The Chronicle of Aurelia Aurelius

Chapter 16

My both hands were in blood. I asked Sofia

"What happened?"

Sofia just answered "That's the question that I want to ask to my lady.."

She was kneeling and holding both of my bloods hands, while looking at me. I saw behind her, there was mother and father, looked beside me, there was a broken vase on the floor with some blood.

"Is it me who broke the vase?" I asked Sofia.

While she was wiping each of my hands with her handkerchief, she said "Yes...my lady who broke the vase...if you pleased, can you tell me what had happened to you?"

I started to tell her about what I had experienced, each story that I told to her, I showed the location, I walked to the table beside my bed, and told, on the table, there was a white box, and a doll like a bear. I explained the white box that was bright, no candles nor lamp I had seen.

I grabbed Sofia's hand, and started to walk out of the room followed by mother and father. In the hall, I told there was no this and that, it was just plain but it felt appealing. We moved on to the stairs, I explained the side of the stairs were made of glass, not wood like this. I saw some servants in the house were curious, so they followed us. In the dining room, I told them the table's shape was not a rectangle like this but a circle made of glass. I pointed to the chandelier, and described it as a ball of light that was hanging, but it was brighter than any chandelier or candles that I had seen. Everything I explained to them, the decor, the walls..

Even in the dining room, I said "Ah! Mother and father also were changed by someone that I didn't know, even the little two were not in there...and then the man who changed father dragged me from the seat...carried me to the room...after that there was an unknown woman who approached me with a weird white robe."

Everyone was stunned by what I had said. I saw mother and father's expressions of unbelieve, then Sofia told me to go back to my room. When Sofia and I walked toward my room, mother and father stayed for a moment in there, and seemed to inform the servants there. Arriving in my room, the broken vase on the floor was gone, Sofia took me to the bed, and I sat on the bed.

"My lady, perhaps you were hallucinating..."

"Hallucinating? But what I had seen was real, even I felt when I touched.."

"How do I tell you about this...but the truth is..

Sofia explained to me what really happened, the man who dragged me was not an unknown man, but my father. She told me that father was so worried about the blood in my mouth, so he carried me to the bed. The little two were there the whole time, even they followed father to my room, but they were scared and worried about me, so after father took me to the bed, they stayed in their room. The thing that I hugged was not a doll but a vase, she told me, so that was why my hands were in blood and there was a broken vase on the floor. And the woman who approached me was Sofia...

"You are lying, right Sofia? That's not true.."

"It's the truth, my lady..."

"What about the white box that was so bright, I remember that I touched it and it became bright as the sun.."

"There's not such a thing like that.."

"But..but..but..I touched it and felt it...that's no way I was hallucinating.."

The door had been opened by mother, mother and father came to the room and walked toward me. Mother immediately sat beside on the bed, while father was standing beside Sofia, Mother embraced my head and my body.