Section A: A Dream of Late Autumn (Elia)
The tires were running at high speed again, and the wheelchair was moving with its back to the unspeakable.
The heart shook violently, as if it had been pinched tightly and released again.
Be quick...... Be quick. The girl cried out inwardly.
After turning the corner, the wheelchair was slightly cushioned and sped away.
After silently counting three corners, Ellia understood: the hall was ahead. There was a staircase with a jogging platform that led to the second floor.
Suddenly, Elya's heart stopped aching. And that feeling of anxiety and uneasiness suddenly disappeared.
Nothing stared at her anymore...... And the unspeakable thing doesn't seem to catch up.
She felt the wheelchair slowly lift up and move toward her left hand.
After a while, the wheelchair landed on the floor. Lolo controlled the force of the landing so well that the girl only felt a slight vibration from the wheelchair landing.
"Daddy?" Lolo tried to call out to Daddy.
"Daddy, are you there?" called out Lolo again.
Still no response. Something was wrong with Ellia.
"Let's go in and have a look......" said Lolo, but he was already a little timid.
“...... Well. Allia hesitated: she always felt that something was wrong.
The staircase on the second floor smelled of dust, and Dad neglected to clean it.
Lolo opened a door beside him, and the dust shook and Ellia sneezed.
"Nothing......" Lolo flew inside to take a look, and closed the door as he flew out the door. Immediately after that, another one was opened.
There was still nothing, and there was nothing of note at each door in turn.
However, the source of the loud bang was clear, and a weapon rack that Dad had mentioned a long time ago was about to fall apart had finally broken down completely - the old shield and two sets of light armor that had been placed on it had fallen to the ground.
They have a lot of mass and naturally make loud noises.
"There's nothing here...... Luo Luo said reassuringly after opening the door at the end of the hallway, "Sure enough, Dad is fine...... Maybe it's just going to the toilet or meeting someone......"
"Hmm. But Ellia could not be reassured: "But the thirty-five bells and wails ......"
......Luo Luo couldn't figure it out, but still suggested: "Anyway, let's go to the hall and wait, right? If Dad really goes to the bathroom, he will definitely pass by the hall." ”
That's really better...... Ellia didn't dare to go back to the bedroom.
I waited in the hall for a long time, and my father didn't come back. Allia was already a little sleepy, her head drooping, and she finally leaned against the orb of light.
"Master, if you're sleepy, let's go to bed first?" Luo Luo flicked: "Rest assured! I'll wake you up when Dad comes back." It added, "I'll handle it if there's anything." ”
"......" Ellia shrunk and relaxed. Over-tensed nerves and interrupted sleep left her physically exhausted.
The girl fell asleep, and the dream reappeared.
In the dream, she was quietly leaning against a thick tree, and the soft wind gently blew the long hair and the girl's short skirt.
Once again, the boundaries between dreams and reality blur. She felt like she was there, and seemed to smell something—she breathed deeply into the air around her, then opened her mouth slightly to savor the slightly moist scent of the air.
Having lived a secluded life since she was a child, she loved the smell of nature...... She quietly touched the scent of nature with her sense of smell. Identify the source of the various ingredients in the warm air.
The slightly sweet smell of pine resin, the dark fragrance of unknown flowers, and the crispness of frost......
Ellia breathed intoxicated into the air that contained the breath of late autumn, and the cold wind blew slowly but not prickly. The girl couldn't help but stretch out her arms and stretch her waist.
Nature always makes her relaxed...... She loves to be embraced by the scent of nature and doesn't want anything.
She couldn't feel the warm sunlight, and the huge canopy of trees obscured the sky above her.
Listen to the sounds of nature and caress the soft grass. She felt at peace—even though she wanted to see the world as it was.
She can perceive the world by touch, hearing and taste, and everything in this world has a vague image in her mind that is only touched—everything is imagined by the way she touches it.
Yet she couldn't think of many things with all her might—for example, what does a blue sky and white clouds look like?
The starry sky makes the girl even more fascinated...... Dad had told her that the starry sky was black with some colors that were the exact opposite of black—and although Dad immediately suggested that his simplistic expression was contrary to the image of the starry sky, Ellia couldn't even understand this.
Maester Legri once mentioned a rumor that fascinated her was that there was a way to restore sight to the eyes of a blind man.
"It is said that if you scrub your eyes with the water of the Spring of Our Lady, you can regain your sight even if you are born blind. The Bachelor's trembling voice echoed in Elria's ears, "However, thousands of years ago, after Shen Yun, the Fountain of Our Lady became a ruin. The gods left the thirty-seven worlds of the trunk of the World Tree...... There is only one dried spring left. ”
Allia remembered how disappointed she was when she heard this, and she burst into tears. The bachelor hurriedly hugged her into his thin arm: "Child, don't cry, don't cry...... Although the Fountain of Our Lady has dried up, in the 13,000-year-old prosperous life of the Eurasian Dynasty, the Fountain of Our Lady once gushed holy water again...... Perhaps, Ellia will see the spring water gushing out again......" The maester added, "...... Look with your eyes. ”
Brushing her long wind-blown hair, Ellia opened her eyes slightly, her godless eyeballs glowing with a cloudy light. Thinking about these memories, she laughed: she had already accepted the reality of blindness, and she no longer had any hope of regaining her sight.
Maester Legris had always loved her, and she kept calling him grandpa: she wanted to see him with her father before leaving. She asked her dad for this last night, but for some reason he hesitated for a while and refused.
"That's too risky, and, ......," Dad didn't add to the second half of the sentence.
Speaking of which, where are you going, and when will you be able to come back? Dad didn't want to tell her for some reason.
A breeze blew, and Ellia closed her eyes. However, along with the breeze, there was something cold and cold.
She reached out and touched her cheek—a damp, cold touch. The girl's heart throbbed.
Allia sat up, holding on to the roots. She stretched out her hands, as if embracing the cold wind that was getting bigger.
She didn't feel the cold, only the touch of joy. Embracing it all, her skin felt a hint of solace in the dark world - what she felt was nature's most wonderful gift to the blind. She really felt her presence.
It's snowing......
In the endless corridor, the girl in black is still walking.
There is no end......
There are still seventeen years and two hundred and thirty-eight days left at the end of the world.