Chapter 95: Nina’s Strange Dream

Chapter 95 Nina’s Strange Dream
The streets were getting dark.

After dropping off Maurice and packing up the first floor of the store, Duncan also finally had time to mention to Nina what her teacher had said during this home visit.

After all, that was actually the main reason why old Mr. Morris had come to the door today – although the two of them got off on a tangent later on.

“Have you been resting poorly lately? Or are you not feeling too well?” At the table on the second floor, Duncan asked with concern while spreading butter on a slice of bread, “I heard from your teacher that you’ve been like this for several days.”

Nina was obviously a little nervous, she’d probably guessed that her teacher would be sure to bring these things up when she came in today, but as of not too long ago, she hadn’t thought that her Uncle Duncan would actually start to pay attention to how she was doing at school – a twisted feeling of being cared for but apprehensive after a long time pervaded her mind: “Just a little …… sleepy.”

“Then it seems Mr. Morris was telling the truth,” Duncan watched Nina’s expression carefully, “Physical reasons? Or is it because of something else? You can tell me if there’s something on your mind.”

At this point he paused, and then added with deliberation, “Of course, you may have some things you don’t want to tell adults like me at this age, and that’s normal, because you’re growing up, and you have an independent personality and your own ideas, which should be respected – but you still have to remember, there’s no shame in asking for help when you’re in trouble, and there’s no shame in asking for help when you’re in trouble,” Duncan observed Nina’s expression carefully, “It’s true. But you still have to remember that there is no shame in seeking help when one encounters difficulties, and if it is something that I can help with, you can always say so, and we can figure it out together.”

He tried to make his words seem as reliable and kind as possible, which wasn’t easy, as he hadn’t had a blood relative of that age to look after before, but he had more or less had experience of dealing with schoolchildren, and so at this point it was just a matter of talking to Nina according to his experience of dealing with adolescent schoolchildren – he thought he was being gentle enough and reliable enough .

“I …… I’m really fine, really!” Nina seemed a bit uncomfortable with such a kind uncle, but deep down she was even less resistant, she waved her hand vigorously and met Duncan’s gaze, “I’ve just been feeling sleepy lately, and I always wake up in a panic when I’m sleeping, and sometimes I even dream.”

“Dreaming?” Duncan frowned, suddenly thinking of something, “Nightmares? Could it be a dream about that fire when you were a kid?”

Perhaps because he was recently focusing on the sun shard and the unsolved case from eleven years ago, he suddenly subconsciously thought of it, but Nina shook her head, “No, not when I was a child.”

“Then what is it?”

“I always dream …… about standing in a very, very high place, like a tower in the city, and then the neighborhoods under my feet are all dark and full of ruins and ashes,” Nina recalled, saying slowly, ” The ruins and ashes were like a huge scar that stretched all the way down the center of the lower city, all the way to the crossroads, and all the way to the edge of the upper city, as if it was going to rip the city apart horribly, and I was trapped in that very, very high place, trying to get out but being blocked by unseen walls ……”

Nina reminisced and suddenly shook her head gently, “It was always such a sight in my dreams, and to say it was scary …… there was actually nothing scary appearing, and there was no danger approaching, it was just watching the city being crushed and scarred by I don’t know what, and then myself being trapped in place and unable to move. I’d still be tired every time I woke up, and I’d start getting sleepy in class the next day ……”

Duncan listened carefully to the girl’s description and slowly frowned.

What Nina was describing …… was indeed not the fire she had experienced in her childhood, nor was it the scene that Duncan remembered in his mind.

It was more like a static “display” that showed her what the Prand in some unknown time and place had shown her.

On Earth, Duncan would have dismissed it as a recurring dream, but in this strange and unusual world, he couldn’t help but be alarmed.

Nina had somehow remembered a fire that existed only in her and Duncan’s minds, and then there was her continuous strange dream that seemed like an “omen”.

“When did you start having these dreams?” Duncan asked with a serious expression.

“About a week or two ago? Or maybe earlier …… can’t remember,” Nina took a sip of vegetable soup, her voice a little slurred, “I didn’t care at the time ……”

Duncan was about to say, “You should have said something sooner,” but then remembered that Nina’s “uncle” was still a rotten man drowning in cults and alcohol, and that she had no reliable person to talk to, and swallowed hard. She swallowed hard and spoke instead, “Have you consulted a professional? Like a doctor?”

Nina looked up, “You mean a psychiatrist?”

“Yes, a psychiatrist.” Duncan thought for a moment and immediately nodded.

In this world, “psychiatrist” was an essential profession, because there were too many things in the night and the deep sea that were staring at the city-state, and it was very likely that ordinary people’s spirits would be affected by these scents and develop problems of all sizes – nightmares, hallucinations, visions, cognitive shifts, and even personality disorders. Nightmares, hallucinations, visions, cognitive shifts, and even personality disorders plague many people, so much so that the world’s healing technology in related fields has developed to an unimaginable degree – the most skillful psychiatrists even use their extraordinary powers to rectify the distorted minds. Nina’s frequent strange dreams should also belong to the “diseases” that these psychiatrists are concerned about.

“I haven’t,” Nina said sullenly, “They’re expensive …… I just have some weird dreams.”

“But these weird dreams are already starting to affect your life,” Duncan said seriously, “Continuing to dream about such weird scenes might be a danger sign, you should have learned about this in school too.”

While saying this, he was also rapidly considering in his mind – there must be something wrong with Nina’s continuous strange dreams, in any case, since he was already living in a strange and unusual world, he had to be wary of the “elements” of the transcendental realm, but he was a layman in theory. He was a layman when it came to theories, so he had to find some professionals.

As it happened, he also wanted to find a chance to get in touch with the “professionals” in civilized society, to see how they dealt with events that might involve the transcendent.

Nina was obviously still a bit hesitant, but in front of Duncan’s serious expression, she finally lost the battle: “Then …… we can go to the community church on the weekend, and ask the deep sea priests there to do a tranquillizing and blessing, which costs very little, and if it doesn’t work, then we can look for a specialized psychiatrist to take a look. to take a look, okay?”

A church? A deep-sea priest? A priest who believes in the storm goddess Gemona?

Duncan’s mind wandered, suddenly thinking that would be fine – he was equally interested in the clerics who served the gods.

“Good, then it’s a deal,” he nodded immediately, “It just so happens that you’re going to the museum during the weekend, so we’ll stop by the church when you get back.”

“Uh-huh!”

After dinner, Nina went to her room early as usual, and Duncan returned to his own room, and caught a glimpse of Aye’s lazy form sprawled out on the windowsill.

The pigeon had been out flying all day and had returned unproductive.

Duncan casually closed the door to his room and walked towards the window, while the pigeon lazily raised its wings in greeting upon seeing its master, making a chattering noise, “Destroy, hurry up, I’m tired ……”

“You’ve had a hard day,” Duncan said as he took a look at the half-dead bird and realized that it had had a long day, he stepped forward to remove the Cultist Sensor from the pigeon’s back and said soothingly, “It’s not that easy, after all, they’re all hidden away. After all, they are all hiding very deep, and recently the deep sea church stares very tightly, they will certainly be more cautious …….”

The pigeon rolled up its eyelids, shook its wings, and continued to lie down without moving.

Duncan took a look instantly happy: “Even so, in the future this thing still have to do …… of course a fly a day is indeed a bit too much intensity, I will arrange for you to combine labor and leisure a little.”

He decided to search for cultists in the city as the current stage of long-term work to do, although in today’s single “big business”, he has been less urgent in terms of money, do not have to count on relying on the “hunting” to subsidize the family, but looking for the cultists of the But the trouble of finding the cultists was worthwhile in itself.

On the one hand, this may be able to catch a big fish from the cultists to fulfill his own information needs – higher level clerics are bound to know more about the secrets of the “sun”, and may also know more information about the sun fragments eleven years ago, which is exactly what Duncan is This is exactly what Duncan is focusing on.

On the other hand, there is also a seemingly wild Transcendental dog Lori operating in the city-state, who is also looking for trouble with the Sunists, and she may know some secrets of the Transcendental world, so Duncan would like to take a chance to see if he can talk to her about the Deep Sea and the Deep Demon again – after talking to Maurice, he is now very concerned about the Deep Sea and the Deep Demon above. After talking to Maurice, he was now curious about the “starry sky” above the Deep Sea.

Noticing the serious expression on Duncan’s face, and realizing that she would be forced to work overtime in the future, Aye sighed in a very human way.

“Alas ……,” the bird’s tone was filled with sadness, “there is already a sadly thick barrier between us ……. “

Duncan: “…… You have quite the thesaurus!”

(End of chapter)