Chapter 2

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Lisa powers did not manifest yet, she was still young, 14 years of age. She always thought that maybe because she was half human half a weaver that is why her weaver powers were taking longer to manifest. Upon talking with her mother a little about their origin. She was told weavers usually around the age of six their powers would have awaken and Lisa because she was a half breed it was different and unknown if she was ever going to even get the powers like her mother. She was not yet able to heal her mother or attain any different king of ability besides healing. Her mother was too sick to heal herself and did not have the strength to do it herself. The disease made lose weight and it was something that no one in the village of Lake Lily had no idea. This disease made Lisa’s mum nose blocked from breathing and an endless coughing so everyone in the town was told to stop visiting Lisa home because it might be contagious. Lisa tried to do the best she can to find the cure for this disease but her mother books did not have any information about it. Lisa was distressed because did not know what to do. All she could do was to hope and pray that her weavers could just manifest but it did not happen. Soon after her mother passed away from the unknown disease. Lisa was told by the town mayor the best way to burn the body so that the disease does not spread all over Lake Lily. By Laura’s request and best way to save the town. Laura body instead of being buried next to his husband Devon and old man Samuel and wife, Laura was to be burned outside town far away. Lisa did not like it at all but that was the only way to help the town.   When Lisa’s mum body was burned and buried, she was now leaving by herself and she was now left to look after the herbal shop which her mum was running. All the responsibilities of trying to help the town were all on her shoulders. She was still learning and was not sure if was going to be able to live up to her mother’s medical skills. This worried Lisa very much but what else was she was going to do,  the best was to do her best and tried to help the people as much as she can. Lisa decided to put more efforts in studying about herbs and medicine in order to help Lake Lily town.   A few years later Lisa had turned nineteen years of age, she was now getting used to the running the herbal shop after studying by herself and reading the book left behind by her mother. One day as she was coming by a nearby forest close to Lake Lily from collecting apples. A lot of people don’t usually go close to the forest because of creatures of the dark forest that lurk in the shadows. The forest was a dangerous place but Lisa was not really afraid to go there when she wanted to get herbs for the people of the town. She accidentally tripped and fell to the ground and a lot of the apples she had in a box fell out on the ground. A solider from afar saw what happened and rushed over to assist her.                  “Are you okay Mrs.? Said the young solider.   The young solider gave Lisa a helping hand and lifted her up and then he went on to help pick up the fallen apples that were on the ground. Lisa wondered who was this guy and were did he came from. She has never seen a solider from the kingdom of Lumumba before. Lake Lily never had any soldiers and the kingdoms army don’t even come to the bottom part of the kingdom. The young man was tall, well build like an ox and from the looks of it Lisa could tell this man was tired from bags around his eyes from doing a lot of training and lack of sleep. The young man offered to carry the boxes of apples for Lisa as they made their way into the town. The young man was not asking questions why she was picking apples close to the forest that is dangerous as they walked to the town. Lisa told him that she was the town herbalist and she wanted some apples to some medicine she was working on. She does not have an assistant to help her out, it could have been easier if they were two people. The pair finally reached the herbal shop and Lisa was handed her box of apples.                  “Well it was good to see you Mrs.?”                “You can call me Lisa” she replied.   “Okay. Lisa it is”   “I did not quite catch your name?”   Before Lisa could be told the name of the young man they are interrupted by one of the villages who started calling out the young man’s name.                  “Oliver! Oliver! Is that you?” yelled the town’s people. It was old lady Whale who was calling the young man’s name. When everyone who was close by heard it was Oliver they all started saying his name all in surprise. The all started to rush over to the herbal shop. Lisa did not understand what was going on. What was so special about this Oliver guy? Everyone rushed over and surrounded him, all surprised to see him. She wondered who this Oliver person is and why she has not ever seen him before or heard about him growing up. Their conversation ended up disrupted and Lisa just ended up walking inside the shop and closing the door behind them to avoid the crowd and dropping her box of apples. Soon after the noise around the herbal shop was gone. They all had finally left. She opened the front shop door to see if they were still people hanging around but they were all gone.   The next day early morning, when Lisa was at the back of the shop checking the inventory of the herbs she heard the sound of the front door of the shop open. They was a bell that notified her of customers that had entered the shop.                  “I am coming” she called out as she stopped what she was doing and made her way to the front of the store. When she arrived it was the tall young man whom she met yesterday by the forest, Oliver.                “How can I help you?” asked Lisa.                  “Well a little bird told me that you are looking for an assistant to help around the shop.”                  “Well I do need some muscle around here so do you think you can handle this?” as Lisa pointed out to some two boxes with bottles of herbs that were placed in a pale around the corner. Oliver saluted in front of Lisa telling her Yes ma’am as she went over to the grab the boxes and they went into the back of the shop both laughing and talking.    
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