In dreamland,
“No! I still want to be here. I want to meet my parents.” The chestnut brown-haired girl refused. Alexa also shook her head, though she had not seen anyone talking to her. The husband and wife conversation she had heard had disappeared as if it was intentional so that the young woman would return home quickly.
“Your time has not come, Alexa. I will move you to another place.” After saying that, the Chosen One’s body lifted itself up and disappeared from the scene. Alexa was helpless, as she could not move her own body. The light was so bright that the only daughter of the couple, Tristian Tristian Varden Writh and Lavena Isolda Keira, had to close her eyes.
What is this? Why can’t I see Mom and Dad? What exactly has happened that I have to leave the same place as them? Alexa thought, annoyed.
A million questions popped up inside poor Alexa’s head, especially those related to her parents and the mysterious glowing figure that forbade her to meet Tristian and Lavena, but the girl could not express them openly because she was tongue-tied. The Messenger of Goddess Magia’s slender body continued to fly by itself as if it was being directed to a place unknown.
Everything suddenly stopped after twenty-five minutes of flying, and Alexa fell onto the soft ground. This situation startled the teenage girl, who realized that her place was very different from the first time. In front of the girl were lots of flowers and a house that looked empty, but the door was wide open, so it was obvious what was inside.
There was no one there, so the one-hundred-and-seventy-centimetre-tall woman tried to look around for a human figure, but there was no one else in the area at all. Alexa could not even find the luminous figure that had brought her to that place. That young lady was very confused, as all the events she had experienced were sudden, even though they had all happened in a dream. “Where am I now?” muttered Alexa, frowning.
“You are still in the dream, Alexa, just in a different area.” The unfamiliar voice made Alexa turn her head to the left because she did not expect someone to be talking to her. However, there was no one there, so the confusion grew even bigger in her heart.
“Who is that? I can’t see you.” Alexa did not know what to do, so she could only ask the disembodied voice.
“You will not know who I am. Not for this moment.” The same voice answered the virgin’s question, but Alexa was not satisfied with the answer, as everything became mysterious.
“Excuse me. Sorry if I am being rude to you, but may I know who you are? I am confused about what happened, and I need the answer.” The smart girl asked again, and the feeling of reluctance came to mind. However, she was forced to ask as before so that all doubts would be cleared.
“No, you can’t know about me now. Someday, you will understand and find out who I am.” The disembodied voice refused to give an answer, so the girl’s face became gloomy. The breeze began to feel on the virgin’s skin, even though she had not felt anything since she had been there. The silence was so dominating in that place due to the absence of other humans, or at least the absence of conversation partners, that Alexa did not know what else to do.
“Do you miss your parents that much?” Such a question had successfully caught the young woman’s attention. Alexa just nodded, and her face still looked sad.
“Yes, it’s true. I miss Mom and Dad so much. You will not understand.” Alexa did not deny it, and the twelve-year-old girl recalled all the conversations she had heard in the first place. Lavena’s anguished cry still lingered in the Chosen One’s memory, which made her sad, but she could do nothing about it.
“Why do you still remember them? Is it because you have never met?” The voice seemed deliberately to ask the interlocutor as if to confirm something. Alexa exhaled heavily, then looked down. She tried not to cry and was reluctant to answer a question that had such an obvious answer.
“Yes… you are right. We have not seen each other in a while, so we must be missing each other.” After a long period of silence, the sharp-nosed woman finally gave an answer. She remained in a downcast position, and a feeling of sadness and anger was churning violently in her heart.
“What would you do if someday you could meet with your parents?”
“I would hug Mom and Dad tightly. I will ask, why did you throw me into the orphanage? What did I do wrong?” Alexa’s voice sounded a little shaky like she was on the verge of tears. She tried to understand her parents’ conversation that she had overheard. However, the young girl could not understand it because she was still young, and did not know how it happened in the first place.
“Would you hate your parents if they answered your questions honestly?”
The tall girl chose to remain silent. Her actions seemed to reflect that she was thinking about something and did not know what it was. The conversation between the girl and the disembodied voice had simply ended, as Alexa still hadn’t answered the strange voice’s questions.
Time seemed to pass more slowly for the granddaughter of Sir Elmer Louis Writh and Madame Phoenix Lily Katira. Alexa straightened her head, then looked down at what turned out to be a beautiful purple flower bed she had never seen before. That girl sat on the flowers as soon as possible and let the wind blow her body and hair.
“Do you like that flower?” The unfamiliar voice asked Alexa again. However, the young lady seemed to have lost her passion for life, especially considering she couldn’t meet her parents, even though she was in the same place, so Alexa just shook her head in response.
“You will be reunited with your parents. Do not be sad.” The hazel-eyed woman was not comforted by such words, so she returned to silence and turned her attention towards the front.
I do not need a promise because what I want is proof. I was so close with Mom and Dad, but why is this strange voice interfering so we can’t be together even for a moment? Did she not know that living in an orphanage is so annoying? I really hated facing Odessa and her friends, who conspired to bully and did so every day. I wish I had not lived in the orphanage since I was a baby. That place is just hell. Alexa complained inwardly and was reluctant to speak up to the disembodied voice engaging her in conversation.
“What about Samuel, Aideen, Aileen, and Adaline? Are they good friends at the orphanage?” The two new questions again disturbed the girl’s attention, so Alexa was tempted to answer the questions, but instead, she remained silent.
“I know you must be very angry and disappointed, having been prevented from finding your parents in the first place. I do not want to defend myself because I am a goddess. You will know better about me and what happened to you after the time has come.”
Alexa just listened to every word of the voice without a figure coming and felt no need to comment at all. She could not wait to see what her biological parents looked like, but she had to bury the hatchet.
I still do not understand what she’s saying. This is just a weird dream; surely, when I wake up, things will return to normal. I still want to see Mom and Dad, even in my dreamland. I do not care. Even earlier, we almost met but were prevented by an invisible figure, so everything failed miserably. How sad my fate is, thought a young girl who was still of noble descent.
“I was already told you that you did not need to be sad. Yes, this is just a dreamland, but our conversation is real. Even your parents’ conversations are just as real. There is nothing to worry about because I always look after and watch over you.”
The thin-lipped girl looked confused and spontaneously asked, “Why do you have to guard and watch over me? What exactly has happened? Everything is strange, including what happened in the dream. Please give me some clarity so at least I can understand.”
That invisible woman was silent, so Alexa could not do much but wait for a reaction from the other person. “I deliberately allowed you to hear your parents’ voices earlier so that you would know that they are okay.”
The virgin was confused because the voice gave a very strange answer and seemed to deviate from the original question. “What do you mean? Why do I need to know that they are okay? I just want to meet them, hug them, and ask questions like the ones I explained earlier. Your answer is really confusing.”
“It is okay, Alexa. You do not need to know and understand everything right now. You miss your parents a lot, don’t you? I know and understand that-”
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