The Wysteria of the West

Chapter 4

Chapter 4: Handmaiden

Fiammata's POV

    THREE days. Three goddamn days and I still can't believe that I'm in a different world already.

I couldn't even believe that such world like this can even exist in the first place.

Hindi ako lumalabas ng inn simula nang mapunta kami dito dahil hanggang ngayon ang hirap pa ring lunukin yung malaking katotohanan na hindi ko inaasahan. 

Parang isang bomba na sumabog sa harap ko na hindi man lang ako nasabihan.

Hindi na si lola Graciana ang nasa tabi ko sa kama tuwing gigising ako kundi si Cristina na at nakakapanibago ang ganung senaryo. Hinahanap-hanap ko ang mga yakap niya sa'kin tuwing gabi.

The bed wasn't soft and fluffy anymore unlike my bed on Earth. I guess I need to ask my cousins to buy a new bed before anything else. 

"Did you sleep well today?" Hindi ko napansin na nasa pintuan na pala ng kwarto ko si Mike.

He knew everything that we don't know. He knew.. right from the start. And here I am still confused on what's going on. 

How everything right now changed my life in an instant.

"Sleep is not the right term for waking up every 3 hours." Hindi ako makatulog ng maayos kada gabi and I can't get enough sleep. And I know he already has a hunch why. "I don't like.. this."

These past three days he would always convince us that we should get used living in this world and it's lifestyle and accept it. Hindi ko nakayang pakinggan lahat ng sinabi niya na hindi talaga kami nagmula sa Earth and that doesn't make us a Terran any longer. 

We weren't even terrans in the first place.

Then what kind of being are we? Monsters? Monster in human skin? 

Kung ganon ay dito sa mundo na 'to talaga kami nagmula? Why it doesn't ring a bell to me? 

"This? Ah.. you mean your bed? I'll be going out later to sell some of our stuff from Earth to the merchants. I bet we'll get a good price on it." He knew that I'm not pertaining on the bed instead to this world but he was trying to lighten the atmosphere around so I gave him a simple nod.

"Hindi ba magtataka yung mga merchants kapag nakita nila yung mga gamit natin na galing sa Earth?" Ang mga dala namin ay hindi matatagpuan dito sa Wysteria. Hindi high-tech sa mundo na 'to instead Wysteria is full of magic na hindi naman matatagpuan sa Earth. 

"They'll doubt about it but they have no rights to ask where did I get those items. Wysteria rules."

Three days pa lang kami naririto ngunit marami na agad nalaman si Mike sa mundong ito. Siguro ay dahil may memorya siya ng mundong ito?

Gabi-gabi tuwing nagigising ako ay sinisilip ko siya sa baba at nakikita ko siya na nagbabasa ng libro tungkol sa Wysteria. He set aside those med books for the mean time dahil mas importante na malaman niya ang iba pang impormasyon ng Wysteria.

Habang ako ang alam ko lang ay Wysteria ang tawag sa mundong ito na mayaman daw sa ginto. I didn't bother to know more because my mind was a huge mess for three days that it can't process anything in the mean time.

Iniwan na ako ni Mike sa aking kuwarto at bumaba na. Tumayo na rin ako at nag-ayos para sundan siya. Nakita ko ang apat kong pinsan na naka-upo na sa hapag kainan.

I hope that they are my real cousins. 

Kahit iyon lang ay sana hindi kasinungalingan.

Kahit hindi na totoo ang mga kinwento sa'min ni lola na iniwan na kami ng magulang namin. As of now, nahihirapan na ako paniwalaan ang mga sinabi sa'min ni lola. I don't resent lola Graciana. I just don't want to be fed up by lies anymore.