Section C, Chapter 166: The Shelter (Beverly)
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Despite the new memories that came to her mind, she was at a loss, unaware of most of her past memories.
Beverly just stood still, at a loss. And the ruins of memory have also begun to be reorganized.
The orphanage, disintegrated into countless floating fragments of ruins, floated into the illusory gray sky, and dissipated into smoke and dust. Like the clouds of memories of the past, it flies by leisurely.
And a new vision was revealed. It's still the same orphanage, but it's ......
It's burning.
This...... Be...... Beverly's vague memories began to come back slightly: What happened when I was about to turn six......
Although her childhood memories are blurry, she remembers the scene of the orphanage burning in a raging fire and almost all the children dying in the fire. The doors and windows of the orphanage were almost completely blocked, blocking the escape route.
The fire was quite large. Although someone went to find the guards, and the guards found the water magician, it was enough to kill all the children and the aunts of the orphanage in this time.
The only remaining door was eventually found. And the old woman who picked up Beverly, it was she who rushed to the door and propped up the fallen beam, allowing the last three surviving children to crawl out of the gap.
That's Beverly and the other two...... Their faces are not yet revealed.
Beverly, who was still young at the time, only remembered so much. Other details are not clear.
She couldn't remember how each child died, and she didn't know why the fire was started. Maybe the candle was knocked down by a rat and burned the curtains? Or maybe someone retaliated and threw a torch?
...... Everything doesn't matter anymore, all you need to know is that the orphanage was indeed burned down.
Just when Beverly and the others were taking a nap. At noon on the day she woke up, she smelled the burning smoke that made her lungs burn.
It was completely destroyed, and only ruins that could not carry the slightest memory remained. There are also many charred bones.
Even the life there before was as fuzzy as a puddle of mud at the bottom of a backwater.
She only remembered that the old woman who picked her up was fierce, always yelling at the children, and always trying to beat people.
I just remember that the orphanage was always so dim, and the food always seemed to smell musty. Beverly grew up drinking rice soup and was a baby. She was thin and small at the time, and her face showed the hunger that such a young child should not have.
The memories of her childhood were all about, and looking at the old woman who was desperately trying to prop up the burning pillars with her emaciated body, and the fire was already burning on her body, Beverly gradually remembered more about her.
She scared the kids a lot, and no one liked her.
The attitude has always been very bad, and I always have to fight this and that.
The children who made mistakes tried their best to avoid this old woman.
But such a fierce old woman......
...... But in order to save the three surviving children during the fire, he resisted the beam. If she didn't want to wait for the young children to crawl through as hard as they could, she could have escaped.
Her own life and the lives of three children, she chose the latter. Maybe it's because I think I might be able to let my child go out and then go out...... But at that time, the appearance of being burned by the flames but still holding on and not leaving can only make people feel moved in the bottom of their hearts.
Looking at it, the corners of Beverly's eyes moistened. At that time, little Beverly only knew how to cry, and she didn't know what to do.
At that time, the old woman was quickly crushed under the beams and stones, and it was not until the guards finally arrived to rescue her that her body was exhumed.
She didn't seem to have choked to death by the smoke as she approached the exit, but was burned to death in a brutal way. The woman's corpse is still hard to remember Beverly.
Although she had seen many corpses that were much more terrible than them, the impression left was not so serious.
Did she like that old woman before? Not at all. That was the person she hated the most in the orphanage, completely the embodiment of the devil, who would pull the broken gong and yell at every turn.
However...... No matter how young a child is when he sees her death, he will eventually understand how kind the fierce old woman is.
"Hurry up! I can't hold it anymore!" the old woman's back was already burning, and her shoulders were bent. But she still shouted at the three children in pain: "Get out, you stinky, don't hurry up to a safe place!"
Little Beverly sat on the floor and cried. Another, slightly older child, scrambled to try to find someone. The eldest of them, still only eight years old, tried to lift the beam, but he didn't have the strength to do so.
"The smoke is so big, get away!" the old woman coughed, and shouted with a distorted expression, "Forget you if you......'re dead!" But since I've been picked up, give me a good life, do you hear!?"
Until the last moment, this old woman was so hard-mouthed. The words spoken are still so vicious.
I...... Beverly stared at her blankly, her body trembling uncontrollably: I ......
When Beverly reacted, her body was already by the burning door, trying to help her carry the beam.
However, the outstretched hand still could not touch anything. The ruins of memory that he touched turned into smoke until he withdrew his hand.
I could only watch the old woman die, and Beverly shook her body, her head empty. What she didn't realize was that she had covered her hands in front of her eyes, and tears were slowly falling.
She felt like she was no different from the little Beverly sitting on the floor crying next to her.
The same powerlessness.
One of the consequences of memories and emotions being jumbled into a mush is......
She found that her feelings could not stop catharsis. Just crying when she wants to cry is not at all consistent with her personality that has always hidden her expressions and emotions.
...... That's the character after being deeply involved in the world.
If you're like that, you must just have a slightly sad look, right?
With a deep gasp, Beverly wiped her cheeks and stopped crying silently. Memory, once again found a part.
Until then...... In the sea of memories in a daze, Beverly finally began to connect the memories: Before I lived a wandering life, I still had a home.
No, it can't be said to be home...... Unusually obsessed with this word, believing that only the owner gave Beverly a lonely smile to his own family: That's ...... Anyway, there is still a place to stay.
...... If that place had not been taken away, what would I have done today?