Nova Roma Chapter 305 - Way to home

Callisto was resting in a tree because he was exhausted and had been walking for months, and his only company is a spiritual being who doesn't seem to like to talk much.
"Hey Denahi, do you have any idea how much time we have to walk yet? During this journey, we have not encountered anything other than some beasts and one or another animal.
Not to mention the human remains, which seem to adorn a large number of parts of this abandoned place by Jupiter's hand. "
Denahi, who was cleaning a bear to cook it in a campfire, looked at Denahi, who had long hair and a big beard. "You must have patience, Callisto.
We could have gone into the territory immensely, but if it had meant you might have died, then nothing would make sense.
We are lucky that the beasts we would have found were only the weakest because all the bulk of those damn beasts have already reached south.
Besides that there is still food in this area, I am almost sure that everything in the center of the territory is already dead. "
Callisto closed his eyes for a moment. "You know, I wonder if my wife had already got another man, that thought tormented me every night.
What will happen to my children when I came back maybe they will recognize me, I don't regret being serving the imperial navy.
But I am a human, and I have feelings, we have also been walking for months, and it does not seem that we have reached an end in this immense land. "
Denahi let out a loud laugh, "Maybe if we weren't in a frozen environment and the snow wasn't so accumulated.
We could have arrived earlier, but I am calculating that per month we are moving just 100 kilometers, according to the measures you taught me.
If we follow this step, I am sure that we will be able to arrive in 2 years, I know that it is little time for me, but I understand that for you it can be somewhat complicated. '
Callisto sighed and got up from the tree where he was resting. "It is not a short time for me, but it is not that he is not used to it, as I said, my main concern is that my wife has left me for another man.
If only she knew that I was alive, then things would change a lot, because I will be sure that she would wait even if it will take five years.
But it makes no sense to think about situations that I can't control.
Maybe the trip would be a little quieter if there were more people with whom I could socialize or buy some things.
This place may have been fantastic at the time, but now it is nothing more than we stopped from immense snow, without a trace of human presence.
This makes them somewhat sad, reminds me a lot of the vast dunes of the province of Arabia, no life in that place just sun land.
Seeing the positive side, at least I am no longer dehydrating. "
After this little talk, they both had their food and started their walk, just like the last months, they spent walking or along the coast.
In this way, some days passed until Callisto managed to see something in the distance, at first he had doubts, but after seeing it for a moment, he realized that it was the ship he had traveled on.
Which was stranded on the coast as if something or someone had attacked them, without wasting time, Callisto and Denahi walked to where the ship was.
When he finally reached the coast, he noticed that the ship seemed to be in good condition but, there seemed to be no one inside, so he prepared his saber for anything that may be on the boat.
With the help of the anchor chain he climbed towards the deck of the ship, Denahi for his part only took a small jump reached the bridge before Callisto.
In the place, we seemed to have traces of something that would have attacked the boat, when Callisto went up, he could also see the deck in perfect condition.
This worried him more prepared with Denahi to enter the interior of the ship when they went down the stairs to the cabins.
They could see a few cobwebs and a lot of dust, but there seemed to be no trace of a fight, or something terrible had run.
They checked cabin by cabin until they reached the captain's cabin, where Callisto opens the door but could only find an empty room full of cobwebs, on the desk he could see a diary that seemed to be open with something written.
He walked towards the diary with great caution, illuminated only by the light that entered through the window, he took the diary and began to read it.
All the text that appears in the diary seemed to make no sense; it was as if the captain had written random words without any context sense.
He could only read a part of that diary that talked about the events that occurred after his expedition to the ground will fail to be ambushed by humanoid beings.
Andreus, who took command of the ship It seems that he managed to get out quite well and headed south, but only that is the only thing that can be read.
The last legible entry said they had dinner and that the only thing strange was a fog, where they could hear some screaming.
After that all the letters of the diary lose meaning, Callisto could assume that Andreu continued writing for a few days in quarantine before leaving his diary open.
This caused more doubts than answers, but he is only a sailor, not an inquisitor prepared to decipher the mystery, he could only look at Danehi with a forced smile.
"I have two news, the first is that we have the means to reach the empire much faster, the second is that we will have to operate this vessel only the two of us.
I hope you can help me because otherwise, we can't get out of this damn place. I don't understand what happened to the crew.
But you can be sure it wasn't good at all. "
Danehi, who was watching the ship, nodded to Callisto's words, "I think I know what happened to your teammates, but if it happened, I could only tell you that you'll never see it again."