Inside of the wood, on the lake side, Geri and I met a spirit with a woman's appearance and long ears.
"Don't tell me! You! You know what I have been singing about?"
"I don't have any clue about what you have been singing, but somehow I feel something different or strange that tingles my ears and my heart."
Suddenly, the lake's waves were moving differently, followed by strong winds. Geri covered me and said,
"She used her alteration spell; watch it closely; this is what an alteration spell is."
I watched closely her alteration spell, so she manipulated the lake. She raised her right hand, pointed at me, and swung her hand back…In front of her, I saw there was a small gap where there was no water. She took her step; the gap was following her; each step she took, like the water of the lake, avoided her completely. Slowly, I could see her full, plain white dress. Her hair and her dress were floating and waving around, following the wind. After she touched the land, I noticed she was barefoot and her eyes were golden.
In front of me, she kept walking towards me, but Geri was still covering me.
"STEP ASIDE!!! You filthy fur creature."
Geri was just growling and taking an aggressive stance like a normal wolf.
"ARE YOU DEAF? YOU ANIMAL!"
I patted Geri's belly; she looked at me, and I just nodded to her to signal her that it was alright. Immediately, Geri stepped aside…
"Hoooo, you actually followed your master order.."
After Geri stepped aside, I walked to her…She just looked at me with a smirk, and she was taller than me. She leaned her body towards me and made her face right in front of my face…
"You have beautiful eyes and rare color…white eyes, what a pretty pair of yours."
"You too, you have golden eyes…"
"Hoooo, you see mine as golden...that was interesting…how about you take a deeper look deeper into my eyes.."
"What do you mean?" I proceeded to look deeper into her eyes and noticed something in her pupils........Out of nowhere, there were sort of roots around me that gripped me tightly. I felt paralysed and fell to the ground. Even the roots disappeared; I couldn't move my body or my mouth, but somehow I still could hear.
Geri immediately intervened and covered me up…
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? YOU WOOD CREATURE!" I heard the voice of Geri.
I heard the voice of her stepping back from Geri and saying, "Calm Down, Animal, I just gave her something, I know you two purposely went here to subdue me. She said she felt tingling when she heard my singing; it meant she knew my own heart. How about she tried to find it."
"HOW THIS ROOTS CAN BE GONE?"
"It's up to her; if she really wants to know me more, she needs to find the reason why her heart tingles when she hears me sing. But if she doesn't want to know me more, she can just lay around, and the effect will be gone in 1 month. "
I heard the voice of her foot walking away from us…
"If she has already been set free, you two can meet me again…that's when our formal introduction will begin."
"DAMMIT THAT WOOD CRETURE, JUST DISAPPEARED TO INSIDE THE LAKE."
Geri took a peek on my face, and I could see her face, she used her mouth to carry me. She immediately ran back to the Inn. I knew I was paralysed, but was this the feeling of paralysed? I couldn't feel any hurt even when Geri carried me and ran to the Inn. She sometimes made me hit to some plants on my face, but I couldn't feel it.
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Arriving in the village, somehow Geri put me down, and she started to howl as loudly as possible. I heard a lot of conversation from around us; it seemed the people from the village started to talk about us, so her howling made a scene. I was lying on the ground; I didn't know why Geri put me down here, not in the inn. Some moments later, I heard some familiar voices from a distance, and Geri immediately left me, as she said to me before leaving me..
"I can't stay beside you because they will accuse me of doing this. I am so sorry that this happened to you; even I couldn't protect you. If you have set free, I promise, I will come back to you." After that, I heard her footsteps run away from me.
Some seconds later, while I was looking at the blue sky, a head peeked in front of me; it was Louis. He asked me what had happened, but I couldn't answer it. He carried me in front of him. It was not just Louis's voice around me; there was everyone's voice except Zoe around me. They asked the same question over and over again about what had just happened to me, but again, I couldn't answer their question. I could feel from their voices that they were sad, agonised, and somehow lost. In one moment, they accused Geri of what had happened to me, and Aldea seemed to have it in her mind to chase Geri, but Louis denied her. We started walking towards the inn.
Arriving at my room, Louis put me down on my bed. In a second, I was lying on my bed, and Elpis's face was in front of me. It seemed she tried to examine what had happened to me. She moved my right arm, moved it to my view, and I couldn't feel it. I heard she tapped or seemed like a light hit to my body, and I thought she was trying to find the response of my body, but I was paralysed, so there was no response.
I heard some words from Elpis.
"Her highness is in a state of paralysis."
I heard their conversation between everyone..
"Is the woods the cause of her being paralysed?" Louis's voice.
"How about we check the wood where her highness checks?" Aldea's voice.
"Are you crazy? Even with that beast pet beside her, this still happened to her.."
"So where is her highness's pet?" Darryl's voice
"It ran away; when I saw her on the ground, somehow her pet ran away from her." Louis' voice
"Maybe the cause is her pet," said Aldea's voice.
"Or maybe her pet will try to avenge something that caused this for her.." Darryl's voice.
"Now, what will we do? If her highness's state is like this." Aldea's voice.
Suddenly, *clap* there was Cail's voice "Just do what her highness had ordered us, is that what the real knight means? Even in the brick of their master's death, knights should obey the last order. What's her highness's last order? This crop rotation, so we need to do and obey her order, for the people in this village."
"Cail is right; surely we care about her highness, but we can't neglect our duty to her. We can't just always sit beside her every time; we have a duty too..I think the ones who stay beside her are her maids, Aalis and Ame, because it is their duty, and Cail, I think you need to recite the report today for her highness." Elpis' voice.
"You are right; even with her state, we have an obligation to report." Cail's voice.
He started to recite the report about today. It was said ⅓ of the land of this village obligated to start the crop rotation, this land had been planted with the peas seed. ⅔ of the land still denied and disbelieved about the crop rotation, so they didn't force the people. Cail had found the trade route and source for all the crops in the future, and trade stock for all the seeds…But there was bad news from the report even Cail was stopping to recite and struggling to recite it for me…It was a rumor, that the baron residence had captured a rat, there was some possibility that the rat was a symbolic of intruder, and it was Zoela, but they didn't believe Zoe couldn't been captured that easily. He ended the recitation for me.
After Cail recited me the report, everyone was excusing themself, and left the room, except Aalis and Ame, I didn't hear their voice about excusing. I was just looking up at the roof sky, and the words from the elf before, tingling in my mind. I needed to find why I felt different and tingling in my heart when I heard her singing. What could it be? What may it be?
Suddenly, I heard Ame's voice beside me.
"Your highness, are you bored? I know something that will make you not bored."
I heard her footsteps away from me, and after some seconds, it came to me.
"This"
I saw a book like a picture book in front of my face, followed by Ame's face.
"Your highness, how about I read you this book story?"
I tried to read the cover of the book; it said "The Paragon of The Dwell." What a weird title for a book.