At first, it terrified Xu Qinran a bit when she realized she's 3 feet above the ground by the time she realized what was happening.
But, quickly calmed down due to some weird reason.
Probably because of the frequency the guy named Wak naturally emit, affecting her.
She watched as the people... beings waved at her from below and disappeared like a mist.
Which... didn't really made Xu Qinran wonder what happen. They are mystical creatures living in the mystical mountain after all.
"So~ Xu Qinran, right? I heard you suffered some trauma and none of your relatives, not even a single parent of yours, looked for you after you got kidnapped, am I right?" Wak is now holding Xu Qinran with both hands 10 feet above the ground with a wide grin, as if he won some lottery.
Xu Qinran did not respond quickly, as if she is loading, "... Yes."
"Hmm... Incomplete souls are really unlucky, since the planes and certain dimensions tend to reject you and want you out of their system. But..." Wak looked at Xu Qinran with glittering eyes.
"You are one of the luckiest amongst them!"
Xu Qinran doubt his words. Because, other than being forced and abused by the kidnapper, she used to be bullied at school and relatives. Her parents tend to exploit her, making her work more than the usual workers does.
She used to eat stale bread and most of the time, burnt rice. There were also a time she ate food from the trash and pig food when she got kicked out for a week from her home due to accidentally breaking one of the porcelain plates, which was not cheap at all, while serving a guest.
One of the street children dragged her to sell some drugs and made her have something to eat. Xu Qinran also managed to buy some medicine for herself because of it, but she did not dare do it again after witnessing someone was killed heartlessly just by being caught of selling drugs.
And so, she came back to her family which may maltreat her, but still gives her home and food to eat.
She was actually surprised when she was invited to visit Philippines. She heard it has a lot of beautiful and fun things.
But now, she realized she was dragged there to get sold off to someone she thought was kinds. However, she is not sure if that man kidnapped her because he did not have the money to pay for it, or that random nut job man just decided to kidnap her after interacting with her for a bit. Or maybe, it's part of the play they did to give her hope that someone will look for her...
She just heard, 'good', 'beautiful', 'price', 'sell', and her name as they discussed.
Which did not made things easy for her. What he did... may not be painful of knowing your parents sold you off to some stranger, but it did left a scar like what others did to her.
She still remembered clearly how much panic she got after knowing she is going somewhere she did not with someone she does not know, blindfolded and tied.
Some part of her, still hopes she was not sold, but a part of her also knows it is highly possible.
"Now, now... I know it is unfair, but do you know? Some people with incomplete souls were at times not sane at birth, like they wanna kill somebody, hear things... well what they hear is actually noises from several planes and at times dimensions, but they are often treated as a mental case. Incurable even."
"Some were staked and burnt alive, some were killed by their own parents, trusted siblings, dying in a ridiculous manner such as falling to the canal, died just because of their skin or hair color... Just... outrageously unlucky."
Xu Qinran looked at Wak and said softly, "We're just equally unlucky then. We just died without even enjoying what life can give us."
Wak laughed, "Right... Although at times it's just karma, not everyone deserves such bad karma."
Xu Qinran opened her mouth and was about to reply, when Wak suddenly said, "Hold on tight."
Xu Qinran obeyed and watched Wak step on the sky and fell down. She witnessed the previous yellow and orange hues of the sky disappear in the blink of the eye. All she can see it black and twinkling lights from stars.
The pressure is too much that she has no choice but to close her eyes.