ᴄʜɪʟᴅ ᴏꜰ ʜᴇᴀᴠᴇɴ ɪɪ (ꜰᴀɪʀʏ ᴛᴀɪʟ ᴇʀᴢᴀ x ʀᴇᴀᴅᴇʀ)

Chapter 254 - Unexpected Encounters

Chapter Cover: Nyssa dressed in modern clothing with glasses on her face as her jacket read ALVAREZ with Eve beside her looking at something in the distance with a lollipop in her mouth.

It was such a strange homely feeling spending the night inside Irene's home. The young woman had allowed me to spend the night there, in the same room that I had awoken in. Even so, lying there I couldn't find it within myself to sleep, thinking back to the strange spell that I had used. Agnitio told me that the spell could be used in combat but, I found that it worked more like Wendy's Milky Way spell, at least, the few time I have seen the small Dragon Slayer used it. The difference between that spell and my own was that instead of speaking to the old soul it summoned, I somehow let them possess me at least from what Irene was able to explain to me.

I don't really remember anything after casting the spell, but I could feel what the person who I had summoned do. I could feel their feelings as if they were my own, something that I could use and do with my Curse's power. I never expected to still have something like this happen to me but then again, strange things have been happening to me ever since I became aware that I was reborn in Fiore. Lying there, on that bed my mind had started to wander again.

I find myself thinking of Erza yet again, and thinking of how she was. I can't always call her considering how busy that I had been with work that Invel seems to always want to give me when I was in the capital. It wasn't like they were much to do with what I had as I was mostly sent to patrol mission and learn the other part of the Empire…

I blinked to myself, turning my attention toward the direction I heard the sound. While the sound of the city could still be heard, although faintly, this new sound however, sounded too loud to be from there. I pulled myself up from my bed, and made my way out in the hallway. Listening to it, I found myself going down the hallway down to the last room and the sounds were coming from there.

Turning the nod, I pushed the door open and was met with a small and yet simple room. There were many books visible upon the tables that were in the room and a low candle still burn as the room was completely caught within its glow but what really drew my attention was the figure that was on the bed and that was were the sounds were coming from.

Making my way straight toward it, found Irene there still asleep but from the frown on her features, whatever dreams she was having wasn't a pleasant one. I placed my hand upon her shoulder and my touch seems to have done something for she suddenly opened her eyes…which were glowing if I didn't know any better, almost like flames in the darkness around her. The sight of those eyes…strangely enough, I found myself thinking of Dragon's eyes when they met my own.

"Venum?"

She sounded tired as she pulled herself up, the sheet around her form falling down and I had to avoid looking down for she was completely in the nude. She had a confused look upon her features as she was staring at me.

"What are you doing here?"

"You were having a nightmare," I told her.

A look crossed her face then, as she let out a sigh.

"You would think after four hundred years I will get used to them," she said, shaking her head as she lied back down upon her bed.

I stared at her, curious, "Do you always get them?"

"Not always," she answered me, "Meeting Avelia earlier today brought back a lot of good memories…it also brings a lot of bad too."

"Do you have jasmine here?" I asked her.

She stared at me in confusion, "Jasmine?"

I nodded at her, "Tea."

"I have some tea but I doubt it's Jasmine," she said.