Filo was a person whose mouth goes before her as she enters a room. She was a cute ball of energy, and she has never been in a situation that left her this dumbfounded.
She found it very strange that an earthquake happened in that area of the city without a prior warning from the forecast. The forecast is so detailed, even to the drops of the dews that would fall and how fast they'll precipitate; it was more like a prophecy.
It was shock upon shock for Filo, from the earthquake to a fiery iron cage in an atmosphere with room temperature that just popped out of the crack, and is that a whole block of gold???
It was when it sprung open that she realized that it was actually a coffin.
"What are you doing in my backyard?" she probed in a half-yell.
The search result showed that the lady laying on the ground was a great warrior in past history.
Despite her intense shock, she lowered to help the goddess that lay on the ground with blank eyes like a broken doll.
Just as she bent over, the glow of the hair turned sharper and fiery; she had to close her eyes. In the spur, Filo felt something swiftly wrap around her neck; it was Nurna's hair, and it was strangling her. Filo's face turned red as she choked.
Filo's perfect row of tiny milk-white teeth were on display in a kind smile that seemed to have affected Nurna as the hair turned loose and flowed back in retreat.
While she toppled backwards as the hair released her, she breathed a sigh of relief.
With the kindest and most genuine smile Filo could pull out of her shocked being, she reached out her hands to Nurna.
A memory flashed through Nurna's eyes as she saw the outstretched arm; there was someone whose hand was always stretched out whenever she needed a hand, every time.
Her head tilted downwards, her eyelids drooping slightly.
She took the outstretched arm and rose up.
Trying to take in the environment, she saw that it was different from her hometown village.
There were strange plants midair, growing in air.
The sky wasn't a whirl of clouds but a linear myriad of spongy blurbs of water.
Her current inner turmoil totally engulfed her curiosity about the strangeness of her surroundings.
The earth closed back up as she rose up, and the glow in her hair ceased, revealing her hair in its latent state, a lush golden mass of hair.
Nurna walked behind Filo in measured, elegant steps. Her eyes caught an open cage; a bunny was in there with a collar. Not knowing what a collar was, she thought it was being strangled. She swiftly walked towards the creature, loosening the collar. She rose with a smile of satisfaction before catching up with Filo.
"Hi, Kil, are you almost home?"
"Yes, I am, and I'm not getting you anything."
Filo rolled her eyes at his sentence. Not like she makes him buy things for her every day, just like 4 times in a 5-day week, and she'll probably pay him when he becomes a father.
"That's not it, just come quick. You won't believe what I saw at the orchid."
Kil grunted from the other side of the phone; he was really fed up with listening to her baby plant tales at that point.
"Okay, I'll be home in 3."
Filo sat across from Nurna, who had been looking around like a kid that got lost in an amusement park where she sat upright with her legs crossed elegantly, She didn't seem to be wary of Filo's presence anymore. The door abruptly opened, making the two ladies jump from their seats.
The door closed, followed by a crashing sound. Filo turned to see her brother, who was staring at Filo. He had thrown his stuff down in astonishment, gawking at her.
"She came from under the ground; I found her in the orchid."
As the number one virtual reality video game creator, he had seen lots and lots of otherworldly women both in reality and in art, but the being in front of him... she's a goddess.
"According to the cybernet, she's from a millennium back. Did she time travel?"
"Or maybe she never died?"
"For a whole millennium?"
Kil walked further and poked Nurna's face with his finger.
"Does she breathe?" He asked aloud, putting his fingers under her petite nose. Nurna glared at him, and he hurriedly went behind his sister.
"She was probably in a slumber, and her body was preserved by her magic."
Kil's eyes widened as he took swift steps backward.
"She has magic?"
"Not that I've seen, but her hair glows. We have to find a way to communicate with her."
Kil nodded in agreement; the being before them looked lost and blank.
"Call Situ, he should be able to help."
" I doubt if he can speak language from that long ago"
A little scream echoed in the living room, and they whipped their heads towards Nurna.
Her hands moved in swift signs before her as her big clear watery eyes blinked, her lips pursed.
Kil's shoulders slumped in surrender, and he went out of the living room to take a call.
After 5 minutes of intense attention, they finally figured out that Nurna needed water.
Filo rushed to the kitchen and came back with a glass of water. Nurna took the cup and glared at Filo before flinging the cup across the room and making her signs at a viciously fast pace.
Filo came back with a bigger cup of water, but Nurna let out a scream again and smashed the cup.
"Oh my, you sure have a temper. No wonder someone found it convenient to put you to sleep for a millennium," she gasped as she clutched her invisible pearls at the audacious atrocity that's playing before her.
Filo, with her enviable patience, more like her appalling patience, walked past the room that was now a minefield of broken glass. Getting to the kitchen, she took out three cups.
While she was in the kitchen, the doorbell chimed.
"Come in," Filo yelled from inside.
The door slowly opened, and nothing could prepare Nurna for the sight before her.
She couldn't point a finger at what was familiar about the tall man with the sharp gaze that just entered, but her thumping heart knew, her now glowing hair felt it, the rising hair on her skin sensed it. A cold aura emanated around his imposing frame as he took slow steps towards her like an assured predator walking towards his helpless prey
"You're back," the strange man said, looking straight into her eyes.