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Renor stared at me for a few minutes as if trying to see what I had seen, before inhaling deeply then sighing softly. His eyes traveled back up to the leaves above us, and then slowly back down to my hands as he watched me once again replace my glove. "Your gift relies on touch I am assuming. How about this. We each take our turn asking questions. That way we aren't getting hit with too many questions and too much information."
Looking back up to his face I nodded. "Then I will accept your inquiry about touch as your first question. It does involve touch. It's why I try to keep my gloves on as much as possible and my hands to myself. Only my hands. no where else thank goodness. But it isn't just touching. The dead I see often. Not as much as I did as a child. Some are nice and just want to talk or sit with someone. Especially the children. They just want to play."I smiled to myself thinking of the ghostly friends I had and some that still come and go." And some aren't so nice."I stared down at my hands playing with my finger tips.
"So a Seer blessed with the gift of sight and the dead. I can understand why you think its a curse. Any child being born with such a gift but no guidance would see it as such. I can only imagine what you have gone through and endure in such a short amount of years of your life."He turned his head to look at me. A look of concern showing clearly across his face. "You must have felt alone....even now. I am guessing no one knows? "
Shaking my head I return his observation with a slight smile. "No one knows. The ghost that see me. The older ones warned me early on. They showed me what would happen if I spoke on this.... gift....They showed me the places my family may send me to seek help. "A shiver ran down my spine at the images that the host would show me. shackles. Endless pinching. Mindless, and so far gone that I would become a shell.
Renor stood so suddenly that I slightly jumped. His face suddenly full of rage. My eyes widen at this sudden change in mood. " That will never happen. You will never go to any sort of torture chamber, theses imbeciles they call doctors during this time. " He turned his back to me his hands opening as closing at his sides, breathing in and out heavy, before at last calming and turning back to look at me. "Your turn."
I blinked a few times. I had many questions for him. But one came out before I could even process through them all. " What are you?"
He continued to stare at me for what seem like an eternity before signing and looking up to the leaves of the tree again."Being that you obviously know there is more to this world then what it appears. I suppose me telling you shouldn't cause too much shock." His eyes turn back down on me and traveled down to my feet and back up to my face before finally giving me an answer." Werewolf."
Even though I could feel my cheeks flushed from the way he had moved his gaze across my person, I was still baffled and surprised at his words. Did he just say werewolf. My eyes went quickly to his hands. Suspecting to see claws suddenly there. They weren't of course. A man stood before me. That could turn into a beast. Beast from stories. Stories that are told to keep the little ones from sneaking around at night. They made people afraid to travel the woods at night. He was literally one of the things that went bump in the night. But before me stood a man that I felt safe around. That made me cheeks redden. Perhaps the stories of werewolves was just stories, with a bit of flare to spark ones interest."
"Don't worry. we don't go about biting people at random to turn them into us. No sudden fur sprouting when the moon is full. I can turn into wolf but that's for another time. And we don't go ripping people to streads at random. We tend to keep that to those we truly despise. ."
I simply nodded my head at his response. He obviously knew what questions was bouncing around at his reveal of what he was.
"I don't think I have many more questions for your Miss Scarlet. But I am sure you have plenty for me. And we will be spending more time together in the future for you to ask many more questions."A playful smirk tugged on the corners of his lips at his words."
"You want my help. I figured that might be the case. I want to help only cause I want to keep others like myself safe. Also this... gift... obviously you know more about it than I do. You called it a Seer. So I can only hope you will help me in exchange for my help, in better understanding myself and this gift." My eyes trapped his trying to see if he would falter and have a change of heart.
"Yes that would be the plan. Though I wouldn't be the one to help you in understanding your gifts as a Seer."His hands moved behind his back as he briefly shifted weight between his feet." That's more of a Abigale skill than I?"
"Your sister?" Even though the question left my lips I knew the answer in my heart."
Renor once more took a seat beside me chuckling a bit to himself. "I have siblings. But Abigale is not one of them. We're partners. She has many talents and gifts of her own. Magic is more of her thing than mines. I am knowledgeable of it. But she is more of a guide until we can find you a proper guide. "He smiled a reassuring smile and patted my legs gently before quickly moving his hands back into his own lap.
"Partner.... out of all the things he has said that one word stood out. Tilting my head to the side." Like the two constables that were here?"
"Yes like the two officers that were here." His lips open and closed before he spoke again as if trying to choose his words carefully. "We we're sent here to find the duke and take him out as quickly and quietly as possible. But we found him already taken care of. And we need to make sure that all issues that involved him. are taken care of. And of course make sure you're safe and that none of it will be tied back to you."
"Sent here you say. From another country, or another city perhaps? " Once again I let the question roll out. But this time my heart was racing. That Vision showed me another world. would he be truthful?
"I can only guess what you saw in your Vision River. But we were sent from the future. In my timeline. My correct timeline it's year 2022. "
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