Beyond The Looking Glass - Words of the Unseen - Chapter 18
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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 18
"Well, and now I'm here because you'll need me later and I'll be safe with you."
This last sentence came out with such conviction that it made me laugh out loud and Sei heard it too.
It must have been the tension because it wasn't that funny but we roll over the floor laughing until we finally get our regular breathing back.
"So that's how you knew exactly where to walk without having to follow me, you little sneak." She nods and looks almost innocent.
"Old man,..." I laugh.
Then the smile disappears from her face, "but you're old too, aren't you?"
Two very big eyes look at me as if they want to know who is the boss of the world... then there is a crack in her mask and again the laughter is almost unstoppable.
At least she knows my weak vanity spots, but how?
Sei fell asleep in front of the fire. I pick her up and put her on the bed. The god of dreams has carried her away but it seems that he is unable to find me this night. Not that I truly believe in a God of dreams, but it makes a nice story for kids, and a good excuse for nights like tonight.
Out of all the crazy things I've experienced so far, I think about my night with Kyra, this one just entered the top three if not sharing the first place. I thought Numico was a strange kid, but this girl is even more confusing.
By all gods, what is your plan?
I can't wonder out loud without waking Sei or I would have.
Suddenly so much has changed. Days as a catalyst, there are not many in a lifetime, but those few days determine the course of your future life and you know it.
You feel it.
You feel that suddenly everything is different.
Everything connected, I now see Sei wasn't here to fill the void left by my sister. On the contrary, it was time to close that chapter for good.
My journey to the imperial city had opened my heart. I was no longer the closed-off hermit, only the hermit was still here. Maybe even that was a lie Not even that because I now had a young lady in my hermitage.
My head is still spinning even though it has been quiet for quite some time. This girl has been through so much, then I see Sei soaking wet again and I banish the images from my thoughts.
The image immediately makes way for words:
"Well, and now I'm here because you'll need me later and I'll be safe with you."
Margarita, old witch, you put this lady in my way, but why?
What did you know that I don't know, at least not yet?
Then I close my eyes and try to make my head stop spinning. I can not make it submit to my will. The knowledge that everything will be different after today is there, but what keeps my mind going is that I don't understand how.
All the thinking with no answers makes it impossible to sleep and just when I think I'm drifting off and Ndengi darkens my world, I hear that cracking voice.
"Traveler..... Travelerrrrrr."
"No longer the traveler for now, but still the traveler."
"You found her, you will soon need her more than she will need you."
"I'm just teasing traveler, but take good care of her, your path goes much further than you can imagine."
"My last message was just a test. I sent it when I was a young woman, just to see if it would reach you. Now I'm far from that woman, and I know heared that message I left for you."
"Just as you will hear this last message. It will find you that night, bless you, traveler. I'm sure she hasn't told you yet, but she's seen it a long time ago."
"She was a special child when I found her, with a foot on either side."
โWhen that day comes, tell her that I will be with her.โ
Then the voice fades away and I am left with my thoughts once more, astonished.
At first, it feels like a meaningless but very emotional message.
Then the penny drops.
As Sei said, how can I be so cross-eyed?
I had my mental doors wide open, of course, she then steps in, that old witch.
You could almost say like mother like daughter. But does that also apply to a sorceress and her apprentice?
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