04th of Spring 497AV
A young heaving chest, the thumping drumbeat of a healthy heart pounding, pumping, pulsing with life beat heavily into the ears of the young child of Sunberth, his fine strands adorned with a golden brown hue as his adorable golden brown tainted eyes welcomed life into their somewhat innocent nature, his legs were warm to the point of being heated, his desert skinned a darker shade of the bitterly cold nights when the wind howled alone.
His calves tightened, muscle development prominent in his youth filled body, every one of his toned muscles constricting together in knowing harmony as he controlled his breathing to a experienced level. His clothes hugged him as he ran, the withering of his soles digging into the earth of his home city, he placed his arms behind his back and cupped them to hold the sack harbouring the materials his mother wanted for the day. The thick brown and tattered bag, another of his fathers something novel training methods it'd seemed, the pouch hooked into the loop of his pants where his belt would lie sang a melody of Mizas, income for the working, pickings for the greedy.
An 8 year old Senghor Vilhjalmr wasn't like the others, he went through vigorous training everyday he woke up and learnt to adapt to his fathers vague methods of using the sword, and swords if the case need be, he learnt that his wasn't a 'normal' home as there was no normality in Sunberth, with a passionate lust and love for crime, anarchy and excitement one had to adapt .
'I've to get home...' he told himself when he ran down along a empty street heading home. In the weather of the encroaching spring and its calm nature, where blooming flowers both earthly and adolescent were at the prime of their lives and rich in texture, in purity he found it quite odd that nothing exciting had happened that day, yet he was mistaken as something would happen, something concerning the one he loved...
As shutters closed whilst he ran, his thighs at a warm temperature from the coming fatigue he turned his head to the sides to gaze at the alleys along the streets, glossy filth and a bad stench, probably another rotting corpse he told himself in his long sprint. 'Never stop...' he kept reciting the words, the words his mother told him if he was ever alone and roaming the streets, never stop and just keep going for death in Sunberth was more of a sport than anything else for those who enjoyed praying on the frail and weak!
He told himself he wasn't weak, a Vilhjalmr is never weak even in the face of something new, old or powerful for weakness as a state of mind which brought defeat and defeat brought death and the Vilhjalmrs have never died.
Never died?...
'What'd father mean by that?' he asked himself, his running steps slowing down as he pondered for a moment which only brought him to walk.
"But all souls go to Lhex, Dira comes and gets them... Right?" the child asked himself lowly as he looked down and saw a pan, a puddle of water filled with filth and concerted a blackness, he saw his reflection, his development body and his slightly grown hair, unkempt and ragged from not cutting it.
'Maybe he's talking about other Vilhjalmr, distant cousins and so forth... But, he said there are no distant cousins, no others with our name...' he thought contradictorily, his father was a very strange man as he was always cryptic and sly, yet loving and understanding.
'How can there be no others under the banner of Vilhjalmr?' the young lad thought as his footsteps slowed down, a glistening bead of sweat rolled down the side of his face.
'Why am I even asking myself this?' he thought deeply as he looked up, such a young man, outcast from others his age and left to harden his body and mind. To some, his parents gave him a harsh childhood, always training him and maturing his mind to suit the whims of the aged, he wasn't a genius or he just never had those thoughts implanted into him, yet.
As his eyes raised slowly towards the ground and to the landscape, a bulky long trail of a humanoid shadow went up and joined at the stem of large boy. With narrowed eyes, Senghor kept his stride slow and watched as the large boy grinned, his teeth bared upon his silhouetted figure sadistically and hungrily at the young ebony skinned boy.
``There he is... The Whoreson of Sunberth`` was all that the figure uttered, its meaty arms rising to fold not before aligning its knuckles by cracking them. A bony echo seemed to follow about as Senghor stopped mid-stride at the comment.
'Whoreson?' the boy asked himself with a frown, his cheeks flush in a rage, Senghor arched his back and let his hands loosen their hold on the thick sack he held. It dropped with a defeated thud as the young man felt an alien feeling linger about in his core, it was sadness.
A countless number of children in Sunberth were entitled to the name, 'whoreson' as prostitution and sex was but one of the many things that produced income, in fact the boy before the young Senghor could and possibly did fall under the category of whoreson.
"What'd you call me!?" he said defensively as he watched the fat figure, watch towards him with a grim grin of pride and arrogance. As he walked, two lanky figures, silhouetted by the incandescent light that'd beamed in their wake.
'How dare he, defile and say such vile things about mother!' Senghor said as he looked at the figures draw nearer, their bigger and frightening structures towering that of his growing own...