Chapter 114: Will you accompany me through loneliness?
Olvera trudged hard in a dark ocean, witnessing everything with a deeper confusion than night. Those miserable colors as thick as ink would overflow from the bottom of the endless abyss like real sea water.
, gradually submerged her ankles, calves and even knees, sending bursts of chill that eroded the bone marrow.
When wading through the water, you can clearly feel the resistance of the waves; the lantern on your waist sways slightly, illuminating circles of spreading ripples. When you lower your head, you will feel that the cold sea water actually leads directly to another world.
The cast reflections formed countless weird and terrifying monsters, which were staring silently at the guests from another world through a hazy black mirror.
Walking in the bottomless abyss, separated by two worlds, can you clearly see how many monsters there are underwater? Thousands? Tens of thousands? Or are they everywhere? Such a question is unthinkable, because once
When you think about it, you will feel creepy, as if your spine and vertebrae are being pierced by those secret gazes.
For the princess who is troubled by the curse, this environment is even more dangerous and can be called a desperate situation. If it were not for the bright field opened up by the lantern, she would not even want to step half a step into this space.
Before entering the room between the rulers, Oveira also deliberately used [The Ashes of the Remaining Fire] to replenish the burning time of the lantern to the upper limit. Logically speaking, it should be in a very strong state now. However, the candlelight in the cage is actually
Unsteady and uncertain, the boat of light is struggling to ferry in the dark abyss of night, like a ray of residual light squeezing through the gap of chaos, which may be extinguished at any time.
The darkness here is completely different from the darkness in the corridor outside. In addition to its depth and despair, it also gives people a feeling that something is wrong, as if something important has been swallowed up by an evil beast lurking in the dark, and has been wiped from one's memory.
Went.
What on earth is going on?
Olvera swallowed, barely suppressed the uneasiness in her heart, and continued to move forward.
I don’t know how long I have been trudging in this sea of darkness, but I still can’t see the end, and I can’t see any figure except myself. It seems that it was born lonely, wandering in the corner of the world, drifting aimlessly,
Melted into the ink deeper than the hole in my heart.
"..."
Olivia opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but she opened and closed her lips several times, but nothing came out. It was as if what she wanted to say was stolen the moment it emerged.
Sure enough, I forgot something important.
And, I'm afraid there's more than one.
She was hesitating whether to move forward or retreat, but then she suddenly heard someone humming a song. The low voice floated gently to her ears with the water. The melody was sad, long and sad, like the ocean.
It became quiet, and the darkness flooded the starry sky in front of his eyes: "The eternal night dreamy abyss, the hardships and thorns..."
"who!?"
Oveira blurted out, and her shocked voice echoed in the air, stirring up waves of water. Perhaps there was some joy hidden in it that she had not discovered. No matter who the other party was, in this dark world, as long as there was still
Being able to hear other people's voices makes you feel very at ease. This is the nature of intelligent life.
But the other party didn't answer her, and still hummed to herself, low and long, as if the flowers were withering: "Endless darkness, surrounded by thorns..."
Olvera wanted to catch up and find the person singing, but the sound seemed to come from all directions, from any direction in the dark sea. When she faced forward, the ancient hoarse songs would come from behind;
When she looks up, a song of fear and sorrow will flow out from the sea water under her feet... Where should she look for the right direction?
If you wander alone in the darkness, you will often lose your way.
"My body is like a reed, floating with the waves..." The voice was still singing, singing a familiar ballad. Olvera felt inexplicably flustered and had a strong impulse, as if she had to find the place before the other party finished singing the ballad.
She, otherwise, she will disappear quickly and go to a place so far away that she will never be able to catch up in her lifetime.
She raised the lantern in her hand and flicked away a few hazy haloes of light, burning the nebula under her eyes. However, she ignored them and allowed the dim firelight to fight against the thick darkness. She chose a direction to move forward based on her intuition.
Her feet were soaked in the cold sea water. Every time she took a step, she felt the water flow separate from both sides, gently licking the pale skin hidden under the water, leaving traces like mist that would not dissolve. Pulse Water
The sound echoed in the air, blended into those sad songs, floating like a dream.
Hurry up, hurry up...
There was a voice in the bottom of my heart that kept urging Oveira to speed up her pace and not to be left behind by the other person's singing.
If you are abandoned, you will always be lonely.
Do you want to be alone, Olvera?
I don't want to.
Olivia replied silently, trying her best to catch up. She was born to be afraid of loneliness and longed for warmth, not to mention that in such a dark and miserable dream, she even more hoped to find a companion to fight with her against the endless darkness in the night.
The loneliness and misery.
This process of moving forward is the process of chasing what you want in your heart. However, when the princess was focused on moving forward, did she forget something important behind the rippling water? She should have remembered it, but
When I open my mouth to say something, I always forget it, so that in the end I regard it as an unfounded premonition and feel depressed.
I don’t know when the singing that hovers in the deep sea will stop. The short break at this time may just be that the puppet singing the song feels tired and takes a breather. The long flowing water forms a rippled mirror between the two worlds, and the black and transparent crystal reflects
The princess showed a stubborn and forward-looking expression. Suddenly, she finally spoke again and sang the last line of deja vu:
"Life is like a small fire, fleeting..."
Life is like a weak candle, it will disappear in the blink of an eye.
When the last note of the song fell lightly, the fireworks in the lantern in her palm suddenly swayed, and the shadows danced, entangled like weeds and vines in the wind. The princess followed the water patterns, chasing the place where the song floated and fell, and stretched out her hand to push it aside.
Behind the curtain of darkness, I finally saw the person in my dream.
A big withered tree stood on the black water, and a wooden boat floated under the thin branches. Sitting on the edge of the boat was a dreamy figure. She smiled at Olvera, her smile full of love and affection.
.
The water flow pushed silently, and the boat swayed on the water, just like the lantern in the princess's hand. Then the man who had left imprints on the princess's dreams countless times also swayed gently, and the dark black skirt
The dots are dyed with countless ripples. She is real, or perhaps illusory. With the gentle rocking of the boat, it is sometimes clear and sometimes blurry, as if it is exchanged back and forth between the two worlds.
Olvera was stunned, but she didn't even know what her reaction was. She murmured the identity of the person, calling her extremely important in her short life, perhaps second only to her biological parents: "Old...
…division?"
The person on the boat smiled and said, "It's me, Your Highness the Princess."
This gentle tone once made Oveira have the urge to cry, but she held it back in the end, perhaps because she was no longer the innocent and simple little girl, or perhaps because the tears she had accumulated in the past had long been shed in her dreams.
Fuck... So, she couldn't shed tears, but looked at her teacher in confusion: "Why are you here?"
"Isn't this answer very simple?" The teacher sat on a floating wooden boat, with withered and thin branches above his head, branching like countless pale claws: "I am here to accompany you, Your Highness."
"Accompany...me?"
"Yes, it must be hard for you to stay alone in this cage for so long, right? But it doesn't matter. From today on, you will no longer feel lonely."
She stretched out her hand to Ovela: "Of course a person will feel lonely when he is alive. It is the most terrifying thing in the world. Therefore, I will accompany you here, those who have caused you pain, fear, numbness, and hatred
Please allow me to bear it with you. This is an agreement between us, and I have never thought of breaking my promise."
Olivia asked her: "Won't two people feel lonely?"
"This is natural, because loneliness is originally the concept of being alone." The teacher was still smiling: "So, Your Highness, come to me. If we share the burden together, we are not lonely. Or do you want to be alone and still be here?
Drifting aimlessly in the dark ocean until the end of the broken dream?"
She looked at Olvera quietly, waiting for her answer.
The princess doesn't want to be alone.
Therefore, there seems to be no reason to refuse.
Olvera took steps silently, and when her calves separated from the running water, there was an echo that sounded far and near. The ripples hitting her knees were like the tide hitting the coast, cold and real.
The teacher was still sitting on the edge of the canoe, her figure swaying as the water flowed. She smiled and watched the princess walking towards her step by step.
Human life is like an inconspicuous reed, always floating up and down with the waves. However, what is behind her is not a reed, but a standing dead tree. The strong trunk seems to show that she will never be able to survive.
It may lead to such a fragile ending.
Eternal night, abyss, nightmares, darkness... they will all dissipate under this tree; loneliness, wandering, sadness, exhaustion... will all dissipate around her.
However, the princess suddenly thought: Is the so-called world and loneliness just the difference between trees and reeds?
Olvera stopped, the water rippled and undulated beside her, and the monsters in the other world also made trivial whispers, asking where her unreasonable premonition was going.
"What's wrong, Your Highness Princess?"
The teacher smiled slightly, with tears shining in his eyes.
"I don't know, teacher, but..." Her Royal Highness the Princess murmured, her clear eyes filled with crystal tears before she knew it: "I seem to have forgotten something important."