What! What did she just say? He is also dead. I was wrong. Then I am the only child and also an orphan. Will I get the legitimacy of my birth when I go to the Herald estate? But I will than that at that time not now. Now I have more important things to do.
"But I didn't think that the princess would poison him in the coronation ceremony of him becoming the head of the family. But the emperor didn't do anything to her and demoted her as a commoner for eighteen years. But after your father died, the Herald family shut down the door from the world and I who got married to him but no one knew was pregnant came to my family. Before dying he promised to marry me in front of everyone, so he gave me the heirloom of his family. But my greedy brother wanted to take that from me. Later, I also knew that they were not my real family. They adopted me."
I think she was so sad when she heard all of that. Who wouldn't be? They adopted her for their profits. Is this also called a family? How sad and in pain she felt at that time only she knows.
"After knowing that I went out from there to live in another place. Then you the little girl of my love came into my life. Hearing your birth, the adopted brother of mine came here. He was so happy that you were born. He wanted to take you from me but I didn't agree with him. So he came to my house from time to time."
She talked like she was sad and her voice was trembling from time to time.
"After several years, when you are nine, I give you the neckless with heirloom. When you wear the neckless, it is like an ordinary neckless. It won't look to people that it is precious. Because at that time I knew that I was poisoned and won't live many years. Then I came to this forest to live. I think my brother also knows that I am here. So I built this place with my all magic power and kept food for years. So when you live here, you won't be hungry. But you have to be strong before you come out. So I made this room like this before you were strong enough to kill the enemy that is more powerful than you, you can't come out from this room after you touch anything from here."
Hearing the last thing, I regretted it. Because at that time I ate some food while listening to her. I wanted to kill that man who poisoned my mother. But what happened after that? How did she die?
"So you have to be strong, dear. I won't ask you to take revenge for me and your father. But take care of your uncle and grandfather. They are good people. I don't know if they got my letter. But don't expect it even if they don't. Because the enemy is too many. So don't be sad even if they don't know about you. If you show them the neckless they will know you are the descendant of the Herald family. I also kept something important in the box beside the book. Take a look at that. But don't show it to anyone before you are strong enough to save yourself."
Then she sighed with a sad tone and said while crying, "I love you, my child. But I won't be with you anymore. Don't think that your father didn't love you. He gave your name. So always be careful, my dear Alexa. Farewell."
The sound of my mother stopped forever. Tears roll down my cheek from my eyes. I was also surprised that I was unconsciously crying. I think I got the emotions of Alexa's and cried. This body is also her so I will feel her emotions.
As I approached the box that my mother told me to look at it a sense of opening the box prickled in my mind. I took the box in my hand and lifted the lid of it. What I saw was a surprise for me. How can there be such a beautiful thing in this world?
It was a big round orb that looked like a big round diamond. The orb was shimmering with a light golden and deep indigo color. It was so clear that it looked otherworldly and what was inside it was clear. There is a bird inside it. Suddenly the bird opened its eyes and looked at me. I was stunned that I couldn't even move a step from that place.
I tried to break free from stunning. But suddenly I felt a shiver run down my spine and every cell of my body.
"What happened to me? Suddenly I can't move."
I said but it was like whispering. Then a thought came to my mind and I touched the orb.
That was the wrong move I made in my entire life. The orb was looking at me so allure that I couldn't move. I thought if I touched this orb I could move again. So I just touched a little not much.
But when my one finger just the orb the orb glow enveloped me and it has vanished.
"What! Where is it?"
Saying this, I casually moved. I am happy that I can move. But suddenly a pain came through my body. It increased in a second. Now I know where that orb has vanished. Its essence entered inside me through my finger.
The pain is gradually increased by twice. My body became heavy by it's presence. I can sense that its power is increasing in my body and it is suffocating me entirely.
The pain becomes unbearable as the power increases. I feel that the air around me becomes thin as the pressure is mounted. What's happening now? I just tried to touch the orb but I didn't think it would be like this. The pressure became heavy on me. It became hard to breathe as the air grew thin around me. I think I am going to die now. The surviving thought became more clear.
I don't want to die now. I want to live and see what kind of world is this. I am struggling to breathe but the pressure is not stopping and the air is not becoming clear. When I tried to breathe easily it became harder to breathe, I think the orb is interfering with me getting some breath. What kind of orb was it?
Why it's trying to kill me? Is this the end of my life now? The fear of death mingled in my mind at this time. In front of me, the darkness encroached and it engulfed me. I am losing my consciousness.
Then she gradually loses consciousness. She doesn't even know what is happening now. But it is an experience that will help her to become the person she wants to be.
On the other hand, a solitary figure was standing in the dimly enigmatic terrains of an unknown place. The place looks like it was made by a thousand-night sky where only stars are glowing with their light. The person was looking at the night sky, where all the secrets were sparkling like a vast tapestry of stars.
He was standing there without looking at what was happening around him. His eyes were only filled with profound longing and both of his eyes were searching for something in the eternal night sky. At one point, his gaze fell on a big star and fixated upon that solitary sparkling star.
The star was like the universe granted all the brilliance to it and drew his eyes like a magnet. While looking at it, overwhelming emotions surged upon the person's figure and it was shown through his eyes. He looked like a mixture of awe and disbelief.
"She is alive, She is alive!"
His voice shivered as he whispered. Though the words felt like it was hung in the air with a fragile secret that would be unveiled by the universe itself as the eternal truth.
His heart was racing with a wild mixture of hope and fear. Tears fell from his eyes, in the thought of her. As he thought, the one he had lost forever, it ignited a lost hope. He also knows that he has to endure all of this pain because it is an untold quest of his uncharted life.
"I have to find her. But will I be able to stand in front of her again?"
He spoke. But his face became dark. He thought for a while, then spoke again.
"After I find her, I will ask forgiveness. Even though I don't deserve her forgiveness."
He vowed with a voice that was quivered in fear and weight with unspoken apologies.
Then he made a silent promise to the universe and himself that he would get punishment and mend the bonds that had been torn by his mistake.
He found his hope through the star that had died a long time ago.
Shrouded in obscurity at night in that enigmatic place the lone figure stood while gazing toward the sky under the entranced celestial canopy. The stars whispered the secrets in their ancient language like old constellations. That will unfold like a mysterious interplay between chance and destiny.
Unexpectedly, another soul arrived with a cool cosmic breeze around that place.
"She is alive."
The stranger spoke like it was a revelation while looking at the other person with enigmatic wisdom in their eyes. His words hung like a resounding echo in this night breeze.
"You."
He said while walking towards him and then said again.
"If you try to find her, there is one piece of advice for and that is don't even dare to try."
The enigmatic figure warned him. The other person looked behind with angry and sad eyes.
"Don't look at me like that. It was your fault that she has perished. But now you want to find her again. Then assume you found her after trying. Then what you will tell her? But even if you find her will she remember you."
Hearing him, he was paused like a statue that lost his soul.
"No, she won't be. Because a fragment of her soul was sent. So that she can live again."
The enigmatic person's voice was quivering while saying all of this. But he can't help. He doesn't want his only kin in this world who got her life once again, to die sacrificing for others.
"What are you saying? I don't understand anything. They clearly said that it won't be a problem for her to live again."
The person said loudly with confidence in his voice.
"See, you got confidence in your voice again after many years. Then why didn't you find her till now when you know she will live again."
The enigmatic person also said loudly because hearing the other person's confident voice he felt anger inside of him. It would have been good if he could beat him as he wished. But he can't beat that person even if he wishes.
"If you were not her only relative then I would've killed you."
The other person said with anger and desperation.
"Of course, that is the same for me. Before she went through the punishment, she requested me. So that I also won't try to kill you. You ungrateful person didn't even come to see her."
He said but a sense of resentfulness was in his voice.
"That was because..."
He couldn't say even though he wanted to say it. If he says why he didn't come to see her then the relation between the two of them will be severe at this moment and he will lose the right to see her even for once. So he can't say anything not now.