Ash Black - The Other Sister

Chapter 5 - The Sweet Mercy of Blessed Normal Conversation

Journal Entry #6672 Continued

After my aforementioned... we'll call it an 'out-burst' I realized that I was wasting time I could not afford to spend. I immediately went looking through the castle to see if I could garner any attention of those closest to me.

Ceren was first and let me put in words the work he did to figure out my ailments we're most admirable. The man was a walking, talking, what is that new thing... Encyclopedia. Whomever invented that I applaud you for your service. But as much as I tried he could not see nor hear nor feel a thing. (He also is apologizing profusely, I will not be amiss to say I lord it over him, as well as Prince Finn. It is amusing to see them wince and jump to over and over when I get the urge to say something about this ordeal.)

Now the one thing that I had discovered that people actually take stock, is that they try their hardest not to stand where I stood. As I walked towards Ceren where he was researching in one of the many books in our library, we inherited it from Great-cousin Adam and Great-cousin Belle on father's side, who decided that others can have as wonderful adventures that they did, he turned straight through me. He had a terrible shiver for a few moments and any time I tried to get closer he sidestepped around me. It got me thinking that there must be a sort of disturbance where I stood and, by the way his teeth clacked, it had to do with a lack of heat. I exhausted myself of dealing with the anxious man, and so I turned to search for the only other person that matters in my life. Ali.

I went everywhere searching for my sister. And in my search I tried to contact every person that I came across. I was no more successful in that endeavor than I was with Ceren. There were around 3 maids, a couple of page boys, and a few of the lords and ladies that were on their way out of my home.

The gossiping trolls were going on and on about how I fainted and that they did not get as inebriated as they wanted. Too bad. They were not going to be able to get there any way. I told the staff to keep account of who has had how many drinks and to cut them off at once, if it was apparent that they were slightly tipsy. I am not above a few drinks, but to get to the point where one cannot walk straight or speak clearly is a disgrace, and the one thing mother and I shared a disapproval.

I came across my stubborn sister trying to climb up the stairs, with a multitude of servants behind her arguing with her that I had already prepared a room for her on the main floor.

"Well, that is wonderfully nice of Celest, but I will be retiring to my room, which is right next door to hers." Only Wheatie could sound so polite while being so stubborn. She made it, much to the relief of everyone around, to the top of the stairs and proceeded to walk faster than everyone else. I hurried my own pace, and was able to reach her right before she stepped into her room. I was able to physically touch her for only a moment and then completely fell through her and it was like our hearts touched when I phased through her.

"Celest?!" Ali looked around quite frantic, all the while shivering quite hard. Her husband was the one who caught up to her first.

"Yes, dear, Celest is in her room but she did say she doesn't want to be disturbed right now," the man with a beautiful but dumb heart said trying to puzzle out why my sister called my name. He's grovelling too. Mostly to my sister, and not as much as the others because he believed her and by proxy me first. I was just as baffled  as Ali, for I thought the man was small minded and kind of naive in a dumb way. But here are a few miracles that just keep getting better.

"But I... felt...," She trailed off knowing that no one would believe her, all the while looking straight at me. But I knew she could not see me. I was so close to a breakthrough but it was snatched away.

I think I will pick this up later. Feeling these emotions now in hindsight can be a bit rough.

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And so I sat with Wheatie for a few hours, I didn't have the energy to do and but that. Everyone walked around me and didn't know why, and in those moments I felt almost defeated. I couldn't speak, or more accurately people couldn't hear me, and if Red me was speaking truth, I didn't have a lot of time before I died. Permanently.

Ali went about the room, reminiscing and recounting to her husband about all the shenanigans that we got into together. It was quite adorable and sweet and it sort of made me sick. There was gross PDA that I looked away from and then, blessedly, Prince Finn was announced. Of course my dear sister has been raised to accept all callers, thank you mother, and in comes the boy I tormented for the few years he was a page boy in my father's court.

Now, when I say tormented, I'm simply saying that he was one of the boys that decided that a girl was easy to pick on, especially since girls 'do not fight'. I then made it my mission to set those boys back on the road to enlightenment. All of the knights in the court could have stopped me, but they were laughing way too hard.

Finn approaches Ali and bows first to Charming and as he bows to Ali he takes her hand to give it a kiss. When I tell you that I was surprised, for I gagged and said, 'Give it a rest she's married', both Ali and Finn looked up at the general area of where I was standing. Finn dropped Ali's hand and went for the hilt of his sword. I can still see the expression of pure terror and confusion on his face. It makes me chuckle every now and then.

"Celest!" Ali exclaimed looking for for my voice. When she did not see me, once again, her face fell. Her hand went to Finn's shoulder to tell him to dropped his sword and as she touched him..

".. I am here. Please hear me. Also don't stop touching him." I started talking the moment she shouted my name. It took me a few seconds to realize that their touch was what allowed them to hear me.

"Cels where are you?!"

"I am in some other realm, I can see you hear you but cannot interact in any way... until now." It was a relief to not talk in rhyme, sorry last one, but also to be responded to.

Finn piped up, " What are you doing in another realm and talking to us, if you are in your chambers across the hall? Tell us only something you know about in order for us to know if it really is you Your Majesty." This was the smartest thing he has said or even done since the moment he arrived here to my keep. It was time to embarrass everyone in this room.

"Ali, my dear sweet Wheatie..." As I began I saw Ali perk up at her nickname, and then mouth 'Oh no', when she realized what I was going to reveal to the room, ".. I was the one who took the fall for the tear in your dress. For you climbed back up the trellis on the balcony on your way  back from making out with one of the page boys" - not one of the ones that I had to set straight- " I do believe mother made me miss three of my training lessons in punishment." Charming looked very interested in this but I had to put the final blow to Finn.

"Oh, there once was a boy from McDrool, who had balls made of fine wood. In stormy weather they rubbed together, and shot sparks out of the fool." The blood was draining out of his face so fast I thought he might faint, " When I first told this joke to every page boy I could, you got angry at me and decided to try and take me down. I was ready for this and made sure that you charged towards the pig pen which was so luckily unlocked. Then later on in the day after your knight made you plunge into the lake a few times, you and the other boys decided to try to gang up on me. I proceeded to take all of you hostage and made you all walk back to your quarters naked!"

The looks on everyone's face was priceless and I couldn't help but laugh at the incredulity of Ali's face, the surprised yet begrudgingly appreciative respect from Charming, and the horror and embarrassment from Finn. I was told to not tell anyone what happened by my father and the other knights but I won that hard earned respect from the older knights, the ones in training and the younger boys for what I did to those in my age range.

Finn squeaked out a response, "Yeah, that's her."

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Welp this was so long and took forever to get out of my brain, but here it is!