Chapter 22:

New world+

Light through my window


We appeared in the forest glade. I exit the shadow and fall. Aurelia ran up to me and caught, I used blood magic to heal my wound:

"An apprentice as her master."-I chuckled , trying to hide grimace of pain on my face. She looked at me and asked:

"How are you?"- I looked her in the eyes:

"As happy, as could be, because I give my heart to you."

"If you wouldn't hurt so badly, I would beat you right now."- She angrily looked at me. We  checked the are around and Aurelia helped me to step up yo a biggest tree nearby, I clouded over it. I barely could move, even after healing and Aurelia was worried. Then she left to find food, even if we don't need to eat, we still have desire for it. I continued healing myself and looking around. I saw familiar leaf nearby and used magic to get it, it's was some kind of healing plant, I have seen it in the one of books. I ate one and put other to my wound. It's started to burn it, but it was more like mosquito bites to me, compared to what I have tolerated before. I tried to get distracted from wound , so I don't feel soo much pain. In reality it wasn't like a first time at all, because Oberon used some kind of magic, that she didn't damage me at all. But this time, I was alive only thanks to blood magic and vampire survivability.  

Some time later, I saw that Aurelia was back with some sort of meat, plants and fruits? From this world. She prepared place for bonfire and I started the fire, without black fire of course. Then, Aurelia cut some trees using threads and put them in form of house and used her petrifying ability on it, that's how we got shelter for us. She created some more stone figures with her magic, it was furniture, And we had everything, bed, bonfire, roof, chairs, table. Not so comfortable , but still better then nothing. 

And that how days have passed, she explored area around and I healed myself. Soon, I was able to walk. Nothing special was seen nearby. We expanded the search radius. 

And only after I fully recovered. We found village, but it looked like it was empty way before we arrived this world. And it was weird. We found more of them, but they was empty too. It was villages with houses made of wood, there was some wood furniture and remnants of everyday life, not soo developed, as any world in which we lived or traveled. Why started to wonder, why does higher beings lived like this. We kept moving, but have not seen any sign  of living being. 

Day after day, we moved across this villages and used our magic to find someone. And even our ability give us zero help in this task. We didn't give up, but things we find was exactly the same, wooden houses, clay dishes, pieces of clothing made from wool. Of course we met some animals. We went all over the planet and find nothing. Portals didn't work here and there was nothing interesting underground it just seemed like someone's sandbox.

"Sandbox?"- Asked Aurelia.

"Yes, exactly, just like a sandbox."- I nodded in the affirmative. She looked into the sky. I get what she wanted to do and started to stop her:

"But there is barrier, what do you have in mind?"

"Let's try to break through it, we never tried to do so from this side."- We spread our wings, prepared and soared into the sky. We started to use very magic possible to break it and it had no effect.

Sword cutting and piercing, Fire shooting, blood giant fists, strings and threads, petrifying mirror  doesn't work either and there is no reason to talk about default magic. But then I got an idea. I Put shadow and invited Aurelia, taking her by the hand. We was in the shadow and surprisingly, the output was from two sides. We continue to swim right to different exit. But it was hard, we felt a ginormous amount of pressure. And it took us really long time to get to the halfway. We was closer and closer, until we managed to exit the shadow. And we are here, in weird gray corridor, there was nothing but gray walls. We kept  move through, but it continue go far away. Nothing changed in a while, we had no way to know how long we've been here and how much longer we would be here. Aurelia looked really mentally tired after all events that happened to us. I took her hand , kissed her. We took a break, cuddling. It gave us a lot of energy and we continue to walk.

Of course I tried to glitch through wall with shadows again, but sadly it doesn't work here. So we had only two options: continue to walk forward or turn back and we choose to walk forward even if nothing has changed. All this challenges took us a lot of patience and it's was harder then we imagined in our heads. Who thought , that just waiting or walking in one direction is so hard? But we had our determination and we had each other. If I would be alone or with someone else, I probably would gave up a long time ago. But I want and must follow my light, Aurelia. and a miracle happened, we saw a room in front of us we entered and it was spacious gray room and inside of , was a lot of formless monsters, they saw us, even though they did not had eyes and they began to swell. We tried to use variety of our magic, but it did not work on them, they started to approach us with scary scream, I clenched Aurelia's hand and pushed her to run . 

We ran down this gray corridor, and this formless monster followed us. We had no other option, because our magic had not effect on them, even Aurelia's time control. And it's nothing unexpected, they are higher beings. But what we could do? 

It seemed that the corridor was narrowing and that we were not moving anywhere, but we continue to run anyway. And suddenly Aurelia asked:

"Do you feel this unnatural fear too?"- And she was right, I felt it too, and it was weird. But it was not time to thing about it, or exactly the time? Because we saw that we already ran the whole corridor and ahead was a dead end...



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