10. No

Through all the week, he ended too tired to try anything. After his interviews and trainings, either he came back to his home directly to his bed or to be for some hours with his family. After the second day of the week, he forgot completely about his Sunday’s encounter and the name he told him to look for.

At the beginning he was really motivated and feeling proud of his accomplishments. He won in his training matches, he kept smiling and answering as the kindest person in all the island, even he thought his sense of humor was improving.

He almost felt like a new man, someone more optimistic and ready for anything. Which, of course, gave a lot of more hopes and happiness to the people that was always listening to him. Even their family was amazed by how sincere his smiles were lately. Not that they thought of him like a liar, only that they believed he put too much effort in his personality after knowing the grumpy and shy Teshal they saw growing up.

However, all that energy and optimism lasted five days more. As if he was running out of battery, his brightness began to minimize. His smile was still there, his winning stake was intact, his answers as animated as ever. Just when he got to hide himself was when he felt as if all his energy was drained away.

It was a pretty normal occurrence around his third month as the protector. Being a whole different person of his usual self was more tiresome as he’d thought. But no, after six months and a week of his debut, looked like he was not cut off to be that shiny.

It was Sunday in the afternoon, after waking up and look for an hour, or two, to the ceiling, that he remembered the name the boy asked to look. First, he took care of himself: with a shower, a meal and some movies with his family.

At noon he was ready to do the search, but all his plans crumbled at his feet when he was called to misguide a ship that was coming from the east. With nothing more than a sigh, he went to the car that was waiting for him to escort him to the place needed while his family went to hide. It wasn’t his chance yet.