Elemental Summoner 1 by D. Levesque (best beach reads of all time TXT) 📕

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Leeha looks at me in shock. She has been around me long enough to hear me say the English word to whatever translates into Elvish for the word fuck.

“What?” she asks me worriedly.

“Hmm, later. Let’s just say I think my God is fucking with me,” I whisper to her. She looks at me oddly but nods and turns back to her parents, who are both looking at us apprehensively.

“Mother, Father, now that we have that out of the way. Allow me to introduce Alex.” Leeha says to her parents. “Alex, this is my mother, Lahana, and my father, Maxil.”

“Leeha, you understand he is human?” Maxil says to Leeha sharply.

“I do,” she tells him with a smile. “But he is different.”

“Different? How?” Lahana asks her daughter nervously.

“Can we go inside, Mother?” Leeha says instead of answering.

Lahana looks at me as if trying to determine if I will bite her. And honestly, I can’t blame her after hearing how they are all treated by humans. I am sure she thinks this is a trap.

“Ma’am, I am not here to harm you or anyone else. I am here with your daughter,” I tell her with a smile, hoping to make her feel better.

“But you’re human,” Lahana says, confused.

“Yes, but I am not a human from Boromour,” I say softly, deciding to be honest with them both.

I am close enough to Lahana and Maxil that I doubt the other Elves can hear me. Lahana looks at me skeptically, and Maxil looks at me with open disbelief. He even rolls his eyes, openly. Well, better to be thought of as nuts than as dangerous, right?

Lahana turns back towards the hut, and Maxil motions us in. Leeha motions for me to follow her dad. Marken is about to come in as well, but Leeha puts a hand out on his chest and stops him.

“What?” he says, irritated.

“This is for the adults. Piss off,” she tells him.

“But I live here!” he says with a glare.

“Marken, this is a private conversation between Mom, Dad, and I.”

“And a human!” he growls at her.

“Exactly. Which is why you aren’t going to be here because if you piss Alex off, he is liable to shoot some of those swords through that head of yours,” she tells Marken.

Suddenly Marken looks over at me quickly, as I had stopped walking when I heard Marken. He licks his lips nervously and says, “Fine. But if—,”

“If what? Are you going to take him on?” Leeha says with a raised eyebrow.

“Fucking hell,” he says, and storms out in anger.

“Was that wise?” I ask Leeha when she turns back around.

“My brother is always trying to prove himself, as he is not a magic-user. So he tries to pick fights. Most times, he wins them, especially if they aren’t against magic. I had to remind him of that, that’s all,” she says with a grin. “What happened earlier when you used the word fuck in your language?”

“So,” I tell her awkwardly. “When you accomplish things, do you get something that says in your head you achieved it?”

“What? No,” she snorts. “Wait, are you saying you do?” she now says in open-mouthed astonishment.

“Yeah. I was hoping it was something about this world, but anyhow, we can talk about that later. We should get in there. Your parents are glaring at us,” I tell her, pointing into the hut.

We are standing at the doorway and the room is larger than I expected. I figure it’s about twenty feet across. There are curtained-off areas, but right now the curtains are pulled back and tied off to make the place seem larger. In the middle of the room is a small fire pit, and up in the ceiling, a hole for the smoke to escape.

“Right,” Leeha says, blushing.

She turns around and heads into the room and sits on the other side of the firepit from where her parents are sitting. I come up behind her and sit with her. One thing I miss from Earth is chairs. I mean, there were chairs in Lomar, but they were hard, and made of wood with no cushions. Making myself as comfortable as I can on the ground, I look up, and both parents are glaring at me.

“Leeha, what is the meaning of this,” Lahana asks her daughter, but it’s in a different language than the Elvish we had been speaking outside. It almost sounds like the words Leeha had been singing when I first met her. So Elder Elvish? I guess she thought by speaking another language I would not understand her.

“Don’t bother, Mother,” Leeha says with a laugh. “Alex can understand you.”

“What?” Lahana says in shock, switching back to Elvish.

“I told you he was different. He knows all languages. Ask him a question if you don’t believe me,” Lahana tells her with a grin.

Lahana looks at me suspiciously but finally asks, “Why are you with my daughter?” and I can tell it’s in Elder Elvish.

Bowing to Lahana at the waist, I say, in the same Elder Elvish language, “My intentions are nothing but honorable.”

“No human has ever spoken our Elder tongue before!” Lahana says in shock.

“I don’t believe you speak all languages,” Maxil says, and it’s in a harsh guttural language.

I answer him back in the same language, “I am sorry that you do not believe me,” and I nod to him in respect.

He stares at me in surprise. But then I get a surprise, although thank God I don’t show it.

You have learned a new language. Dwarven.

Holy shit! There are dwarves here too? But, wait. Leeha said that there were the monster races. Hold on! Why did I not get that message when speaking in Prithgarian or Elvish, or Elder Elvish, for that matter?

Turning to her, I ask her, “There are Dwarves here? I thought you said there were Elves, Felinis, Rabinis, Dragonis, Mer, and the other monster races like Orcs, Lizardis, and such? You never mentioned Dwarves.”

With a sad face, Leeha says,