The heavy fog in the early morning filled the entire mountain forest, and the leaves and flowers on the trees were wet with fog. A small fluffy brown squirrel was squatting on the branch, looking around alertly, and using its two gates.
Nibbling on the dried fruit in his hand. From time to time, the cry of a night owl could be heard in the forest, and a large piebald snake hiding in the grass was quietly approaching its prey while spitting out letters.
Suddenly, a huge shadow flew over the woods, and at the same time there was a clear singing voice. But the startled little squirrel quickly hid in the tree hole, and the night owl flapped its wings and flew away.
The prey targeted by the piebald snake was also frightened and fled away.
"Words written will not be forgotten,
The engraved name will always exist.
The name is everything: his soul, his destiny, his essence,
Only the name represents everything.
Look at that rune stone: a divine gift from Heavenly Father,
The wealth he created for his children, the Northerners.
Words and names mean everything:
Here is magic - great wisdom.
What is engraved is the truth, and our names will never be erased.
So we are immortal, and the rune stones make us like gods.
But please listen to the words of wisdom and you should learn to use rune stones:
Please remember their power.
You will find rune stones and symbols on them, symbols of power, powerful symbols.
It was made by the All-Father..."
The balloon was slowly traveling in the sky. Alice stood on the balloon and played the violin melodiously and sang this wonderful "Hymn of Rune Stones". Opposite her stood her four apprentices, who followed the rhythm.
Swing gently and sing this song.
"Hey, hey, hey..." Hullington's sudden appearance interrupted their chorus performance. He climbed up the gangway and came to the air bag: "Hey, hey, do you want to form a choir?"
"None of your business." Alice was very angry, waving her bow and hitting him: "I told you to interrupt my performance, I told you to interrupt me..."
"Hey, it hurts, be careful." Hughington dodged and said, "This bow is matched with the piano. It's very expensive. Don't break it."
"Who asked you to interrupt our singing?" The dwarf Cora sneezed and said with a runny nose: "Brothers, beat him."
"Hey, don't fight, feed your nose, don't, I bought this new one...hey..."
Alice laughed so hard that she threw herself forward and backward, put away her bow and said, "You still dare to cause trouble, but we are not one person now, we are five."
"OH MY GOD!" Hullington sat on the ground in a state of embarrassment, looking down at his brand-new clothes that had been stained here and there by Cora's green snot.
Alice said: "Disciples, ignore him, let's continue. Where did we pull him just now?"
"..."
"It doesn't matter, let's start from the beginning." Alice set up the violin but put it down again: "Forget it, we won't learn this piece. Do you still remember the "Happy Little Fairy Dance" I taught you last time?"
The four people nodded unevenly.
Alice clapped her hands: "Very good, today we will learn the song "Waltz of the Leprechaun". Stanley." She waved to Stanley next to her.
Stanley was sitting in front of a black three-legged piano. Hearing the rhythm of Alice's shout, he gently played the black and white piano keys.
As the moving music sounded, Alice led her four apprentices in a cheerful dance, sometimes spinning in circles on the airship, sometimes taking brisk steps, changing her pace with the rhythm.
The four apprentices also learned well.
"We're going to have a concert." Hullington took off his dirty clothes and got up from the ground.
At this time, the music suddenly changed, and Alice danced and sang a beautiful song: "MI LA LA, MI LA LA, morning! White clouds, white clouds, flying."
Hullington pulled the tie around his clothes and sang in a tenor voice: "A HA HA, A HA HA, pray - pray! Sleeping heart, sleeping heart, wake up."
Alice rolled her eyes at him and sang: "No need to think, no need to ask, feel free! Forget you who are troubled and worried."
Hughington sang: "How different this day is! How blue this sea is."
The two chorused in unison: "How different this world is! Leave the happy you and the moving you to the most beautiful eternity!"
The four Baers clapped their hands and said, "Master sings so well, you all sing so beautifully."
Alice pouted, looked at them angrily, and gave each of them a popcorn: "Are you serious about dancing?"
The four people rubbed their heads, and Hullington laughed.
Bing Zhixie walked out of the cabin, leaned against the side rail of the airship and looked up at it and said, "What are you doing up there? Hughington, I asked you to ask them to come down to eat, what did you do..."
"Sorry, sorry, I forgot." Hullington chuckled and said to Barr and the others, "It's time to have breakfast."
The four boys climbed down the gangway to cheers, shouting, "Any blueberry pancakes?"
"No, I want to eat a sandwich."
"It's not the sandwich that tastes good, it's the cookies that taste good."
"This is not a snack, this is breakfast..."
On the air bag, Alice said: "Hughington, please don't leave. Please help lift the piano down."
The three-legged piano is so big that it can only be put back down from the lifting basket in the bilge.
Hullington said impatiently: "Don't buy this, it will be troublesome to move it around."
Alice snorted: "If you listen, you will listen. If I ask you to move it, you won't do it."
"Okay, okay, I'm afraid of you." Hughington muttered the magic words in his heart, cast a levitation magic on the piano, and flew down with it.
"Get the stool." Alice packed up the violin and snacks on the floor and was about to go down, but was stopped by Stanley.
"Her Royal Highness Princess Alice, I have something to say to you."
Alice looked at him doubtfully: "What are you talking about? Hey, wait, how do you know I am a princess? Did Hughington tell you that?"
Stanley got up from the stool and said: "Your Highness, I know you are the princess of the Demon Moon Kingdom. I heard news about you when your master was wanted."
Alice said: "Have you known our identities for a long time?"
"Well, and I know more about you than that." Stanley said.
Alice frowned and looked at him warily: "Who are you?"
Stanley lowered his head and said: "Actually, my real name is not Stanley." He lowered his head and hesitated for a while, then suddenly raised his head: "I..."
In the cabin, Hullington let out a long breath, climbed up from the cabin and cursed: "This damn broken piano should really be thrown away."
"You were singing along just now." Gonzalo was the first to sit at the newly made small round table in the cabin with a dinner plate. This was where the four of them and Stanley ate.
"Ah, why are there fried eggs again? I don't like fried eggs!" Cora looked at the white poached eggs on the plate with a distressed expression on her face.
"It's good to have something to eat. When did you guys become so picky?" Hullington enjoyed the milk in the cup: "Well, it tastes pretty good. I don't eat the same as you."
"But...but why does he have a cake? It's still such an exquisite fruit cake." Cora stared at the fruit cake on Bing Zhixie's plate and swallowed her saliva.
Hullington glanced at Bing Zhixie and said with a smile: "Who calls him the boss?"
Bing Zhixie looked at Hurlington unhappily: "I did this myself, okay?"
Hullington smiled and said, "Did you hear that? If you want to eat, just make it yourself."
"But we won't do it."
"If you don't know how to do it, just learn it." Hullington said: "If you have time to learn to dance, you might as well learn to make breakfast."
Bing Zhixie sighed: "I can't finish it. You guys can share it." He threw the plate holding the cake and landed it firmly on the small round table.
"That's great." The four people rushed to grab it, and the small piece of cake was gone immediately.
Hullington cut a piece of fried egg and tasted it: "Hey, why haven't Alice and Stanley come down yet?"
Bing Zhixie looked at Hullington. Over the past few days, he felt more and more suspicious about Stanley.
Hullington said in surprise: "Not good."
The two people rushed out of the cabin door quickly...