AFIRE: fight for the Earth begins✓

12.4 THIERON

The story so far:

---- Aija is a Volunteer at the Pristine School at Innermost. She works along with Zuri and Ze, who are her friends. Aija witnesses a strange event one night – light emanating from Rez's body. The kidnapper is after her soul, next, but he leaves her alive and goes away. Another man finds her, he wants to take her somewhere else - Aija though wary of him agrees. Aija learns of the existence of the aliens – the Ytai. Also, about the R'ies and H'eon, Harvesting and Àvo from Etrie. Etrie tells her that the man, who Harvested Rez (Thieron), will now go after her. He tells her that the spy/kidnapper's name is Luka. Etrie asks her to work along with him. Aija agrees to work along with Etrie on Harvest Stopping Missions.

---- Ze catches Aija returning early in the morning with two unknown men. He worries if she is doing something wrong by dating one of the men she is with. Ze decides to talk to the girls about it. Ze talks to Zuri about Aija – she too has seen Aija with the unknown man.

---- Zuri confronts Aija about the men she'd been out with.

---- Thieron is in the Open. Alton asks to visit him – something he had been avaoiding for a long time since he punched Dhor-Wo, and broke his nose and jaw. Alton is not angry with Thieron for hurting Dhor-Wo; he tells Thieron that he will send him to retrieve the Àvo.

---- Thieron finds a photo of his family in the forbidden section of the Mansion. He hears the voices of two women in the forbidden section and wonders who lives there and what secret Alton is hiding.

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****12.4 - Thieron****

Thieron sat alone at the table with his tray of food. 

Few other Ytai were having breakfast in the Dining Hall. There was still no sign of Dhor-Wo. Thieron had slept poorly the previous night, all his thoughts about his family and the two women in the West Wing keeping him awake.

His Scroll vibrated. It was a text message from Luka.

'Nala has gone out with a boy. The girl is with E. She will be with him every time they go on a night out. I'm going to stay at home today. Hope the maize was good.'

It meant that Nala was tracking an Àvo soul that was a boy; that Aija had joined Etrie's team in stopping Harvests and 'maize' indicated information that Var-Inu the maize farming Ytèan gave.

Thieron stabbed a roasted potato with his fork. Etrie had managed to convince the girl to join him. It would make it a little challenging for what he had planned, but he would make it work; he wasn't the best for nothing.

"Do you hate potatoes?"

Thieron looked up from his tray of food. A girl about his age stood opposite him, tray in her hand. She smiled at him as she sat down opposite him and placed her tray on the table.

"You've destroyed that poor potato," she told him in Ytèan. "But then, it's understandable - Ytai food is way better."

He looked down at his tray. He had stabbed the potato several times mashing it up. He let go of the fork.

"You're Thieron, aren't you? You work for Ahn. I have never seen Ahn, but I have seen you a few times." she continued as he sat in silence. "I'm Lur. My Ytèan name is Ieas. I prefer Ieas with other Ytai." 

Thieron nodded once, uninterested.

"I heard that you punched Dhor-Wo," Ieas said.

He looked at her.