A few hours later,
A girl with chestnut brown hair woke up from sleep. She looked scared, and sweat was pouring down her head and neck. The atmosphere on the fourth floor of the girls’ dormitory was still quiet, so Alexa could only calm down, even though that young lady was still scared. “What the heck! I am still alive.”
The first daughter of the couple Tristian Varden Writh and Lavena Isolda Keira, was silent for a few minutes as she realized it was still dark around her, a sign that the candles were out and it was not morning yet. The strange dream that Alexa had experienced came back to mind, so the virgin could only remain silent as if trying to digest what had happened to her.
“What kind of dream did I just have? Everything feels so real.” The wallflower girl muttered while still trying to remain calm in the midst of her confusion.
“It was all a dream, but why did I meet Sam, Aiden, Aileen, and Adaline instead? They did not recognize me either. No. It will not be happening. They would not do that.” Alexa said to herself, still not believing what had happened. Flashes of events that only happened in dreams made the virgin pensive.
“Why is it that every time I pray to meet Mom and Dad, I always have nightmares? Is it all just a coincidence?” Alexa tried to forget, but the strange events she had experienced in her dreams had not disappeared, which made the wallflower girl uneasy.
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A few hours later, precisely after the lunch bell had rung
“How about I pick up Alexa? You guys can go to the dining room first.” A silver-haired young man proposed to the three close friends, so the three teenagers looked at each other.
“Are you sure that you want to pick her up?” The other boy asked, and Aiden nodded without hesitation. Meanwhile, the two girls, whose faces were similar, only differing in haircuts and height, observed the conversation of the two male friends curiously.
“Yes, I am sure. I will not be long. See you!” Having finished saying these words, the lanky young man immediately left the presence of his three friends, eager to meet the girl who had always been the object of bullying by many children in the orphanage.
I need to meet with Alexa. I guess she knew something, and I want to confirm it as soon as possible. If Sam, Ai, and Line find out what I want to ask her, then we could be in danger. I have to talk to her privately, Aiden thought as he walked quickly towards the empty classrooms.
A few minutes later, the young man met the girl he was looking for. The hazel-eyed girl was looking down, so she did not see the opposite sex, but the young man looked unyielding, so he tapped the target’s right shoulder. Alexa was surprised by this and spontaneously turned her head towards the front. It turned out that the person who had done so was Aiden.
“Oh, hi. What’s up, Aiden?” asked Alexa, confused. She could not believe she was suddenly seeing her male friend again, even though they were in different classes.
“Come on, let’s go to the dining room! Sam, Ai, and Line are waiting for you,” Aiden replied, as his thumb pointed toward the back.
“Sure.”
The two teenagers walked together while many other children ran towards the dining room. Most of them were starving, so they were impatient to get to their destination faster. Amidst the sounds around them, both people running and people having conversations, Aiden ventured to open up a conversation with the opposite sex. “Alexa, did you have any strange dreams last night?”
The name’s owner was stunned as the slender woman recalled the events related to the interlocutor’s question. “How did you know that? Did you experience the same as me?” Alexa asked the man who was the same age as her.
“Yeah. I saw you in my dream, but there was that strange woman again.” Aiden answered honestly while occasionally glancing in other directions as if afraid that someone else might be eavesdropping on their conversation. Alexa observed the interlocutor’s behaviour and did the same, but no one was suspicious yet, so the two felt safe to continue the discussion.
“A strange woman? Is she the same woman you told me about?” The one hundred-and-seventy-centimetre-tall girl tried to guess, as she also remembered what Aiden had been talking about. The handsome young man nodded as he recognised the person the other person was referring to.
“Yes, you are right, Alexa. I am also confused about why I saw that woman in my dream. Could it be that she wanted to send me a message in my dream? But why didn’t she just say it directly? By the way, I have heard rumours that Odessa and her friends are in shock.” Aiden continued to speak in a low voice, but Alexa could still hear him.
A young lady who was still of noble descent in Zlatav remembered her bullies. Alexa had not responded to the interlocutor’s words yet, as the messenger of Goddess Magia was very happy to hear the news that had befallen her enemies.
I am glad to know that Odessa and her group got hit. Can they stay in the detention centre forever so that they do not disturb my inner peace? Hey! Why did I have such evil thoughts earlier? I am really annoyed that they like to do bad things to me, and no one stops them, thought Alexa, who was still silent, already wishing the worst for her five enemies.
“Alexa? Are you okay?” asked Aiden, worried. He asked deliberately, having yet to get a response from the other person, who was still busy with her thoughts.
The tall young boy even stopped walking, only to turn to the opposite sex, as if to reassure himself that Alexa was fine, while the girl looked back at Aiden in surprise. “Why? I am okay. I heard you talking earlier,” the sharp-nosed girl replied.
“I thought you did not listen to me. Okay, forget about Odessa and her group. Did you think the weird woman I told you about before has a hidden agenda for you and me? She could not be present in our dreams without interest, was I right?” Aiden stopped the topic of the five children who often antagonized Alexa and chose to talk about the immortal goddess he did not know who was her name.
Alexa was silent for a while, as the memory of the strange dream she had last night had faded a lot, but there were some parts that the girl still remembered, though not in much detail. “I did not know that there was that woman you mentioned, Aiden. If I am not mistaken, I was still passed out from the cold outside the cottage at that moment. I just remembered that I had asked God Brazakh for help.”
“Lord Brazakh? Interesting. How did you find out about him?” The boy was intrigued by the name of an immortal god that Alexa had mentioned. The virgin deliberately did not answer and continued on her way to the dining room, which would definitely be late if they continued to stand there.
“I read in a book about the History of Zlatav and the deities worshipped by the people. One of them has the name of Lord Brazakh, who is the God of Truth. He can be present anywhere to provide help to those who are oppressed. Normally, I forget that name, but for some reason I suddenly remembered him last night, so before I fainted, I called his name to help me.” Alexa explained at length to Aiden so the young man understood.
“You and I had the same dream, even met there. I did not even recognize you because you looked different there. I thought it was only a strange dream, but after I listened to your explanation, I was even more convinced that it was not an ordinary dream.” That teenage boy, who had a height of one hundred and seventy-five centimetres, explained what was in his mind, while Alexa could only listen to Aiden’s explanation.
“It is possible, but I have not been able to figure out the correlation between the dream we both had and the appearance of that strange woman. I guess… she was an immortal goddess since she could appear anywhere and anytime.” The beautiful girl had not been able to find out what made the woman Aiden had told her about also appear in their dreams, as she had not gotten any clues about it.
“Well, I am just as confused as you are, but that does not mean we should give up, Alexa. Unfortunately, the book you got did not say when the ancient prophecy was fulfilled, so I have no idea about that. I mean… if you really are the Chosen One, then there must be an appropriate time when you will meet the witches who live somewhere in this country. I was thinking about that.”
The granddaughter of Sir Elmer Louis Writh and Madame Phoenix Lily Katira chose to remain silent, for there was a fear in her heart.
I do not know how the ancient prophecy will be fulfilled. But if I was indeed the Chosen One like Aiden told me, will Sam, Aileen, and Adaline still want to be my friends? Let’s hope their attitudes do not change at all, Alexa thought, worried.
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