"Sister, wait for me!" The boy rushed to the green-haired girl on the other side of the road, jumping from excitement. Something the boy couldn't understand. He couldn't understand how his sister could be so excited for a single carriage arrival.

  He finally got to the other side, panting from running across the 4 meter wide road. "Oh come on brother, you can't just be exhausted from just running!"

  "Please just cut me some slack." He said while trying to stand up properly. "We just finished doing chores around the farm. How can you have this much energy?"

  But the girl just giggled and ran to the Plaza.

  The boy was startled and ran after her. "Wait! Did you remember to bring it?"

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  The plaza was extremely packed not just with tents, but carriages too.

  The two siblings didn't have any trouble though as they had already claimed one spot from the front.

  "Good thing we created this tent, or else, we'd be stuck all the way outside the place." Said the sister.

  8 days before, the kids busy collecting scraps of cloth and metal from local shops for free to make a small little tent that fit the two. They knew these locals of course, as they won't just do favors from random peasants.

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  "Thankfully, these people understand basic respect and didn’t take our spot," they both sighed, settling into the tent, silently wishing the hierarchy didn't exist. "Our hard work doing favors and requests all day have almost paid off."

  "Yup, now all we need to do is to give this to Mr. Little Bell!" The girl pulls out a rusted little blonde(?) metal doll. Except, the hair didn't really look blonde. It looks more like a really rusty ginger color.

  "So you did remember to bring it."

  "Of course." She scoffed. " After all, it perfectly resembles Little Ms. Chime, the precious companion of the one, and only, master inventor of Galnarth!"

  "You mean that doll?"

  "Hey—!"

  Loud trumpets sounded meaning the awaited inventor had arrived. The twins looked out of their tent to see a small but colorful metal carriage driving by itself with no need of mules or horses.

  The girl squealed quietly to her brother."He's here! Quickly, let's get closer."

  The two grabbed a ragged mat out of their tent and laid it on the ground as the other people did so with theirs and carefully sat on it trying not to push the other out.

  The carriage soon reached the middle of the plaza. Just 6 feet away from where the twins were.

  But instead of feeling excited, the girl felt a chill on her spine. It felt like something was wrong and that this wasn't the inventor, but someone else. ?S?????o?????m?????e?????t?????h?????i?????n?????g????? else…

  The girl snapped back to reality. The introduction was done. It was now time for the inventor to make his signature grand entrance.

  The carriage door then opened so quick that the people didn't even have time to react. A black goo-like creature was revealed to inside and beginning to grow arms. It was pitch black that it didn't even look like 'anything'. It looked like ??????????????.

  People screamed left and right. Squishing eachother, running as fast as they can before they get killed by the unknown creature. But little did they know, it wasn't there for them.

  This wasn't Mr. Little Bell!

  The siblings ran, holding eachother's hand so as to not lose the other to that insane Versuch.

  But to the brother's demise, his grip was not strongenough to hold on to his sister.

  The girl was grabbed by one of the hands of the beast and was being pulled inside the carriage.

  She shouted her brother's name in a panic–stricken voice, "Alaric!" whilst they tried to grab eachother's hand. They couldn't.

  The last words the girl had heard were her twin's shaking and terrified voice, shouting her name from outside the carriage over and over again…

  "Edda!"

  Until it gradually faded, as if she were being dragged further away from the world.