ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴍᴇʀᴄʏ {ʟᴇᴠɪ ᴀᴄᴋᴇʀᴍᴀɴ}

Goodbye, My Stray Cat

{Mercy's POV}

We began walking toward Levi's memories, when something stopped me.
Off in the distance I could see a door with a light swinging overhead.

"What's that?" I asked as I stopped, Elise was pulled backward at my sudden movements. She looked over to where I was pointing.
"The door you came out of," she said nonchalantly. I dropped her hand and began running toward it, Elise hot on my tail. "You can't go through there!" She called, but I was too fast. I was meters away from the door when I stopped.
I felt her run up to my side and stop as we both stared at the door.
"It's not locked," she whispered, her voice laced with surprise.
I ran up to it, my fingers stretched out as I reached for the handle when something told me to stop.
I froze in my position, hand still outstretched as I stared at the grain of the wooden door.
Do I really want to go back to where I was? I thought.
Did I really want to return through the door of loss and destruction?
I dropped my hand to my side as I stared at it.
Even if I could get back to Levi, going through the same door wasn't going to change anything. I would still be fueled by hatred and loss. I would still be lit up with a fire that burned against my mother's killer. If I went through the same door nothing would change.
I had to find another way.
I took a step backward as Elise met me at my side.
"Take me to Levi," I said flatly.
I looked down on her to see she was smiling.
"Okay," she whispered through a warm smile before her cold fingers clasped around my hand and she began leading me once again.
After walking for a while, my vision was lit up by a vast sea of luminous rectangles. They all carried their own haze of different blues.

My blue sky..
My heart was immediately calmed at the beautiful sight. It was as if I was staring at the sea once again.
Elise let go of my hand and stepped to the side as she stared at me expectantly.
Part of my wanted to fall to my knees and be overtaken by the luminescent blue that was before me, but I refrained.
I looked to Elise's childlike eyes and back to the rectangles that stood out against the darkness.
"Do you ever come here?" I asked.
"Sometimes... Every time I come here there's always a couple new ones to look at," she said through a relaxed sigh as she looked at the rectangles I stood in front of.
I walked up to the first window.
The scene showed me the prison cell I was in just days before my graduation.
A dark figure approached, but their face was covered by the darkness of the room. Their lantern lit up the cell that I was in. They spoke to me, but I paid no mind. I kept watching the dark figure whose cloak hung behind them like an omen. Suddenly, they lifted the lantern to their face and I was met with a calm blue sky.