As the night approached and then came the bed time, Shiki was given a bed in a room along with Shiba and there was an empty bed of the person mentioned by the family members. In this room there were many books and many different kinds of natural decorations and many small potted plants.
"hey you don't feel weird." Shiki asked Shiba.
"about what?" replied Shiba, "me living in the same room as you."
"that is one of the things you don't like me being here." Said Shiki
"no I do not feel anything." Said Shiba, "as I don't have to many friends here."
"so you don't hate me?" said Shiki.
"hate you, why? You did not do anything wrong to me." Shiba said cheerfully .
"Following that." He said, "I have not been told much about you."
"about me?" Shiki replied, "what is it that you want to know about me?"
Shiba jumped from his bed and got close to Shiki who was sitting on his bed.
"let me tell you this." He said, " I just heard about what happened to you not what about you."
"so what do you want to know about me?" Shiki asked Shiba.
"let me guess…."
After some time of thinking about the question, he said-
"nothing. I want to know nothing about you.", somehow his image was not lifted up for his comment.
"then why did you say you want to know about me?", asked Shiki.
"well, I thought it would be more fun if I could know about you…" as he then went on his bed and laid down, "just by spending time with you."
Shiki was more confused than ever now about this boy. He said that he wanted to know about him but now he just decided something totally different. Something was weird about this boy. Shiki also laid down on his bed because he was too exhausted.
"well if you say so." Said Shiki.
"It would be great I you woke up early tomorrow." He said as he took a deep breath, "I will show you around this place."
"ok goodnight friend."
"goodnight."
As both the boys slowly closed their eyes and fell into sleep, Shiki thought about what would happen to him and his new life because he was still too unsure of his life. He slowly fell asleep as the light went out.
***
Shiki again found himself in his dreams. But this time, it was dream. Just like Uvanov's world, this, was just a copy of that world. It was all white and bright till he saw a black shadow standing in the distant fog.
It was clear that someone was standing there Shiki could not see who was present there. Suddenly he heard a girl call out, "come here."
Not knowing who that was, he followed the direction from where the voice had come.
"who are you? Hey can you hear me?" Shiki called out to the girl.
Then he saw something marvelous. There was a girl standing a little far away from him. She had a blue snow flake tattoo on her neck. She was wearing a sky blue gown which had crystals on them.
"Look at this, my dear." She was then surrounded by a cold mysterious wind which made Shiki cold.
"what do you want from me? Why am I seeing this dream?"
The mysterious wind had got collected in her hand and she said, "you will know eventually."
Then Shiki looked at this stomach where he saw an ice dagger has stabbed him.
"but not now."
Shiki fell to the ground and started losing consciousness as he was losing his blood. His vision slowly got blurry and he could not see anything clearly. But there was a last message he heard from the girl,
"Soon let's meet again."
Shiki woke up. He was out of breath and he was sweating. He was thinking of this dreams and why he is the one who only saw these kinds of dreams. He looked around in the room and found out that Shiba has woken up.
"he is not here." Shiki looked around the room and then found a family photo of Shiba.
"A family."
There was a slight moment of realization that he is orphan now. He became sad when he realized it and he felt the importance of a family in that moment. He was crying for a moment then someone knocked on the door.
"yes", he wiped his tears and answered.
"Shiki. You are up." It was Maria and she had came to wake him up.
"Since you woke up, come down and have breakfast."
Shiki got freshened up and then went at the dining table. There Kamau and Shiba were already sitting and were having their breakfast.
"Good morning everyone.", Said Shiki.
"Good morning, come have a seat."
Shiki sat on a chair and Maria served him the breakfast. Kamau asked the boys, "well what are your plans for the day?"
"I will take him on a tour about the island.", Said Shiba.
"Ok, but don't stay out late. Is that ok?", Kamau said.
"Don't worry dad we won't be out for a long period." Shiba looked at Shiki when they finished their breakfast and said, "let's go, Shiki." He grabbed Shiki's hand and then dashed out of the house.
Shiki was a little freaked about by this and even Maria warned Shiba, "hey don't do that."
Both of them went to see the locality and Maria told Kamau, "gosh these kids."
"It is good for them because they are young." Kamau spoke as he took sip of his coffee.
"I still worry about them." She looked worried, "it makes it harder to think that they will exposed to that world."
"It really breaks my heart, Kamau." As small drops of tears came in her eyes.
"don't worry, Maria." Kamau assured her, "by facing joy and sorrows, hardships and grief together. They will learn to survive in the realms."