Howling Marionette

Chapter 23

Ang madilim na silid aklatan ang unang bumungad sa'kin. I was here, standing inside the underground library.

I decided to stop this ridiculous idea to unravel the past between the fox and this body.

I come up with the idea of 'so what' and 'unimportant' reason.

So what if Aurora and Anasthasius are reincarnation of Isabella and the fairy? So what if I found out the truth about their past? Does it ever change the fact that I'm going to kill Anasthasius?

It was curiosity, curiosity of 'why' and 'how' is the past connected with the deal between my step mother and Anasthasius.

I didn't know why I had to go that far, it's just that when I saw his eyes that time.

When his eyes was glittering with sadness, my instinct told me that if ever I found out about the past I might be able to comfort him.

To comfort him was a ridiculous idea when I can just stay beside him.

"Come out," I whispered.

Ang madilim na silid ay nagsimulang gumalaw at ang mga alikabok na pilak na nagmula sa mga libro ay nagsimulang nagsilutang.

The silver dusts formed into a round light and I saw the dazzling wings came out from the round light.

It was a fairy.

The one called 'Freita'.

"hello there!"

I saw how she giggled when our eyes met, she was flying and looking at me from all over my body.

It was my first time seeing one. It may sounds ignorant but in my whole fifty-nine life, I wasn't able to see a real fairy.

It was small yet dazzling to see. How its wings were throwing up shining silver dusts while dancing accompanied by its wings.

"You're Freita right?"

Nakita ko ang pagngiti niya at paglapit niya sa mukha ko.

"Yes I am, and you are? Ah! The Aurora he was talking about."

She looks easy to talk and it was like she was enjoying seeing my presence.

"You know that I have a fairy blood right? That's why I was able to call you."

"you're wrong, I was waiting for you since the day you were born. I was... Waiting until this day would come."

"What do you mean?"

"young lady, my eyes was captive by your smell. The smell of disappearing from the world, since then... I waited."

"Please be specific, I don't want to waste my time with story telling. Tell me, what do you see inside me? What do you see when you're looking inside me?"

"HAHAHA, I didn't know that you would really understand me. I was about to give you a logic yet you understand it. Yes, I am able to see. I am able to see the soul inside that body. The soul I've been waiting to see, the delicate color of the lost soul."