Two Sides Of Tova.

Eighteen

  I was still in wonder of what I saw when I fell unconscious in Jack's house. It felt so real that I was in a completely different place other than where I was.

A thought came to me that I should inquire from Ara-ñat, maybe she knew what had happened to me.

I was still at the hospital about to be discharged any moment from now, I was just waiting for Dora to come pick me up.

  I sensed Ara-ñat enter into the room, she had a sullen look on her face and I could feel that something bothered her which she refused to disclose to me.

Ever since I woke up from the hospital, she hasn't spoken a word since to me.

"Ara-ñat are you okay?". I asked concernedly.

"Hmm". She hummed.

I felt irritated be her responce and I knew she could feel that I was upset at her.

"What is going on? You haven't spoken a word to me at all since I've been here". I said to her. "Please talk to me". I pleaded with her.

  She sighed before furrowing her brows in deep thought.
"When I felt you in pain, I also felt it too. I knew something was wrong, I did not know how to connect with you. I felt you leave me". She blurted out painfully.

I could feel she was having a hard time telling me what she felt.

"I could not do anything, I was not with you to protect you like I should I have". She wrenched out in tears.

  I immediately stood up from the bed and placed my arms around her soothing and calming her. Trying to convince her that I was alright.

" Ara-ñat, I have something to ask of you. When I fell unconscious I saw something, it was like as if I were somewhere else, like...I don't know how to explain". I said frustrated.

"Just try I know that you can do this". She encouraged.

I sighed and continued,
" It felt like I was in a different place entirely. It looked old and I was in a village. It felt like I was someone else".

  She frowned, her brows creasing in deep thought at what I had just said. Her eyes widen in realisation before she turned her sharp gaze to me.

"The people who settled there, what do they look like?". She asked all of a sudden questioning me.

  In surprise, I answered uneasily.
"They looked a bit like you, you know Asian-ish".

   She blinked rapidly and took some steps back in a scare as if she had magically put the pieces together.

   "Are you ready to go?". Dora said breaking the deafening silence as she came into the room pushing the door open wide.

   Her facial expression showed worry as she must have noticed mine.

"Are you alright? You look scared". She asked.

"I'm fine it's just that you startled me when you came in." I answered her trying to get myself as I looked to Ara-ñat knowing that she understood my thoughts.

'we'll talk about this later '.

  Dora and I stepped out of the hospital together. She started the car and we drove home.

    We arrived and I went up straight to my room with Dora's help seeing as I needed help moving around for a little while. She left me alone in the room and went downstairs.

  "Ara-ñat tell everything that you know, Now". I demanded of her going straight to the point.

  She bent her head and sat on the bed right next to me.
"I feel as if what happened to you is my fault".