

''Information for information...''

''Wh... wha...'' She just couldn't find her words... expected. ''Time, Adam! The game will start again after you tell me what was that... or who was that?!''

I was about to argue with that, but seriously... what kind of possible information can you share with me, just so I could tell you about a being inside me? ''Ugh... he was Dhanthas.''

''And?'' She urged me and she was right. That wasn't enough info...

''He's the Dark part of me, who recently have been acting differently. He was supposed to be my evil side, but he is slowly working out his own personality. He won't do any harm to anyone though... I'll make sure of that...'' I finished with a scowl, hissing again, just so she could believe in my words...

I heard her sighing in relief at that and another awkward silence followed after that. Thankfully, this silence turned out to be nice after a while. Just sitting there, listening to the twirling leaves in the night breeze. It highly reminded me about that time we had spent all those years ago. I remember the beautiful landscape... trees everywhere, waterfall below us... and I felt so better after the talk we had.

I wished we could just stay like that, but there came the next question... or more like the same question she had originally wanted to ask...

''So what are those on you? Armor?'' I just cocked my head forward, slightly looking up at her, even if the band was around my eyes. ''I've done a little research, you know. There is a house in that town, where I will send you. Big enough for you and in the middle of Ponyville. After you recover your eyesight, I'll send you there with enough bits for you to start your life. No excuses!''

Ponyville? I didn't have a clue how the transportation worked in this world, but from the name of the town, I guessed they used horses and carriages. That explained the clean air in this promising world... but what was with the medical machines?

And enough bits? Well, I expected to hear about Equestria's money. At first, I poundered about a trading system, but now that she mentioned these... 'bits' as she called them... it made things easier for me. I didn't know how would I cope up with a trading system. I was used to the Earth money, so trading was something rather foreign for me...

Well... she told me information... it was my turn. And you see... as much as I didn't want to do this, I've already showed her my angry side... it was time to demonstrate what I've become. Not too much, but since she had guards, then I was sure that a thing like my bracelets won't be a big surprise... only the technology of it, but she probably had a good guess about my world's nature...

''I need to stand up for this and I want you to not come close to me. I don't want to accidentally hurt you...'' I warned her and stood up, taking a few steps back and away from her. ''These are my bracelets... made the basics for myself and someone else perfected it out...''

''Hope this won't end bad...''

Thankfully, I didn't have to imagine stabbing someone, because if I would have to, then my face would have showed a slight anger. And just imagine someone unseating his weapon for demonstration and looking scary. I would immediately take up a defensive stance, if that someone suddenly tries something funny...

So at first, I just let out the hidden blade, my hands flexing out and I just thought about sliding out the blade. The sensor in the needle reacted to my nerves, my brain sent the message to the bracelet and the next thing I hear, is Celestia's gasp. I expected such reaction... a worse reaction too, but thankfully, she remained there, unmoving. Either out of fear, or she trusted in me enough to not run away at the sight of a beat up and armed man...

''Each bracelet contains three kinds of blades. Helpful for climbing, useful to stay silent and super effective at close combat.'' I explained and after pulling back the hidden blade, I showed her the upper side. ''And you were right about the armor. Because this here, can stop a sword or break a branch...'' ''... or a bone.'' I kept the last part for myself. I showed what it was and left her imagining what it could do to someone else... IF she actually tried imagining...

She stayed silent for a long time and while she tried to come up with a reply, I sat down before her. ''In the end... you fell behind those beings you had mentioned...'' She finally spoke up and I myself sighed to confirm her statement.

''Now you understand why I don't want you to hear about these...'' I said, looking away. By doing that, I realized that I was showing expressions. I was glad that the band mostly hid my eyebrows position, but still... since I had arrived in Equestria, I've been showing facial expressions more often. And not just a scowl or other kind of angered face! No, in the Dream World, I openly allowed some smiles and suffer-filled looks in front of that two in my head.

Right there, I tried to collect myself, but what Celestia told me next, it elected the feelings in my heart...

''No, Adam... I don't. Look, we've been playing this game for a while now and none of us managed to get to know each other. I wanted to help you, but from your behavior, I see you've been through a lot. And I just can't understand it.'' Broken voice... Celestia, why did you have to care about me that much? What good I was for you? Were you pitying me?

''Please, Adam... what could possibly change you like that... what made a friend of mine to go through such turning?'' Her plea was worse than any kind of cry of help. I seriously felt like I was going to reach her level and maybe break down to tears.

But why did I feel like that? At first, I was only grateful for her... highly grateful. Then after my arrival, I was suddenly a wreck of emotions. I want to be honest with her, then I change my mind, due to my honor. I would cry in front of her, then when I'm facing her, I try my best to remain strong in her eyes... what the actual fuck is my desire?! What image I want to show her, without knowledge about expressing myself? I know I cared for her dearly, but how do I show her that? I either wanted to return the favor she had done to me or I actually considered her as a... friend?

''Adam?'' My train of thoughts had came to a halt, when her concerned voice reached me.

''I...'' I what? What to tell her? What not? I can't just flood her with all the negativity from my past, just because talking about it would help me. Would it change anything? Yes, it would change a lot of things... my honor, her opinion about me... our relationship...

''Please, I want to know what happened to you. It pains me to see you in this state.'' I was fed up with my two sided emotions. I wanted her to know, but at the same time, not. I blamed it all on Equestria... there was something in the air, which was fucking with me...

So with that in mind, I decided to do what I used to do before Markhar's appearance... just going forward...

''The world changed me, Celestia. To be honest with you, I don't know where it changed me. To the worse or it did for the better future? The current events in my world couldn't be prevented in the first place, so me changing was expectable.

I am not good, not bad, but balanced. After all, I have to keep up the balance in my world... and to do that, I was forced to do drastic changes. And for that, some hate me, some accept me, but not like me.''

''It's hard to explain, so I'm just going to say... that's life. And if you ask if I am satisfied with my life... then I would say yes. I finally did something, which I can say I am proud of. I did make mistakes, which I'm not proud of and this lifestyle has its downsides, but I wouldn't throw it away for anything. People need me and I know it... and by just knowing that my decisions can help many... I am willing to continue suffering. But what they don't know... is that I am not suffering like they think I do. I actually enjoy most of my life. I've seen and experience wonderful thing on my journey, whilst making mistakes and learning from them. So in the end, I am proud of what I accomplished... but sometimes I do something which I'm not proud to voice out...''

''The hard times? Well, they are going to be memories, which I will look back and learn from them. That is the overall about the past events, Celestia. But the details... of how I turned into who I am today... are what I don't want to tell you yet. You... mean a lot to me. For you, I owe my life and without you... I wouldn't be who I am today. But as I told you before, I had forgotten about you... and it feels like I betrayed you. Right now, you can't imagine what I've done, after receiving great encouragement from you. I WILL tell you some things... in detail... but now? I don't...''

''I really hope you understand, because I've been a wreck over these things. I don't want to hurt you... that is the only reason I don't want to talk about it. Even if you ask me, I won't. My honor is in danger, because I didn't take your words into consideration before doing something life changing. See? This is another thing I am going to learn from. It will make me a better soul... again... thanks to you...''

I let her to acknowledge what I had just told her. It actually helped me lift down the burden from my shoulders. I told her the truth and at the same time, told her what she needed to know, without breaking her. She may be powerful, but still a kind soul. She was still a female... and a friend of mine...

It was strange calling her a friend, but I guessed it made sense. Still, I tried not to look at her like that, yet. She may have earned my trust to a certain level, but as a friend... hmm, she was really close to be one...

Actually, this wasn't about she being my friend... but ME being hers! I haven't talked to my childhood friend, my 'brother' for years now... and he considered me as his best friend... as HIS 'brother'. And now Celestia wanted to be friends... I am NOT a good friend for anyone! I didn't know how long I will stay in Equestria, but after achieving my current goal, I will leave her forever... what kind of friend is that?!

''I see you really meant that.'' She started, finally breaking the silence. ''I am grateful to hear you caring about me like that. I am also happy to see you still learning from life, even though you went through many hard times, according to you. It is a great relief to know that you're doing fine. After your arrival, I thought my words and advices weren't helpful after all... but seeing that you know about them makes me quite happy and that is more than enough for me.''

''I completely forgot about them... well, at least I heard those words, but the given situations weren't appealing for them. But do not feel bad about it, you had no idea what kind of world I was going to live in.'' I shrugged, humming once.

''At least you tried and don't say you betrayed me. The words were there and they had an effect on you... that is what counts. And even if you were not able to remember me, you still did... which is the most important thing now.'' I heard her standing up and I followed her move, doing the same thing. ''And to tell the truth... I didn't expect you to follow my advices. I merely intended to give you a little push forward and now... when I look at you... I see you went far. I dare say... you went further than any other being expected...'' She started walking and I followed suit. ''I will wait for the day, when you tell me everything...''

''I would prefer to just share small fragments of my past. A complete full-out negativity in one go could seriously effect you. Trust me in this one...'' I reassured her, slowly following after her and back to the building.

''As you wish, Adam. I shall wait for you to show me your past and I won't bother you about it.'' She pleasantly declared, which just eased my mental state. I was ashamed of myself in front of her, in question of my past. She wasn't like those from my world... those cared less about how hard my life had turned out. They would either respect me for my accomplishments... or try to kill me, so they can gain more respect from others...

''Then I take you will return to your duties on the following evenings. You don't have to check on me every now and then... I should actually start training properly... these short moments to learn something, are not fitting for me. I'm wasting time like that...''

''Hmhm, yes. I will return to the royal duties and I will be sure to not interrupt you.''

''In that case, I wish you a good night. I am off to bed and try to fix my sleeping routine... if I fall asleep now, I will be able to wake up at sunrise.''

''Hehhehe, you mean, when I wake up?'' She sounded amused by that... odd...

''Hmhmhmhm, yes, when you wake up.''

For some reason, she continued giggling, but I left it to her... and it was the most pleasant giggle I've heard in my life...