I ponder to myself for a moment. Is it appropriate to ask?
"Are you wondering where I was created?" Liliana asks me as we sit in silence.
"Uhh, yes."
Well I guess it isn't inappropriate.
"Well, there is no reason to hide it from you. I was created during the 1st Spirit War, which was a long long time ago. I was created near a laboratory that was researching and experimenting on bringing people back from the dead. I'm sure you can put two and two together, the desire for life felt by the researches and the death from the war gave the energy for my powers."
Wow, that's... Cool? I mean, it's kind of sad but since the result was Liliana I guess I should be thankful.
But this is the first time I've heard of something like this, The Spirit War.
Just as I'm about to ask Liliana more questions about this war, I hear a knock at the door.
"May I come in?" Camila asks through the door.
"Yup!" I respond, preparing for the awkward conversation that's to come.
I see the doorknob turn and Camila walks in, holding a pair of clothes.
"Here you go." She says as she puts the clothes on the bed and smiles slightly at me.
Now I don't know if that is an actual smile or if she's forcing herself...
"I hope you are comfortable, if you need any help with anything I will be just down the hall." She says to me whilst bowing slightly.
"Thank you." I return her words with a smile and a small bow with my head as I'm sitting on the couch.
"Do I have permission to take over your body." Liliana suddenly asks me.
"Huh? No you do not. I don't know what you wanna do but I've already embarrassed myself enough."
Just what is she thinking?
"Too bad."
"Wha-"
I blurt out loud from her complete and utter disregard for my words, however I don't finish my sentence as my eyes flash pure sky blue and Liliana stops the words from coming out of my mouth.
"Camila was right at the door! Why couldn't you have just walked a bit faster." I exclaim in my mind.
I try to take back control of my body but it's useless. I'm just a spectator now.
"Excuse me sir?" Camila says as she turns around and see's me standing up as my eyes flash sky blue once again.
Just what is Liliana gonna say...
I say nothing in return. I just stare at her for a moment, looking her up and down.
"Sir?" Camila speaks to me with an attitude now, as if she's expecting something.
Suddenly, my body dashes forward with violent speed.
I cover the distance between me and Camila in an instant and I throw a punch right at her head.
But, instead of hitting my target, I hit air.
My eyes dart down to the bottom right of my vision and I see a red fist launching towards me.
My head quickly moves out of the way of the punch and I dash backwards.
Camila stands up and stares me down from across the room.
"I knew it." I say with a mischievous smile.
"You knew what?" Camila sneers at me, the anger around her is palpable. At this point I don't want my body back until we calm her down. I could very well die at the hands of this assassin maid without Liliana.
"Your strength! It's not normal, I can sense a surprising amount of strength from you yet you only have a soldier level Telum. There are not many people capable of doing what you do with such a weak spirit. Tell me how you do it, I'm very interested." I'm almost yelling to this woman at this point and she's only a few feet away from me. What is wrong with Liliana right now?
The anger from the girls face lessens a bit but I'm still terrified.
"I don't know what your talking about." Camila responds in a calm matter.
"Feigning ignorance I see? Well, I know something is up, you'll tell me eventually." I say with upmost confidence.
As I finish my sentence I feel my body return to me.
Please don't attack me. I don't even know what's going on.
As soon as Camila looks at me when I'm back in control I see her lower her guard and exhale.
"You've got yourself quite the Telum there." She says as she pats her clothes flat.
I laugh awkwardly, "Yea... Look I'm really so-"
"It's ok." She interrupts my apology with a slight smile on her face.
Did Liliana spread her unstable emotions to her?
"I, erm, alright."
I give up, I don't know what's going on.
"You should talk to this girl more." Liliana says to me, acting like everything that just happened didn't happen.
"I don't wanna hear anything from you right now! Why would you do that?" I yell at her in my mind.
"I needed to test my theory and turns out I was right! You should be thanking me, and look she isn't even mad because she's happy that it was me who attacked and not you. Seems like your gesture from earlier really affected her."
"What happened to your rule of only taking over my body without permission if I'm in danger?!" I shout once again in my mind, ignoring most of her words.
"Well... Ok look I may have gotten a little too curious, it won't happen again! Please forgive me." Any sort of actual guilt was nowhere present in her voice as she apologized.
I exhale.
I realize that I've just been standing in the room, looking angry while staring off into space in front of Camila but I realize she hasn't even noticed it. She seems to be in deep thought.
"So, um, look I really am sorry. I can't really control her, as you've just experienced..." I apologize while scratching the back of my head and avoiding eye contact.
She snaps out of thought and realizes I'm talking.
"Oh it's ok! Really. More importantly, I want to say thanks for your gesture earlier. Some of the people I have to deal with are just... Terrible." She says to me.
So Liliana was right. Was what I did actually that nice? So nice that she completely ignored Liliana trying to murder her?
"No problem, well again I'm sorry." I don't know what to do besides apologize at this point.
"You're so awkward." Liliana jokes at me.
I'm not even going to respond.
" Don't worry! Your Telum just seems a bit... Outgoing? Anyways point is I understand and it's alright. I'm going to take my leave now. Again, I'm across the hall if you need anything. " She rushes out of room once again before I can respond.
I exhale.
I spend the rest of the night arguing with Liliana. When I go to change I ask her if she always see's everything or if she can like, close her eyes. Luckily she can. I shower, change and get into bed.
I sink into the bed and for the few moments I stay awake I just think about today. I think about this new strange world. I think about what is to come. I think about my family. I think about how insane all of this is.
Today was, crazy.
Even crazier, as I think all these thoughts, a strange, seemingly bipolar woman speaks to me all throughout the night. I'm surprised my mind hasn't exploded from all these things.
Luckily for me I save myself from my own thoughts as I slowly fall asleep, wondering if tomorrow I will wake up from this strange dream.