دانلود رمان انگلیسی “بوتاربا -داستان مردی که به خوک تبدیل شد”- بخش دوم

Every so often, a sudden feeling of loss would hit me as I recalled the hollow void in my memories. It would sometimes happen when I looked at the distant mountains or gazed up at the night sky. I’d remember that I once had something irreplaceable, and my eyes would grow hot with tears. But I still didn’t know the cause of my heartache. It was as if I’d left a bookmark between pages that were glued together, refusing to open again. After responding to the knock on my door, Madame Wyss immediately entered the room. Her long golden hair rippled like a small, calm stream. She was a tall, slender, and shapely woman. Her graceful air accentuated her stunning beauty. Ever since I’d arrived in the capital, she’d been kind enough to tutor me. Today’s lesson was about fire magic. It was my first time using dangerous magic, so my heart beat a little faster than usual. I was sitting next to the window and facing the desk. On the desk was an open tome, Magic Fundamentals. Outside the window was a gloomy, cloudy sky. Far below it was a dark forest. I was near the summit of the capital, in the palace where the king and his relatives resided. But lately, it was usually just Madame Wyss and me. All the men were very busy preparing for or in the middle of battles against the Nothen Faction. Madame Wyss sat next to me and promptly started by saying, “Let’s begin. Tell me, what is fire?” Her lessons always began with a question. “Um… It’s something warm and bright.” “Well then, does that mean if you make something warm and bright, it will always be fire?” When she followed up with a question, it meant that I was wrong. “…No, there needs to be something flammable. When you heat something flammable inside air, there will be flame.”