Ame began to recite the story to me, she sat on the stool beside me…Her cute voice, and sometimes she was struggling to read, was adorable for me…I kept hearing her recitation…and at some point, I heard a single name that surprised me, it was Eris name…She was the paragon of this dwell. She told the people of this dwell, how to farm, how to raise crops, and everything. But in that story, I found a flaw, what she told to the people was not true.
"She raised her hand and showed it to the plant; the mystic aura appeared around the plant, and immediately the plant grew. Everyone around her was astonished. Eris, the paragon, the goddess, the saviour... we triumphed for 7 days and 7 nights, for her in this dwelling, and helped the lands…"
She clearly was one of me; she used her power to help people in that dwelling, but why did she tell the people the wrong things about crops? Maybe that was the reason why only one thirds of the land agreed to plant and use the crop rotation. Two thirds still believed what Eris did and taught…
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At the end of the book, Ame tried to sing and recite the last part…for some reason, her singing reminded me of the woman in the woods. There must be something in that singing. I tried to focus so hard when Ame sang the verses…But until the end of the verse, I didn't know what the feeling or the thinking inside of me.
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Nights changed to day tomorrow morning.
Aalis and Ame tried to wash me; while I was being paralysed on the bed, they washed my body, got me up so they could wash my back, and changed my clothes. After it was done, a knocking door could be heard. Aalis checked it and opened the door; it was Louis. Louis went inside, in front of me. He told me that everyone would do what I ordered before and told me that surprised me. Aldea went out of the village alone to find Geri..
I was worried about her, but Louis said..
"You don't need to worry, your highness. She is a capable person. There is no way she could die in a day. And about Zoe, we still don't receive any rumour or information anymore.."
He told me everything about what they would do today. After he was done, he excused himself and left the room. Followed by Ame, she left the room, and a couple seconds later, she went back with a meal. They tried to feed me, where Ame tried to open my mouth, and Aalis tried to feed the food inside my mouth. I still could swallow the food, but for some reason, I was struggling to digest the food in my mouth, so Ame moved my mouth to me to digest.
For the entire day, I could hear Ame and Aalis read some story books, and Aalis recited it to Ame…Like a kindergarten teacher told a story book to kids... I listened to some of the stories, and some of them were quite amusing…Days after days, it was the same; the report from Cail and Louis was still the same…Aldea and Zoe still had not come back..
But at some point, in my sleep, I dreamed about a woman whose appearance was similar to the woman who was singing inside the woods…She was an alchemist and herbalist. I watched her in her house inside the woods; she was seeking every knowledge about the plantation. She helped the villagers with crops, even giving them all the advice she had. Her advice was not to plant immediately in the same soils; she told them to let the soil recover first..But for some reason, her advice worked for some seasons. After that, the soil became not fertile anymore, so the villagers demanded an answer from her…But she couldn't provide the answer they sought. She just told them to not plant immediately after harvesting,harvesting; let the soil take a rest and recover…Season after season, the harvest of the village deteriorated. One day, when she went out from the woods to the village, she found something that surprised her…
The lands that should not be planted to any crops have now had been planted with potato seeds…She immediately rushed to the people there and asked why they planted immediately in the same soil…They just said the saviour just came and did to the soil…The Saviour said the soil was already healed and recovered..
She told them that was nonsense, there was no such thing as that, the soil could not be healed that fast, Even she told them that if they kept planting after every harvest and not giving the soil to rest and recover, it would be disaster for the soil, there would be no any seeds could be planted in that soil…The villagers now didn't believe a single word from her, they said she didn't do anything for the village…They forgot everything what she had done to the village, and said went back to your woods…
No one heard what she said, so she decided to go back to her home in the woods…In her home, she tried everything to find a solution for the soil..Book after book, scroll after scroll, she didn't find anything…Years after years, until she discovered verse to the plant, where she thought if creatures were happy and enjoying, the sound of verse or singing from something…So did the plants have that feeling like other creatures do, because plant are one of the type of living creatures…
She started to recite every verse she found, with melody in every verse…
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I woke up from my dream in the middle of night…I thought I knew what she had sung all this time..After 7 days of me being paralysed, slowly I could feel my own body again…Some minutes later, I regained control of my body…Immediately, I sneaked from the inn through the back door. On the back of the Inn, I was surprised; Geri was already waiting for me there…
"Haha, You really keep your word.." I said to Geri
"Of course I am…I still have honour and pride...Now, you want to go there again?"
"Yes…You will accompany me, right?"
"I will; this time surely I will protect you…..Hop into my back.." She lowered her body.
I walked towards her and hopped to her back… "This time will be different, Geri…I can feel it…"
"If you can feel it, probably it's true."
She dashed out and ran towards the woods… In some minutes, we reached and went inside the woods…After we went inside the woods, her singing could be heard again…louder and clearer, every step, we went deep into the woods…We arrived at the same spot as before, at the lakeside..
This time, Geri didn't need to howl to her, but she already took her eyes to us after we arrived. I went down from Geri, and when I took my foot to the ground, she immediately made her move like before. She ordered the lake so she could walk to me…
Step by step, she was walking to the front of me. After she was in front of me, Geri immediately covered me up.
She said, "So, it took 7 days for you to free yourself from all the roots.."
I pushed Geri to stay aside from me, and Geri followed. I said, "Stay aside, Geri. It's alright.."
"What have you found?"
"I found you wrong."
"Hohoho, what do you mean about me being wrong? Tell me where is the wrong?"
"There is no such thing as your singing helping the soil; singing couldn't help the soil, but the wave of sound could slightly change or help the plant grow, yet for the soil, it doesn't affect it…..Even so, there is something that I don't understand.."
"What is that?"
"I feel your guilt and fear in your singing…I sensed your guilt to those people that you help, and somehow I sensed a fear…what do you fear? Somehow I don't see that in my dream…"
Geri asked me, "What do you see?"
"I saw a woman who tried so hard to help the crops for the people; first she achieved it, and the people were happy, but some seasons later, everything turned upside down, and the people didn't trust her again. She had a feeling of guilt to not being able to help them again…I understand about your guilt, but I don't understand your fear, so what are you afraid of?"
"I was afraid…no, I am still afraid of her…"
"Her?"
"After a year, I was trying to study the soil. I found something about singing where you said it was wrong…I tried to go back to the village and tell them about the singing I found…But…..the village was already gone…I went there and not find a single person living in there…Yet, at the centre of the village, I met a woman or maybe a girl. There was somehow a lot of pressure around me when our eyes met…she just said, 'You are too late, long ears…'."