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"I'm not sure how to begin..."
I looked at her skeptically. raising an eyebrow at her.
I wonder how she's gonna dig her way out of this expo pshh tch.
"when I was young...I would have scary dreams....nightmares...the horrid vividness haunts me...
some days I'd have dreams of myself all grown up and attending events..never really happy but i could taste the food and drinks as if i were really there. Meeting all sorts of people and watching my parents as they made investments..."
"so what are you getting at?"
she gave a big sigh and sat in a chair nearby looking at the floor
"You see miss....a few years ago i started to notice...my dreams were coming true...down to the taste and conversations i had written in my journals when i was young...even the frightening dreams started coming true last month...
if it keeps coming true....i will die horribly...and alone...with everyone never even realizing i was ever here...." she sobbed as her shoulders shook and fell.
"so.. you have been getting visions basically and you need my help or something?"
I watched her for a bit and sighed
"urrrgh okay can you please just explain why I'm here? you don't have to get into any mumble jumbo but jeezzzz luis please just calm down for a bit yeah?"
(("I said its louis not luissss!"))
I snapped my neck to the door as louis yelled from outside.
"you better be shuttin that mouth of yours a SIRRRRRR or ill!"
"oh please miss...hic.. he means no harm... hic hic..."
exasperated and tired of both of them i decided to start humming to tune their voices out
oh this is just a pile of.... ugggghhhhhh!!! can i roll my eyes any farther into my head so i can just pass the heck out!! like ughhh...
i rubbed my temple and nose and looked at the young girl in front of me.
"what..kind of song hic..is that...hic hic it sounds lovely..."
I paused...
"its a hymn...drums of midgard...it calms me down when i feel out of place...or upset..."
"I see...I'm sorry...I'll tell you...but i want to ask that you hear me...and answer one question first...."
I gave a big sigh and nodded
"sure...what do i have to lose.."
drained i listened.
"If you could live in a home filled with riches..and comforts and live a life however you wished it would you trade your old life...for a chance at a new start?..."
I stared at her wide eyed and laughed so hard i started to choke on my saliva (cough cough)
"oh my are you alright?!" she asked as she poured out a glass of water for me from a pitcher nearby
"hahaha yeah yeah! I'm alllll good. no worries."
I gulped down the water.
"wouldn't anyone want the chance at a new start if they had the chance if it meant a better life like that.
well its not like i lacked anything back at home...pshh maybe a heater and maybe less random snow days."
I flipped the blanket over my head and curled up in the warm blanket.
now this is niiiice...i forgot how cold I'd been this last week
"miss are you alright?...?" she stared at me sadly
"I'm very sorry...you must want to go home.."
her body started to heave in despair.
"oh please. I don't even have anyone who'd care i was even gone...i just really like this bed and blanket... it's been really cold where i came from.."
hic...what the..why am i crying...shoot.....why now... ughhh....
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"I did not mean to cause you distress...its saddening to hear of your situation...I'm sorry..but I'm unable to return you to you home...even if i hired the strongest migrate i could afford..."
I rolled silently into a blanket burrito until i eventually fell off the bed
"oh no miss! are you alright! louis! oh louis help!"
she yelled as she tried to stop the rolling burrito that fell off the bed
"I knew it!" louis barged in furiously looking for me to see what trouble i had caused her.
"oh louis she fell off the bed I don't know what to do...hic.."
louis quickly calmed himself and forced the floor burrito to a stop.
"what do you think you are doing."
he stated as he pulled me up in my burrito like a toy.
guess you're stronger than you look
"floor burrito demands to be placed back on the floor."
both confused not understanding what i was doing.
"look. I can't go home. neither one of you can tell me yet why I'm here. she keeps crying and poorly explaining herself...just let me go. I didn't come here of my own choice. for Pete's sake i don't even know what time, day or year, it could possibly be here ...afterall i was summoned"
I pulled one of my hands out and added hand quotations to my snide remark.
"and before you ask, Pete is not a real person. now leave me alone or get to the point since i can't leave..."
louis seemed very mad but understood what i meant.
"my lady..we should head back. we could explain everything in the morning...we still have guests at the main house..they will be wondering where the my lady has gone."
he tried to reason with Centaurea..