Lauren thought for a moment. Seeing Felis standing in front of her with a face that was even more serious than the wounds on her body made Laureen feel pity.
"Okay. Come closer!” she ordered.
"I'm not stupid. You want to kill me right?" Felis is suspicious.
Lauren shook her head. "I want to show you something." She paused, "Like that green mist, I can create mist in the mind."
"Don't lie anymore!"
“Pfft!” Laureen sneered "Alfrore, help me."
The submissive Alfrore pushed Felis closer to her biological mother. With just one breath, the fog in Laureen's mind cleared. Felis gaped when she saw the contents of Laureen's head. Now Felis could read Laureen's mind clearly. Everything
***
Garg stood in front of six people in dark green robes. One man with a white beard, leader of the Lumons Coalition. A Seeka hundreds of years old named Gregora. A hairless man, Gregora's right-hand man was called Aldora. Two men with mustaches and thick, neatly combed hair—both looked the same. Marlon and Markus. The other two are girls. Jesse and Laureen. Everyone is a Seeka.
“What are you doing here, Garg?” Gregora greeted in a low, cautious voice, glancing around. “Where are your Furla and the little girl?”
“I'm the only one here. What made you come looking?” Garg tried not to panic. He secretly used his power to shut his own mind off.
"You've been very quiet lately, is there something you're hiding from us?" Markus spoke up. But Garg didn't answer his question.
“Excuse the way we came, Garg.” Marlon intervened, "We don't want to stand out too much in your village."
Garg smiled, Marlon and he both knew what kind of secret they were hiding. The man was careful, he knew Marlon couldn't read his mind, and he trusted his friend.
"Did you guys come to gang up on me for something I don't understand?" Garg's fishing. He knew the Coalition was only looking for an excuse to eliminate him.
“Aldora, say something, kid…” Gregora forced the quiet one to speak.
Aldora slowly opened his mouth, “That kid, Garg. Is she a Lumon like you, or is she a normal human like her mother?” Aldora's voice was so soft, every time Garg heard it, he could see the man's innocence, it was a pity that Gregora was the one who found and raised him.
"Did that have any effect on you? My daughter is a human, she is also a Weesa. Why is it so important to you?” Garg's roundabout answers made Jesse exasperated, that girl really thought she was going to kill this damn thing right now.
“Garg is right, why is that child so important to us? Let's go." Lauren glanced at Marlon.
"No, she still has something. Aldora, you know she makes a fog in his mind!” Jesse did not accept. She had to kill today, she had not seen war in a long time. This mad woman yearns for bloodshed.
Laureen winced in disgust at the thought of Jesse. Gregora looked at Aldora while raising her eyebrows.
Aldora looked down. “Jesse is right. Garg is closing his mind.”
Before Gregora could say anything. Jesse had tied Garg's body with his blue aisikla. Cold attacked Garg's body suddenly, he was thrashing from the pain. He knew this was the end of his life, with all the strength he had, the man was trying to defend his life.
"Jesse, what the hell is this?" Marlon took a step forward, his aisikla sticking out accidentally.
"You are friends with him?" Jesse cornered the man. Marlon tried to control himself. His aiskla disappeared in an instant.
They hung Garg's body with an odd light blue glow. From their palms, a blade of the same colored aisikla shot through the man's body many times. His head was down. The six creatures with incredible speed disappeared into the darkness. Return to the Coalition building. Except for that skinny brown-haired girl.
"You put a fog in my head," Felis muttered.
"Correct. Now it's your turn." Lauren blew once again. And the fog in Felis' head disappeared. Felis remembers everything. The faces of the six people who killed her father. Occurrence in a hut in the middle of a pine forest. Everything. Everything Laureen has done to her over ten years. Now Felis knew that Laureen had never completely forgotten her.
"Why?" Felis asked. Her voice trembled.
"Because you can't be weak. You are heir to the Quartz Bell.”
"Why me?"
“Because you were born from an impossible marriage. Reeda and Seeka.”
"Candramawa too."
"Correct. Candramawa was born from an impossible marriage. Seeka and Reeda. You two complement each other. The red and blue light will become one.”
“But I don't want the Quartz Bells. And I'm not that special."
“You don't need to be special to be chosen by a God. If the Sovereign had chosen…” Laureen shrugged. “Anything you do to dodge will lead you to the same end.”
***
Meanwhile in the Coalition building, Candramawa and Markus had dug too deep but found nothing.
"Are you sure the bell is here?" asked Markus. He wiped the sweat dripping down his forehead. His hair was a mess, and his whole body was dirty with dirt and dust.
Candramawa, the girl was pacing. She didn't care about the question. In her heart, she believed in what she had done. But where does it go wrong?
“Este means east. Then the confluence of summer and winter." She muttered, remembering the contents of the purple book.
"Candramawa, how?" Marcus couldn't wait.
“A meeting of summer and winter. Rain and sun. Red and—” Candramawa stopped. She turned to the man.
"Uncle, we have been doing things in vain since earlier."
The night when Alfrore was alive, was when Felis was born and Candramawa looked there. They hold the same destiny.
“It wasn't Garg who kept the tree alive. Felis and I did it. The bell…” Candramawa gave a hint.
But Markus was a greedy man, he wouldn't let Candramawa finish speaking. He didn't even care that the girl was his niece, just as he didn't care when he killed his twin brother.
This was the fourth time Candramawa lay down with an aisikla piercing her solar plexus.
Why was Lumons given a sword but not a shield?
On Candramawa's body, Markus stepped gracefully over his nephew. "That's how it happened when I did it to Marlon," he said.
Candramawa did not respond to her uncle's words. She tried to breathe. She writhed, trying to pull the aisikla from her body. Candramawa winced, groaned, shouted. She called Markus. But the man was in a hurry.
After Markus left. Deluna finally came out of hiding. The thin woman pulled Mark's aisikla from Candramawa's body. The girl howled in pain. Then Deluna took out a purple-covered book from inside her robe and placed it next to Candramawa.
Candramawa wept bitterly. "I have accused Felis," she whined.
"Yes, and now Felis will kill you." Deluna crouched close to the girl. She stared at the pair of blue pupils with her eyes that were no less cold.
"She's going to find me? Where is she?" asked Candramawa. Hopeless.
"Have you never imagined how life would go very well if your people and mine, and Weesa could live in harmony?" Deluna started her sermon.
“Have I? Of course," Candramawa spoke like a five-year-old girl.
“So, heal yourself first, then go. Look for the Quartz Bell," said Deluna.
“You will come, Deluna? She is your nephew, she will listen to you.” At a time like this Candramawa became the most cowardly girl. She wasn't sure if Felis would forgive her. For what she had done, lie after lie, then—oh god, Candramawa tried to kill Felis!
"She already knows who her mother is. And my work is done." Deluna knelt before Candramawa. “The bells are not hers alone, Candramawa. You are also the chosen girl.”
Deluna spread her hands in front of Candramawa. Miraculously a green smoke swarmed by their side. Candramawa gaped. “Anomalous green fog.” Candramawa stammered, "You control it."
"Yes," said Delena.
“How could a Lumons…”
Deluna answered with a smile. "Have you heard the story of the bride of the gods?" After those words, her thin body sank into the smoke she had created herself.
Candramawa cowered in fear as the same green mist engulfed her vision. For the second time.