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Dita and the magic hump

Chapter 2: The tray

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Dita was very surprised with the words of the cat, which reassured her by sticking to her and purring in pure joy.

"Don't be afraid, human friend, I would never hurt you, especially after saving me from the witch."

"I'm sorry, but... I've never seen a cat talk."

"It's because of the demon you sent back to the underworld. One day she cast a spell on me, but it didn't hit me at first but hit a tree, well, it bounced me and something happened and now I can talk and do other human things!"

"Well, that's good for you. What's your name?"

"My name is: Cat, get out of here!" he said, and Dita laughed without intending to.

"You're funny, but don't you really have a name?"

"You can give me one, you've earned it."

"Well, thank you, it's a great honor," she said sarcastically. This... What do you think of Tama?"

"No, I don't like it."

"Whiskers?"

"Nooo."

"I can't think of anything for the moment, you'd better choose."

"In that case, call me Little Nose."

"Little Nose? And why that name?"

"Before confronting the witch, I already had a certain ability to know things beforehand, I don't know how to explain it, but my nose indicated to me which things might or might not favor me. If you call me Little Nose, I promise you that I will use that ability of mine in your benefit friend... What is your name?"

"Dita, they call me Dita."

"Dita? Dita, the hunchback?" Hey, that stinks.

"I know, I've already been told several times," she said sorrowfully.

"Don't be sad, Dita, I'll always be by your side," he said, and again he rubbed against her as he purred.

No one had ever said such a thing to her before, which moved her very much. She grabbed the cat and held it to her chest as she cried.

"Thank you, thank you Little Nose."

Once Dita calmed down, she wanted to leave, but her guts roared with hunger and again she looked for food in the kitchen.

"Hey, Little Nose, this bread is very good, I've never tasted such good bread before."

"It must be because you are starving, eat carefully. Look, there's some water there."

"I was always hungry and I can assure you that the witch's bread tastes very good, and as for the water, isn't it going to give me diarrhea or something? Isn't there a beer with water in it?"

"Why do you want beer reduced with water?"

"Because drinking water is dangerous."

"I don't know where you come from, but in this kingdom it's safe to drink water. The witch got it not from a river but brought with her full skins of this one from the village. Most villages have aqueducts with pure water."

"Wow, I had heard of aqueducts, but I thought they had all been destroyed a long time ago."

"That's a strange thing to say. Dita, let me ask you something, where do you think you are? What year do you think this is?"

"Isn't this Baron Mallen's fiefdom? We are in the year of our Lord Christ..."

"Dita, apparently you're not from this world, at least that's what my little nose tells me."

"What do you mean I'm not from this world?"

"Tell me, what is the last thing you remember before arriving at the witch's house?"

Dita was surprised and remembering, she told Little Nose about how she was accused of being a witch and how she was surrounded by the fire in her village.

The cat went to snoop through the kitchen and finally found the catbell.

"My little nose is not wrong, this bell is imbued with strange magic. Surely it was what caused you to travel to this world, by the way, we are in the kingdom of Aicerg and it is the year nineteen seventy"five according to the calendar of the Pythoness of Serpentus."

Dita could not boast that she was a woman who knew many things about the medieval world from which she came, but she was sure that where she came from, there was no kingdom with that name, no pythoness and no such strange calendar at all.

"Dita, are you all right?"

"Oh, yes, I think so. I have to assimilate all this."

"Do you want to go back to your world?"

"I don't think that's a good idea, do you?"

"Don't worry, people here don't burn women as happily as they do in your world. The kingdom of Aicerg is civilized, everyone has the right to a fair trial and torture is not used to extract confessions."

"It sounds wonderful, I'd like to see the world when we leave this haunted house and this dark forest."

"You'd better take some of the witch's clothes first, yours can make people nervous."

"What do you mean?"

"The people here are civilized, but in your clothes you look like a leper and leprosy is something that is not seen as something that can be tolerated. I suppose it's the same in your world, isn't it?"

"You're right, where I come from, lepers cause a lot of fear."

"You see, you'd better put on other clothes."

"But I'm afraid to wear something of that witch."

"Don't worry, there are clothes that didn't belong to the witch but to her victims," said Little Nose as if wearing something from a dead man was a better option.

Dita sighed and had no choice but to look for the clothes.

"What kind of fabric is this," Dita thought in astonishment at the sight of the clothes, for they were of better quality than she used to see. "Surely it must have belonged to women of the nobility."

"Well, I've got the clothes, now I have to put them on."

"Wait a minute, first you have to wash everything, you're very dirty."

"Wash myself? But it's not May."

"You have to clean up well, people here are very clean, let's go. I think I saw a huge tray in one place."

"But when you bathe, you run the risk of Lucifer entering your body..."

"Nonsense. You're going to wash everything... Where was that tray?"

When Dita saw Little Nose' resolution, she had to resign herself and she did it even more because she could not find the damn tray and she had no other choice but to bathe in the witch's big pot.

CONTINUARÁ...

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