Chapter 529: The Reunited
Chapter 529: The Reunion
Pendant?
Hearing the words of the subspace shadow in front of her, Heidi was first confused, and then she looked down at the “amethyst” pendant from a certain glassworks on her chest, and in the next moment, everything about the pendant came to her mind– the eccentric antique shopkeeper, the pendant her father had brought back from the antique shop, the second one that had given her incredible shelter during the Black Sun incident, and the second one that had been brought back from the antique shop.
The eccentric antique shopkeeper, the pendant my father brought back from the antique store, the incredible shelter in the Black Sun incident, the second pendant, Vanna’s investigation of the antique store, and …… Duncan Abnormale’s appearance and words at this moment… …
Miss Psychiatrist’s eyes finally drifted open, her wild speculations gradually evolving into a solid fact, and she suddenly felt …… as if she needed some psychological relief.
“Relax, and by the way, control your gaze and don’t look wildly at things you shouldn’t,” Duncan smiled and said to Heidi nonchalantly, “Your father specifically asked me to remind you of that.”
Heidi felt a buzzing in her head, and couldn’t tell if it was noise caused by mild mental pollution or simply hallucinations due to nerves, she held her forehead, finally barely able to control her reasoning and impulses, but still felt her thoughts were slow and intermittent, “My father …… he’s now ……”
“In his role as an advisor aboard the Lost Country – he’s been keeping it from you for fear that you’d be worried, but none of us thought that you’d be so sparsely involved in the incident.”
“Is he alright? He is on your ship ……” Heidi subconsciously opened her mouth to ask, but when she looked at the majestic looking “Captain” in front of her, her trailing voice suddenly hesitated for a moment, always feeling that no matter how she asked, it would seem offensive and reckless at this moment. She felt that no matter how she asked the question, it would be offensive and reckless.
Duncan didn’t care, but casually replied, “He’s fine, keeps the healthiest schedule on the team, and plays a huge role on the ship – anything else you want to know?”
Heidi opened her mouth, her vocabulary reorganizing halfway through her mind, before she suddenly thought of something else, something that had happened at almost the same time as her father’s departure from the house, something that in retrospect was highly suspicious – she felt crazy for guessing but couldn’t help but ask, “Well, did …… Vanna is she not also in your ……”
Duncan didn’t answer directly, but affirmed her suspicions in a sideways manner, “Want to meet them?”
Heidi was stunned for a moment, for a moment she didn’t know how to answer this simple question, after two or three seconds she snapped out of it, and then her first impulse was to put away her own huge pile of creepy looking personality alters, at the same time she spoke in a panic, “May I? Do you really allow it? Ah sorry, I didn’t mean anything else, but I’ve heard a lot about you …… I should ……”
Her panicked words came to a sudden halt.
For along with a revolving doorway of ghostly green flames, two extraordinarily familiar figures had appeared before her –
Maurice was wearing a smile, while Vanna’s expression was somewhat embarrassed.
“So what …… long time no see,” Vanna came in front of Heidi, touching the tip of her nose to greet, “sorry for hiding it from you for quite a long time, the new position is a bit sensitive, mainly because there is still a confidentiality requirement, and this time it is only because the captain allowed it to be can …… be angry?”
Heidi, however, did not answer, just stared at the eyes of this longtime friend in front of her, and then stared at the side of the Maurice, held back half a day and finally came out with a sentence: “Who can explain to me specifically, now this is in the end what is the situation?!”
“You guys take your time to talk,” Duncan, seeing that they had already started to exchange words, immediately waved his hand rather eloquently and twisted his head, “I’ll have a chat with Lucy.”
I’ll talk to Lucy.” Leaving the two “crew members” and Heidi staring at each other with embarrassment in their eyes.
Duncan didn’t care about the subtle resentment of Vanna and Maurice behind him, he had already arrived in front of Lucrecia with a particularly open mind, but he saw that this “sea witch” was averting her eyes and her expression was quite embarrassed.
Lucrecia had been brainstorming for a long time – after her father had suddenly entered this dream, she had been in a state of confusion, and just now when her father had gone to communicate with the “psychiatrist,” she was trying to think how to communicate with the “psychiatrist” whom she had not seen for a long time. How to communicate with this “relatives” whom she had not met for a long time, how to adjust her mind like Tirian, and ……
How to explain the scythe just now.
However, when her father really came this way, she realized that she had not prepared for anything – the “witch” who had been feared by many in the boundless sea was actually not very good at coping with this kind of emotional emergencies, but because of her thoughts for a while, she was even more at a loss at the moment. Instead, because of a moment’s rambling, she was even more at a loss at the moment.
Lucrecia opened her mouth, “I ……”
“There is no hurry,” Duncan suddenly waved his hand to interrupt Lucrecia’s later words, and then he turned to look at Heidi’s three people not far away, “Watch it first.”
Lucrecia: “……?”
For a moment, she was a bit confused, not knowing what her father meant by “watching the meeting first”, and even subconsciously thought in the direction of “planning”, “layout”, and other completely unrelated directions for a moment. But the next moment, she realized that the familiar but long-lost figure beside her was just looking at a short distance away, with a humanized, amused expression on his face.
“The Sea Witch hesitated, and looked in that direction as well, an odd feeling flooding over her, not knowing how to describe the strange and twisted unfolding – it was not what she had imagined for the past many years, a reunion with her father.
She had imagined that at some point in the future, her ageless self might encounter the Lost Country returning from subspace as Tirion had, and she had imagined that there might be a grueling encounter between the Radiant Star and the Lost Country, where the malevolent spirit from subspace would destroy all the Betrayers, just as he had destroyed the thirteen islands of Vesseland on the border in the first place… … And in some milder dreams, in some fantasies that had all but nothing to do with reason, she had actually imagined another scene–
Father would really come back, it might be a quiet afternoon, or in the afterglow before dusk, and they might stand on the sea cliffs, like the place they had visited in her childhood – she could not remember which city-state it had been, only the gentle sea breeze and the white flowers everywhere – and she and her family would be standing there. -she and her family would stand on one of the highest boulders, and her father would tell her about the faraway things that had happened, and she would make a good show of her Radiant Star ship, and all her laboratories and collections of books ……
But all those fractured dreams ended up dissolving in the sunlight, like sighs melting in the wind.
She never imagined that when the day of reunion did come, it would be a scene like this – her and her father standing in this dream world that seemed to never end, together ……
Watching People Gossip.
But gradually, Lucrecia seemed to understand her father’s intentions.
She, too, looked in that direction, at the psychiatrist lady with her relatives and friends, where there was also a daughter with a full heart, a father who was trying to explain everything in embarrassment, and an additional friend who was at his wits’ end.
Perhaps that was the father’s intention to let himself be “seen first”.
Lucrecia thought she understood.
Then she heard Duncan break the silence next to her, “I actually tried to persuade Maurice to talk to Heidi at first, but we didn’t get the chance – but it’s a good thing he did, if he’d made it clear I wouldn’t be able to see it now.”
Lucretia felt that she understood early.
In a brief moment of bewilderment, she suddenly remembered something the other woman had said when she had contacted Tirian sometime before –
Father has found his humanity.
But it seemed to find more than enough.
At the time she had not been able to comprehend the meaning of her brother’s remark, but now she vaguely understood – this being who had returned from subspace might have been her own father, but it was no longer all that.
“Lucy, what do you think?”
Duncan’s voice suddenly came from beside her, interrupting the ramblings of Lucrecia’s mind, and she jolted awake to look at her father, who was casting an inquiring glance at her.
Those confused thoughts in her mind quickly calmed down, long ago memories and the dislocation of the scene in front of her were put behind her, the “witch of the sea” suddenly felt that those confusing questions seem not to be a problem, and the person in front of her …… is also quite good.
After all, life is not to do academic research, not all the questions must have an answer.
“Miss Heidi will take care of all the problems, although the contact is not much, but I know that she is a sensible person, and Mr. Morris is even less to worry about, he is your approved advisor ……”
“Oh, I don’t mean them, I mean this ‘place’,” Duncan waved his hand, pointing to the forest that had fallen into ‘twilight’ but still showed no signs of collapsing and disintegrating. “This is supposed to be a dream, right? But it looks a bit weird, not like any dream I’ve ever seen …….”
Lucrecia was a bit disconcerted for a moment, her father seemed to be jumping around in his thoughts nowadays, which was a far cry from the man she remembered, but she soon responded, taking her attention off the distant gossip while quickly organizing her thoughts, and spoke up in her thoughts, “The ‘entrance’ to this dreamworld ‘ is Scholar Taran El, the mental entity over there who is in a state of stasis, his ‘self’ has yet to awaken, and here’s how things started ……”
Lucrecia told Duncan the information she had as concisely as possible, while the latter gave a thoughtful expression after listening attentively.
“…… That is to say, this forest is just a barrier covering the ‘surface’ of the dream world, and what this dream world really looks like is hidden in a deeper place – -But the one who dominated all of this was not the elf named Taran El, but the ‘third dreamer’.”
“A third, but one cannot rule out that there will be a fourth or a fifth,” said Lucrecia, with a serious face; “Heidi’s experience suggests that this dream is ‘connected’ to somewhere else, and then it is possible that it is still connected to further of dreamers, but it’s all hidden, and the ‘self-healing’ and ‘concealment’ abilities of this forest …… are far beyond our imagination.”
Duncan didn’t say anything, he frowned in thought.
At this moment, in the corner of his eye, he saw the “Taran El scholar” not far away suddenly blinked.
(End of chapter)