Daemon started walking back to his orphanage after the meeting with Luna ended.
Daemon has a secret which he never shared with anyone including Luna, he can hear and see things which people can't.
One day he was walking back towards orphanage in his childhood when he saw 6 people in dark robes and faces covered, having weird weapons in hands like small sticks and cold weapons instead of a gun.
They were surrounding another guy dressed just like them but the guy was not looking scared. Instead he started sending weird lights from his own stick towards those people.
At first I thought it was an acting rehearsal and got closer to them and sat on a stool nearby to watch them, even cheering them.
They all gave me weird looks and started saying things like why doesn't the barrier work on me. But the guy they were surrounding started sending bigger lights and that's when I realised, those beautiful lights aren't a magician's trick to make people laugh. When the lights hit two people closer to him, one of them got burned in an instant and the other turned to dust.
Others were soon killed too using various dark red lights. When the guy settled everyone who had surrounded him, he came upto me and i saw for the first time how he looked.
He was tall man with the same dark eyes as mine but having greenish black hairs which almost gave the impression that they were pitch black.
He came upto me and gave me weird look and asked, " Kiddo, do you realize what just happened here? ".
" Yes, you just killed them", I replied, to which he asked again "Then why aren't you just running or getting scared and instead just sitting on the stool and watching this gory scene with no expressions on your face? ".
" I saw you guys were sending beautiful lights to each other, so I started watching it. ", I said.
".... Are you not scared that I will also send those beautiful lights on you? ", The man said while looking at me with eyes focusing on every detail he could catch.
Instead of replying to him I asked him the question that has been bugging me since my childhood.
" Why am I able to see and hear these things which you and your kind just performed and not be like others from whom you can hide. I know there is a different world, "real world", out there but I thought it was just my imagination which my pysche created to allow me to feel something from this and avoid being lonely. If what I'm seeing is real by all accounts then your kind must have it's ways to avoid being seen by the normal people around you. And judging by what those people said about barrier not working, I guess that was your means to hide your actions. If you are free currently, can you provide me with the answers? ", I said.
".... ", the man just stood there looking at the boy of mere 10 years of age who has just witnessed the brutal act of murder playing in front of him ask him questions with reasonable deductions not expected from a kid his age.
He felt an eerie feeling arise while looking at the expressionless boy asking him if he is free to explain certain things to him after he just killed people in front of him.
"The real world is the world of magic, the world the normal people see is what we call the blissful world. People with talents for magic of all kinds learn magic from the age of 16 in our own academies like the normal people and live as a society later on. It's like the blissful world only but with much much cruel and harsh reality. We have our own republic with a council too which regulates the magic world of Eldoria. ", the man explained.
" As for why you can see or hear all this, it can be due to you being able to sense the magic around you. Barriers only work on normal people. Not on people who cant feel magic. But the thing that surprises me is that all the kids who can sense magic are detected by our runic formation spread throughout the Republic.... So why were you not detected?... Curious isn't it?.... But let's leave this matter aside and focus on the current situation a bit. You see kiddo, I'm currently very busy dealing with my kind, so can you go back to your home first? ... I will Come looking for you when you reach the age of 16 again" , the man said and disappeared in front of Daemon.