caged robin

The valley, the breeze, the grass, the singing of birds... Abner seems to be in this place, and the comfortable fragrance lingers in his nose all the time.He leaned forward contentedly, but the euphoria was slowly dissipating.He stretched out his hand dissatisfied and tried to grasp all this, but the situation was still getting farther and farther away.Finally, he firmly grasped a generous and warm thing and placed it on his chest.

"Lance, erthy julysei (Lance, what should I do with you?)" A deep and hesitant voice sounded in his ear.

He woke up slowly, and found that he was holding a big hand tightly in his hand.He froze for a moment, then raised his head, only to see Oreas looking down at him, his eyes were gentle, but with a touch of indifference.

Abner quickly let go of his hand, pushed Oreas' hand away, and stepped back, "Hmph, you just said you were impatient earlier."

Oreas frowned, "No."

Abner glared at him, "Then why did you say 'what should I do with you'? Impatient is impatient, nothing..."

Suddenly Orreas hugged Abner tightly, and Abner's nerves that hadn't fully woken up instantly revived. He buried himself in the neck of Orreas, and smelled that special fragrance again, and the roots of his ears immediately turned red. .

"You understand." Oreas murmured.

"Understand what?" Abner was at a loss.

"Lance..." Oreas said softly.

Abner frowned, "Why do you keep saying this word?"

Oreas paused, and let go of Abner, his eyes were still gentle with a touch of indifference.

Abner felt a kind of deliberate alienation, more serious than last night, he took a breath, pushed Oreas away, lifted the quilt, sat on the side of the bed, hurriedly looked for slippers, and swayed around twice with his bare feet ,could not find it.Only then did he remember that the slippers were on Aureas' side, and as soon as he turned around, he saw Aureas bring the slippers over.

He pouted and saw Oreas leaning over his chest, as if he wanted to put on shoes for himself. As soon as his warm hands touched his ankles, a numbness spread from his ankles all over his body. He trembled, and his feet couldn't help With one kick, the slipper in Oreas' hand was kicked over.

"Hold, I'm sorry..." He quickly apologized.

But Oreas put on the slippers for him with a sullen face, then turned and left indifferently.

The bedroom fell into a dead silence in the morning, and even the chirping of birds outside the window seemed superfluous.The two stood with their backs to each other, and Oreas stood at the window with gloomy eyes.

Abner looked at the cabinet in front of him, and looked at the grain on the wooden board several times, but an inexplicable hope always attracted him to turn around.Finally, after he had read the texture ten times, he turned around quietly, and saw Aureas's tall back almost covering more than half of the window, a flock of birds circled around Aureas, including his oldest The "goddess" I like, at this moment, the "goddess" is jumping up and down on the right side of Aureas very actively. When Aureas stretches out his hand, the "goddess" jumps on Aureas's hand, chattering non-stop.

A nameless fire suddenly rushed up, and Abner hurried over, sent the "Goddess" out, then slammed the window shut, and said coldly to Aureas, "We should be on our way."

There are horses and carriages for the lordship to travel near the gate of the Doron Palace. Abner walked straight to the black steed. As usual, he got on the horse first, and then Aureas, and his back was quickly generous. Covering his chest, his two strong long arms protected his side, and then grabbed the rein.

But this time, when Oreas touched him, he felt his back on fire.He pushed Aureas away in a panic, and stopped the groom to arrange a carriage for himself.

The two sat opposite each other, each sitting by the window, silent, the carriage was slightly bumped, Abner lifted the curtain, dragged his chin, and looked out of the carriage.Oreas glanced at his expression of deliberately avoiding himself, and turned his head to look at the scenery outside the car.

The carriage was driving on the avenue. At this time, there were no people on the road. The side of the road was paved with gravel, and there was a single landscape on both sides of the road. An artificial forest spread out, and occasionally a few wooden houses for travelers to rest were built in conspicuous places. A few spotted cows passed by, and a few domestic dogs roared twice at the noble carriage, and then sneaked away with their tails between their legs.

Not long after, Abner felt very bored, and secretly glanced at Oreas, who was still looking out of the car heavily, as if he didn't care about himself at all, his waist was as straight as a long sword, with ease They popped up from nowhere.He stepped forward and pulled the curtain of Aureas, muttered: "There are flying insects." Then he simply sat directly opposite Aureas.

Oreas was slightly taken aback, then chuckled, Abner's ears turned red, he hummed softly, and sat back to the position just now.

When they arrived at Herbert's place, Herbert had already got up and folded the quilt very diligently. He even took a rag from somewhere and was cleaning the cabinet which was not dirty at all.

"Herbert, you don't need to clean this place yourself," Abner said.

Herbert put down the rag, his dark face showing a little blush.

Abner: "..."

The air became inexplicably stagnant, and Abner broke the silence with a soft voice, "Herbert, when can we start?"

Only then did Herbert straighten himself up, let Abner take off his coat, and sit on the chair.Then he took a bronze mirror and put it in front of Abner, saying, "Please keep staring at it."

Abner did so, and after a while he glanced at Herbert and found that he was staring at himself in the mirror, his pupils were getting darker and bigger, almost covering the whites of his eyes.

Abner trembled, Herbert's eyes blinked, and then changed back to their original color, and said with a wry smile, "Please be more serious."

"Excuse me, I really don't know how long I have to stare."

"Actually, I don't know how long it will take. No one has tried this method for hundreds of years."

Abner was taken aback, "Then how do you usually heal your wounds?"

Herbert's eyes were gloomy, he hesitated for a while, and replied: "After the mago and anima people are combined, the mago people will have all the abilities of the anima people, so the real mago people can heal themselves."

Abner finally understood it for a while, but after thinking about it, something was wrong, "Then the anima people are at a disadvantage?"

Herbert's eyes became even darker, as if he was thinking about something, and he replied after a long time: "Is it..."

Abner scratched his head, seeming to bring back bad memories of Herbert, he patted Herbert, "Let's not talk about this, let's continue, even if the sky falls this time, I won't bother you."

Abner looked at himself in the bronze mirror again, until Herbert's face suddenly appeared in the mirror, his eyes were completely black, he clenched his palms tightly and did not dare to make a sound.Suddenly Herbert stretched his hand over his head, straight to himself in the mirror, and his hand entered the mirror.

Abner suddenly felt someone pull his shoulders, he staggered, and saw Herbert standing beside him, the two of them floating in a piece of white.

"Isn't this the white world I go to every time?" Abner exclaimed.

Herbert's face sank, "This is the matrix."

Abner scratched his head and closed his mouth in embarrassment.

Herbert led Abner forward. Abner was still like a bird with broken wings, fluttering ridiculously, but Herbert was as steady as walking on flat ground. Herbert looked at Abner, Said: "The more you practice, the better."

Abner quickly waved his hand, "If I hadn't had to, I wouldn't want to come here."

Herbert looked at him with a look of surprise: "People in our place are looking forward to growing up, and they can only enter here after they grow up. This is an honor."

Abner smiled awkwardly.

Herbert explained as he walked: "All the souls of human beings are gathered in a mother's body. A person's life is already destined in the mother's body. When each person is a fetus, he is connected with the mother's body. At this time, the fetus can See your whole life. The moment the fetus is born is also the time when it is disconnected from the mother. The fetus will cry in fear because of forgetting everything and ignorance of the future. But the mago people are different. As long as we are trained, we can freely Enter the mother's body, return to the fetal state, and find the time point you want to enter based on the fetus' memory of the future."

"Back to the fetal state?!" Abner exclaimed.

Herbert nodded, and continued: "Yes, and it's returning to the state of my own fetus. Generally, no one will use other people's memories to find the time point. This is a very old method."

Abner: "..."

Herbert added: "And after you become proficient, this process will be very short, and many Mago people can quickly go back to a certain point in time."

"Then since the state of the fetus can be seen for a lifetime, wouldn't the Mago tribe be able to see their own future?"

"No, the state of the fetus can only be recalled up to the actual time point," Herbert hesitated again, "but there is a legend that there is a person who can see the future."

Abner's eyes lit up, and he stared at Herbert curiously.

Herbert scratched his head, "This man is said to be the former king of our clan, but he disappeared for some reason."

Abner: "..." I'm afraid I know too much.

At this time, a piece of white gauze appeared in front of them, with faint folds, and there was an outline of a fetus in the gauze.The two stepped forward, and Abner saw clearly that the fetus was himself through the thin white gauze.He subconsciously looked around and was relieved to find that there were no other fetuses.

"Are we going in now?" Abner asked.

Herbert nodded, then pressed Abner again, and said, "I'll go in first, you are still injured, and the mother is very vigilant against you."

Herbert entered the gauze first, and after a while there was a voice "Come in" from the gauze, and Abner stepped in following the sound.

It wasn't completely dark inside, he couldn't see anything after he entered last time, he only felt that his body was extremely heavy.This time he saw clearly that it was a mass of silky black mist lingering around him, wrapping him tightly, and his body was very heavy.

"What is this?" Abner asked, the black mist almost entangled himself, and did not entangle Herbert.

"The probe in the mother's body sensed the uninvited guest, and came to check whether you should be allowed to pass."

"Then why you..." Abner closed his mouth, remembering that Herbert was a serious mago tribe.

After a while, the black mist began to slowly dissipate. Herbert said: "Last time, you should have rushed into the time point before the probe disappeared."

Abner smiled awkwardly.

When the probe disappeared completely, Herbert led Abner to continue walking forward. There was a piece of crystal clear mucous membrane in front of him, surrounded by several circles of black thorns. Abner could clearly see the dense thorns, and felt the wound heal again. It's a dull pain.

"What do we do now?" Abner asked.

"Take fire with fire," replied Herbert.

Herbert walked up to the thorn and raised his hand. After a while, the thorn still didn't move.He put down his hand, turned around and said in embarrassment: "I've never tried it, maybe there's something wrong..."

The corner of Abner's mouth twitched, "It's okay, you continue to think about it." In fact, his heart was pounding, and the two halves were hanging together, really afraid that his entire arm would be crippled.

Herbert muttered words and tried several times. Finally, when he raised his hand again, the thorns swam like a black snake. Herbert carefully controlled the thorns, but the thorns seemed to be swimming around uncontrollably move.Herbert turned his head and forced a smile at the pale Abner, and comforted him, "It's okay, the mother's body is very kind."

As soon as he finished speaking, a big hole jumped out of the thorns, which was full of small thorns. No matter how Herbert waved his hand, he couldn't control the violently shaking thorn.

"You can step forward a little bit, maybe the stabbing hand can sense your thorny wound and you can control it a lot." Herbert wiped his sweat and said to Abner.

Abner stared at the ferocious mouth that was more terrifying than a snake, and almost missed it in one breath.But he looked at the serious and inexplicably confident Herbert, swallowed, and walked forward bravely.

Suddenly, the stabbing hand seemed to have sensed Abner's wound, and rushed straight towards him, twisting its thick spiked body, and opening its mouth full of spikes.