Other side

Ch 6// A dream or vision? And... something between

“Edwin? What are you doing here so late?”

“I wanted to ask you the same thing. I took the dog for a walk. But I’d love to know what are YOU doing here?” said Edwin.

Edwin has been in Kerry’s class since first grade. They were good friends, nothing more. It was always nice to talk to him. The guy was always understanding and quite helpful. He had light hair and blue eyes, slender and a little taller than Kerry.

“Me? Well… just walking here. Breathing fresh air and something in that way.”

“So and how do you like such corners, where there is peace?” asked Edwin.

“A lot. I can think here, no one bothers,” 'except some telepaths, which reads my mind all the time' – Kerry thought angrily.

“And what do you think about, of course if it’s not a secret,” Edwin sat down next to her.

“Nope, it is a secret. My thoughts – my personal information,” Kerry replied and showed the tip of tongue.

“Oh, of course it is. How else then!”

The guy was nice. But it seemed to the girl that he was hiding something. 'Why should he tell? I’m not his guardian angel.' Kerry caught herself thinking about what wasn’t needed. 

“Mademoiselle! May I have the honorof accompanying you home? It is too late for such a nice girl to wander around dark corners, where you may accidentally meet an intrusive guy.”

“Like you, Senjor!?”

“Mademoiselle, I do not understand what you are talking about. I am trying to be polite.”

“Very well! I will be grateful and give you this opportunity to accompany me home,” in a polite tone she answered. Kerry clung Edwin’s elbow.

“Shall we?”

“Certainly!”

They both got up, looked at each other and started laughing. After shaking the funny faces off they become serious and walked away from the shore together. Caught in each other’s elbows, the young people walked towards the Kerry’s home, the dog walked forward in the leash. Edwin lived just two blocks further from Kerry.

When she got home, her mother wasn’t angry, but stared at her daughter as if she were caught in an interesting activity. Ignoring her Kerry went to the kitchen to condemn the leftovers from dinner. Later she fell into her bed and thought about the evening, looking at the ceiling. The clock was approaching midnight. After washing and brushing her teeth, Kerry went to sleep.

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Many people sleep peacefully at night, others even fall asleep so deeply that they could sleep at earthquake. For others - it is very fragile sleep or insomnia at all. Kerry had not slept for more than an hour at night. All the events raged through the girl's mind like a storm. She had countless questions she was afraid to ask. In her the fear was not caused by the question, but by what the answer might be. What life awaits her now? She did not torment herself with this question for a long time, it was forgotten in a few minutes.

It was 3.00 a.m. Looking at the dark floor, Kerry wondered if she should try to fall asleep or stay awake. The girl was sitting on the bed, she was listening to the rain running down the edge of the loggia. There was a quiet thunder in the distance, lightning flashed. In the corridor was also heard the old wall clock. As quietly as possible, the girl went to the kitchen. When the light came on, Kerry sat down at the kitchen table by the window. Taking a mug from the table, she poured cold water into it. That was exactly what was needed. Leaving the kitchen, Kerry returned to the room. When the curtains were opened, the girl had a wider view of the pond. The storm had subsided a little, the rain sprayed now and the air had become colder. 

Lying on her back, Kerry looked up at the ceiling again. It was barely visible, made of long wooden boards that covered the ceiling along its entire length. Looking at it, the girl slowly fell asleep. She had a black and white dream, maybe a vision.

There was a small cot, a small child in it - a girl. A woman and a man approached it. The child looked like Kerry in the pictures where she was a baby, but the adults were not her parents. They waved something cute over the child's head. It was a small thing - a white bunny. Small arms stretched over the toys. They were similar to a solar system attached to the edge of a bed. In the middle of the sun, around it planets and stars. The woman gave the baby a little bunny. They both smiled happily, the little girl laughed. Suddenly a dark figure appeared behind the adults. It got bigger and bigger. Suddenly the man turned towards the unknown guest. It lifted something sword-like figure high in the air. The woman instinctively ran to the stranger and, holding his hand with a sword-shaped weapon, tried to delay the cut. It pushed her aside and continued to meet the man who had first stood by the little girl's bed. One flash and the man flew across the room and bumped at something dense. Blood spilled into the air. The little girl cried in a full voice, it sounded that the little one was hard to breath, the baby coughed and continued to cry. The woman lay unconscious on the floor, where she fell and hit her heat against the nightstand. The dark figurer went in the direction of the crib. He leaned over and took the baby in his arms. He held it tight, muttered something in a foreign language, in a low and determined voice. The girl fell silent. Suddenly a bright light flashed. The dark figure, with the child, shrugged his eyes and retreated to the corner of the room. A woman dressed in a white appeared and others came next to her, also in equally white clothes. They drew the intersections of different signs in the air - runes, with some strange glass rods, which were sharper at the ends. And they also spoke in an incomprehensible language, they approached the uninvited guest step by step. But it resisted, exclaimed in a loud voice "Dissipati peribunt", he immediately faded away with the whole baby. The people who arrived who resembled guardian angels calmed down, looked at the surroundings. The woman ordered the men to take the corpses. Approached the crib she noticed a toy that had fallen on the ground. Taking the white bunny in her hands, she turned it. Taking it with her, the woman left the room.

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- But if she finds out the truth! Then what? What will we tell her then? That everything was a lie? ”A little sleepy, Kerry heard some of the words someone said.

- Calm down! She will know nothing. Of course, if you do not say the same in her presence. Look, she's already waking up - the girl didn't hear that, because she was asleep again.