☆Birds Chirping☆
The only sound you could hear and also hoots of owls? I figured there were many here.
"I'm Cora, my dear, yours?"
We were both walking side by side now.
"Sylvia"
She raised an eyebrow like she was waiting for me to say my last name, but she didn't give hers.
"Just Sylvia", I figured it was best I go that way, I barely knew the woman and I wasn't accustomed yet to using my so-called husband's name.
"The pretty thing can't get enough I see," she said, her bright blue eyes on Emerald, against my shoulder.
"Yes... odd, but sweet" I said with a smile against her lips.
"My dear Sylvia you don't need to tell me your last name... by my guess you are married to one of the ambassadors, your silver hair pretty much gave you out," she said chuckling.
"I suppose," I said with a scoff.
"You don't seem pleased with being what you are," she said with a thoughtful face coming to a stop, I did too.
"Well, you read me so well... I wasn't brought up in the Empire, I don't know how to be..." I gave a heavy sigh.
"A silver-haired" she finished for me.
I just nod.
"For as long as I can remember Silver-haired has been brought up within the Empire, it's new to find someone as such as yourself".
"I meant that as a compliment," she added with a wink.
I smiled.
"So you're a sprite... your clothes are the same"
"Yes indeed I'm the oldest... so forgive me if I did not attend to you at your romantic picnic," she said with a smug look.
This lady really has a sense of humor... It was nice and alluring.
"What do you mean by the oldest... like the only old sprite?"
She smiled walking ahead.
"Follow me"
I did.
She led me to a swamp, filled with multiple colors of lotus flowers.
"I was just having my afternoon stroll when the flowers told me someone special was here," she said taking a seat on a made wooden chair with a futon, it was flat against the ground and wide, she dropped her stick beside her.
"Take a seat beside me, my dear," she said, tapping her side.
I did.
"What do you mean by the flowers told you?" I tried hard not to think about it too much.
She turned to the swamp.
"Each flower in this swamp tells a different story" she states.
"Of the past, the present and the future"
My features grew puzzled trying to wrap my head around what she meant, but then it struck me, my widened eyes on her.
"You're a seer," I said stunned. I have heard about them, but I thought they were all tales, now here she was before me.
She smiled.
"I don't believe this," I said, amazed.
She reaches out for a lotus flower on the pond, taking it.
"Now Sylvia, let's find out what makes the butterflies so fascinated by you".
I gulped, for some reason, I felt nervous.
"My visions aren't always like telling a tale, they come in patterns and riddles... aren't really subjective" she explains.
I nod.
"Place your hand on the flower"
I did.
"Your palm"
I turned my hand, she placed her palm on mine and then her eyes went all white.
I gasp at the action and I'm a bit scared.
"Oh I see" she said with a dashing smile.
"Butterflies have a unique ability to recognize things of the forest".
"Things of the forest? Like things that are part of the forest?" I said, puzzled.
She made a hmm sound, but then her body stiffen, her look turned to that of awe.
"Dear goddesses and gods of the realm... you're indeed something," she said in wonder.
"What do you see, Cora?" I asked curiously.
I knew I shouldn't expect a definite answer but I was very curious.
"Wondrous!" she exclaimed.
My curiosity only became more.
"I don't understand... you're..." she said like she couldn't find the right word for it, her visions weren't clear to her either.
"Hmm... I can't really explain this but... 2 moons from now beware"
"What happens 2 moons from now?"
She shakes her head negatively like she was in pain.
"Cora, are you okay?" I asked in a panic.
"I can't see more than I ought to see... odd".
"What?"
She then gasped, startling me.
"Magnus," she said as then suddenly her eyes were back to normal.
"Magnus?"
Her gaze was on me.
"Of all the men… you're married to him?"
Wait, she is talking about Cedric?
She held my hand tightly.
"Be careful Sylvia, you have no idea who you're married to"
"I don't understa-"
"Heed my warning Sylvia!"
I gulped.
I was confused... the look in her eyes when she said this, it was pure fear for this Magnus that was supposedly my husband.
"SYLVIA!" a loud voice came.
I turned instantly, seeing Danette rushing towards me.
"Danette," I said, rising to my feet, as I did Emerald flew away.
Danette embraced me tightly.
"You have no idea how worried I was, you scared me," she said flushed.
"Where's your cloak?"
"I'm fine Danette"
"Lord Cedric and I have been looking everywhere for you, you have gone missing for hours"
Just like a cue to his name, Cedric walked towards us, I turned as our eyes jammed, he came with an emotionless expression that sent shivers to my spine.