Amy collapsed in her chair in exhaustion. It feels good to be back in her own room and not the infirmary room she resided in for a month. She placed all her books and items into their proper spots although she will need to remind herself on buying some anti-stealing items so that none of her things will be taken without her consent again.
She then drank some water as she is now developing a migraine. That spell she casted, was an incredibly complex and difficult memory spell that modifies memories into dreams. She modify the memory of the labyrinth so that they wouldn't remember it as something real. Just saying the spell itself isn't enough, the caster has to know the memory they want to modify and imagine it enough to match. It takes a lot of mental strength to change a memory into a perceived false one especially if it is significant. For Leon, he is resentful and Rufus, despite his facade, is slightly traumatized. If she were to instead remove a memory, it would have irrevocable consequences.
She hopes that this is the end of her troubles with the labyrinth for now. Leon isn't supposed to find the labyrinth at least until his late teens. His role in the labyrinth in important for Aron to discover. A personal vendetta against someone who is looking for the labyrinth will get him killed.
She then got off her seat to go to Leon's room. When she looked into Leon's memory, she saw he was making plans in his room. While everyone is kept busy with the potion recipe she gave them, she will use the opportunity of their absence to search the room.
She quickly searched for the plans and quickly burned them. She then found the knife in his drawer and grabbed it.
She head to her room before anyone could spot her and observe the knife in her hand. What she told Leon and Rufus about this knife is accurate, however, the handle is not.
She felt the knife react in her hand. It is like it is excited to see her. Elf made products have a personality. Though she didn't get to see that part until now.
"Woah, I wonder why you're like this."
It may have a personality but it is not sentient though it raises questions. Why her? Is it her power? Otherwise, it would react towards Leon or Rufus who are much stronger than she is.
She shut her eyes as the sunlight from her window began to create a sensory overload. She closed the curtains so she could recover in darkness.
She looked back on her previous conversation of the disembodied voice.
*
"There is something I should warn you about." the voice says.
"Warn me? I thought you have no intention of interfering." Amy tilted her head as she says this.
"I said I don't have intention of interfering but..." the voice seems reluctant. "but you seem to affect the future much more than you'd think. I should mention that the show-only events are gonna happen here as well including the movies."
"Ah, shit." Amy realized.
She read the manga, the spin-off novels and seen parts of the show but she has not seen the movies and there are two of them.
"I appreciate it." she noted, "although I am quite confused as to why you are telling me this."
The voice chuckled nervously. "I am quite aware. In the latest movie, time travel is an important theme to the story but now your appearance complicates things and we all came to an agreement to prevent this from ending this story too early. In the end, the inventor of the spell cunningly sabotaged the time travel spell by giving the villain a false equation, killing him but also the inventor himself. But not this time. Due to your lack of knowledge of the movie, you sorta changed the event. If we don't interfere, it will mess the story up."
"I never saw the movies so I'm afraid that time travel is something I'm not entirely familiar with but what does this have to do with me? Did I manage to accomplish successful time travel?"
"Oh, I think you will be surprised when you find out. You'll see when you fully recover and leave the infirmary. When you figure this out, I'll show you the rest."
*
According to the voice, they unanimously agreed to interfere by warning her because of a changed factor that could possibly end the story prematurely. Aron isn't born yet so they probably want to make sure that there is a world he could be born in. Admittedly, she felt a bit overestimated. What on earth did she do to make such an impact?
The blade seems to shake more excitedly in her hand. Out of curiosity, she conjured a simple barrier and stabbed it with the blade. It cuts through easily.
"I see." she muttered. The brittle looking knife is not a weapon but it tears up barriers for passage. Impressive. Don't judge a book by its cover, I guess.
But what about the hilt? It is quite large for a hilt and combining with the blade, it makes an impractical and unexpected combination.
She looked at the knife and examined the gilded handle. After smoothing it over her hand, she realized something. After pressing the orb on the end of the blade, it opens up to a smaller cryptex with rows of tiny donut like rings.
The ugly appearance made it to be overlooked by ordinary people. This makes the item even more unique.
Feeling her headache is getting worse, she puts the items in a secured box and look at Ramiro who affectionately rubbed his head onto her outstretched hand.
She touched the place where his eyes are supposed to be. One of Ramiro's abilities is to see her mind's eye if she allows him.
"Find him."
The bird flapped his wings and flew back onto his perch to sleep.
Letting exhaustion overtake her, she sleeps.