"He is conscious now."
I heard a voice of an older woman beside me. I opened my eyes and saw Rose sitting beside me, smiling at me. She is happy to see me awake.
"How are you?" She asked me.
"The nurse will be here in a moment," She said.
I looked around and was in the hospital now with Rose, my landlady. I tried to remember everything that happened to me because I knew it was real, but now I am unsure since I woke up inside the hospital.
"I saw you were bleeding inside the house with a broken mirror all over, so I called 911, and now you are here", She said, pouring some tea into the cup.
"You want to have some tea?" She asked. I shooked my head.
She sat beside me again and sipped the cup of tea she was offering me. She put the cup on the table after sipping it, and then she looked at me and asked, "What happened to you?" but I didn't answer.
"What happened to you?" She asked again.
I didn't answer again because I was trying to remember everything. All I remember is I turned into a wolf, and I got inside the mirror. I know she would not believe me, and I would sound crazy if I had told her. So I keep it to myself.
"You got stabbed beside your stomach and on your arm, which I don't know what happened, but the doctor said it was a small sharp like an arrow pointed that tore your flesh", She added. I looked at my arm, and it had bondage.
I remember that I got stabbed and one on my arm. I got it when the night indians attacked me. It means they were real, and they were not my dream. Cythera and everything that happened to me was real. Wow!
"And you know what?" Rose asked me, and she came close to me and said, "There were men found dead a few blocks away from your house, and they are like, something eats them or mauls them. Their skin was torn, and pieces of their flesh were gone," She added. That makes my stomach turns because I know I am the one who did it.
"So what are the police said about it?" I asked. I became curious because I wanted to know if the police knew who did it.
"They are still investigating it."
Good! I am still safe, and she leaned back on her chair again, took the cup on the table, sipped on the tea again, and then looked at me and said with dismay, "I don't know what is happening to our place now." And then the door opened, and the doctor went inside.
"Oh, the doctor is here."
The doctor checked me up and asked me if I remembered everything, and I shook my head even though I did remember everything that had happened. I don't want to tell them because they don't need to know. I want to go back inside the mirror, but I am still determining how to do it again because getting inside for the first time is not my intention.
"Aside from stabbed wound, the arrow wound. You have scratches, too," The doctor said, looking at me with a question. I remained silent because I didn't have to tell them anything.
"What happened to you? Did you remember anything?" He asked.
I shook my head, answered, " I don't remember," and took a deep breath.
"The only thing that I remember is I got robbed, and then they stabbed me, and I ran to my house, and I passed out", I lied.
"Good thing that I found you because you are bleeding badly," Rose said. I looked at her and said, "Yeah, thanks."
"The good thing is your wounds were healing fast," The doctor said, checking further and showing us.
"See? It is almost dry and closing," He added with amazement.
"Your body regenerates right away, and probably by tomorrow, you can already go home."
"Yeah, thanks"
It would be good if my wounds healed fast because I don't have time to stay here long. I want to go back to the place inside the mirror to help Cythera and the Nightingale, but the Rose mentioned that the mirror is already broken, so I don't know how I can go back there.
"Thank you, doctor," Rose said, and the doctor left the room.
"Did you hear that? You can already go home tomorrow," Rose said with a smile, and I nodded.
"Okay, since that, you are doing fine. I need to go now. I left you some bread and tea. Eat some if you are hungry," She said, and she picks her bag and opened the door, but before she went out, she looked at me and said, "I will not ask for your payment this month but make sure that you settle the hospital bill and payment next month", And then she laughs and closes the door.
"Good thing that you and Cythera met again" The man appeared, sitting beside the bed where Rose was sitting a while ago. He is the man with pointed ears I saw before the mirror sucked me.
"Who are you?"
"Czeczardas, you probably don't remember me, but we already met," He answered.
'You are already wanted in Paradys, and they will never stop until they find and kill you", He said.
"What? why?"
"For rebellion. You and Cythera"
I didn't say a word, but I shook my head because I could not believe this was real. I can talk and see the man clearly, knowing I am not hallucinating.
"You are facing a huge problem now."
The door opens, and the nurse gets inside, holding a medical steel record and puts medicine on the table.
"Good morning", Czeczardas greeted the nurse.
"Good morning", The nurse greeted back.
"You can go home now tomorrow. You are better now," The nurse said double, checking my wounds. She couldn't believe that my wounds were now healed from a while ago when the doctor checked them. It is about to heal, but now it was completely healed.
"Good, you can go out now," Czeczardas said.
"TOMORROW," I told him, emphasizing the word, but he just smiled and watched the nurse in what she was doing.
I was surprised that the nurse could see him because I thought I was the only one who could see him. Still, the nurse didn't look at him when she greeted back because she was focused on putting the medicine on the table and writing something on the medical record after checking on me, and then she went out without looking at Czeczardas.
"Can she sees you?" I amazingly asked Czeczardas.
"Yes"
"How about that pointed ears?"
"It doesn't matter now. People put tattoos on their eyes, so why not make their ears pointed? Science made or under the knife is what they thought about my ears." He answered, and he had a point. Surgery is what he meant, and I understand him.
He is wearing a cloth from the costume party, and his ears are like ears that undergo surgery to make them pointed. So it doesn't matter if someone can see him except me, and it is good because people will not think I am crazy talking by myself.
"Are you ready?" He asked.
"Ready for what?" I asked him back.
He pulls out a tiny, golden, circle mirror from his pocket, opens it and shows it to me. At first, it was shiny, and I could see my reflection, but after seconds of staring at it. The mirror became liquid, and it started to release energy that would pull me. It is hypnotizing me, and I can't fight its current.