CHAPTER IV: LIGHTS AND SHADES (2)
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CHAPTER IV: LIGHTS AND SHADES (2)
Meanwhile, at the Aramordt Refuge, the granddaughter of the blue legacy was ready to sleep. The adorable royal heir, was held by a young woman, a friend of the family; a beautiful company.
"Miss Ivonne," exclaims Ada. “Could you tell me a story before I go to sleep?”
“You know I'm not good with stories my princess”
"Come on!" says the girl. “I know you can give me one!”
“Okay” answers Ivonne. “Once there was a bee, so tiny, that she found the little feet of a very intrepid girl; it went all up her little body, until she found her tummy, and the beak!”
"Miss Ivonne!" says the girl between tickles. “That way I won't be able to sleep!”
"You're right," says the young woman. “Sweet dreams, little princess” says Ivonne.
The woman got up, and went away. And as she was about to close the door, the girl spoke to her again.
“Can I ask you something?” exclaims Ada.
“Anything, my darling”
“Do you think my mom doesn’t love me?”
“What?!” responds Ivonne. “Of course she does! Why do you say that?”
“Because she always leaves me”
The woman was impressed by such a response, which followed as she stunned in silence. She sits back on the bed, and talk to the confused girl.
“Baby, as I’ve told you before, she has an important mission with your aunt” said Ivonne. “It’s okay, they’re going to resolve this soon, and before you could think about it, she is going to be here forever! She is going to be here for you, always!”
“You promise?” Ada asks.
A knot of fire came into the woman´s throat, as a flash for the nervous one, and thought twice what she was about to say.
“I promise, my girl” responds the young woman.
The young woman went out the room, as she goes to the kitchen as quickly as she could; upon the owner of the beautiful lighthouse.
“She can’t wait any longer” exclaims Ivonne
“Me neither” responds Eros.
“What happened guys?” the woman exclaims. “Yesterday you were so enthusiastic about this, now look at you”
“I don´t know what´s happening” exclaims Eros. “I need her, here.”
“Didn’t you say that to her?”
“I did!” responds Eros. “And she told me that we must resolve things separately; that we can’t be together. How the hell is she going to tell me that Ivonne? I feel so lonely.”
Eros starts crying, and Ivonne approached the man. She cleaned his tears, and hold his face gently.
“You are alone, because you want to” exclaims Ivonne. “You know I’m here. I’m here for both. I’m here for you.”
They both stared at each other, and as an instant in a lifetime passed by, kiss each other slowly. And in the midst of it all, the Colonel of Aramordt had an image of Amara over his mind. He stops the moment.
“Ivonne, I can’t do this,” he said. “I can’t do this to Amara. She is annoying as hell, but she is everything to me.”
“I’m sorry, I cannot do this either," exclaimed Ivonne, evasive. "I need -I need to go."
Among the hidden springs, a suspicious was quietly being found. Ceres was in it, for she couldn't sleep; it was late at night. She needed to clear her mind. She needed to clarify her doubts. She was trying to meditate, when suddenly she feels an unusual, strange presence.
A dark dimness begins to cover the place, and the water from the lake begins to turn into a thick, grayish matter. Ceres rolls her eyes from side to side, and a voice whispered in her ears.
Thousands of thoughts began to run through her mind, hundreds of voices bellowed her head, as a cry for help; aas a name´s vociferation, imploring for mercy.
She returns to herself. She rises from the ground, and notices the lake´s water was crystal clear and normal.
"I'm, as always, delusional" she exclaims to herself. “I need to wash my face.”
Ceres then washed her face with the fresh water from the springs; as she does so, the reflection of the water began to distort. Through the reflection, her eyes turned black, and the light stopped meeting. In her pupils, started the display of a silhouette; a black hooded creature. A whisper, in the dark.
Terrified, she began to hear the voices again, which danced satirically, among the vapors of darkness arousing her. In the forefront, as the reflection of the spring´s image, her younger sister's face began to materialize, while the eldest princess´ eyes filled with horror and despair.
"Hello sister" exclaims Rita. “Why are you nervous?”
“What are you doing here?!
“You are wounded, Ceres” answers the evil sorceress, “you want to hide it, but this infection is killing you.”
“Silence!” shouts Ceres.
Ceres hit the water, but the water immediately burned her arm; forcing her to back off, for a greenish acid gushed from it.
"As you probably know by now, this infection could only be cured by a vegetative potion. Which are only found in Eldrįner" exclaims Rita. “And comically enough, my sister didn't even bother to bring you one. That´s what I like to call a real bond, don´t you think?”
“Keep your mind games for yourself! Insane witch!” Ceres answers.
"The only one insane here, is you" Rita replies. “You are, as always, full of fear. Full of cowardice; filled with guilt and resentment, trying to change the unchangeable. Lost in the past, as she figures where did it all go wrong. But don't punish yourself sister, what you did to me was the best thing you could´ve ever done. Just look at me! Thanks to you, I am now the owner of this disgusting planet. Well done, Ceres! You are truly the example to follow!”
"You don't own anything, Abhir" Ceres replies. “Get out of my mind!”
Suddenly, Ceres had a vision. She didn´t know if what she was seeing was her manifested imagination, but at the bottom of the dark lake, she recognized one of the four haunted Glass Mirrors of Sattara; lost for a hundred years. And this one, was the most dangerous of the whole nation.
Looking at it, she identified the evilness of the growing energy sprouting out, which was quickly integrating into the currents of the water; flowing uncertainly inside the gloomy lake. The night beclouds, instantly; the shadows began to take over the terrains of the place. She saw the sinister reflection of her youngest sister everywhere, and witness her distorted voice circulating in the corners of her disturbed mind, repeating a single phrase: My Fate.
Rita then, finally, appears to Ceres. She was floating over the lake, approaching her sister with a sinister look. As she quickly reached the shore, where the king's eldest daughter covered her ears in the ground; drowned in hardship, kneeling at despair.
"You can´t escape from me" Rita exclaims. “Don't you see it? On me relies the past, the present and the future. Everything begins with me, everything ends with me. And before the clarity of the dawn from tomorrow´s sun will shine the prairies, the fate we´re all waiting for, will be sentenced. It is the end, of all present times.”
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