Section A: Chapter 28: The Return (Cyberdart)
The surroundings were extremely dark, and the howling wind and snow constantly hit the rider's body. Constantly exhaling water vapor, Cyberdart's hand gripping the reins was already a little stiff.
The sound of the cold wind is like some kind of language...... Cyberdat couldn't help but think of the Wind Whisperers on the Wind Whisperer Cliff who were immersed in understanding the Wind Whisper and communicating with nature.
He'd met a real Windtalker...... It was an orc girl who always sat under a big tree on the edge of a cliff, always wagging her cat ears and tail.
It's been more than a month since they set foot in the tundra of the Permafrost in search of Lusa. The snow isn't very heavy, but I've never seen such a strong wind...... The elf lifted himself slightly, and was immediately impressed by the air flow and the impact of the adverse wind caused by Lucina's high-speed running, and fell back on the horse's back.
The words of Maester Nadia kept coming to mind: Winter's Breath was coming.
Winter's Breath (Nenins, Borne, Ase, Fourues) ...... With these four words coming to mind, Cyberdat kept thinking of the rumors about the Dark Glacier: a place where the living could not set foot.
Lucina said something, but the fierce wind made it very quiet.
"What are you talking about, Lucina?" Sebodat didn't even make out a word.
Lucina repeated, but her voice was still too quiet.
"I still can't hear you!" exclaimed Sebodat.
When Lucina repeated it twice, but Sebodat still didn't hear it, Lucina chose to remain silent.
After thinking about it, Cyberdat also gave up asking: the wind is too loud to talk.
How many streets are there?Cyberdat felt like Lucina had been running for a long time. After buying Lucina scones to eat, the wind became more and more violent. For this reason, Lucina has been running as fast as she can.
When it turned into a ghost warhorse, it seems that even its resistance to strong winds has been strengthened a lot...... He looked at Lucina, wondering how Aya, who was only more than forty pounds, used the power of angels to resist the gale.
Looking at Lucina's ice-blue wings, Cyberdat thought of Aya's pure white wings—angel wings that grew with white light from behind them only when needed. Because of this, all of Aya's costumes are backless, and Aya's people are also traditionally reluctant to wear clothes that do not allow their wings to spread freely.
As recently as last night's hot springs, Lucina had been complaining about this - she complained that she had not flown over for a long time for fear of being discovered by her pursuers: "Whether it's Aya's body or the ghost horse's body, let me fly freely!"
Do you have wings but can't fly...... Cyberdat muttered in his heart: although he could transfer his mind to Nalo to control his body to fly, it didn't feel like he was flying after all.
If only I had wings myself - I was born in the Moon Shadow (in the Moon Shadow Forest, close to Aloa. Since he was a child, he has been envious of the flying Ebonn around him: Aya, the little fairy, the flying demon, the dragonman......
It was because of this that he continued to refine his affinity with Nalo - but that experience was not his own soaring in the sky.
Turning a corner again, Lucina slowly came to a halt after a period of accelerated galloping.
It's finally time to ...... Looking at the hot spring inn, which also had no signboard, Cyberdat jumped off his horse tiredly, his boots making a crisp crashing sound on the snow stone.
He barely saw a sign in any of the shops in Winterfell - it seemed to be an unwritten tradition. Because it is very closed and sparsely populated, people always say: (someone's name) when they mention a certain store.
Kicking away the snow at the door, Cyberdat opened the door and just wanted to enter, but Lucina, who had turned back into Aya, passed by and preempted him. Sebodat immediately closed the door when he entered the hotel, not wanting the cold air outside to spoil the warmth in the house.
Stepping on his boots, Cyberdart shook off the snow on his coat: "What did you want to tell me just now?"
"I want to tell you it's almost there!" Lucina gave him a blank look, "I can hear what you say!
"No, you're just talking too quietly...... "How can I hear the wind so loudly?"
"You're not Lusa who can communicate with my heart. So I can only speak--and I have to talk while running against the strong wind, and I have to count the three times more effort it takes to load you, so-"
"Okay......" Sebodat interrupted Lucina's turn of words, "Let's go find Lusa, we need to tell her about the curse." ”
"Oh......" Lucina shook herself, "Lusa should stay in her room, right? ”
After greeting the eldest lady, the two walked to the stairs.
"Speaking of which, I said something a while before I told you that I was almost there, you wouldn't have heard it completely, would you?" asked Lucina, turning around.
"Huh?" Sebodat struggled to recall, "and this?"
"Yes!" Lucina was dissatisfied, "just as I was passing by Morse, I said to you, 'Look! my Mr. Snowman!'"
"It's so big that you can see ............ fog clearly"
"Huh, what's so hard to see...... It's just down the street. ”
"Well, it'...... too," Cyberdat realized that he had thought about it and thought that the snowman could still see clearly.
"But you didn't see it? It's a pity...... The snowman in the snow mist is very mysterious!"
On closer thought, Cyberdart's terrifying discovery seemed to be true.
Stepping up the last staircase, Lucina looked around.
"Don't tell me you don't know where your room is......"
"Of course I do!" retorted Lucina confidently.
"Hmm...... Lusa and I are in the ...... room" After looking left and right, Lucina hesitated and said, "The third room, right?"
"It's not. That's my room......"
"Aha...... I'm talking about the third room from the left, so—" Lucina, whose face did not change, immediately tried to explain.
"There are five rooms on the second floor...... "Cyberdart glanced at her with disdain, "You go find Lusha first, I'll go back to the house." ”
"Woo......" Lucina walked to the second room on the left. Cyberdart immediately grabbed her and turned around: "It's the second room from the right." ”
This time Lucina was really depressed and looked like she wanted to cry.
"Isn't your sense of direction pretty good?" Sebodat frowned, "It's snowy and foggy outside, and it's still night." You can find the directions......"
"But I was dizzy after soaking in the hot springs and riding the sand last night, so I ......"
"Then how did you come back after you went out to steal food?"
"Ah, I didn't close the door to my room......"
“...... All right. Speechless, Cyberdat opened the door to his bedroom and walked in.
When I opened the door, the first thing I saw was the bag of laundry that had been cleaned. Opening the bag and grabbing a pair of pants, Cyberdart tried the feel: I don't know if it was an illusion or something, the clothes seemed to be newer than before.
Lowering the knapsack, the elf untied the purse at his waist and counted the remaining money: just by swiping it, he could clearly perceive how much Lucina had eaten him.
When the bastard saw what he was eating, he stopped and told me to ...... It's never just one serving.
Feeling a little worried, Cyberdart had to think about how he would make some money tomorrow when he and Lusha were separated - if there was a casino here, none of this would be a problem. It was through these that he used to earn a high income to support another Aya: his adopted sister Leah.
It is also because of this that many casinos have banned entry to ...... Cyberdat was a little embarrassed to recall the fact that he had been a good man.
Removing the quiver, Cyberdart was shocked to find that he had forgotten something very important - he had forgotten to buy arrows.
Sighing, he decided to go buy some arrows early tomorrow morning. After trying to make some money in the city, he headed west to the Frozen Wasteland to see the ice sculptures he was so curious about—and then headed southwest to the outskirts of the Sacred Forest. In this way, even if the breath of winter comes, it will not affect him anytime soon.
Opening the door, he knocked on the door and entered Sister Lusa's room.