Chapter 64 - Two souls in one body (2/2)
”Die? Wait, are you saying that because I don't want to be like the original Lena that I will suffer?”
Lena thought that it was stupid. She wanted to be nicer but she will be punished for doing that?! What kind of b*llsh*t voodoo is this? The granny turned around to leave.
”Wait granny!” This time it was Lena who put her face through the space between the bars and yelled.
”What do you mean by die and be reborn? Didn't I die already?” Lena yelled back but the granny continued to walk away and not reply. The granny hummed and nodded her head side to side as she strode away.
Lena quickly ran around the fence to catch up to the granny. It took some time to get to the entrance that connected both gardens. When she arrived at the location the granny was standing before, the granny was nowhere in sight. Lena ran a few times around the area to look for her.
Lena was panting really hard and trying to recall everything that the granny told her. She placed her hand on the wall for some support.
”Lena? Are you okay?”
Lena turned around and it was her grandmother looking worryingly at her.
”I was looking for you for some time now.” Grandma Shen walked over to Lena.
”I am fine.” Lena quickly smiled. ”I was just relaxing in the garden.”
”You are sweating.”
Lena touched her forehead. ”I splashed my face with water a while ago. I made sure not to get myself to wet.”
”Let's go home, then.”
”Ok.” Lena replied. She put her arm around her grandma to help her grandma and they both walked back to the main entrance of the shrine.
Lena looked back one more time before leaving the entrance. She stopped to look at a stone engraving on a statue by the entrance.
”Red thread of fate.” Lena read it out loud.
”That's right. This is a shrine for the diety Siming. People come here to pray for a good fate for newborn babies, marriages, and the afterlife. Legends say this is where the diety last resides before returning to its realm.” Grandma Shen spoke.
”I thought this was a normal shrine. What did you come here to pray for?” Lena looked down at her grandmother.
Grandma Shen cleared her throat. ”Nothing in particular.” She evaded the question.