Chapter 5.
How could I be one of those little girls and how could she be that lady? I’ve never seen her before in my life! And what about the other two girls?? My sisters? But again! I’ve never seen such people in my life. Could that be my past life I saw in the visions? It can’t be. The woman here looks exactly alike in the vision.
Still in each others arms, I was searching her face, trying to get an answer out of it. She looked back at me with a warm and loving look that I’ve never seen before; a mothers look. Tears started pouring out my eyes uncontrollably as I looked back into hers; it was the same, like looking in a mirror. Our eyes were both blue with a tinge of green like the ocean with a thin orange outline like the sun rising from the horizon; a rare colour that I have never seen in others eyes before.
“Mother? Ar-are you really my m-mo-mother?” I asked with sniffs in between. Nodding her head, she gave me a kiss on the forehead.
“And the other girls? Do I really have sisters? What was that dark shadow? Did it, oh my god, did it really consume the man? Was that man my father? What-” Putting her finger on my lips, she silenced me from the spurt of questions. She motioned for Alta towards us and whispered in her ear and returned back to me.
“My dear Praeteritum, I will tell you everything soon. For now, go freshen up and we’ll talk over dinner. I am sure you would not want to eat in those clothes and mud in your hair.” A hint of laughter in her eyes, she gave me a small push to Alta who then took me away.
We entered a huge room which still managed to look cosy. There was a four poster bed to the far end of the room, armchairs and a coffee table to one side and two large cupboards with glass doors on the other. Everything was made of dark polished brown wood. Tracing my fingers on the woodwork of the cupboard, I noticed a collection of crystals and woodcarvings of animal figures inside.
“Those were made by your father when you were very young. You were always fond of animals since birth, hence all these figures.” Alta stood beside me, putting an arm around me. With a squeeze, she then pulled me away from the cupboard. “You can look at them later, let’s get cleaned up first. I really want to get rid of this stench.”
The waterfall-like shower was relaxing and eased all the aches. Assortments of aromatic shower gels filled the room with a smell so soothing I felt like I could sit in here forever. Eager to find out more about my life, I forced myself out of the shower to meet back with Alta. Laid out on the bed was the same kind of dress that my mother was wearing. Wow, that seems odd, suddenly having a mother.
I got dressed, looked at myself in the mirror and headed towards the door when I saw a red shine in the cupboard. I stopped in midway looking back towards the cupboard. It wasn’t shining anymore. Shaking my head, wondering if I was seeing things, I walked closer to the cupboard. Opening the glass door, I took a closer look at all the animal figures. On the top row were a bear, an eagle, a leopard, and then a phoenix with red ruby eyes. Then it glowed again. Its eyes!
Staring wide eye at it, I reached my hand out to touch it. Just an inch away from it, the figure started shaking in place. I jumped back as the figure fell off the cupboard and smashed into pieces on the floor. Red smoke started rising from the broken pieces and I started screaming, remembering the black smoke that consumed the man in my vision.
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