41 Memories of the Pas (2/2)

Father - Think about the future of our clan, one small sacrifice is enough for many generations of happiness!

Helpless and afraid I was forced to continue Nii-sama's research. The pain became more unbearable but Nii-sama didn't care and simply watched as I suffered. If not for the magic restrictions put on me I would have run away as well but I couldn't I was stuck.

Days went on then weeks, and eventually months. I eventually got to the point where I didn't care about the pain and just did as I was told. On the outside, I looked like an expressionless girl but no one knew what I was feeling inside.

Emotions, I still had them but they rarely surface these days. Even if I wanted to show them I don't think I would do it so easily. One day as I was going through the same routine but strange enough I felt different today. A part of me was telling me that I would soon meet freedom and that I'd soon leave Romania.

I don't know why I felt this but for some reason, a spark hope lit up in my soul. Was I going crazy had I finally fallen into true despair. I don't know but as I looked at the ceiling of Nii-sama's lab I began to lose consciousness and drift off into sleep.

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Inside my dream strangely felt warm, these past few weeks I've had nothing but cold nightmares but today I felt warm. Looking at my dream I saw nothing but darkness but wrapped thinly around me was a small glowing membrane. The glow had now color and some parts of the membrane were cracked but I only looked over it before I returned my senses to the warmth I was feeling.

To pass the time I began to count the time that has passed by and after around 8 hours had passed small slivers of light started to appear in the distance. Intrigued by this I stopped counting and looked at the slivers of light. With a length of only 1 meter, and a thickness similar to string the light approached the cracks in the light membrane.

After the first sliver of light entered the crack another came soon after. Before long the crack began to shrink and after an unknown period of time, it was gone. Now with the crack gone, I began to wake up from my dream and instead of the same old cement ceiling, I saw a fine wood roof.

The air smelled fresh and clean and to my side, I saw sunlight. Wanting to get a better look at my surroundings I began to sit up but my body was sore and getting up was difficult. All I could do was bare it and groan.

Rubbing my eyes I looked around and noticed that I was in the middle of a garden, inside a gazebo, lying in a soft bed. Then as I looked at the enterance of the gazebo I saw a boy.

He was a little taller than me and he had long light brown hair with small grey hairs. He wore a short sleeve green shirt, with a pair of blue pants. His body was lean but well built. Right now he had his back to me and looked like he was going to leave but he heard my groan and turned around.

He had a handsome face with magenta colored eyes. He looked surprised and neither of use spook for a while and just watched each other silently. No longer able to handle the silence I spook the first question that came to mind.

Valerie - Who are you?