This wasn't making any sense. There was a line of causality here sowhere, a paper trail I could follow to accurately pinpoint how things lead up to this mont.
But I wasn't no snoopy detective, I didn't have no notice board cluttered with thumbtacks and leads that I could follow, so how exactly Sera ended up knocking hard in the middle of a dark and stormy night was a mystery that rightfully earned its place in a YouTube top ten.
Unasked, unprompted, and very much not wanted, the quiet purple lady wandered on through the doorway - and on impulse, like a doorman greeting a valued guest, I stepped away to the side and simply allowed her through… because goddamn, what the hell else was I gonna do?
"S-Sera?" Amanda was completely up and about at this point, her eyes were glued onto the shambling violet figure fluttering around in the dark, staring at its outline gradually creeping closer if all her worst fears up till now had just been confird and were pri to be realized in t-minus one. "What, h-how… w-why are you doing here?"
I could hardly bla her for acting so panicked… unexpected visits from a renowned figure of death in this weather, at this ti, especially just freshed off paranoid thoughts… there was no greater, graver on… Sera might as well have been carrying a glistening scythe too while she was at it.
Once more, a bright ominous flash from the sky briefly illuminated Amanda's apartnt, and the rumbling and the crackling that followed had to have been the loudest, most foreboding one yet.
"Did sothing happen?" Amanda asked, her disquiet all the more palpable in the eerie dark. "Is it the rain? Is… is sothing bad happening again?"
Guess a certain soone's forgotten that a certain soone else isn't exactly well-known for their eloquence. Amanda waited, her breath bated, for a reply from Sera, only to later realize that as much as she asked, an answer won't co.
So, undaunted, she tried the next best thing - guessing.
"Are you here to cause sothing? Prevent sothing? Stop sothing? Um, you can nod, nod your head if I'm right… and shake it if I'm… oh, I'm wrong? Oh, um… well… are you here just to visit, are you hungry, thirsty? No? Uhh…"
Suffice it to say, Amanda wasn't yet well-adapted in deciphering Sera's silent intentions. It could take all night if we left the translating and interpreting up to her… sothing I'm sure none of us had the patience for.
I clicked close the door, and just for a mont, quietly peered over at her there, the dampness of her cloak, how tiny stray rain droplets clung loosely onto the fabric, and the small muddied prints she made with every step.
It couldn't have been easy in this weather - walking that distance. From her place all the way here to Amanda's apartnt, it wasn't exactly a walk in the park. There were long miles in-between, miles of many puzzling twists and confusing turns… especially for soone like her, and yet, regardless, here she stands before us.
All that effort, for sothing, a reason, important… what? I think I'll take a guess.
"Are you here to finally talk about the new deal you ntioned?"
In the darkness, aided by candlelight, her glowing golden eyes slowly shifted over towards … then ever so subtly, I saw her give a single nod affird right.
"Deal?" Amanda peeked over behind her, flashing a questioning stare of her own. "Wait, what new deal? What's going on?"
I didn't an to go about purposefully dodging her injuries, but there were simply more pressing matters to tend to at the mont, and so for the ti being, Amanda was kept in the dark as I dealt with said matter.
"Before we move on to anything else, there's sothing I want to know first," I said, gradually closing the distance between us. "How did you know to co here? How'd you find so easily?"
It seed Sera herself was keen to get the main topic at hand, because before I could even completely make my way to her, she took her own step forward, thrusting a finger on my chest, halting dead in my tracks.
Ow.
She jabbed again, harder this ti… then upon seeing the confusion on my face, poked even harder again, and it was with the second thrust that I finally understood - she was trying to answer my question.
I guessed again. "Oh, you sensed my magic."
A shake of the head, wrong. She poked again, digging deep, I noticed her jabs were more onto the left side of my chest, constantly, consistently… almost rhythmically.
"You can sense ?"
The mont the words left my lips, that's when finally drew her finger away. So I'm right, but I'm not exactly sure how I'm right… between and my magic, just what the hell's the difference?
I think, indirectly, that question must have manifested in my expression, because imdiately right after, Sera made a weird waving gesture of so sort, sothing regarding her, and then made another one… this ti sothing regarding .
To my surprise, and I think much to Sera's too, it was Amanda that arrived at an answer before I even ca close to coming up with one.
"It's because it's you that summoned her," She said, all eyes turning instantly towards her. "It's like when Leonardo got summoned, they explained it. See, she's a creation of your magic, actually, she is your magic. In a way, she's pretty much a piece of you as much as your limbs are. In the ga, you can always sense where the people who summoned you are at any given mont. I guess it's the sa here too."
Alright, I guess that makes so sense, kinda… I can follow the logic in that. Sera's my magic, so therefore I'm a constant beeping GPS signal for her to freely follow 24/7.
Wait, if that's the case, then -?
"Does that go the sa way for Ash and Jay?" I asked. "She's his creation, after all. Can she sense him too?"
Amanda made a face. "Well, if she could… I'm pretty sure she would have told you right away, right? Perhaps, it's different? From what you told , you said he botched the summoning, didn't he? Maybe sothing ended up being ssed up with their connection."
Once more, another hope of finding this bastard dashed and snuffed. Why does it seem that luck always seems to favor him mostly? Don't tell there's a spell for that too.
But before I could wonder and wander my mind too much in that direction, Sera made a noise, an impatient raspy groan that brought my eyes back down towards her.
She's indulged , now it was ti for to indulge her now.
This anded deal of hers, this one single thing that spurred her to walk the many miles in puddled roads, muddied sidewalks, barefooted and without any form of shelter.
Just how important was this deal to her that it had to be now, in like the most unlikely of places ever? In the dark, the cold of Amanda's apartnt.
I guess it's high ti for to find out, but for the ti being…
"Care for a towel first?"
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