Chapter 3: 1-3: Pinja

The guard stationed in front of me saluted as I approached. 

“Oy, how goes it Hero's Brother?”

“Good. How goes Captain Thornell?”

“Your brother is down the stairs actually. He is currently talk- err, interrogating the demon, I mean.”

“Huh. Well, I guess I should go down there then.”

“Yeah, I’ll tell him you’re coming.”

The guard opened the cellar-like doors and walked down the steps disappearing into poorly lit murkiness. A few moments later they reopened, and he ushered me down them.

The dungeon was well kept, clean and well-lit once you got past the main entrance which actually was a cellar that had stopped being used when the Duchess's father installed a bigger and better one. It was insulting to call it a dungeon honestly.

“Oy, Earth, over here.” My eldest brother called to me from a cell that was a bit further down the hall I was walking.

Ulther Thornell stood about two inches below six feet, silky blonde hair and a muscular body covered by heavy leather armor. His tan skin was glistening with sweat.

“Hey, Ulther. Been a while.” I said approaching him.

“Yeah, can’t get home much. Training the chuckleheads around here is a full-time affair. How’s Callie and the kids?” He asked, annoyingly rubbing my hair as he did so.

“Fine as always. Emily won’t leave me alone.”

“Well, aren’t you the popular uncle.”

“Yeah, I guess. Anyway- Demon.”

Ulther straightened up and coughed, “Yes, um, well, right- okay, so ze claims to be a messenger that use to live near our old town an-"

“Ze? Oh! Pinja. It’s Pinja isn’t it?” I asked.

“Yeah.” He sighed. Pinja was one of the demons our village trusted to an extreme before the “incident” and subsequent expansion forced us out. Ze was vital in allowing conversation and trade between us and the border demon towns. Plus, ze was generally, correctly seen as harmless since Pinja was a pacifist.

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I walked over to the cell and looked at the familiar shape inside. Ze looked like a grey blob with horse legs bent out from each side, and stocky arms on top of the head. Three green eyes in an upside-down triangle sat in the middles of Pinja’s head/body thing. I think behind them was a mouth or maybe under zer chin. I really had never managed to find out.

“Oh, the Dirt Thornell kid. Good. Look I was trying to find you to tell you some news as that is my job and I was caught.” Ze turned and made some movements with zer hands. “And someone wouldn’t let me go.”

Ulther sighed and shrugged, “Policy, Pinja. I and Earth know you’re harmless, but the rest…”

“Yeah, Pinja over half of them, my brother included, would probably wish to have you tortured and killed.”

“That’s cruel and usual. Also something my people would likely do if the positions were switched so I guess I can’t complain.” Pinja replied.

“Moving on. Pinja, what did you want to tell Earth.” Asked Ulther.

Pinja turned as ze spoke, “I’ve heard rumors that some of the more radical and warlike demons are planning to attack the capital of the north human country. If my lines are good, that is where your adoptive parents, the Goldstein’s are now living after the young Thornell’s began training with the duchy.”

“Correct. Ulther I can tell the Duchess when I go to eat so you can leave and warn them.”

“Oy, thanks Earth.” Ulther smiled.

Pinja made some noise then opened zer mouth hole, “Oh yeah, that Olli demoness asked me to tell you that she-“

I kicked the blobby demon through the bars of the cell. “Stop trying to let her send me curses. I’m not getting paid for it so I don’t care to help her anymore.”

“Well, this wouldn’t be a problem if you hadn’t raised Hani to her position so quickly.”

“Sordi fell on my sword after Vern tripped him.”

“They treat the holder of the blade as the slayer.”

“That doesn’t make sense.” I moaned. “I still cannot believe that I am more hated than the one destined to end demon kind's grand leader. Ugh.” I comment as Ulther pulls on my arm.

“Thanks, Pinja. Come on now, Earth. You can explore walk around the grounds. Not the woods though, I don't want to have to rescue you when you get lost.” Ulther ushered me away from the cell and returned me to the outside world. I looked back at Pinja one last time and then began to walk back towards the mansion.

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