Deep Sea Embers

Chapter 147 "Ashes"

Heidi didn't notice anything unusual in her father's tone.

"Yes," she nodded calmly, "I went to Mr. Duncan's antique shop with Fanna, chatted with Mr. Duncan there, and then performed hypnotherapy for Nina, and then Just come back with Fanna."

At the end, she hesitated for a moment, thinking whether to tell her father what she heard about the fire from Nina and Fanna's strange reaction after hearing it, but finally stopped this thought.

She still remembers Fan Na's abnormally serious expression in the car at that time. There may be dangerous hidden forces involved behind this incident, and it may be so serious that if she speaks it, it will attract prying eyes—although her father is the same as herself. He is also a follower of truth who serves the god of wisdom, Rahmu. He can be considered a half-transcendent, but like most believers of truth, he is more like a pure scholar, and he is not good at dealing with those dangerous things directly.

Morris still had a gentle and calm expression on his face. He nodded slightly, and said casually, "Then you have been there for a long time... Did you forget the time while chatting with Mr. Duncan? He He is indeed a man with a strong thirst for knowledge.”

"Um... That's not true," Heidi's face suddenly felt a little embarrassed, "It's just... I wasted a little time when I was performing hypnotherapy on Nina."

"While hypnotizing Nina?" Morris raised his eyebrows when he heard his student's name. "It didn't go well? Was she in a bad state of mind? Was it affected by the previous museum fire?"

Heidi couldn't help rolling her eyes when she heard her father's series of questions: "You really care about your student—don't worry, she's doing well. She was just a little anxious. After my relaxation and counseling, she's gone. It's completely fine, and it won't affect the final exam. The time delay I'm talking about...is because of something else."

Morris made a curious voice: "Oh?"

"Aha, I may be a little too tired these days," Heidi laughed awkwardly, "After hypnotizing her, I fell asleep myself, and slept until evening..."

"Did you fall into a deep sleep while hypnotizing Nina?" Morris's expression finally changed slightly, but he quickly regained control, "This is not like you."

"People are always negligent, not to mention I haven't been on vacation for a long time," Heidi waved her hand impatiently, "Oh, don't ask, I'm such an adult, and you and your mother will be nervous when I come back a little later In this way, one problem after another..."

Morris just looked at his daughter quietly for a few seconds, then showed his usual gentle expression on his face, smiled and shook his head: "Okay, then I won't ask—there is still food in the kitchen, you Just warm it up, and I'll go see your mother."

"Okay," Heidi nodded, said goodbye to her father, and then walked towards the kitchen, but she suddenly turned around after walking a few steps, "By the way, you still plan to visit that antique store later, right?"

"Yes." Morris was already standing at the door of the bedroom. The wall lamp on the wall in the corridor next to him cast a dim light, casting mottled shadows on his old face. "What's the matter?"

"I left in a hurry today, and I didn't have a good talk with Mr. Duncan about Nina's situation. I will write a letter later, and you can take it with you when you pass."

"No problem," Morris nodded, and then, as if telling himself, he muttered softly, "I'm going to go again..."

Heidi left, but the gray-haired old historian was still standing quietly at the door of the bedroom. He seemed to be in deep thought. After nearly ten seconds, he finally exhaled softly and pushed the dark-colored door open. wooden door.

The light in the bedroom is still dim, and only a small wall lamp is lit in the well-decorated bedroom. The dim light shines down, vaguely illuminating the outline of the bed.

Morris turned around and carefully locked the door, and walked slowly to the head of the bed.

"Honey, are you all right?"

He spoke softly to the wriggling ashes on the bed that maintained the outline of a human being.

There was a slight murmur from the floating and wriggling ashes with the vague outlines of human beings, as if responding gently, and among the ashes, the knotted ribbon that was about to be woven made a slight friction sound, gorgeous The silk rope was slowly shuttled under the traction of the ashes, weaving knots slowly but firmly.

"Yes, it's beautiful, your craftsmanship has always been very good," Morris heard the reply in the small whisper, he smiled on his face, and said while praising his wife's knitting skills, "You give me The one I made up is still hanging in the study."

The room fell silent, and in the dim light, time seemed to be frozen at this moment, but half a minute later, Morris still broke the silence: "Heidi went out today, and when she came back, there was a bracelet on her bracelet. The onyx is gone."

The mass of ashes on the bed suddenly stopped, and there was a low grunt.

"I'm still not sure what exactly happened. If it was the asylum of my lord Raheem, it means that Heidi encountered a danger that could penetrate her sanity barrier today, but Heidi herself doesn't know anything. I don't detect any malicious intentions in her either," Morris said slowly, "it looks more like she passed 'something' unconsciously, passively aroused I got the protection of the bracelet..."

Maurice stopped suddenly, listening to Ashes whispering.

"Well, after my reminder, Heidi saw the missing part on the bracelet, and that's the problem—she didn't think the onyx existed in the first place," Morris nodded, "It's a kind of The self-protection mechanism may come from her intuition, or it may come from the "enlightenment" of the God of Wisdom, but in any case, this protection is preventing her from continuing to understand certain things...

"Me? I want to investigate. I'll do it myself."

The pile of ashes on the bed undulated slightly.

Morris shook his head: "It may be a little risky, so I will pray and divination in advance, but I have to go there-in fact, I have been to that place once, and it looks like an ordinary antique It’s just a shop, with a hard-working shopkeeper and a studious child living in it. At that time, I didn’t perceive any malicious or evil forces entrenched there...

"So if the risk factor was present in the shop when Heidi visited today, then the owner of that shop may also be threatened - my students live there, I have to go and see.

"After all, I am her teacher and a servant of the God of Wisdom..."

Morris spoke softly, and then heard faint whispers from the pile of ashes on the bed. He listened for a long time before slowly shaking his head.

"No, you can't disturb the people in the cathedral... Although their actions may be more effective, their overly aggressive style may also hurt my students-for the guardians of the church, suppressing heresy and eradicating evil is too high a priority, and..."

Speaking of this, Morris paused for a moment before continuing with a sigh, "And I don't really want to attract the cathedral's attention, after all... I'm a heretic hider who has been shaken."

His voice was low, and his eyes were softly watching the ball of ashes on the bed, watching... his wife who died in the fire 11 years ago.

Watching her shadow left in the world.

The ashes rose slowly, and a strand of ashes seemed to condense into an arm, gently brushing Morris's face.

"I know...I know..." Morris lowered his head, as if talking to himself, and as if confessing to an invisible existence, "I am a person whose faith is shaken, and I am too weak to be completely Depravity... The God of Wisdom gave me the eyes that can see through emptiness that day, but I closed it weakly and made unrealistic wishes. I wanted to keep you in this world, but I couldn't completely deceive myself ... Instead, I stuck myself in this most embarrassing situation..."

He raised his head and gently held the fluttering strand of ashes, but his fingers directly passed through the dust.

"I wish I was as ignorant as Heidi, so I could see another side of you... I haven't seen you in 11 years."

There was a soft sound from the ashes, like the friction of sand and dust, or the crackling of a small warm fire. Hearing this sound, Morris calmed down a little bit.

"I understand, I understand... all this will end, the stage will always end, no matter what responds to my wish on that day, it will always come to take away the price of fate, I have already prepared for it Well, when it pays the price, I will completely disappear in this world, even if the shadow of the subspace, I can never get my hands on the real world through this 'wish', but..."

Maurice looked up, staring at the outline of a cloud of ash in the dim light.

"But, until that day comes... just stay with me for a while."

(End of this chapter)