Lana’s Journeys:
The Land of Blue Sun
~chapter 5~
Early the next morning, Lana had awaken from her sleep she turned over and sat up with her back hunched over then stretched her
arms out wide and yawned. Lana looked around in her little cave then
stood up and walked over to the hot spring in her cave. Lana took off her
faded pink boots and put her sore feet into the warm, steaming water.
First the left foot then the right. “Ah, this feels nice” Lana said. She closed
her eyes and gave a small smile then a soft sigh of relief. Lana got up from
the hot spring and dried off her feet then put her boots back on. She
walked over to her bag and took out her bows and arrow sand left the
cave heading down the mountain to the east end of the Northern Forest
to meet the girl she met yesterday at the Occasion. Lana walked through
The forest until she got to the east end and set up one hundred fifty
targets then soon after the young girl comes running to Lana and bows.
The girl was breathing hard from running as she asked in her young high
pitched voice “I am so sorry am I not on time?” Lana look at the girl with a
soft smile “you are right on time young one, actually a little early.” “Ok,
good I thought I would be late.” Lana asked the girl “What is the name
that you go by, young one?” a chilling breeze blew throughout the forest
and the girls’ hair, which hung down to past her long sweater and down
past the top of her knee high thermal boots all the way down to her
ankles. ”My name is Arctica” she said then bowed “may I ask yours?” “My
name is Lana”, Lana bowed then shook her head to the side slightly to
get her bangs out of her eye. “Would you like to start now?” Lana asked.
“Oh yes, yes I would!” Arctica exclaimed as she jumped up and down.
Lana took her bag off of her back and took out her bow and an arrow.
“Oo oo! I know what those are! They are a bow and an arrow!” Lana
looked at Arctica with a smile, “That’s right! Now I want to see how much
you can do.” Arctica looked at Lana with her head cocked to the side
confused, “Huh?” Lana gave Arctica a bow and one hundred fifty
arrows. “I want to see how much time it takes you to shoot one hundred
fifty targets with the bow and arrows” “uh…um…well ok” she put the bag
of arrows back and went to try and shoot the target. Lana started
the time in her head. It was still early in the Beginnings. Arctica attempted
several times before she finally shot the first target, then as she ran to the
second target she tripped on a rock and landed on her face and all the
arrows fell out of the bag. Lana looked over at Arctica then she closed
her eyes and looked down as a sweat drop formed at the right side of her
head. Lana sighed, “This is going to be a long day.” Lana still kept the
time as it entered middle day and she started to doze off under the tree
she was sitting under, but then Arctica missed a target and the arrow
brushed against the top of Lana’s head and landed above her and woke
her up. Arctica, her big pale blue eyes opened wide and so was Lana’s.
Lana looked up at the arrow and pulled it out of the tree and handed it
back to her. Lana smiled. Arctica blushed in embarrassment and looked
over to the side as she took the arrow back. She then went back to trying
to shoot the targets. At the time she had shot only fifty-three targets. Lana
gave into her boredness and became a little drowsy and fell asleep
under her tree. A few hours later, Lana woke up as Arctica was just
shooting the last target. Arctica missed it twice but soon got it. Lana sat under the tree waiting for Arctica to get finished and was about to get up to go check on her but Arctica was already coming breathing heavily from running back as she yelled, “Lana I’m finished!” As she ran she tripped over an uprooted root of a tree and fell flat on her face into the cold snow but picked herself up and walked over to Lana and handed her the bow back. Lana looked at Arctica “You have taken from the seventh hour to the fourteenth hour” she shook her head “we have some work to do.” Arctica looked down at her worn brown animal skin boots then back up at Lana. “I will work as hard as I can to became an archer.” It was late in the endings so Arctica went home and Lana went back to her cave and as soon as she got there she fell asleep.
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