Arraving at a the end of the corridor I see a big room that seems to emit freezing blue light. The sealing full of the icicles. The slime dripping from them falling to the ground only to freeze and create pillars of ice standing from the ground. Some of the even reaching the sealing.
"What am I supposed to do here, I don't see Elaine anywere" I asked with clattering teeth.
"This is as far as I can help you" the child say as he retreats to a corner of the room.
Suprised I see an other persone in the corner. Tha familiar face of one of the persones who kiddnapped me in the ally greats me. I think he was called Bill. The reasone why I didn't see Bill before was becous his standing complitly still, like a statue in the corners shadow. Bill,one of the reasons why I'm in this situation and not on my way towards the mountains.
I thougt Bill was suposed to be on Elaines side. Why is he standing here like a frozen statue. Is he guarding this place, then why is he not reacting. Is it really mind controll as Lance said.
"Achoo!" My legs and arms ice cold from the freezing air I jump to keep myself warm.
"Look who we have here!"
I hear Elaines voice behind my back. She's here. I turn around to confront her.
"Are you controling the people here?" I ask the deciding question.
"N.. Well you could say that"
Elaines anwser rises suspision in me. Why did she hesitate in the begining. Maybe opposite to what Lance said there really is someone behind Elaine, helping her.
'Lance?' I call out to Lance with suspision.
'Don't worry you just need cut that big and strongly shining pillar over there with me. It's the source of the rune-energy here. I can shut it down and Elaine won't have the power to control anyone.
'Alright'
Deciding it can't hurt stopping the mind control. Maybe the pillar explodes, but Lance will also be involved in the explosion, so it's unlikely. And it's not that I'm touching the pillar, so it should be fine. I sprint towards the pillar, grabbing the sword with both of my hands.
Sprinting, I feel the wind again my face, running trough my hair. Like in slow motion. I see my feet take one step at a time towards the pillar. When I lift the sword to cut the pillar, I feel like I entered water. A feeling that something is terribly wrong with this situation falls upon me. I try to stop the sword from hitting the pillar. Having no control, the sword drags me with its motion hitting the shiny pillar.
A flash of blue light blends me when the sword hits the pillar. Straight after I see a shock wave of some short coming against me. Everything still moving slowly. When the shock wave hits me feel a freezing wind blow trough me, breaking the slowly moving world.
'He's deceiving you!'
A voice, unfamiliar but still familiar, drowns in the howling wind that's blowing around me, faint, but still there. Hearing those words, like woken up from a dream I remember the things that happened after I was kidnapped and brought to the orphanage. Have I been under mind control since I entered the orphanage. The realization coming far to late to me, as I feel something restraining my body. I try to lift my arm, but even with the strength I trained up with my master doesn't help.
"Thank you for the help Riruna" Lance said.
The last thing I see before everything became dark was my hand covered in a thick layer of frost and a glowing sword floating in the air.
The darkness surrounding me, consuming me. A detached feeling, the feeling of not belonging anywhere. To only exist in the darkness and in the end the concept of oneself dissolve and disappear, to at last become a part of the darkness. To become part of something so big, what a wonderful feeling that would be.
'This is the last time I can help you.'
"Who are you!?" Again that voice, who? why does it sound so familiar. The smooth tone of the voice still in my head.
'Ella'
"Ella?" I repeat. The person Lance said saved me. "Why would you want to help me are you not together with Lance?"
'No, but the cause of everything is me.'
"What do you mean?" I ask a little interested in the reason.
'You'll know once you unlock the memories you saw in the dream when you were in the forest.'
"What do you mean unlock?" How much has my mind in reality been tampered with, this doesn't feel nice. A suffocating feeling rising in my mind. Let's not think about this.'
'You were controlled to some extent so you never questioned why Lance remembered your memories, but you not ours. But nothing worse don't worry.'
"Now that you mentioned it why would I suddenly trust a complete stranger and a weird spirit in a weird forest at that."
'We have no time to talk anymore, you need to get out of here as fast as possible.'
"Why's that, it's so comfortable here"
'That is what Lance wants, for you to stay detached from your body and slowly dissolve and become a part of the worlds energy, the conscious that you consider yourself as will disappear. There will be no master no you, you will die. Do you understand?'
"Yes" I answer, but it's hard to not doubt in this situation. "But I can't even be sure if I can trust you, I can't even see you"
'You cant see me because I'm just fragments of memories and a soul that belonged to Ella. But to trust me is up to you. I can only help you get back in to you body as I'm linked to you and your body. But melting the ice prison you are in, only you can do it.'
"How can I melt ice if I'm imprisoned by it."
'Wait you don't know even when you have so much rune-en... I understand.'
"Understand, what?"
'You memories, that aside, as ironic as it is I'll teach you a little trick I learnt from Lance.'
"What trick?"
'Magic'