The Mayor of Noobtown by Ryan Rimmel

Author:Ryan Rimmel [Rimmel, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-12T04:00:00+00:00

I selected “yes”, of course, and noticed that the population of the town jumped by three in the menu. They had been listed as guests before, and their icons changed from blue to green on the map.

As I walked down the lane, Main Street I supposed, I didn’t hear the sounds of children playing. Instead, AvaSophia was standing in front of the house she had claimed, with both her children behind her. JoeClarance was trying to look brave and EveSophia’s face was buried in her mother's skirts. All three were staring at me. I checked behind me just to make sure there wasn’t a goblin or something sneaking up on us.

“That’s far enough,” she called out as I started walking up the short path to her new home. I raised an eyebrow. She watched me carefully for a moment. “What are your intentions?”

I considered replying ‘breakfast” but answering that flippantly with my wife always had about a 50/50 chance of making the situation much worse, so I took a moment to collect myself. I chose to respond to her question with one of my own “What are you expecting from me?”

With that, JoeClarance broke free of his mother’s grasp and moved several yards off the porch. He held his dagger in his fist, as it was a confidence granting talisman, before yelling, “I’m sorry about attacking the goblins. I know it broke the barrier and we could have died; I’ll accept any punishment, but don’t hurt my family.”

Oh, that was it. From their perspective, I’d gotten very surly for most of the trip for no apparent reason. Then, I had to repeatedly save their necks when worse came to worst. AvaSophia had thought I was lying about the town; she hadn’t believed the barrier even existed. She’d turned around just before it, thinking I was lying and they were all going to die. Up until this point, I assumed she was following me because she had no better option. Now, it dawned on me that she was following me with her family, when she didn't trust me, because she was scared of refusing me.

She’d been ready to fight off the goblins to buy her children a few more moments, fully thinking it was a desperate last stand. They probably had only stayed because they knew the village was safe, but did they think I was? I wondered if me stirring when she brought me food was the only reason, she hadn’t slit my throat last night. Looking into her eyes, I became quite sure that, if I’d been totally unconscious, she’d have done it to protect her children.

Hard woman.

“Well, no harm little one,” I said carefully, “You didn’t know any better and you did what you thought you had to do. I was there to protect you and I’ll always do my best to keep you safe.”

He seemed to deflate, “Really?”

“Yes. We Mayors need strong healthy citizens in our decrepit ruined towns,” I smiled as he started to sniffle. All the courage he’d gathered poured out of him now that the need was gone.

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