Everything I wanted to do for you

We were standing right in front of the now run- down mansion that was abandoned ten years ago. It was already dawn. We rode her with just a few breaks for one and a half days. So we decided to let Ragnar who carried us all the way here rest for a few hours.

“So this is the Silvas mansion?” Teiran asked.

“Yeah, although I don’t really remember what it looked like back then. I am sure the emblem carved on the door, the white eagle, is the emblem of the Silvas household. It’s also known for being surrounded by the white clouds, as if it was meant to be up in the sky. So yeah, this is definitely my grandmother's home.”

“Should we head inside then?”

“Actually I think we will find our clue somewhere else! Come follow me!” I reached out for his hand and dragged him through a little forest trail.

“Where are we going?” He wondered.

“To grandmother’s secret hideout! It’s a place only we both knew. For some reason I can sense a faint energy of it so even if my memories are a little fuzzy I can seem to sense the way there.”

We continued to walk, passed a little pond and arrived at a flower field, filled with white lilies all in perfect shape and health.

“How is that possible for them to be so well maintained after so much time has passed?“ Teiran wondered.

“I think grandmother left her last bit of energy to preserve them. The flowers meant the world to her, I know that for sure. Just like she tended to the red roses whenever she visited the Chronum duchy, she was spending most of her time here. In this flower field.”

“So we have to search for a clue somewhere here?” He questioned.

“Yeah! There must be a clue but first”

I spread out vines and roses from my body and let them pierce through the forest.

Teiran took out his sword and pierced the ice towards the same direction.

“So you felt it as well, right Sherya?” He said.

“There was someone eavesdropping on us, all though it seems like he got away.”

“We still should be careful. Who knows, he might come back later.”

“Well that means one thing for certain: whatever is hidden here is crucial evidence or a clue about the end of this bloody war” I stated.

We started to search, dug up the ground with shovels we carried with Ragnar back here, we looked around the trees that were closest, but found nothing.

“Impossible! Why is there nothing!” I yelled out in frustration. We searched for at least three hours, we literally turned this whole place upside down so why? Why is there nothing? Not a single thing!

“Let’s calm down first, maybe whatever she left behind wasn’t meant to be found by just anyone but you, so tools like these shovels weren’t meant to find it.”

“Now that you say so you might be true if she anticipated a second awakening then it might work if I release my energy and fill up the whole place with it?” I responded.

“But that might put a strain on your body!” Teiran worriedly replied.

“It’s alright, that’s why you are here with me right? You would carry me back just like you always do!” I reassured him. He was still worried but nodded respecting my choice.

Then I sat down in the middle of the flower field, Teiran standing closely beside me. I closed my eyes and breathed in and out, trying to feel the energy in me wandering throughout my veins and blood. I breathed in and exhaled a small portion of energy out. I continued to do so feeling a stinging pain in my stomach that made me feel like throwing up. Trying to stay composed I continued until I felt numb.

“It’s alright now.” I heard Teiran’s voice and his hand placed behind my back, when I opened my eyes I saw a rolled up letter with a red string attached to it levitating above the flower field.

“You found it, the letter your grandmother left behind for you. Wait let me get it for you don’t stand up! Stay seated!”

Teiran took the letter from the air and all the energy dissolved in a moment and returned back to my body.

It felt like a sharp sting all over my body. Making me feel like falling apart. Teiran dashed back towards me and wrapped me up with his arms, he sat down behind me so I could lean on his chest as support..

“Thank you” I wheezed.

“It’s alright, rest a little. Let me open the letter for you to read.”

He pulled on the red string until it was loose and the letter could be opened. Then he held it right before my eyes.

“My dear granddaughter Sherya, for you to see this message must mean that you had your second awakening. I know it must have been tough my dear, but you endured it so well until now. Since the time for me to write this letter is limited, I am sorry that I can’t tell you how proud I am of you in more detail like I wanted to. I hope you know I always believe in you. But there are more important matters my dear, I will tell you now, what will happen in the near future. There is a figure in your head you can’t seem to remember her face right? That person is the cause of it all. She must have asked one of her men to delete or manipulate your memories to make you forget her. That power of mind manipulation, she used it for her own sake all the time. However she is far too dangerous, my child. She is a shape-shifter. She can look like someone else and multiply herself as well. She must have tried to kill you a thousand times. But she wouldn’t be able to do so, as long as the spell I casted on you with my last bit of power didn’t lose effect. It should protect you from death, until you finally awaken again. You my dear are the heir of my power, the graveyard of flowers, but that woman was angry, she didn’t want to listen to me when I told her it was yours from the beginning. I am sorry my child, you weren’t born with these powers, I gave them to you. I passed them to you. As long as I could remember I tried to help people but realizing that my health deteriorated and my own daughter, your aunt Calista who you probably don’t remember wanting to steal them from me using dark magic, I had to make a grand decision. I used a forbidden spell and gave them to you in exchange for my remaining lifetime. Don’t be sad, I already was meant to die anyways, but your aunt is the one you are searching for. She kept on using dark magic ever since she was a child, it was my fault I couldn’t stop her. Until she finally lost her mind and killed people right before my eyes. I couldn’t stop her from going astray, towards a dark path she was never meant to go to and now it’s too late. We cannot bring back the dead, the only thing we can do is stop her sinister plays. You have to stop her from trying to steal abilities and experimenting with people like rats. She wants to steal the powers and transfer them to herself so she could take down the empire and create a kingdom of death, where experimenting and killing people would be justified. I am sorry for the burden I put on you. But I believe that you will be able to put a rest to it. My lovely knight that died by the hands of her told me this, that this was the only future he saw, that would be able to stop my daughter.. As long as that man he has seen is by your side, that will be that one future among millions of possibilities, that will be able to save this nation. So dear lord who sits right beside my dearest child. Please support her with everything you have. I will leave it to you, the new generation of protectors of this empire."

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