[Sorry for not updating the days before. The thing is that I am having my exams and won’t be able to update daily so I hope you guys can understand. Also sorry in advance since this chapter is a bit shorter than most.]
Dark
Cold
Loneliness
Fear
That is what I felt in the place I was in. I was sure this was definitely not my mindscape because if it was, I could have seen the figure of Ethan drinking wine and passing out right in front of my eyes. This was not that place. It had a lot more malicious and hostile feel to it.
I stood there trying to move my body but I couldn’t. It was really hard for me to understand why that was since I was able to budge here and there but my legs won’t move at all. No matter how many times I try, nothing would happen and it was really frustrating. Soon, the place started to feel cold, as cold as liquid nitrogen making every part of my body shiver due to it.
On instinct, I turned around to see the silhouette of a person standing there right in front of me but I could only make out their outline. My legs felt like they were allowed to move now as if I was being grabbed by something before. I looked back at the figure but I did not see anyone there anymore.
"Now where are you looking my dearest?" I heard a voice from beside me and I turned around seeing a pale white face close to mine which surprised me and made me jump back in defense.
Before me, standing was a woman with a pale white face, long black hair, and ruby red eyes. Even if she had the deadliest and most murderous aura I had ever seen, I couldn’t help but just admire her beauty. It was hard to get my eyes off her for two reasons. I felt if I would take my eyes off her, she will disappear out of my sight and kill me instantly and there was something about her that was drawing me closer to her.
Wait.
"I think I have seen you before," I muttered out loud and she giggled.
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She placed her hand on my face cupping it and brought it closer to her face. "Of course you have my dearest. I was able to invade your mind once some time ago but it won’t be that hard for me now. We both are connected by the string of fate and we share a bond no one else does."
Her voice was extremely cold and calming at the same time. Her cold fingers were caressing my face gently and she had a soft expression on her face. I could not help but just admire her beauty and slowly, I felt as if I was being drawn into her eyes.
"The lord of the night," I muttered and her fingers stopped caressing me.
Her grip on my face strengthen and she pulled me closer burying my face in her big chest. I tried getting out but her strength was on another level.
"I am so happy that you already know me but just call me Sarah, my dearest," she said in glee and kept burying my face in her chest. "I knew it, I knew it that my dearest would come back and get me. He cannot die, that is just a lie. My dearest has been reincarnated into another body but I know he is still there. Ahh, I can’t even stop thinking of all the times I have thought of doing this. Even fifty years feel like a really long time."
From what she said right now, I could deduce that she really was the lord of the death. The Sarah, Ethan always talked about with so much passion and love in his voice. She still does not believe that Ethan is no more and I also think that might be true because of the talks I had with him. Her voice had this obsessive sound to it, the same one Ai had most of the time.
It was almost as if, the things are just too in place.
"Ugh…um…you will kill…me like this," I said tapping out of her grip.
Realizing that she was basically cutting all the oxygen out of me, she let go of my face but still had me close to her. She rubbed her face against mine and her soft skin glided across my skin. She kept giggling all the time and her grip around me was starting to get stronger as every second passed.
"So, what am I supposed to call you?" I asked her making her look at me. "Calling you the lord of the night would be really long and troubling."
"Oh just call me Sarah, you might not have any memories of your past life but that is what you called me," she said and buried my face in her chest. "Now that your blood is maturing, I can finally talk to you even if it was in my sleep. I had tried it multiple times in the span of the last fifty years but when it worked, my dearest is in a new body now."
"No, this is just too convenient," I muttered to myself.
Things are feeling like they are all aligning together too perfectly that it was almost too scary. I was trying to read between the lines but nothing made any sense. I kept racking my brain but I just couldn’t think of anything.
"What is too convenient my dearest?" she asked me and I decided to say it out loud.
"Me meeting Ethan after having a nightmare with you in it. Then sometime after you somehow are able to contact me even though you should be in deep sleep which you should be able to do with Ethan but it only worked now. Things just don’t make any sense," I said and closed my eyes confusing her, and went into thinking.
There has to be some explanation for this. I can just throw it away by saying that it is all a coincidence but my mind says otherwise. It might be that one in a million chances where everything just made sense at the right time but I highly doubt it. I closed my eyes and thought deeply and an idea came to my mind.
Ethan, show up.
I felt the body holding me change shape and I looked up seeing the confused look of a man with blonde hair and a golden beard. He pushed me away and dusted himself off.
"Sorry boy, I know how charming I am but I don’t swing that way," Ethan said looking at me.
"So that is what is going on," I muttered holding my chin and made a chair appear as I sat down.
"Do you mind filling me in on it?"
All this made some sense right now. I just had to focus on one important piece of information. This is MY landscape. It is mine and mine alone.
Both Ethan and Sarah don’t belong here. They were never here in the first place but I am somehow forcing their consciousness to come here. All the answers that I am trying to find are already in my brain but I am just personifying that piece of information as actual people.
They are the personification of the things I knew but were not really ingrained in my brain. I am asking myself for answers and answering myself. It still did not make any sense because it was an absurd idea so I decided to do it once more.
I want to talk to Sarah.
The person before me turned shape and the man turned into a woman with long black hair and pale white skin with a well-endowed body. As I expected.
"I think this will do," I said to myself and Sarah ran and hugged me and started rubbing her face against mine.
"My dearest~ my dearest~ my dearest~ my dearest~ my dearest~"
I need to wake up now.
The place around me started lighting up and the ground started breaking. While Sarah was still in the same position, I started falling down in an endless tunnel of light.
My eyes opened and I saw the face of Ai right in front of mine. She had woken up and was on top of me moving her face closer to mine.
"I should get a morning kiss when I wake up. Not a morning kiss to wake up," I said to her startling her.
"Waaaah!"
Surprised, she sat up straight and started falling back but I held her hand pulling her back on top of me. Our faces were really close and while I had a smirk on my face, Ai’s face was completely read.
"Hello there," I said to Ai while wrapping my hands around her. "Now can I get my morning kiss? Or should I be the one taking it?"
"Funnya."
Ai’s face had steam coming out of it and this extremely cute side was too much for me to not do anything. I rolled her over and brought her under the cover again. I pressed her cold body against mine and leaned forward gently kissing her cold lips.
With each kiss, I felt myself getting greedier. I switched from her lips and started kissing her neck. I started moving down and my hands were caressing her thighs. She was wearing shorts and her bare legs felt so nice. I pulled them and made them go over my legs and Ai came back to her senses. She immediately pushed me down and started greedily kissing me.
Her hands went down my chest slowly and the other hand was holding my face. I grabbed her ass and groped it once earning a moan from her but we won’t be going that far this early in the morning.
She stopped and a silver bridge of saliva was lining our mouths. "Good morning Kazu-kun."
"Good morning Ai."
And so, with this dose of Ai, I think I am ready to be home without her being here for some hours.
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