SHIFTER

Chapter 6 - DRUGSTORE

I didn't knew that there was a sliding peephole in the door. The old man looked at the both of us. 

"Who are you and what do you need?" the old man asked.

"Hello Sir. I'm Kite Sineel and she is Elitteon Trap Smith daughter of Miss Kimmeon Seins. She told us that there is a path here to the city of book sphere." Kite's been courteously said to the old man. The old man looked at me from head to toe.

The old man suddenly shut the peephole and opened the door.

" Nice to meet you fellow Shifters. Miss Elitteon, you looked exactly like your Dad. Did you know that your father was a good friend of mine?" I can say that is voice is a little bit gravelly.

I slowly shook my head. I don't know.

My mom haven't told enough story about my Dad. All I knew that my Dad died in a car accident when I was just 4 years old. All I have from him is our family picture together. I smiled at the old man for remembering my dad.

"Uhm. You can call me Eli." This words starts babble from me.

  "That's quite a great nickname and oh, where are my manners? Please come inside." I gazed myself around this shop. The place is quite neat and old. There were boxes bottles, all different types of medicine, I may say. It was just a plain small drugstore after all. 

There's only one thing I can compare this shop from the outside;

There are no "frozen" people inside. Only the old man, I guess.

"Please, into my office." I looked at Kite and he gestured me to follow him as he followed next to the old man.

We came in another room; inside it contains a wooden table and a sofa. There are also cabinets inside with full of papers, boxes and a couple of books too.

"I haven't introduced properly to the both of you. Please take a seat. It's been a long time since I got visitors just like the both of you." He pointed the sofa in front of his desk. The room smells a little bit musty maybe because of the old books and papers around this office.

" Mister Kite and Miss Eli. I'm Mister Seika Nitivs. A vitakinesis."

 I  woooweedd to him. This shifter-thing is probably still new for me. Kite is just not-so-amazed with his plain satisfied face.

 "What about vitakinesis, Sir?" I asked fastly and curious. Mister Seika smiled genuinely. 

"Vitakinesis meaning to manipulate health. We can speed up the healing process of a person and other stuffs like making medicines." I nodded to him. I looked at Kite and he looked unease. 

"Okay." Mr. Seika said interrupting the silence of the room. "Let me now take the both of you to the book sphere." He pointed behind us. Kite and I turned our head back to see what's behind. It was a painting of a library. 

"So are we going inside the painting?" I shifted my heads to the both of them. <(*0*)> . This is crazy and awesome (and WEIIIRRDDD!). Mr. Seika smiled, grinned and laughed at me. This is so getting weird.

"No, Eli. There's a tunnel behind that." Mr. Seika grinned. "The tunnel will lead the two of you to the book sphere." I slowly nodded feeling shamed of what I said. "You got a lot of imaginations, young lad." He gave me a grin. Well, I grinned back and slowly nodded.

"Well, you can go now. Tick tock! No time to waste." I smiled and thanked Mr. Seika for giving us his time.

Kite stand up and he flipped up the painting. The painting was light tho.

He gestured me to go in first.

"So I just slide here?" Kite gesture his head that he also do not know . "Ladies first." He answered. I sarcastically smiled at him and said: "Thank you for being such a gentleman." I can see Kite trying not to burst into laughter so he ended up grinning.

"What?!" I hastily asked.

"Nothing." I furrowed my eyebrows and hesitated. 

I entered the tunnel first. After sliding down, I felt a little dizzy so I massaged my forehead. I looked back and saw Kite going out of the tunnel. He still got those evil bloody grin.

"Well, that was fun!" He grinned. I looked to what's in front of me and there's a path, which is really dark.