Soul's new home

A connection

My thoughts slipped away like sand through my fingers, leaving a profound emptiness in their wake that echoed within me.

A sudden chill went down my spine. Tanny.

The name floated into my mind, a faint whisper from a past I thought I had buried long ago, yet it stirred something deep within me that had been dormant for what felt like an eternity.

But Adam... how does he know?

That question hung heavy in the air between us, filling the silence with a palpable tension.

"Lea told me... she's still here," Adam murmured, the strain in his face began to dissolve like morning mist.

Worry faded from his eyes, revealing a glimmer of hope that flickered against the darkness. I lifted my gaze to meet his blue eyes, I wanted to know what he knew.

"How?" I hardly recalled the rasp of my own words, tinged with disbelief and hurt.

Lea didn't confide in me first.

"I can't explain it," Adam replied softly, his tone steady yet laced with an undercurrent of uncertainty that mirrored my own.

"But Lea showed me."

I narrowed my eyes doubting whether this was true. "How is that possible?" I crossed my arms over my chest as Adam stammered.

"I-I know this might sound unreal but... Lea still has a connection to this world."

My mind went blank. Is it possible?

"Tell me everything," I said tersely before sitting on Lea's bed patting the space beside me and motioning Adam to sit. He complies.

"It happened awhile ago when I called you thinking you were Lea.

Your words left me hanging when you said that you weren't who I think you were and I just knew that Lea wouldn't say something like that.

I was confused and angry. Angry at Lea for ghosting me.

Confused about whether or not you were the girl that I was dating,

and I concluded that something was very off because I knew Lea as a person and I knew she wouldn't be acting like you right now.

I asked Mandy and Seria to go check up on you and to report back how you were acting and sure enough your response was nothing of the sort that I would have expected Lea to do.

I started panicking because I had no idea what to do until I realized that Lea had given me a spare key to your house.

But the key wasn't for the front door, it was for her room's window and I came in through there.

This part might sound crazy but I swear I'm not making stuff up. Okay... Lea spoke to me." At that, I snapped my gaze to yours completely caught off guard.

"H-how?" I said choking on each syllable.

Adam continues, "It was so soft that I thought it was just my imagination but it was clear, she said, Adam... Adam... you need to help Tanny."

The color in my face paled and the unmistakeable breeze that passed through me sent a shiver down my spine.

My eyes glanced to the window where I was sure the source of the breeze came but to my surprise, the window was shut.

How did a breeze... "ADAM!" I snapped and he flinched. "What's wrong?" He quickly replied as he got up from the bed.

"The breeze... did you feel that?" Adam looked at me before glancing at the shuttered window.

"A breeze wouldn't come with the window shut and the door closed." He said.

I got up.

"That was Lea. I'm sure of it." Adam's eyes widened before a flash of excitement glinted in his eyes.

"D-do you think that Lea is trying to communicate with us by using the earth's elements?" I thought about that before coming to a conclusion.

"It's possible."

The words felt like hope and I was glad for it. For weeks,

I have been engulfed by a sense of helplessness, trapped within the confines of my sister's body—once vibrant and full of life, now a hollow shell devoid of her spirit.

Each tick of the clock feels like an eternity, dragging me deeper into a personal hell, where the agony of watching her fade grows more unbearable with every passing second.

It's as if every moment amplifies the weight of sorrow pressing down on my heart, echoing the loss of the sister I once knew so well.

But now, hope is unfurling within me like a delicate seed pushing through the soil of my heart.

The thought that Lea might still be out there breathes life into my spirit, and that glimmer of knowledge feels like a fragile yet resilient thread of faith and trust, weaving through my thoughts and nurturing my soul.

For the first time in weeks, I smiled. "Adam. Would you like to join me in the quest to find your lover?"