Sam is a bit flustered. No matter how smart he is in the other aspects, in normal social conventions, he couldn't be smarter than a five year old.
In his two lives this happened to be the first time someone invited him to the wedding out of pure gratitude. Even in the organization or the company he had in his previous life, no one invited him normally, it is either out of fear or pure courtesy. There are some high level people that invited him, but it is to just suck up to him.
He felt like he obligated to give a nice present now.
Now that the trio is gone for their own gifts, he was left alone.
Currently, he is inside his house in a deep thought.
*Knock* *Knock*
He came out of his daze due to a door knock.
He went to open the door and was surprised to see Raunak and Ramya standing outside.
"Come in."
He walked back and gestured them to come in. It has been a while since he saw Ramya, she was a bit traumatized by the incident and didn't want to come out that much. He occasionally saw her when he went to meet Raunak, but that's it.
"Why are you guys here? Are you not busy with your wedding preparations?"
Raunak had an awkward smile on his face.
"We are indeed busy, but we want to ask you something?"
"Yeah, tell me."
Before Raunak could speak, Ramya cut him off and said.
"I want to work as a teacher in your school. I heard from Raunak that you are not just teaching awakened ones and also teaching the children who are not awakened and I heard you are also teaching them basic knowledge of the realm, language and something else. I would like to teach those kids. I don't have particular knowledge in the fields called sciences which you are teaching, but I have enough knowledge about this realm and the language. I even have a teacher license years ago. Would you consider me for the job?"
As she spoke, she took out her teacher's license and gave it to Sam.
Sam took it and looked at it a bit before saying.
"Are you sure you want to teach them? You would have to deal with a lot. Those children will be a handful."
"No problem. I am really interested. In fact, this is what I wanted to do for a while. But I couldn't make my father agree to it and no school in the city will even let me take their tests to be a teacher in their school."
"I indeed need someone who has knowledge in these categories, since you are eager let's try it out. We will see for one semester, even if you have flaws in the beginning, you will have a chance to improve and even after that if you don't have any improvement, I cannot continue to employ you. If you are okay with those conditions, then I am okay with that."
Ramya beamed with joy and said.
"Thank you. Thank you so much."
They chatted for a while and Sam couldn't help but notice his teeth marks on her neck.
He felt a little guilty and said.
"I am sorry for the scars. I should have healed it as soon as I finished the treatment. Now you have to bear it for the rest of your life."
Ramya just smiled and said.
"Please don't apologize. It might be a scar for the people who are looking at it, but for us it is a reminder and a symbol that you kept us safe when even my closest kin are looking to harm us. I cannot thank you enough, so please don't feel guilty about it."
Sam just smiled and didn't continue the topic.
After the couple left, Sam thought of Ramya's words and smiled a bit. He finally has an idea on what to give out as a gift.
He went into the room and started making it.
He took out the lump of crystal that he gathered from the tortoise's back and started melting and molding it as he worked for the rest of the day.
He carefully made and sculpted a crystal token. It is the emerald token with Sam's symbol on it. In the middle of the process, Sam inscribed a formation within the token and placed a drop of his blood inside and then he started adding other materials and inscriptions.
He worked through the whole night and only managed to create the token by the next morning.
He was finally done with his gift.
He placed it in a specially made box and wrote a letter along with it.
He is sure that this gift would surely come in handy for them. They would be able to find a use for it in the future. Maybe not in the near future, but in this lifetime, they might be able to use it.
On the wedding day, the trio returned, they also got their own gifts and they seemed to have a little competition regarding this, so they are hiding it pretty badly.
The wedding was held at night and it was grand. Many big shots came. Since Rajan's threat was completely gone, Raunak's status has grown in the capital. He is a high level official and the way he worked, he is bound reach greater heights no matter how they looked at it.
Many are convinced that he would leave this place soon enough and go to the higher realm. After all, he is only two promotions away from the ceiling of this place and the only higher officials that have higher status than him would be the King and the Elders.
He cannot become a king, but he can surely become an elder. But to be an elder, they have to work in the upper realm for a certain amount of time. Even those who went there, the cream of the crop would stay there and climb a different ladder and the some would return and sit on top of the whole Charbhum realm.
Either way, his prospects are higher than what they can reach and fathom.
Every senior official came and even a representative from the elders came to the wedding.
After the wedding ceremony, the couple got too busy with greeting all the people that came. One good thing is that no one came from Ramya's family saving the awkwardness. Even her father didn't come. Ramya seemed to have mixed feelings about this.
Sam gave his gift and so did the trio.
After the wedding was over, everyone left to their own way.
Raunak has bought a new house and the couple went to that house directly.
They are currently in the backyard of the house which has a small pond with some lotus flowers in it.
They sat in the garden under the full moon as they chatted in each other's embrace.
"Let's go through the presents shall we?" Ramya asked and Raunak complied.
All the presents are in their spatial rings. They took one after another and made fun of the people who gave them.
"All the presents are so diplomatic and clear signs of sucking up. I didn't expect that my situation in the bureaucrat circle will turn from being oppressed constantly to being sucked up to in a single night."
"Well, how do you like the feeling of someone sucking up, my dear officer?" Ramya asked playfully.
"Stop teasing alright, let's go through the remaining gifts. There are only four left. One is from Sam and the other three are from trio."
They went for the trio's gifts first and they were amazed.
"These fellows spent a fortune on these things. They really didn't hold back." Raunak said as he looked at the three gifts.
One of them is a large jar of honey, the other one is a special fruit and the last one is special herb.
These three are the specialties of the three planets. And they are extremely rare to the point that each unit will only be available for every decade. And they are auctioned off. The price would be in hundreds of millions.
Ramya hit him gently and said.
"Why are you calling them fellows? Aren't they Sam's friends? Give some respect."
"My dear Ramya. Can you stop revering anything associated with Sam. He is your savior, but not his friends. Its enough you respect them normally, you don't have put them on pedestal. Anyway, it is not that I don't like them. But you should see how they behave when Sam is not around. They are living nightmares."
"Okay, what is Sam's gift? What do you think he bought?"
"Who knows?"
They opened the gift and were surprised to find out the token and the letter. Ramya is looking at the token curiously while Raunak opened the letter.
The letter has few words.
"One day, I and my friends will disappear and you might have to leave this place and go somewhere else. And in that situation if you are in trouble and you can find any organization that is named after 'dusk' or you hear any information regarding me or my description, you can go to that place with this token and they will help you overcome no matter what problem it is.
This is a symbol that you are under my protection and it can be used for generations to come. But it can only be used once. So, please be careful and do not discuss it with me or anyone else after today.
Happy married life."
