The next morning she yawned when she got up to get ready. Ashley looked at the couch and was startled when she saw the boy with pointed ears. She sighed: "You had completely forgotten. I have probably dreamed of you too often that I thought you only existed in my dream." She had to smile a little when she noticed that she was talking to someone who was unconscious. She went to her bathroom to get ready. When her stomach growled, she went into the kitchen to get something to eat.
In the hall there were suitcases that reminded her that her mother was flying to Indonesia today. While Ashley was eating, her mother suddenly rushed into the kitchen.
"Well overslept.", Ashley said with a grin "Haha." returned her mother. “What are you looking for?” “I'm looking for something to eat.” Ashley held out a piece of bread from the bread basket that was in the middle of the table to her mother. “Excited, huh?” Her mother took the bread from her hand and ignored her question.
The doorbell rang and Ashley's mother ran to the door.She came back with her boyfriend. He greeted Ashley with a smile, "Hello", turned to her mother and said, "Come on Judie, we have to go. We're already late."
Ashley's mother took her suitcase and gave her daughter a kiss: "Bye my darling. Have fun and take care of yourself." "Yes, yes, you know me." Ashley grinned "I know. So I'll say yes." With that disappeared her mother and the door slammed. The girl sighed and went to the kitchen to finish eating.
She thought about the boy: where does he come from? Who he is? What is he? ...
After some time poking around in her food, it occurred to her that the boy hadn't had anything to drink for yesterday or more, so she filled a bottle with water and went to her room. When she got to the top step, she heard the boy calling her name again. She yanked the door open and saw the boy lying on the couch, trembling. Ashley got the green pills from her desk where she put them yesterday.She knelt next to the boy lifted his head and handed him one of the pills. Ashley held the bottle over him and let some water dribble into his mouth afterwards she put a pillow under his head and watched him to make sure the fever went down too.
The doorbell rang and she started. Ashley hurried to the door where her friend Tes was waiting for her. Tes greeted her with an exuberant hug. "Hello Ash!" Her friend entered and hung up her jacket "Uh hi Tes what are you doing here?". She turned around indignantly: "You don't know anymore. We wanted to celebrate that your mom is gone and you have no storm!" It dawned again on Ashley. She wondered how she could best teach Tes that she couldn't when she saw that Theresa was on the way to her room. Ash rushed to stop them. "No, you mustn't go there!" she shouted "But why don't you have something to hide from me?" Tes asked with a penetrating look.She wanted to pass Ashley, who was standing in front of her with her arms outstretched. Ash grabbed her and pushed her down the stairs. "Hey man Ash what's the matter with you!" "I'm sorry Tes you know that I like you very much, but I can't let you into my room. I'm sorry." Theresa turned around without saying anything Then mumbled something incomprehensible and disappeared from the apartment with a big bang. Ashley stood in the room and couldn't move anymore. She hadn't thought that her friend would react that way. Ash felt bad, but she couldn't have let her friend see the boy, no matter what. Offended, she went back to her room.
When she was back upstairs she said angrily: "And all because of you!" Ashley was angry with the boy and offended because of her friend. Pouting, she sat next to him and continued to watch him.
I'm sorry. About your girlfriend, a voice suddenly said from somewhere.She looked at the boy he said nothing she looked around except for her and the boy was no one there. She turned to the boy: "Was that you?"
[i]Yes
Ash's eyes widened how could that be he was passed out, right?
You are right, I am not able to stand or walk, but I can still think.
"Hey, can you read minds?"
Since where I come from, something like that is the basis for living. With you on earth, however, this talent has only been given to a few.
"Aha nice. Can you somehow prevent you up there," she pointed to her head, "floating around?"
[i]In my world ...he didn't get any further because she intervened: "Yes, yes, let me guess Basis for living?"
No, in my world we can control whether someone reads our mind or not. But here with you it is probably different.
"Yes, that's different right here. So you can do something about it?"
Hm, I don't know you could try the amulet I got from Ewon.It should hang around my neck.
Ashley actually rents out touching him unless he has a fever. She was about to touch him when she took her hand back and asked: "What is who you are lying to me and you want to harm me with the amulet?"
[i]If I really wanted to harm you, I could have killed you on the street.
"You almost had that with your stupid knife!" she returned indignantly.
I'm sorry, but even we cannot determine where we fall if we fall into the decimal point.
"Hm okay I'll do it. But when I have the amulet on I can't even hear you when I want to talk to you, right?"
But you can, you just have to think of my name.
She was about to open his shirt when she remembered one last question: "What's your name?"
Akwe.
She had to smile a bit but then pulled herself together: "Akwe? Okay Akwe then let's start." Now that all the questions were answered, she opened his shirt.She had to lift him because the amulet had slipped under him.
She took the amulet. Ash turned it around in her hands to get a closer look. It was attached to a silver chain. The amulet was round with small protruding metal tips. In the middle there was a red hemisphere that seemed to glow.
Before she killed it, however, she had to ask Akwe a question: "What if you are in danger and I have the amulet on?"
Well then I would probably fight the danger or run to you as fast as possible.
She felt that if he weren't unconscious he would laugh now. She put on the amulet and immediately tried whether she could establish a connection with him. She concentrated on Akwe's name as best she could and after a while it went without any problems and she asked him: "Can I actually talk to you through my thoughts and to other people like my girlfriend, for example?"
You can also talk to me through your thoughts, but I don't know whether you can also talk to other people like that.Hey is cool and very practical if someone shouldn't notice that I'm talking to you. Yes, that's what it's meant for.
“Grumpy!” She cut the connection and went into the kitchen to eat something. After a short while she reconnected and asked him:
Who is actually Ewon?
This is my master
Your master?
Yes, he showed me sword fighting how to handle a bow and widen me into the ... I'm not telling you that, not now. In any case, he sent me here to find someone to wear the flower mark ...
Ashley caught her breath and she suddenly cut the connection. Could he mean her scar? She started crying and crouched in the corner of the kitchen.
Why me, I don't want any of this. Why? She thought of Akwe and what he had said and suddenly he answered and asked
[i]What happened you were suddenly gone.
I know I was thinking of something else, she lied.Ash didn't feel like telling him that he didn't have to search but that he had already found this person. She went into the living room to watch TV and distract herself with it. It only came with some heroes and she thought:[i]How fittingand forgot that she still had a connection with Akwe, so he asked:
What is suitable?
The stuff that's on TV.
What is a television?
Oh god, I'll show you when you regain consciousness. Oh exactly when are you
actually conscious again?
Then when I have the necessary strength to move again.
And when is that?
I don't know tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, but maybe in 100 years. Who knows exactly when to wake up from the decimal point? he said with a slight sarcasm in his voice
[i]I hope as soon as possible, she replied with a grin. What he couldn't see, however.
Because the rest of the day she was in a good mood again and talked a little with Akwe.But in the evening when she got ready she saw the mark again and cursed it. But then, for some reason, she introduced herself in green-brown leather armor and she liked what she was imagining. Satisfied, she went to her room.
That night she dreamed not of a big black nothing that Akwe devoured, but of a cat that led her down a never-ending corridor. Whatever that meant.