|Ch.43

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Heeseung's pov|

The voice rings in my ears like a phantom of darkness. I feel the whisper right behind my ear,urging me to do something I am not even aware of.

Heeseung

Heeseung...

Goddammit,I hear you. Very well. But who are you?

"Heeseung",Xavier shakes me by my shoulder,snapping me back to reality but the look in his eyes says that he knows what is happening to me. He knows that the voice is speaking to me again. "Where do you hear the voice coming from?"

My head starts spins in circle as I hear the voice again. It keeps saying my name. And I feel this instant panic and fear just like the time I heard the voice for the first time. But the intensity was less than that time,probably because of Xavier. This child....though I feel ashamed to admit,I feel a sense of safety around him.

Do not be scared

My eyes widened.

"She spoke",I gasps I hold into Xavier's arm for support.

"What does she say?",Xavier asks supporting me so I don't fall back. He immediately come out of the tomb still keeping his hands on my shoulder and let me sit next to the tomb. He crouches infront of me,"What does it say Heeseung?"

I have been waiting for you,child

I couldn't focus on what Xavier was saying because of the shock. The words hit my head like a tsunami wave,rocking my senses back and forth.

Come here.

I stand obediently.

Xavier also stands up,looking wide eyed at me. His mouth is slightly opened,aghast. Then his lips move forming words I couldn't describe.

"Your eyes....Hees....they....silver..."

What is he saying?

I climbed the tomb and enters inside.

Good. You are doing very good. Now,open it.

Open what? The entrance that even Xavier couldn't open? It needs a Pendragon's snap so how?

But my body moves on its own. Like a recording had been placed on my body.

I feel myself kneeling on the bottom of the tomb. And my hands places on top of the rose carving. And my hands are...wait....they are glowing in a strange silver colour.

And everything goes black.

I was in a dark void.

"Hello?",I call out.

I expected no one to answer me but a voice actually answers me.

"Hello Heeseung"

My body jumps in fear,the voice!!

I look back immediately.

There was a long dining table,filled with a banquet of food. But it isn't even tempting to my taste buds when I see the woman at the end of the table. A pair of crimson eyes stares back at me with a slight curve of her red lips. Her elbows were ontop of the table and her hands supported her chin,in a very mischievous way. And her hair,it cascaded down her back and over her shoulders,the raven colour shining even in this void of darkness. And her black tight dress,sticking to her skin like a second skin,it ran upto her neck,covering the nape,but it left her shoulders and back bare open.

One word came to my mind to describe her.

Beautiful.

She is truly beautiful,surpassing all the beautiful girls I have ever seen in my entire life. And strangely,she reminded me of someone.

"Why are you still standing? Come and sit",she speaks. My heart is thumping in my throat now.

I gulp hard as I take a step and she smiles. Her eyes seem to keep glowing with mischief as if she is waiting for me be pranked by a silly little joke.

"Don't be scared. I am not your enemy"

"That's what every enemy says before back stabbing",I say even before I could stop the godless barbarian mouth of mine.

But she doesn't seem to mind what I said.

"I see,this is my son's type. I'm glad he is into smartasses"

Son's type?

Who is her son anyways?

"Now sit",she says again. "Don't trust me,trust my eyes"

Eyes huh?

"Do you think I would trust a Pendragon? "

"Wouldn't you?"

"No"

The woman smiles,pleased with my answer,"But there is atleast one Pendragon you trust,right? "

Storm's image comes to my mind. Yes,he is the only Pendragon I trust. It's because of him I stay in this world. It's because of him I stay with Seokjin Pendragon. It's because of him.

How does she know?

Looks like I have sit so I could get my answers. I so walk towards the seat farthest away from her. I sit facing her.

"Do you want to eat something? ",She asks.

"No"

I don't know why but after I thought of Storm,the fear I felt suddenly seem to have faded away. I trust him. That is all I have right now. The trust. The trust in him.

All the food disappears from my sight. But a single glass of wine stays infront of the woman.

"How do you know about the person I trust?",I ask.

She raises an eyebrow,"Shouldn't you be asking who I am?"

Oh shit,right. I should be asking about her identity but I was so worked up hearing her talking about Storm.

"Who are you",so I ask her.

She puts her index finger on the rim of the glass as she smiles,"Seems like you care so much about this person that you even forgot the manners and etiquettes of asking my identity. You don't actually care who I am,right? What you want to know is whether I am a threat to him or not"

I shouldn't really be surprised. She is clearly a Pendragon,so ofcourse she knows about Storm. But she considers me to be Storm's weakness. That's what irritates me.

I clenches my fists in frustration,what if she is after Storm? What if she uses me against him? Storms trusts me. I can't let her use me.

In a blink of an eye,the woman disappears and the next second,she appears right infront of me,on top of the table,kneeling as she looks down on me with her menacing eyes,glowing bright red. My lungs contrasts in pain as I gasp for air. I have this instant urge to kneel infront of her but she holds my jaw firmly,forcing me to look straight into her eyes.

"What if I want to kill him? What if I am indeed a threat to him? What if I want to use you against him?",she utters the most terrifying words like a devil's whisper.

Despite the pressure I am feeling,a sudden rage blinds me. My guts are already in pain because of her snap but it couldn't be compared to the rage breathing I was having.

"Fuck...off",I manage to spit out while struggling to breath. "Don't you dare touch him!"

"But how are you going to stop me? Look at you,already writhing under my eyes,looking so pathetic! Tell me,how are you going to protect him from me?"

"I am going to kill you,I swear to god I will you",I was so blinded I could only utter empty threats but they were all coming from the deepest pit of my heart. And I am sure if something happens to Storm,I will make sure that my empty threats will definitely come back to life.

No,not when something happens to him,I will do it before something happens to him. I will kill her.

"Have you ever killed?"

It feels like she is reading my mind,is it possible she could read my mind?

"It doesn't matter. I will kill you"

And suddenly the pressure I felt due to her eyes,fades away. I gasp for air as I breath hard for air.

"I like the look in your eyes when you said you would kill me",she smiles like an evil serpent. "So,you are ready to be a murderer for him? Hmm? "

My mind is telling me to kill her right now. I need to kill her.

"Don't be a fool Heeseung. Do you really think you could kill me?"

She can read my mind.

She smirks. "Yes I can hear you very loudly. After all,I am in your head"

"W –What?"

"This is all in your head. I'm just occupying your head for a little while"

I calm down slowly,gradually becoming confused. I look at her closely. And I somehow realise her gown is split on both sides upto her hips. She is wearing black stockings upto her mid thighs with a lace pattern and they are connected to her.....underwear? A lingerie.

"Who are you really?"

"I told you already"

??

When

"What? You didn't "

"I did. When you just came,I told you that he is my son"

Son?

Yeah I remember her saying something like that.

"Who the hell is your son?"

She stays silent and stares at me as if she is waiting for me to realise something.

And like a click,I fix the pieces. Her son? I am his type. And red eyes. All this time,we've only been talking about one person.

Storm.

Storm is her son.

That means....The catastrophe of the kingdom,the Elmyr —no,Nabi Pendragon.

"Took you a while to realise huh?"

H –How

My mouth hangs open,eyes wide.

"Don't be surprised. I know I am dead. And I am probably not even in this world"

"What",it was just a whisper but it was all I could say.

She disappears and reappears next to me,standing on while leaning against the table with hands on the table behind her back,supporting her weight. "I am just a part of my soul"

She looks at me,"When I died,my soul was not intact. It had destroyed into pieces. And some ambers of my soul stayed with my spiritual cores. I can only speak to you this way because you are in the vicinity of my spiritual core"

"B –But why me? I mean,I am not a Pendragon"

"I can't",she smiles,this time,it was genuine. "I can't really talk to my brothers or anyone. The reason I can talk to you is because you are a klotho. A child of the world tree"

"How do you know?"

"Because I am the one who made you into one"

What am I hearing?

"The destiny book,I am the one who wrote it too. For you to read"

I had so many questions but I stayed silent. My mind is in jumble right now. Does that mean my life had been preplanned?

"Yes. It is preplanned. For my son"

"You don't sound apologetic at all",I say knowing it's useless to just think since she knows what I am thinking.

"Because I don't"

"This is my life we are talking about",I say calmly even though I don't feel pissed at this for some reason.

"No,this is my son's life we are talking about"

Now I am pissed. So what am I now?

"I am a mother Heeseung. Every mother wants their son to be happy after all. So I just did some altering to your life",...."And you don't seem angry at all"

I look away.

She smiles,"....So you like my son to the point you don't mind getting your life altered,huh? I see,I chose a good one"

My cheeks rises in temperature for some reason and I can't even look into her eyes. This is embarrassing.

She laughs suddenly shoving her head back,"That's why I like you so much"

She stands straight and take a few steps away from me and then turns to me,"I have no desire to explain any further about why I did what I did"

She is Storm's mother. She went as far as altering someone else's life just so I could meet her son,but why?

"You want to protect him right? "

She is ignoring what I am thinking.

"But you realised that you can't do it with your current state,right? "

"I am not a Pendragon. I don't have any powers"

"You are a Klotho,Heeseung. Your real parent is the world tree. Go find it"

"What am I going to do with a tree?"

Is she serious?

And she turns back again. She looks over her shoulder,"Good bye Heeseung"

I stand up,panic striking my head,"Wait wait wait! You can't just go! What about Storm?! He –He would want to meet you! You should speak to him!"

"I am a dead woman. Death speaks nothing"

I open my mouth but I close it again. What am I going to tell him? What should I tell him? It should have been him not me.

"You don't have to tell him anything. Then.....this is our farewell",she turns her head. "Please take care of him"

With that she disappears.

And what comes to my vision next is Xavier's face,looking at me with confused eyes.

"Are you alive?"

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