“Oh, quite a tiny country, that one… Anyway, it is nice to meet you. “Oh, yes,” Tamie shrugged and turned to him – no, he didn’t plan to give up. “But sure it is awesome to be back here again,” the man spoke once more, apparently wanting to start a conversation with this tiny brown-ponytailed cute girl he had just stumbled upon. “Oh, it’s fine, really,” Tamie smiled and got back to looking out the windows. “Whoops, sorry, I think that came out loud,” the guy chuckled and scratched his bushy hair.
“Uhm…” her lips formed in a polite smile as they often used to when meeting talkative strangers who broke her peace.
She started and looked aside, to see a robust man before her, nearly two metres tall, with weird long bushy blond hair, two tied bangs framing his face from both sides, and those sky blue eyes, blazing with the inner fire… Truly a weird one. Tamie was looking out the train window, watching evergreen trees and colourful flowering fields slide by as the train roared forward. But as elders often say, dense forests are definitely not a place for little children to run around, for the danger lies in every corner, as Lucy soon comes to realise.“Wow, I didn’t imagine nature was this beautiful in Rosenweld… Sure is the most beautiful country in the whole realm of Zariel, as they say”. However, while sitting around a bonfire and listening to her classmates' scary stories, she remembers the dreadful day of how her house caught fire in past, and, worked-up, runs off into the depths of the forest to cry off her anguish. Lucy has already reached 15 years, so she goes to the Spirit Forest with her classmates to befriend a spirit and bond with them. Such is the clan of the tailed foxes - the Huli. However, there are certain spirits that never approach humans, are known as man-eaters and have marked severe borders on their territory, eating anyone who trespasses on them. Each person is able to form a bond with a single spirit.
When they reach 15 years of age, they befriend spirits that reside in the vast Spirit Forest in East Land and receive the Bond Item - an object from the spirits which permits to summon them whenever in need.
Lucy, like all the other children, frequents a Spirit School, where children are taught to control their inner spiritual energy. She could never forget the fire incident and was sure her parents were murdered, so she wished to investigate the case when she grew old enough. She grew up in a children's house with other orphans. Lucy Caldwell suffered a disaster in her childhood - her house was burnt, which turned fatal for her parents. The Guardian Spirit (The Guardians of Nine Heavens, Book 2)
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