Chapter 94 - 91. (un)Found Family
Zein didn’t think he would get any information this fast--although, to be fair, it was already a month. Of course, he also knew it wasn’t the request that he made, just a side information about his mother, but...
Zein closed his eyes and felt the breeze to calm his mind. Perhaps this was why Radia brought him to this place.
After making a request for his purchase, Radia brought him to a restaurant on the north side of Althrea. The place consisted of many small private gardens, fully separated from one another, even equipped with a noise-canceling device.
Radia told him that each ’room’ was fashioned in different settings. This one had an open pavilion above a small pond where they could hear the sound of trickling water and felt the soft breeze upon their skin. Thickets of bamboo trees surrounded the pavilion like a fence, and the blue sky was bright without the sun being harsh.
A scenery filled with greens and water--just like the businessman that he was, Radia sure knew how to cater to his conversational partner.
"It’s quite hard tracking information from the red-zone. The only thing we managed to find is just a little bit of information on your mother, embarrassingly so," Radia poured the tea into his and Zein’s cup, prompting the guide to open his eyes and turned to face the man.
He kept his silence, staring at the steaming round cup with greenish liquid inside. A tiny stalk floated on the surface, swaying gently, and Zein looked at it while listening to Radia.
"Lucia was a guide stationed in Eiyuta more than thirty years ago, a yellow-zone city on the northern side of area-12, near the border with the Northern Alliance,"
Still watching the stalk bob on the water’s surface, Zein asked flatly. "Did she come from the north, then?"
It wasn’t something surprising though, considering Zein’s striking blue eyes.
"Yes," Radia answered with a smile. "Which is why we’ll try to move the investigation to the north, bearing in mind that the person in the shard’s memory is your ancestor."