Chapter 51 Smoothies



When she was coming to the fortieth minute, her legs gave up and she crumbled. Esong had to help her out of the forest just as the sun was coming out.

When they were leaving the forest, they bumped into her brother Adler and the group of young men that were part of the first Blue star military. They were just about to begin their training.

Adler jumped away from the others and he approached them. He looked at Esong suspiciously and at Scarlet worriedly.

"Why are you coming out of the forest and why is my sister holding you like that?" He attempted to retrieve her from Esong's arms.

Esong spun her effortlessly to his other side, away from Adler.

"Why do you care about how my wife is holding me?" he questioned Adler.

Scarlet stretched her neck so that Adler could see her head. "I went out to exercise and he followed me."

Adler frowned at his little sister who seemed to have no sense of self preservation. She was sweaty, her face was flushed and her outfit was disheveled. She was leaning lazily in a mans arms. Even if this man was her husband she should be more careful about her appearance in public.

"Wait," Adler said as if he was coming to a sudden realization. "You went out exercising alone in the woods!!!" he shouted. "Are you crazy?"

"That's what I said." Esong added. "Your sister has no sense of danger apparently."

"Why didn't you drag her out of the woods the moment you laid eyes on her?" Adler asked Esong.

"When has your sister ever taken my opinions in? Your family has raised her to do as she wishes whenever she wishes." he replied. You can trace the roots of this content at n0v@lbin

Scarlet was feeling energized enough to push herself out of Esong's arms. Standing up straight she declared, "I am neither a child nor an invalid. Both of you should stop treating me like that. I am a grown woman of sound mind and I had Severus with me."

She huffed and walked away from the over protective men. She could understand why Adler was doing it but Esong!! Why was he behaving like that? Was it because he thought that if she was killed then it was bye bye to all of her knowledge about plants and mutant beasts identifications. It had to be it, nothing else could explain his bizarre actions.

"Hmph." she replied. "If you will not go away them make yourself useful, hold the bag and please try not to distract me."

Looking at his handsome face was distracting enough.

"Breathe in and out then concentrate, ignore the distractions." Severus told her.

She did as Severus said and for the next thirty minutes, there was nothing allowed to get in between her and the sand bag. She punched hard until her knuckles turned red.

"Thank you." she told Esong when she was finished.

"No time to waste, the two suns are emitting energy, now is the best time to harness it and absorb the little aura it gives off."

She climbed up a few rocks and sat cross legged on top of the largest one and closed her eyes.

In and out she slowly breathed, channeling the aura to her infant soul where it was absorbed into a whirlpool. She blocked everything out that she did not see the small crowd gathering or hear the whispers.

"What is the governor doing?"

"I don't know."

"Is she sleeping?"

"That's the smell of porridge, I should run, I don't have time to watch the governor sleep. Our team has to start digging the path for roads today."

Esong too was wondering what she was doing. Now more than enough after seeing her boxing stance he wanted to dig deeply into that mysterious teacher of hers.

The crowd of on lookers stayed on until she opened her eyes, jumped up and stretched her arms. All of the soreness in her body was gone and she felt extremely good.

"Time for smoothies." she said.