The Whispering Verses Chapter 1954: 【Sleeping in a Cold Dream】
Chapter 1954 [Sleeping in a Cold Dream]
"It's so cold"
Agelina, holding her cat and looking at the bonfire in front of her at the Green Lake Hotel, nodded sharply, then woke up and realized that she had fallen asleep just now.
The little princess was so tired today. She was so frightened and nervous that she fell asleep sitting by the campfire at some point. After waking up at this moment, I immediately felt that the surroundings were unusually cold. I opened my mouth and sighed softly, only to find that when I spoke, white mist came out of my mouth. This is a phenomenon that only occurs in winter:
"What's going on?"
The cat in her arms was still held in her arms. The cat seemed particularly warm now that the surroundings were extremely cold and even the fire in front of it could not provide warmth.
Worried that the cat would be frozen, the kind-hearted Agelina even wanted to stuff it into her clothes, but little Mia struggled to refuse.
She looked around, the rain outside the window was still pouring down, but she was the only one left beside the three dim bonfires on the first floor of the hotel. The temperature seemed to have dropped below freezing, and the slippery ground and tabletops were covered with frost, which made Agelina, still wearing summer clothes, feel even colder.
"Where did everyone else go?"
She shivered and stood up, but she felt that this would expose a larger area of her body to the cold and make her feel even colder. He reached out to touch the flame in front of him, but even if he put his hand completely into the flame, he didn't feel any warmth.
In addition to the cold, she felt that there was another kind of "cold" that made her soul tremble, making her body stiff, giving her a headache and feeling dizzy at the same time. The whisper element made this ordinary seventeen-year-old girl feel seriously uncomfortable. The only thing that comforted her at this time was that the cat in her arms was still there, so that she would not be completely alone.
I wanted to go around and see what happened this time, but when I tried to lift my legs, I found that my body was too stiff to move.
She wanted to cry aggrievedly again, but she thought that there was no sister, no Shade, and no mother here. Even if she cried, no one would see it, so she held back. She pursed her lips and looked around with red eyes, and then she saw a figure in a shabby black robe walking towards her in the darkness at the top of the stairs, and stretched out his right hand in the robe towards her.
Somehow, Agelina suddenly remembered the God of Death that was often mentioned in the story. She was a little helpless and wanted to retreat, and then realized that her body had become more rigid:
"Am I going to die?"
The young princess was thinking in her heart, and then thought that she still had a lot of things to do, that she had promised to help Shade take care of the cat, and that Lesia would be very sad if she found out that she was dead, so she decided to do something You can't die like this.
She tried hard to control her body and wanted to escape from the hand reaching out from the darkness, but she found that the light around her was getting darker and darker, and she found that the chill was getting heavier and heavier. She even felt that her eyelashes were covered with frost.
I want to use my last strength to throw the cat out of my arms, at least so that the cat can survive. But the lazy cat, which finally felt a little cold, suddenly threatened the black shadow in front of it:
"Meow~"
It bared its teeth and screamed with a "ferocious" look on its face. Seeing that the black shadow was still approaching, the cat coughed a few more times, and when it barked again, a small orange flame spurted out of its mouth.
The flame was very small, inconspicuous compared to the temperatureless flame behind Agelina. But when the flame appeared, Agelina felt that her stiff body and her soul that was about to sink deeper into the darkness seemed to be thrown under the midsummer sun.
The feeling of heat not only made her get rid of her negative state, she even felt the heat.
The black shadow in front of him immediately stepped back. Seeing that his "intimidation" was effective, the cat, who had always bullied the weak and feared the strong, suddenly became more energetic. It meowed and tried to escape from Agelina's arms, and continued to rush towards the retreating black figure. Fortunately, Agelina hugged it tightly.
But seeing that the cat was still struggling vigorously, he had no choice but to take a step forward. As expected, the black shadow continued to retreat faster, which made the cat even more excited. It continued to make sounds from its throat, and the sounds of meow~meow~ sounded very nice together.
Finally, Agelina, who was holding little Mia, forced the black figure to the stairs. When she wanted to continue walking forward, a hand held her down from behind, and then Agelina woke up by the fire.
Opening his eyes in confusion, he immediately saw the beautiful face of his great-aunt Carina Cavendish, looking at her with a worried expression.
Luvia and Lesia stood aside, Dorothy was putting a blanket on her, and the cat in her arms was struggling and meowing, obviously feeling that she was hugging her a little too tightly:
"Auntie, Miss Anat, am I... asleep? Oh! Auntie, you are finally back!"
"Clerical-level relic [Sleeping in a Cold Dream]. You are trapped in the relic. If you are not awakened in time, you will eventually freeze to death in your dream. Don't recall that cold dream, it's okay, it's okay. ”
The red-haired duchess gave her a worried hug and patted her back with her hand. This made Agelina once again think that she was still in a dream. In her memory, she never remembered that her aunt had hugged and comforted her like this. Therefore, when Miss Carina let go of her and asked her if she felt uncomfortable in any way, she didn't know how to answer.
"If this is a dream, that's fine. Everyone is very kind to me."
However, she did not forget the dream just now, but it left a deep impression on her. Although it was indeed extremely cold at the beginning, she did not remember that she almost froze to death in the end. Even if he hadn't been woken up, something even more unexpected might have happened later.
Taking the teacup filled with potion from Lesiya, he glanced at the first floor of the hotel, which was half fog and half light. Although it was still dark and the rain outside was still heavy, seeing so many ladies here and seeing the people who cared about her here made her feel inexplicably at ease.
Agelina quietly looked at the cat in her arms again. Little Mia fell into a drowsy state again. No one knew whether it really fell asleep or was pretending to doze again. The little princess was not sure whether the abnormal behavior of the cat in the dream was her imagination. After all, she did not understand why there was a cat in her dream.
But soon she hugged the soft cat and convinced herself:
"Are dreams and reality really that important? What I think is true is the truth."
Huddled next to the fire with a blanket, sipping tea comfortably. Amidst the crackling sound of the burning flame, there seemed to be another voice saying in the bottom of my heart:
【True. 】
"Miss, you are back."
Tifa, with water still dripping from her hair, walked out of the door. The duchess looked at her head maid and apprentice with a smile:
"Back, I hope it's not too late. You did a good job."
After taking care of Agelina, Miss Carina, who had just returned from the second floor, and Luvia briefly learned about the current situation from Tifa. They knew that Shade had left fifteen minutes ago, and that Shade's friends, doctors and priests had also set out to find him not long ago.
Miss Carina is more concerned about where Shade is now, while Luvia is concerned about other things.
So while the witch was communicating with her apprentice, she found Lesia and Dorothy alone:
"Did Shade tell you anything before he left?"
The red-haired princess and the blonde writer looked at each other:
"Xia De said, we won't let us leave here easily."
Luvia pursed her lips, holding the last [Home Coin] in her hand. She wondered whether she should divine now, whether Shade's worst-case plan for tonight was what she thought. But before she could make a decision, Miss Carina walked over:
"Louvia, it was really hard for you to help with the divination just now. You can rest here for a while. Shade needs help now. I will leave now."
Luvia also knows that even if she rushes over, she won’t be able to help much, and waiting here, other witches should be welcomed soon:
"Okay, let me see where Shade is now."
"Can you divine Shad's location?"
The witch asked curiously, Luvia shook her head:
"Of course not, but he brought my handkerchief with him today."
The red-haired witch had a teasing expression on her face, and the purple-eyed fortune teller just pretended not to see it:
"Although the divination may be biased, the general direction should be fine. Huh? Didn't he go to Edwards' old house? Why is he on the shore now?"
"That's the shore."
With that said, he said hello to the girls on the first floor, and then walked directly into the rain.
Miss Carina did not doubt Luvia's judgment, so although the direction she pointed out was quite remote, she still headed there in the heavy rain.
Facts also proved that Luvia proved herself right once again. Less than three minutes after leaving the hotel, the red-haired witch jumped up the tree and saw a huge red moon rising in the dark night in the fog in the distance, but then immediately fell to the lake:
"Shadow."
She quickly approached in that direction. Because she could not move quickly in the fog to prevent herself from getting into a state of spatial confusion, it took her a few more minutes to leave the woods and come to the shore. She watched Shade on the beach fly up and kick. A huge snowball fell from the sky. The snowball immediately turned into solid ice and fell into the lake. Then a violent explosion shattered the black figures in the water that had not yet landed. Flesh, flesh and mechanical parts floated on the water, but were soon submerged by a steady stream of monsters rising from the lake.
Xia De held a card in his hand and looked at this scene seriously. The constant flow of water ghosts was not a big deal. The key is that the location of the "door" he perceives is at the bottom of the deep lake. And at the bottom of the lake, a huge whale-like creature was guarding there.