(Thank you YF29 for the tip!) I was very tired today, but I thought that the agreement was the agreement, so I added it as usual.) Thanks!)

Charlotte had a sense of foreboding.

From the current point of view, little Gloria is not at all as proud and independent as Charlotte later knew, but more afraid of this malicious world than the rest of the children, and more dependent on her mother.

So what kind of drastic change caused her personality to change later?

The time in memory is not synchronized with the real time, and time begins to pass quickly. Some of that is due to Charlotte's conscious sifting of memories to speed up, and some of them are caused by the loss of memories themselves.

There are two possibilities for memory loss, one is that Gloria has blurred some of her childhood memories (she doesn't have a full memory like Charlotte after all), and the other is that the soul particles that carry that part of the memory have completely dissipated.

All in all, Charlotte saw many more similar scenes in Gloria's memory.

Little Gloria only admits death a little like the proud black swan in the future, she always seems to fantasize that one day she can win the approval of her peers in the village, so every time the children in the village invite, she follows out with both fear and anticipation, and then is bullied so that she cries and chokes and goes home alone, licking her wounds in her mother's arms.

Charlotte doesn't know how many times this reincarnation has been carried out, and sometimes he can't help but cry out for this dead-eyed little Lori, looking at her malice that is both afraid of the world and yearning for a beautiful simple appearance, which makes Charlotte both angry and sad.

This is also the reason why mages generally do not snoop too much on irrelevant memories, because the deep feelings contained in them will have a certain degree of influence on the snooper, and in serious cases, it will even cause cognitive impairment.

Charlotte and Evan definitely know this. The two brothers also suffered from cognitive impairment, and during the worst of those dark underground days, Charlotte could barely tell the difference between him and Lusen.

Expectation, injury, expectation, and injury. In this cycle, little Gloria began to become more and more reticent, and even when she stayed at home, she always followed her mother like a little quail that only produced the phenomenon of imprint.

She followed her mother wherever she went, and became wary and restless at the slightest disturbance, as if the whole world were against her.

She was like the proud and independent Gloria she was later, completely like a restless child living in the dark.

Charlotte had a hunch that a change would come soon, and that would be a drastic change for little Gloria, otherwise it would not be enough to explain the huge gap in her personality.

His foreboding soon came true!

It was an ordinary night, and now little Gloria no longer believed the children's lies, but during the day, when her mother was out at work, the children still came to little Gloria's shabby house and pressed her in the mud for a while.

It's hard to let go of it, but this kind of bullying is the norm for little Gloria, so it's not too much to describe it as an ordinary night. Charlotte watched the crying and choking little Gloria fall asleep sadly under the persuasion of her mother, he thought that the night would be spent quietly, but in the rapid passage of time, he noticed something abnormal.

Time is deliberately slowed down, not as a result of Charlotte's deliberate selection, but as a choice in Gloria's memory. In other words, it also means that this memory is extremely deep for Gloria.

In the early hours of that night, just as the moon was in the middle of the sky, little Gloria was awakened by her mother. The fast-paced time returned to normal at this moment, and from a third-person perspective, Charlotte rubbed her eyes sleepily at the sight of little Gloria.

"Mom?" little Gloria turned into confusion when she saw her mother.

"Shhh ”

She helped little Gloria change her clothes, and she couldn't help but sob in the process. Little Gloria may be very young, but perhaps because of her usual fears, she has a sharp mind that her peers don't have. Little Gloria instinctively sensed that something was wrong, and soon, she began to sob uneasily, asking her mother 'what's wrong'.

Her mother didn't answer, and after dressing her, she pushed little Gloria outside the broken house, pointed to the woods in the shade of the hut, and said to her, "Run!"

Little Gloria didn't move, and now she realized that some great disaster and change was about to happen to her, and she couldn't help but cry out in fear.

The crying rang out for a moment, and then it stopped abruptly. Her mother covered little Gloria's mouth and said in a sad and reluctant tone, "Don't cry!"

When she said this, the young mother's tears were obviously falling in large drops, but she scolded little Gloria in an unprecedentedly stern tone, which made the child infected by fear show an uneasy and aggrieved expression.

"Listen! Gloria, your surname is Shelley, and you have noble blood in you!" said the young mother to little Gloria solemnly, "You should be a proud and noble swan, and I want you to promise me that from now on you will not be afraid, and whatever will come your way, you will face everything with your head held proud! Can you do it?"

Little Gloria was an obedient child, and she nodded instinctively.

"That's good!" Mom rubbed her long violet hair, "run there!"

"But what about you, Mom!"

Mom showed a sad expression for a moment, but soon, a gentle and strong smile appeared on her face again, "Let's make a deal, Gloria! This world is not as terrible as you think, you should be a swan, not a shivering duckling." Mom promises you that as long as you keep your head held high and face everything proudly, then one day, we will meet again!"

"Are we going to part?" little Gloria stared at her violet eyes in panic, and large tears flowed down her eyes, "but I don't want to be separated from my mother!"

"Obedient! Gloria, go to that tree hole!" "Mother's voice was a few minutes louder, and then it became as gentle as the moonlight spreading out on the bed, "Let's pull the hook, and in my absence, we must remember our agreement!"

After pulling the hook, she pushed little Gloria, who was crying and choking. Charlotte didn't know what was going on next with the young mother, so she was forced to follow little Gloria into the gloomy grove.

There was a small hole in the tree that her mother had found when she was gathering firewood, and little Gloria curled up in the hollow, covering her mouth and not crying, but she curled up with her head held high, and in a strange posture she faced the unsettling sound of the owl in the gloomy woods. Teardrops are like pearls with broken threads, and they never stop.

Little Gloria soon learns that her mom has cheated on her.

She spent two days groggily in the dark hollow of the tree, until hunger suppressed her fear of the cold world, and she staggered out of the hollow.

Then she saw her mother in the ruined village. The young woman was pale and stiff, her naked body covered in scars and smudges, tied in a cross shape to a thick stump.

Her head tilted was obscured by her brown hair, and the black-red scars and smudges in the dawn sun were full of strange beauty, like a perfect work of art full of religious sacrifice.

Little Gloria stood in front of the artwork in a daze, like a believer in a church listening to the voice of God.

It wasn't until darkness came that she let out an eerie chuckle as if she had been revealed something. The voice was ethereal and ethereal, like the mysterious but arrogant tone of a witch in the woods.

Charlotte heard her say—

"I'm not proud enough!"