Chapter 17
All right, here we go one more time, I get into position, focus, and breathe...
— Don't forget to breathe —
— I do not — I continue what I was, repeated...
— Come on, you can — I pass over his words and try again, breathe... — I'll be watching you from here — I close my eyes in frustration — Concentrate — That's it.
— ¡I know, Kay! — I yell at her from my position — Now, please just be quiet — She remains speechless in her place — I also heard that and I'm not a grumpy old woman — She crosses her arms pouting and I continue where I was.
We are in the basement or dungeon as Kay had baptized it, after a long time of arduous training... Six days, I feel ready to continue with this, I had Dayana in front of me still chained to the wall, there had been no signs for days of her in there or of the other thing, alone she remained motionless with her head down, I don't know what was happening inside her but whatever it was had to end soon.
I took a deep breath and the heat began to run through my limbs — Ut dominam tuam ac dominam iubeo te hoc nunc corpore exceere! — A strong wave of magic forcefully sent me to the stone wall, I gasped when I felt the air leave my lungs — You know, this did not go as I thought — I said weak from sleep.
— ¿Not seriously? I thought that was what you wanted to do
— Sarcasm does not match your tail — Even out of breath I return it, I look at Dayana's body without any change or disturbance — Damn it — She forcefully threw one of the loose grills next to me towards the wall.
— You have to keep training, damaging chains you will not achieve anything — I get up reluctantly and walk towards her, which is still on the floor, I lift her by one ear and take her out of the basement.
— ¡Hey! ¡You don't have to be so aggressive! I'm not to blame that you thought it was a good idea to try this when you can barely get anything out! — She tells me from below making me let go of her ear — We are going to continue training and very soon you will be able to bring your girl back, ¿okay? — I lower my head with resignation, it had been more than a week since I saw any trace of Dayana there and I am worried that what is happening inside her is irreversible, it was only eight days since we realized that something was happening with her but said that this had been going on for months.
— ¡I know! — I stopped my step and looked at Kay — If we can't get her out we can go in — I don't know why I didn't think of this before, I run out of the basement to my room in search of the book without waiting for Kay, I come back quickly and put it on on the table to find what I need.
I go page after page reading in search of the spell that I need, I may now have these new powers but I have been trying to use them for six days so to enter Dayana's mind I do not want to leave it to chance.
— I have it, we are going to have to lower her from there — I make a sign to Kay and between the two of us we lower her, I have her in my arms and now with the loosest chains you can see the wounds that these have caused by being suspended in the Wall.
— ¿Do you think it was a good idea that we brought it down from there?
— The truth is that no, but there is no other way — I say as I run the tips of my fingers over Dayana's arm, I let out a sigh — It has to be done — Kay gives me a nod with her head and stands at the foot of the table and I at the head, I take my book in one arm and place the other on Dayana's head — Sine permissione Ingredior et sine restrictione possum deserere — I feel a pull in the back of my head and when I open my eyes again I am surrounded Out of darkness, I blindly walk in search of some sign of life or light.
I can't imagine how anyone can be here, much less all this time, I've been walking for about an hour without being able to find anything, I don't even know if I'm going in the right direction.
— So... would you let me ride on your back?
I stopped short before a cloud of smoke had appeared in front of me.
Dayana looked at me with a lopsided smile and then gave a loud laugh.
— ¿You really want to do that? I run very fast — she said with a laugh.
Now I remember, this was a little after we saved Kay, since I saw her in the wolf form of her I had wanted to ride her and at that moment I dared to ask.
— I want the full experience — I jumped up and she got up slower — Please, I want to see you — She smiled at me again.
Since she missed that smile, she wanted to touch her but was afraid to do so and that she would disappear.
Without warning I heard the noise of her clothes being torn and in one eyelid I had a large black wolf in front of me, I caressed her large snout and she rubbed against my palm.
— Come on, go up — She crouched at a height where I can climb — And hold on tight
— Okay... — I let out a loud cry, I didn't feel when she got up and now she was running.
I let out a small laugh at that memory.
She was tightly attached to her soft fur, I felt the wind hit my face, the trees passed like a blur by my side ¿Was this how she always lived it?
"It's much better, I can't describe freedom to you, but now you can feel it, the earth, the air, everything is part of it"
Her voice in my mind was like a caress, I closed my eyes to try to feel a small part of what she felt.
I tried to stretch my hand towards the wolf's head, just when I was about to touch it, the cloud of smoke that was my memory disappeared.
A fist came out of the mist hitting me directly in the face throwing me backwards, I recovered quickly to dodge another fist that was going to impact directly on the left cheek, now in the darkness I could clearly see Dayana... Or what I I thought it was Dayana.
— Dayana, wait — I tried to talk to her, but she kept launching frenzied attacks that she managed to narrowly dodge and because she was obviously faster than me. After a few minutes I was starting to get tired but she did not show any signs of fatigue, I raised one of my hands in her direction and inadvertently threw a blast of fire in her direction that made her recoil a few meters back, now that I had For a few seconds I was able to give him a quick look, noticeable bags under his eyes, his hair was opaque, an erratic look almost animal, his claws were now out together with his fangs ready to attack again with more force, this time I will not be able to just dodge I'll have to fight her.
— Dayana, please, don't make me do this, whatever happened we can solve it, together - Her gaze didn't lose one of my movements — Dayana, it's me... Morgana — I made a gesture with my hands pointing towards myself — There was nothing in his eyes, nothing to give me any sign of recognition — ¿Do you know what your name is? — I felt the answer to that question in me but I hoped I was wrong. Nothing, there was nothing in her gaze, just more fury with the passing of the seconds that somehow had to be expelled and the only one in the place besides her, was me.
With tears still without coming out, I concentrated on being able to have the fire in my arms, without any recognition in her eyes, this was inevitable.
— I'm sorry for being late and not having saved you like you did with me — As if she had activated a mechanism she launched herself without contemplation in my direction with claws and fangs outside.
I ran to the left to dodge his claws that were going directly to my face, with my right arm I made a direct attack to his side that barely hurt him, without complaint he answered me with his claws again but now giving a good brush On my right cheek and in a quick glance around me a ray of light slipped through, I jumped back and brought my hand to my face, blood. Without time to think I felt a blow to my side that made me bend and draw the air from my lungs another ray now on the ground under my hands, without any respite a direct knee to my face threw me to the ground, if the whole place was not dark I would be sure I would be seeing black circles.
With each blow he gave or received, this place became more and more fragmented.
Dayana without wasting time positioned herself over me immobilizing me, even with blurred vision my body went into automatic mode, before I could take the first blow with both hands she threw her to the other side of the place and without thinking I get up and run towards her, my arms are red fathoms running through each part of them, I hit her even on the ground with one of my hands keeping her on the ground, but my blows seem to have the opposite effect on her, now she looks stronger than when we started.
He jumps up but does not run towards me like the other times, now I see how his breathing becomes more and more erratic and the veins in his hands and neck are marked with force, this is not a normal transformation, for some reason I know I have to stop her, I run quickly towards her and release a strong blow to her face that returns her to the ground but without any effect, now the clothes she was wearing were beginning to stretch as her body grows, I keep hitting her but she does not nothing happens, rays of light illuminate some part of his body and without clothes, the noise of his bones breaking is horrible, he was going to deliver another blow but his now legs throw me upwards with force, he stretched my arms trying to grab something non-existent what stops my fall but I fall with force fragmenting even more the place that was once absolute black now is a broken black with rays of light coming out of its slits, I stopped seeing the light when I heard legs running towards me, a huge black wolf of Green eyes run in my direction leaving white tracks in her wake, I stop quickly and run away from there, there is no way I can against her now.
I can't hurt you.
Running from Dayana with tears in my eyes and this place falling apart, step by step more rays of white light enter the place and in seconds Dayana reaches me, ramming me and with the force of the blow we fall into the void of white light now outside the darkness, fragments of what was once a prison fall around us like crystals, I drop.
Dayana has been falling a few meters from me but my attention is on the crystals, memories, it is what they are. Images of memories that are not mine fall, I see myself in one of them next to Dayana and each one breaks in the air, I look at Dayana for the last time — Sorry — And I close my eyes letting myself be carried away by the void.