I asked her, "Who did you meet there?"
"I don't know…"
I saw that her face had changed, then the first time we met, when we met, her face was cool and there was no fear, but right now, her face was frightening and full of fear…she took her knees and kept repeating said, "I don't know…I don't know…I don't know…"
Geri bumped her head against my back and said, "Your hand, your right hand, who had the seal of my contract, try to calm her with your hand.."
"What do you mean?"
"Just try to pat her or rub her head with your hand.."
I tried to do what Geri said, I put my hand to her head...Suddenly, a blue light was emitting from my hand to her head. The blue wing from Geri's contract appeared in my hand, emitting brighter light..
..
All of that made her calm down, and she stood up again from her knees…
She said, "Thanks for calming me down …" She took a glance at Geri and said, "And you animal, you need to teach your master, your power.."
Geri answered "Surely I will teach her...", but she said something in a low voice, "If I want to.."
"I heard that you, animal.." she said.
I was surprised and baffled by what just happened, so I asked Geri, "What just happened?"
"SEE!! Even your master still does not understand what just happened.."
"It's alright; she will understand in some way." Geri said.
"So what just happened?" I asked Geri again.
"What happened is your hand, like this," she even tried to explain while demonstrating with her paws, "and she will like that, and the wing is like this…Understand?"
Immediately, she smacked Geri…"What the crap, you blabbing about."
I asked her, "So you know what just happened?"
"It's called Iremia…"
Geri suddenly said, "Ah yes! Iremia, I remember it now…"
"Quiet, you animal…" she continued to explain to me, "Iremia is a power of your kind to calm a spirit. Iremia could be a calm power to calm the spirit, but it could also be a mind power to control the spirit; it depends on their heart, but your Iremia is a calm power….I don't believe that animal didn't explain or teach you about this."
"Now, you are calm because of me…that is surely amazing…Now, may you tell me what you saw that makes you so afraid?
She walked to a big stone, took a seat on that stone, and started to say, "Like I said, I don't know…"
"What do you mean by you don't know?"
"I don't know about her, or her name, because when our eyes met, I just petrified; everything around me seemed to freeze, and there was no sound that could transmit into my ear…I found her…the most malice thing I had encountered. My tribe…was gone because of her…"
"Malice, you say?? Is it a coincidence that Geri encountered someone who is so maliceful?"
"Really? That animal!"
"She encountered her, but she thought she didn't have any malice; only her sister knew the true identity of this malice."
"So she knew her name?"
"Yes, it's Eris…I listened to a lot of stories in books with this name.
"What do you mean by that?" Geri asked..
"She was well known as a paragon or saviour...like you said, the tale has been twisted, whether who is right or wrong."
She stood up from the stone and walked towards me, saying, "Eris, I will remember that name…now…let's go to our introduction. I am Alva…As you can see in my ears, I am an elf…" She stuck out her hand to me, as she wanted to do a handshake..
I grabbed her hand and said, "My name is Caroline; I am the princess of this kingdom.."
"Woahahaha…a princess is the chosen one…but your attire doesn't represent you as a princess; you are more like a peasant." Alva said..
"I love it like this, because it makes it easier to move than on a dress."
"You surely are a unique princess."
"So, Alva, may you seal a contract with me? If you have any wishes or any conditions, just say them to me."
"I have, First, about Eris; I want to know about her and I want her…"
"What do you mean by you wanting her?" I asked.
Immediately, she smashed her own hand…
"Okay, I get, is there any more?"
"You said I was wrong about this soil; I want you to show me what is the right thing or the truth about it.."
"I think that condition will be accomplished in this month or next month, but I will gladly accept it…anything else."
"Wait wait wait…" Alva's face was surprised. "What do you mean it will be accomplished this month?"
"I have ordered my people to plant peas, not the same seeds, in the land, so these peas will recover the nutrition of the soil. After the peas, we will plant another seed, so like you said to your tribe, don't plant the same seeds in the same land after harvesting... You are actually quite right, but you need time to find the solution, unfortunately. you don't have that time, yet you will see your words in a few months—how right and truthful you are.."
"You are bluffing, right?"
"No I am not.."
Suddenly she grabbed both of my shoulders, took her face in front of me, and said, "YOU ARE TRULY BLUFFING…" Slowly, some tears showed themselves on her lower eyelids…
"No, I am not." I said calmly to her.
She lowered her hands from my shoulders, turned her back from me, and said, "Just imagine, and I'm hoping that my tribe could hear that…and chose not to believe that woman.."
"Time has passed, Alva; days change to months, months change to years, years change to decades, and decades change to centuries."
"You are right.." she said, wiping her tears with her hand..
"Is there anything else, Alva?"
"There is nothing else from me... The most important one is the first one…"
"Are you sure? Even Geri had three things to me…The last thing is to have a doubt toward me." I asked her.
Geri suddenly said, "Don't tell her about that.."
"*giggles* ha ha ha what is that? You animal surely is unique and dumb for some reason…I think it's enough for me, but the most important is the first one…"
"Great…so how can the contract be sealed between us?" I asked Alva.
She slowly walked towards me, In front of me, she grabbed my right hand…She lifted my hand to the same height as my heart..and immediately blue lights appeared in our hands. Slowly, another wing was engraved on my right hand. I looked at her, she was emitting blue light too, her hair was blown away, even her clothes…slowly the engraving was done, and now I ha two blue wings on the back of my right hand..and everything was back to normal.
I was confused, because when I sealed the contract between Geri and me, it was not like this..I looked at Geri with a confused face, and she just looked somewhere else, like she was trying to dodge my gaze.
So I turned to Alva and said "May I ask you something?"
"Sure, now that you are my master, you can ask me anything whenever you like. What is it?"
"What just happened?"
"Huh??"
"The sealed contract seemed different when it was between Geri and me."
"What was the difference?"
"Well, it just happened quickly, without slowly engraving on my hand…it just happened in a second; the wing already engraved on my hand…"
"What? There was no process like this."
"No, it just went to my
Alva turned her gaze to Geri and walked towards her.
"You animal, why did you not let all the sealing process proceed?"
"Because it was annoying and longer, so it was better to be quick."
Alva kept babbling and arguing with Geri, and Geri kept countering her babbling.
I immediately went in the middle of them, intervened, and said, "Well well well, we can just agree and disagree; don't let all of you waste more time just babbling and arguing around."
The two took one step away from each other, and their eyes avoided each other, and I asked Alva, "Will you keep your identity or not?"
"Ah! About that.." She immediately raised her finger and circled around. Suddenly, her attire was changed to attire like me, and her appearance was changed to human appearance especially the ears, there were no long ears anymore, and saying "Here I am…"
"Great to have a wood creature become human.." Geri said.
"It's better than you, animal.." Alva answered.
"Calm down. How about we go back to the inn?" I said to them.
"And how will you introduce her to everyone?" Geri asked me.
"As another new companion?"
"Great new companion..." Geri said with a low tone. She immediately lowered her body for me…
I walked towards her body and hopped in. After I was on her back, Alva tried to hop in too.
"Don't tell me; she will be hopping into my back." Geri said.
"Is there any problem?" I asked.
"Yeah, is there any problem for me to hop on your back?" Alva said.
"No…" Geri said.
After Alva and I hopped on Geri's back, Geri immediately dashed out from there and ran towards the outside.