You can see me?

15 minutes ago

My head hurts. It was the same back at the estate. Something knocked me out.

Sherya?

I opened my eyes, lying on a flower. Where am I ? Sherya, where are you?

Oh no, I knew it! That presence I felt was similar to the one in the estate. Did he hurt my Sherya, where is my master? I can’t feel her energy anywhere around here. Oh no, where are you Sherya, did you lay me down before someone took you with them? You did, didn't you!

Ah. A loud whimper escaped my lips. I can’t believe I lost my master and slept for so long! I am a miserable spirit who can't even help her when she needs me!

“A spirit?”

“Y-you, you can see Rusha?”

There was a pretty looking woman staring at me. She had ink-black hair streaked with a vibrant turquoise color, pinned up in a messy bun and her eyes were shining in the same turquoise as her hair. She also wore a coat. An physician, an alchemist, perhaps?!

“Beautiful lady, are you an alchemist? Is that why you can see me!”I questioned her curiously.

“Oh my! My dear! Come here first” she reached out her hand and I climbed on it.

“I don’t know either, I have never seen a spirit before but I have read lots of books about you. I also created many potions but I couldn’t test them out since I never had the chance to. Oh my, would you like to help me research? Actually I have one right here in this estate, at my lab!”

“I am sorry miss, what would be your name?”

“I am Carina! Carina Evergarde! And you said you are Rusha right?”

“Yes I am Rusha! Miss Carina, I am sorry but I am in search of my master, so I can’t help you right now, I am truly sorry! I.., my master…” My master must be all alone!” I teared up.

“Oh dear, don’t cry! Wait, I don’t have a little tissue. I should create some. Use my coat sleeves to dry your tears please!”

“Thank you very much,” I whimpered.

“Actually I am also trying to find a young lady right now. I couldn’t meet her but my husband told me that she is a kind sweet child. Also someone who is interested in getting to know me so I desperately have to find that young lady and recruit her for alchemy!”

“That sounds like a sweet lady, just like my Sherya!” I replied tearfully.

“What! Did you say Sherya? But that is the exact name of the lady my darling accompanied.”

“Really? What is the name of your darling?”

“His name is Dalton.”

“Dalton! You mean Dalton! That kind sweet gentle uncle like person!”

“Yes. You said it right, sweet caring Dalton! Oh that would mean, you are Sherya’s little spirit? Woah, she even has a spirit, how great!”

“You are also impressive Miss Carina! You are the only person in the dukedom who can see me, except Sherya! That means you must be well-versed and talented in alchemy! I really wanted Sherya to be able to talk with others, but nobody could see me, so we kept it hidden. Even Sherya herself could only recently start to see me and now we are separated! There was so much more I wanted to tell her!” I cried out.

“Well Rusha, should I make them all see you?”

“Are you really able to do that?”

“Well, I never could try it out before, but I did create a potion for situations like these. You know? I really love making potions!” She replied enthusiastically.

“That’s great! Potions are super! If they are even able to make me seen.”

“Rina, who are you talking to?”

“Oh it’s really Dalton!” I responded.

“Well Darling, if you could give me five minutes you will know who I am talking to” Carina smirked.

“Who? Well nevermind you need a potion right?” Dalton exclaimed.

“Exactly, tell that old Greyhaired, that he should bring Potion number 206 in the red color and Potion 551 in the color violet. We will be able to connect to Sherya back here.”

“Connect to her? Then you found that soul connection you talked about before? The one you needed to make that spell work?”

“Yes, it’s right in my hands!” She cheered.

“I will be back in a second!” He excitedly sprinted away.

“Dalton seems happy too!”

“Yeah my darling really cares a lot about your master and I do so too. I heard she also saved his life. I patched all of the knights up, so they are all healed now, but if it wasn’t for Sherya some of them would have lost their life that day!”

“My Sherya is really kind but your husband is the one who always saves her. You know my master wouldn’t admit it if you ask her, but she really, really likes Teiran a lot. She always gets nervous around him. So she runs to Dalton and screams at him, save me I might die!”

“What an interesting lady, now I want to meet her even more!” Miss Carina laughed. I know I am not the only one who finds it funny, see Sherya! Everyone adores you! You are no longer lonely anymore, you will be fine. I will bring you back home!

“I am back and I brought the old man too, just as you said Rina!” Dalton carried an old man in his hands who seemed rather confused about what was going on. That man had a long white beard. Perhaps…

“Is he a priest?” I wondered

“A what?” Carina laughed. Dalton and the man looked confused..

“No my dear that old man is an alchemist I work together with. You can call him Willow.”

“Like the tree?”

“Yes, like the tree” she smiled widely.

“Well if you cared to also tell us what you are doing again Carina?” the old man called Willow asked her.

“Dalton could you give me the potion with the number 551 first”

“Sure here you go!” He handed over a violet liquid in a vial.

“Don’t worry this wont hurt you”, She reassured me.

“Yes!”

She poured it down on me. The potion tickled and dried in an instant. Did it work?

“What’s this little one, a fairy?”Willow exclaimed.

“Cute,” Dalton said.

“It worked, it really worked, they can see me, Miss Carina!”

“Just call me Rina, little one we are close now aren’t we! Also she is a spirit not a fairy!”

“Yes! I am Rusha. I already know you Dalton! You always took care of my master, but know she isn’t here! My Sherya is missing, what happened, why!” I cried out once more.

“Lady Sherya’s spirit?” Dalton looked stunned.

“Yes Darling, you couldn’t see her since her powers are probably still weakened.”

“Powers? But I thought she didn’t have any.”

“She has! It’s just she couldn’t use them because… I can’t tell you that since it’s Sherya’s secret. But she didn’t mean no harm! She, she is just scared and-”

“Don’t worry Rusha, we wouldn’t be mad at lady Sherya!” He gently patted my head with a finger.

“But more importantly, send someone to Teiran, tell him we found a way to detect the whereabouts of lady Sherya!”