Beyond The Looking Glass - Words of the Unseen - Chapter 17
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Beyond The Looking Glass is the second book in the Unseen series, a story that came to me from the other side. A story where I thought I was just the narrator until I heard the Words of the Unseen.
This second story goes beyond time and place and mixes the long ago with the here and now. Because history keeps repeating, until we learn and do something about it.
Beyond The Looking Glass - Words of the Unseen - Chapter 17
Sei sits by the fire in dry clothes when I bring her the bowl of soup and I sit down next to her. She looks dreamily into the fire and then she rests her head on my shoulder.
For a moment I feel uncomfortable, should I put an arm around her?
She so far had avoided any form of non-essential physical contact and now this.
Very carefully I wrap an arm around her still cold shoulder.
"You're right Martio, I think I do have a lot of explaining to do," she begins cautiously.
"My village was indeed burned down by soldiers a long time ago, my parents, like most of my village, did not survive."
"I knew," she goes silent for a second.
"Not that I knew this would happen, but I knew that I shouldn't be in the village that day. That was easy. Very often I spent my days with Margarita. She had recognized me as one of her children from a very young age." She pauses for a moment and turns her head so she can see my expression.
"You don't think that's strange?"
"I don't know yet what I should find strange," I say softly.
"You're weird, but that's probably necessary because I'm even weirder," it's as if she swallowed the last words.
"Margarita was in our village what you will be here one day. A bit like that Master Oniko of yours, but very different."
"What do you mean different?" I ask curious.
"Well, of course, I don't know him, but you talk a lot. Too much, and all the doors to all the rooms in your head are open. Well, almost all of them. That one room is closed, the one with the crystals, the one where you hold your sister. As long as you hold her like this she can't go any further, you know that, right?"
I feel a deep twinge in the back of my head just below my ear, and the image is clear as day. I don't have the time to take a moment and understand what happens. Because it seems like all the words Sei has been saving up want to escape today.
"Well then you know now, and that's exactly why I think my Margarita was different from yours Oniko."
I nod and feel myself holding her very tightly.
"Margarita sees those things right away, ever since I was a little girl she played games with me. Games where I had to find the room in her head where she was hiding. Later she taught me how to listen in on someone's head, and how to leave words behind."
Then she becomes very quiet and almost crawls into me so close: "We heard everything, Margarita and I. We couldn't do anything, what could we do, an old woman and a child? We hid but it wasn't necessary. They didn't even look for us."
"After that day we lived together in her cabin for three summers and she gave me all the lessons that were needed. Until she got sick this winter, everything happened very quickly. A few days and she was gone. Well, gone from her body. She protected me all the way, she just forgot to eat. Or that I had to eat because souls don't eat. That's why Kosa found me the way he found me."
I stare into the fire, and I feel myself unconsciously nodding; "But why go to Kosa?"
"Because she knew that one day you would be there, she didn't know when only that it would be. Margarita could sometimes see things beyond the veil of mortality. I say sometimes, I don't know how many times. She hardly ever spoke about it. She always told me, little one, the less you know about it, the less you can make a mess of it."
โI don't think she knew that sometimes I saw things too, or maybe she did.โ
Sei looks doubtful. "Maybe she didn't talk about that so she wouldn't make a mess. What comes from the other side does not come without reason. But it's also not a gift, it can be a curse. I've heard her say that so many times, although I know I don't know what she meant."
"So I knew you were coming, I just didn't expect you yet," she giggles. "That's why I was keeping my eye on you, I couldn't believe you were here already."
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