After reading more documents, Ramuā found the birth certificate of Teamvi."Teamvi was born on the 2nd of January in 11550. Her father was Kapūmikō Gāru and her mother was Dēmokātu Māna. She died yesterday in the age of 40 years, which is also not really old.", she told her husband.

While the owls had done that, Schizu sat in the library with the owl children and his blū. The owls thought it would be a good idea to try and teach Schizu Ama how to read. So they showed him the alphabet book and pointed at each symbol while pronouncing it to let Schizu repeat it.

At first the younger one did not understood what they wanted him to do, but after having Lia repeat the letter 'A' a few times, he understood it. After 2 hours that the parents had needed to even sort the documents after reading everything through, Liu, Lia and Ama sat over a book on the floor of the library. It was a fairytale and they let Schizu read it out loud.

"O..n...c...e..Once upon...a time..there...was...a Kū...ki...child...Once upon a time there was a Kūki child.", the raven read out and after he had completed this sentence, the parents of the twins came upstairs to check on them."Schizu, Liu, Lia, what are you doing?", Dolui asked.

"Schizu read!", the teal eyed exclaimed happily and this surprised the owls even more. Weren't most ravens three or four years old when they learned reading?"That is good Schizu, well done! Did the twins teach you?", Ramuā said and kneeled down to the ravenlamb to careful ."Yes! Thank you twins!", he replied, still filled with pure happiness.

"You are welcome Ama!", Lia answered." Now you should be able to start reading normal books slowly. And as you'll practice more and more, you will get faster and more fluent at reading.", Liu told Schizu, which was why the two year old looked around excitedly. So many books were here and yet so less time. Where should he start?

The owls went downstairs once again, leaving the children in the library. Liu and Lia let Schizu read the fairytale further, so he had practice at reading books.

Schizu experienced the fun a creature could have while reading, but still... He couldn't comprehend the whole fairytale after reading it once and he had so many questions. There were many words he didn't know.

After having read the last sentence of the tiny story, Schizu stood up."Where are you going?", Lia asked him."I must ask Wamuā!", he explained shortly, while already leaving the library to go to the first floor, where the living room was.

"Wamuā! Wamuā!", he called out as he had reached the first floor and had seen the owl." What is it Schizu?", the woman asked and lifted him up."I have a question.", the child replied, smiling at her:" What is a forest? What is a maikuan? What are guardians? What is kūki, chikyū and mizu? Can you explain?"

"That are a lot of questions Schizu. Did you come across those words in the story the twins let you practice with? That must've been a book for older children then, as such things could be a little too complicated for you.", she answered."But I want know!" The ravenlamb refused to accept that as an answer.

"Alright...listen closely, okay?", the woman started, after seeing Schizu look away from her while pouting. Now the tiny one looked at her and seemed to wait for more words of the adult.

"A forest is a place with many trees, just like bushes and near to no houses. In the forests of our world, the blūs live. A kūki is a creature with wings, creatures that can fly. A chikyū is a creature that mostly walks and they have other ears than normal kūkis do. Some have ears like you.", she said, as Schizu interrupted her:" Am I a chikyū?""No, Schizu. You are a so-called mixkinded. This means that you are the child of two different kinds of creatures."

"What is a mizu and a maikuan?", Schizu asked again."A mizu is a creature that can only live underwater as they can't breath outside of the water. They can swim perfectly and are really fast at it. The maikuan creatures lived in a forest a long time ago, seven thousand years to be a bit more precisely. They went extinct those many years ago and were kūki-chikyū mixcreatures which couldn't fly. Their wings were to small and weak."

"Uhm...Wamuā what is extinct?", the kid asked."Well...if there are no more creatures of one kind left, then this kind went extinct.""So there are no more maikuan?", Schizu questioned to make sure he really understood it."No, there are no maikuan these days.", the owl replied, before she sat him down.

Schizu yelled:"Thank you!", before he ran into the second floor. He wanted to see the blū again, as it had been sleeping for a few hours, as the others had explained to him. No one told him the room it was in, so he searched for it.

"Blū!", he called the other out quietly:" Blū? Hear me blū?" As he stood between his room, Lia's room and Liu's room he heard the blū squeak quietly.

"Blū here?", he asked, while he stood infront of Lia's door. Nobody answered, so Schizu went to Liu's door and asked the same question again. The blū squeaked, but it was clearly from his room. As he had opened his door, he saw the little creature sitting there full of joy to see Schizu once again.

The ravenlamb wasn't less happy to have found his little friend, so he went to the bed and lifted the blū up to hug it. The blūs eyes glowed of joy, as the boy held it in his arms again.

Schizu decided to take it with him to show it how well he could read already. The owls listed all important information about the ravenlamb in the kitchen, while the children read upstairs.

Schizu had gone back to looking at picture books, but those were so much prettier than the other books that the owls read that Ama wanted to look at colourful drawings before he would read another story in a book filled with these symbols.

They seemed a little too boring for him, when there was the option to look at beautiful colours. Schizu directly knew one thing: He would always look at a picture book if a normal book should bore him.

At lunchtime the five sat at the table to eat a freshly made salad. Teamvi had also always made a salad for her child, which was why the boy was directly reminded of her, when he saw the food.

"Mama make salad too!", he yelled and looked at the others:"I like salad!" Now Ama smiled. " That is good, because then we can recommend the caretakers of the orphanage to give you salad if they don't know what to give you to eat.", Dolui replied and carefully went through Schizu's hair with his hands, while his wife gave the child its plate full of salad.

Schizu directly grabbed a piece of it with his fingers and put it into his mouth. No one had told him to use a fork or a spoon, neither given him one. Lia had a spoon and wanted to feed Ama, but the ravenlamb didn't want to be fed, so he shut his mouth and turned his head away as she tried.

"I don't think he wants you to feed him, dear.", Ramuā said, while she giggled. Lia gave Schizu the spoon and the child started eating, or atleast tried to. He wasn't that good at eating alone, but he was stubborn enough to hinder everyone from feeding him that had tried it.

He even gave the blū a tiny bit of the salad through taking a bit with his right hand and holding it down for the creature. With his left hand he retried to get some of the food into his own mouth, but most of it just fell onto the table or back onto his plate.

After Schizu had somehow eaten his whole salad, Ramuā said:"Schizu, tomorrow I will introduce you to some caretakers of the orphanage. There are many other children you can play with and learn from. Is that okay for you?"

"Yes! I want to meet other children!", he exclaimed and clapped his hands, how he did it when he was happy. The owlparents were reliefed, as the child didn't seem to be bothered by maybe leaving the family.

Their children were a little sad that the kid would go to the orphanage eventually. The blū was irritated."Can blū come too?", the ravenlamb asked then to make sure that he wouldn't loose his tiny friend.

-Schizu Ama
1502 words
17.8.-20.8.2023