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The morning sun had risen and the sun was shining outside. And many rays of the sun were coming in from the open window and falling directly on the bed. Ana’s face was shining with light. She opened her eyes a little. But when she saw the scene in front of her, her eyes were wide open. Because she was sleeping on Joseph's chest, she was still sleeping happily as if he was sleeping for the first time. She was looking at him in surprise and tried to remember what happened yesterday.

And then with a jerk she tried to get up, only to find that he was holding her tightly from the waist as if she was about to run away. Anger appeared in her eyes and she tried hard once again because there was a world of difference between his and her strength. That's why nothing was happening with her efforts, but then one of her efforts was successful. And he was up. He was a little surprised to see her like this. Ana got up quickly but in that quick haste both of them did not maintain their balance and they both fell on the bed again. Seeing him shirtless like that and seeing the fiery embers coming out of his eyes was not enough for her and she quickly got up and went to the washroom and he was left lying there on the bed.

As soon as she entered, she closed the door and looked at herself in the mirror. Her open hair was reminding her of the night scene when he was smelling her hair. She wanted to cry.

"How can I do this?" She was questioning herself.

"How I was deceived. How can this sin be committed by me". She was still in a state of uncertainty, she did not understand anything.

"He is a magician? How did I forget that I had to take revenge on him?"

She was crying continuously now. She had cried for a long time with her head in her knees. She managed herself. And got up and went to the wash basin and brutally splashed water on her face. And then when she came out, he was not in the room. In front, a maid was cleaning the room and fixing the sheets etc. 

"Breakfast is being served downstairs."

At that time, she was not in the mood for any kind of spectacle, so she went down and sat on the table. He had not come yet. The maid started making breakfast as soon as she saw her. Just then, he came out of a room. She understood that he had gone to another room. Silently, he sat on the big chair on the table that belonged to the chief and looked at the plate of Ana, which was empty until now. As soon as he sees that, he put an egg and a piece of bread on her plate. And then after some time he gave her juice. Joseph was still smiling, he was smiling since he woke up in the morning and she herself was so caught up in mental confusion that she did not know anything. 

And then after that day he saw a great change in her. She was no longer so close to him but now she started talking lightly. 

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It was the morning of the fifth day. Alian was still sleeping when Bayar repeatedly tried to wake him up by banging his head. Sometimes she strokes the scattered hair on his forehead and sometimes on his shoulder.

He woke up from sleep and started looking at her.

"There.. Come here. That child. He will fall." She was speaking worriedly; he was surprised and sat up.

"Which child will fall from where?"

He yawned and asked her a question, and then she started pulling his shirt in her mouth. He had to get up and go out with him.

The morning light had not spread yet. Seeing a child hanging on the roof of a house some distance away, he ran away and stopped there.

The child was barely holding on to the rotten roof of rough wood and was calling the mother for help in a hoarse voice. He was a very young child.

Alian went forward and held the child tightly while extending his arms. The height of these houses built according to the dwarf's own height was just enough that his hand could easily reach the child. As soon as he got his support, the child fell on him and wrapped himself in his chest.

The little child who, being a dwarf, was the size of a child born to a normal human, was badly frightened.

He wrapped his arms around him and patted him gently.

At that moment, a dwarf woman ran out of the house desperately in search of a child.

Seeing the child near him, she approached him without considering the situation and swooped down and grabbed her child. As soon as the child went to his mother, he opened his mouth and started crying loudly.

He was surprised to see the child staring at himself and his mother, who might have thought him to be a kidnapper.

"Look at me. In fact, your child." He wanted to clean it up. He did not want any quarrel or misunderstanding in this unknown place of the unknown world. Then Bragg and Neemr had repeatedly explained to him that the dwarves were too dangerous to survive. He didn't want to take trouble.

"You are a stranger. They were lying in ambush for our children wandering here for so many days..? Why did you even dare to steal my child? Do you want to eat our children? Or you want to make them your slaves and take them with you.”

That woman immediately pushed her child in her chest and started screaming loudly.

Dwarfs came out of the houses and started gathering around. Or they had woken up on the sound of this woman's subtle screams and went out or maybe they all woke up early in the morning.

He got worried, Bayar started hiding behind him.

"There is no such thing. It was not my intention. He wanted to give an explanation gently, but everyone didn't listen to him and dragged him and Bayar to a big round house, far away from these houses.

This was the house of the chief of this area. He took a deep breath. That is, now he was being presented as a criminal on this matter.