The book floated back and bumped onto her side. She grabbed it and tried to rip out the pages in anger. She hit the book, punched it, bit it. Her anger was exhausted by the energy spent but the book didn't tear anywhere.
She heaved and dumped it to the side, her anger rejuvenating. If she could find a matchstick in the darkness, she'd be sure to burn the book.
A sigh found a way into her mind, 'after all these years, your anger still burns bright over nothing.'
Lei Wenyan rolled her eyes. She very rarely heard the voice. She gathered it had to be due to her growing insanity. She had been floating in the dark space for more time than she could count.
Honestly, she expected that after she died, hell would be waiting. But who knew that they couldn't decide so they left her in limbo.
"You're really stupid. Could there really be anger over nothing? Even if it were presently over nothing, there should be something in the first place so that when it's taken away, there's a cause for anger," she had long agreed with herself to talk with the voice when it came along.
'Huh! Who is stupid? Let not the kettle call the pot black,'
Lei Wenyan smirked, "Your stupidity is really incredible. You can't even realize your own nonsense."
'You're the one that's too stupid to realize your own stupidity. All these years and you're still crying over the same issue.'
"Don't assume that just because you have great talent in the art, I am also a familiar. I don't cry," Lei Wenyan said as a matter of fact.
'Ask me who has had to deal with all your scuffle,'
"I don't have time to squabble with a fool," she really didn't have anything better to do.
'Tsk! You little witch! You've gotten too comfortable,' the voice said angrily.
"My parents raised me preciously. I can't get comfortable in such a dump." She shrugged.
'YOU LITTLE—,' the angry voice burst, 'It's time for you to leave. Get out. Find your own home. Don't come back.'
She tapped her head twice with her index finger, "Think about it; If you were smart enough to put a way out, would I try to enter in the first place? Even if you polish this place up, I wouldn't get to the door with a mile long stick-"
'GET OUT,' the voice screamed.
Before Lei Wenyan could say anything, she felt a hard hit to her head and spine. It was so hard that she blacked out immediately.
In a bright hall with fairly large pillar to hold the ceiling up, two youthful looking men stood side by side looking at a palm sized black orb. The orb stood on a waist-high solid pillar and was surrounded by ancient symbols. The black color in the orb swirled into a misty light blue.
The two men watching the orb slowly turned away.
"Let's be hopeful," one man said to the other.
"You can be hopeful, I have more important things to do," the other huffed.
The man smiled at his counterpart, "You didn't have to hit her that hard."
"If you care so much, why didn't you do the job in that first place?" He eyed him sternly.
"Ah! Don't be like that. That's not what I meant."
"Because she's ungrateful, that's why," he half shouted. Then he stormed off, "that ungrateful, scheming, woman thinks that she can disrespect me. I'll catch her. We will settle accounts," he mumbled.
Lei Wenyan sneezed making her entire body come alive in pain.
"WuWu Aiii!" She cried. Her head and back hurt so much. It felt like all her bones were broken, "I don't know how you caused me all this pain when you're just a voice in my head, but one day I'll find a way to come up there and we will sort things out."
She stretched her hands to her back and started to message the tender area. Another pair of hands joined her in the massage.
"Thank you," she whimpered.
"No need to thank me, young Miss. Wuwuwu. It was all this maid's fault. I didn't look after you properly and look what happened. I neglected my duty. Wuwuwu," the maid cried.
Lei Wenyan's entire body froze. Her eyes opened and looked around. She was laying with her stomach down in a mildly familiar room. The voice also sounded familiar.
Lei Wenyan turned sharply, flipping her entire body over. She came face to face with a startled maid.
"Eh!" Lei Wenyan looked at her in bewilderment.
The maid lowered her head, "Young Miss, this type of position will only hurt your back more. Miss, please turn over, let me apply more ointment."
As if being summoned, the ache all over her body came back. "Ahhhh!" Lei Wenyan gave an low moan and laid herself slowly back onto the bed and turned over. When the pain came, she thought of nothing else except, "Surely, this turn cannot go undone. I will find that voice and return his kindness," she mumbled to herself.
The maid peeled her last cloth off and applied ointment. It was under her careful massage that Lei Wenynan drifted off into slumber.