Beyond The Looking Glass - Words of the Unseen - Chapter 20
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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 20
Header 4Same Village Eighteen Moons Later
A strong young man and a beautiful young woman walk hand in hand into our dusty settlement. I look at them in amazement.
"Close your mouth, old man." It sounds next to me.
"But that, those areโฆ," I stammer, searching for the words that normally come so easily.
"That's Numico and Sion, that's what you're saying, right? I thought we were done with the lessons today."
Eighteen moons ago I wouldn't have expected Sei to become even more headstrong, but this teenager!?!
She is incredible, a tongue like a knife, and a mind like glass.
So clear, so sharp.
We spend so many days together and she continues to amaze me, I even amaze myself sometimes now.
But nothing surprises me more than this sight here on the dusty road to the top of the village.
I know where he is going and it is not to my place. They stop at one of the lower huts and I can hear a woman crying joyfully.
"How long must it have been?" I wonder out loud.
โ42 moons and a bit,โ she makes it sound like a joke but I know she's right. Sei now knows the ways in my head better than I do.
Although I have learned how to close certain doors from her, or even hide them completely.
Together we stroll downwards, I want to give his family a moment but at the same time, I can't wait to hold the boy in my arms.
When he leaves his parental home, I hold a man who was that little strange boy so recently.
"Numico, boy well.... Yes boy, always my boy."
I feel my eyes getting wet, but luckily I see the same thing happening opposite me.
โSentimental old fool,โ sounds fondly in my head. At the same time, I feel Numico looking up over my shoulder.
"So it's you?!"
It sounds somewhere between a question and a confirmation. He lets go of me, walks over to Sei, puts his hands behind her ears, and presses her against his chest.
If that isn't already strange, Sei allows it.
In all this time, I've always seen her keep her distance from anything that smells like a man, but not now. She looks up into his eyes and then wraps her arms around his waist.
Stunned, once again, I walk towards Sion. My gods, she looks just like her mother. But I don't want to say it.
"Sion, but what...ยฟ"
"Martio, I wanted to send a messenger, but he said that you like to be surprised," she says with something between a smile and a blush.
โSend a messenger next time, I don't know if my heart can handle this again,โ I joke, half. Because I never expected this in my lifetime.
Sion was now to be Empress, her summers were numbered and she is now the rightful owner of the throne.
โYou are now, right?โ
She nods before I get a chance to finish the sentence, something I'm used to by now.
"But then what do you do....."
Then the 18-month training starts to pay off.
I look at her belly.
Where nothing is visible, but the shock in Sion's eyes betrays that I heard it right.
"Please MArtio, no one knows yet." I lower my eyelids for a moment to indicate that I understand.
"We are traveling, all provinces before..."
Then Numico stands next to her again with a protective arm around her. "Martio how wonderful to see you, we need to talk."
For a moment I think, of course, we should talk, but then I hear the compulsion in his voice.
"Tonight, your cabin. Sion and I will arrive at dusk."
I've never seen him so direct.
For a moment I think I understand, he has become used to addressing the council. But then I see what he already saw coming.
The entire village gathers around the young Prince. Why didn't I think of that? At least he does. I had told them the stories, but the Empress and her Prince were here in our dead village. Of course, everyone wanted to be there to witness this.
I only see Kyra's daughter and the boy with whom I have been through so much. For everyone else, here are the demigods of our world, a world which through all my stories has become bigger than before I left.
Then I feel a soft hand in mine and Sei takes me back up the hill to our cabin.
When she closes the door behind her a tear is rolling down her cheek.
"He'sโฆ" her breath catches in her throat.
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