Chapter 44: Memory
"What do you remember about what happened next?" Lord Rossi hesitated for a moment and asked.
Agnes stroked her forehead and recalled with some difficulty.
"I remember...... I crept into the monastery and, relying on my knowledge of the terrain, touched the church. ”
Agnes rubbed her forehead, and Lord Rosie rubbed Agnes's head soothingly.
And then ...... Then, as if I had been discovered by a 'werewolf', I ...... I ......" Agnes struggled to remember, but got stuck. She was a little irritable and couldn't help but pull her hair.
She said with some frustration: "I'm sorry, I only seem to have some broken memories of the scene. ”
"It's okay, it's okay," Rosie comforted softly, pulling Agnes' hair out of Agnes' hand, "just say whatever you remember." ”
“...... I remember the 'werewolf' holding my neck...... Also, I was thrown to the ground by the 'werewolf'. ”
"Anything else?"
"I remember the huge fangs piercing into the 'werewolf's abdomen...... Brown liquid flowed out of the werewolf's eyes, which appeared to have a fang stuck in his eyes...... And also...... And ......"
"Werewolf and Alyssa fought...... werewolf's face....... Alyssa seems to be polluted too! ”
Agnes exclaimed, she subconsciously stood up, and was grabbed by Lord Rossi.
Lord Rossi wrapped her arms around Agnes and held her in place.
"Calm down! Calm down! Agnes, as the church knows, is in the past, and Alyssa was already taken to the 'Harvest Church' in Celia yesterday. ”
Agnes calmed down, she wasn't actually crazy about Alyssa's contamination. She had a feeling that Alyssa's pollution had actually been effectively controlled, and that what made her lose her temper was something else.
As she recalled Alyssa's face, she saw a sea of gray in a trance, with illusory waves undulating and foaming, and she was floating on the surface of the sea up and down.
Yes, the same ocean she had sketched in her meditations, which she had seen in Mera's case.
Compared to what she saw in meditation or in Mera's case, what she saw now seemed to be clearer, and she was no longer observing the ocean in a state of spectatorship, but subjectively gradually submerged into the sea.
The sensation was so clear that she could feel the water flowing through her submerged body with the waves, and she could feel that the water was not the clear current she had imagined, but something more like slime. She could also see black spots underneath her, but they seemed to be too far away from her to make out of them. If she had to describe it, it was like holding purified water in her mouth for 2 to 5 minutes, and finally getting a liquid with a certain viscosity because it contained digestive enzymes and food residues.
When Agnes saw this ocean in a trance, an unspeakable pain, a silent sorrow filled her mind, making it difficult for her to control her body for a moment. She subconsciously stopped remembering, and then the ocean disappeared from her mind, and she gradually calmed down and did not do anything crazy.
"Alright, alright, it's okay." Some vicissitudes of life came from above her head, and Agnes could even feel the vibration of her ribcage as she spoke.
She felt Lord Rossi soothing patting her shoulders and back, and Agnes couldn't tell what she was feeling now, and the residual emotions that had not yet dissipated made her subconsciously backhand hug Lord Rossi's somewhat thin body.
It took a long time for Agnes to let go of the other party, her face was a little hot, and she didn't need to look in the mirror to know that her face was a little hot.
Although Fenerport people have always been known to be warm and cheerful, it is considered social etiquette for familiar friends to meet and hug each other. But let's be honest, Agnes really rarely hugs anyone other than her family.
At first, due to her physical reasons, she rarely appeared in social situations; In the early days after taking potions, she focused on martial arts training, with almost all of her physical contact taking place with Mr. Conte or Ms. Jones.
At the Institute, social etiquette seems to be less important, and Rhaenys and the others either focus on their experiments or prepare for their tasks in a hurry.
She was always pulled by Rhaenys as soon as she entered, sometimes to show her newly bred species, sometimes she was very excited to tell her how perfect the animal experiment data of the newly developed potion was, and even sometimes Rhaenys was going to conduct toxicology experiments and pulled her to work as a coolie, and Rhaenys was dissecting mice on the side, and she immediately weighed the internal organs next to her, and there was almost no time to greet others.
Lord Rossi looked at Agnes, who was a little shy, and hooked the corners of her mouth.
"There are clear traces of contamination on Alyssa's body, and she has been sent to the Harvest Church in Celia." His Excellency Rossi said with a smile.
Agnes didn't speak, just reached out and touched her ear.
"Alright, in two days there should be an expert in dreams and memories to investigate you. You are an important person in the case, and although you can already infer some of the circumstances from your account today, there are probably some important elements in your vague memory, and I think we may need to try to see if we can recall it. His Excellency Rossi regained his seriousness and said solemnly.
"yes, I understand." Agnes nodded.
"On top of that, you'll need to stay here for a while until we're sure you're secretly tainted and you're in a state under the full moon before we can decide whether to let you go."
Agnes nodded obediently, then hesitated for a moment and asked, "I want to ask, where is this?" ”
Lord Rossi glanced at Agnes meaninglessly and said, "This is the underground of St. Diana's Church. ”
Sure enough, Agnes didn't feel a feeling of settled, and she felt a little digestion of the "prisoner" characteristics in her body.
H.E. Rossi asked, "Do you have any other questions, or do you need anything?" You're going to have to live here for at least half a month. ”
Agne asked unceremoniously, "Can you add a mirror here?" It feels inconvenient not to have a mirror. ”
"Okay, anything else?"
Agnes thought for a moment and said, "Well, there's pen and paper here. But I haven't finished reading the books on the list that the captain gave me, can you bring them to me? ”
Lord Rossi nodded.
"Okay, you write down the titles of their books. Anything else? ”
Agnes asked tentatively in a joking tone, "So, is the piano okay?" ”
Lord Rossi looked at Agnes with a strange look and said, "Agnes, don't be joking. You know, there's no way I'm going to put a piano in you here. ”
"Just kidding," Angnes muttered, "I want a violin." ”