"That boy is a devil!" shouted one villager.

"Look what he did to our children!" one mother was crying, pointing at a small house of a healer. Whimpers and weeps could be heard coming from inside.

Gold listened to their story pouring from all possible sides. Her simple beige clothes were covered by a cloak, and a hood was covering her forehead. The only thing she was holding was a small round handbag. According to folks, three days ago their children were playing with a silver hedgehog boy when he suddenly went nuts. It was a miracle no one died, but all children ended up in the hospital with broken bones and a big trauma.

Adults tried to bring the youngster back and lock him in a cellar for the time being, but he wielded a strange power, chasing them away. Since then, he lived in the forest, and no one dared to come closer.

"Please, do something with this boy," asked the head of the village. "He may be innocent. What if a demon possessed his young mind?" He was one of the rare people, if not the only one, still on the boy's side. But even he had to admit something radical had to be done if he wouldn't stop attacking others.

"Rest assured, we will." The medium nodded and with the group of three other people, she departed to the forest. That place was like any other, but the tenrec always found it calming walking through one.

Her teammates discussed the strategy among them. The highest one had B rank, and his two students were C but showing great promises. Their goal was to provide a cover for their leader Gold, who had a high chance to solve this without a need for physical strength. The B-rank agent had no doubt in her abilities, as he saw them with his own two eyes, and he was a seasoned veteran.

But even with his knowledge, he had never heard of someone who could create a big tornado or throw stones without touching them. In his mind, he strongly believed the boy was possessed. Meaning the fight would be inevitable. He voiced his concerns and ideas to her since they had found the cave the boy was hiding in.

"I shall talk with him alone first. More people will only make him agitated," she opposed in an understanding manner. She knew too well her fighting abilities were terrible if nonexistent.

"But what if he will attack you! He snapped their bones like a twig!" reminded the B-rank agent. That was the truth. The bones weren't simply broken but utterly snapped. There was no way the children wouldn't have lifelong consequences.

She smiled at him. "Don't worry, I'll be alright." She slowly approached the entrance to the cave. The B-rank informed his assistants to get ready to fight. As she was slowly getting closer, she could hear the boy's chaotic thoughts.

His head was swirling with memories. The children weren't playing with him. They bullied him! For his fur color, his quills, the fact he was parent-less, his slightly smaller height, unsocial tendencies, and for much more.

The tenrec agent stopped about ten meters away from the curled up body. It was shaking. She knocked on a rock wall. "Knock, knock, is anybody home?" she called him with a playful voice.

The boy abruptly jumped, his hands were engulfed by the light blue glow, and the nearest rocks were lifted, shining the same way.

"Go away!" he threw them at her with red eyes, showing he was sobbing for a long time. The woman only protected her head, not moving or doing anything else.

"Please, hear me out. I'm not here to hurt you," she implored.

"Liar! All adults are liars!" he yelled, throwing a new batch of rocks. "Leave me alone!" The radiance wasn't coming from his hands but from something on them, but she so far had no idea what form it had.

The tenrec didn't step back, merely protecting her face, and the boy continued to throw stones. After a half of hour of constant use of that strange power, he got tired, going weak in his knees, sliding on his butt. The boy's breathing was sharp and loud while his vision turned blurry and his thoughts dizzy.

Gold's cloak was tattered and dirty. Her hands had a lot of bruises as well. "I don't want to hurt you," she reminded him of putting her arms down. There was no anger in her voice.

"Go away!" the silver boy barked with a hoarse voice. "I want to be alone!"

She sadly shook her head. "I as well have times when I want to be alone, but solitude isn't an answer."

"What can you know?" he again barked, growling at her from behind his tears.

"You and I... have something in a common." She showed him her face, sliding the tattered hood down. There was a strange incomplete circle with a dot on her forehead. The boy looked at his palms and back. This indicated he had a very similar mark on them. It surprised him. He never thought there could be anyone with a similar symbol. "May I sit down?" she asked with a smile.

He slowly nodded, feeling curiosity getting better of him. He was watching as she came just a step closer to sit down on an appropriate stone. She took a short breather before putting her small handbag on her lap and taking out a long package.

"Are you hungry? I have a baguette with me." She showed it to him. "Thought it seems it got a bit mashed up." She slightly giggled, feeling a bit embarrassed. "Since you are afraid of me, why don't you use your power to bring it to yourself?"

He was getting more and more interested in this strange lady. He slowly used his power to pick it up. The baguette was engulfed by wavering blue aura of light shade, and through her palm ran a strange sensation. I wasn't unpleasant, more like a slight static electricity dancing on her skin.

She watched the object to float in the mid-air with childish amazement. Her imagination regarding this power was more on... a scary note, but this looked so fun. When the baguette reached about half of the path, it suddenly snapped. The boy shouted with a fear, falling down and crawling away.

The woman was on the other hand diving, catching the halves. "Oh hog, I actually caught them!" She smiled, feeling undeniable pride in herself despite her clothes turned dirtier, and she got new bruises on her hands and knees. Her blue eyes fell on a shivering boy. "It's alright. They are not smirched, so you can eat." She offered him it once she stood up.

"But I... I..." He caught his head, assuming a defensive position by bringing knees closer to the chest.

"Do you feel guilty for hurting the village kids?" she asked after a short moment.

"No!" he shouted looking at her, but in his eyes was uncertainty.

"It's true, hurting others is a bad thing." She slightly smiled but her brows were knitted together. "Nut those kids had it coming."

The boy looked at her in awe. Was she actually on his side? Everybody else yelled at him, called him a monster!

He heard her continue, "They bullied you, said bad things about you and claimed your mother forsake you. They deserved to be punished." Her voice was firm.

The boy came out of his hiding, making small steps towards her, but still keeping a certain gap between them. She offered him half of the baguette. At first, those amber eyes kept going back and forth between her face and the food, before closing the distance and accepting it. It was so long since he had a decent meal.

He took a big bite. "Don't eat so fast, you will..." she said it too late. The boy started to choke. "Here! Drink some water."

He hurriedly gulped the liquid, letting half of it slide down his cheeks. He even burped, letting the extra air out. That actually made him blush. The woman chuckled a bit, accepting the bottle back, continuing where she left off,

"But their punishment was severe. Just like this baguette, their bones snapped. They may not be able to run or properly walk for a long time... if ever. The same goes for their arms."

The boy gnawed on the pastry, crying. She patted his head. "You power is a strange one. There is a reason you have it. There is so much you can do with it, it's only up to you to decide." She gently stroked his quills, while he was slowly eating.

'This lady... she reminds me of a mom...'

"Do I look like her so much?" she asked, before gasping, realizing her mistake. "Um, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to." She covered her mouth.

"What? What did you do?" he asked puzzled.

"It's just..." She averted her eyes, being really ashamed. She was supposed to gain his trust not to scare him! "I can read other people minds. Sometimes I forget to control myself. I must have made you unconformable."

He suddenly hugged her. "Please, take me with you! I hate this place!"

She patted his quills, feeling the fear inside of him. The woman never expected to get such a strong reaction. "But I don't have a home. I travel a lot," she babbled without thinking.

He looked at her with pleading eyes. "I don't mind! If I travel a lot too... I may find my mom!"

She hugged him in return, calming his shivering body. "Actually, I wanted to offer you to go with me. I won't say I will take you to a better place. I can imagine it will be reminding you of this village, but there are people, who will help you to learn about your power, and how to properly control it."

"Will you be there too?" He hugged her tighter, smashing the rest of the baguette he was holding against her cape.

"I'm sorry, I can't promise you that due to my job, but I'll visit you as often as I can." She meant it sincerely since she knew what it meant to be an outcast. She kept hugging him until his stomach voiced its disagreement regarding no food coming its way. Gold waited for him to finish eating, before taking him out. He held her hand the whole time and frowned at the men outside of the cave.

The woman, who reminded him so much of his mom, calmed them down and explained to them the boy wished to go with her, and that he wasn't possessed but had a unique supernatural ability. The three male agents accepted it without much of an argument. And the people in the village were more than pleased to get rid of the troublemaker.

Gold promised to inform The Order about their situation and sending their healers to examine them. If it would be necessary, they would provide extra treatment, moving the patients to a bigger city where the facilities had better equipment free of charge. That made everybody happy. With such an offer, the children would be definitely getting healthy in no time.