"Nesha!" Callan swung the door open, followed by the elderly man and another girl with inky black hair.
But their eyes held surprise to what they saw.
"Let go of !" Dorris was struggling with soone.
A man wearing dark armor was holding Dorris' wrist. In her hand, the shard of broken glass glistened.
"If you're going to hurt yourself, I can't let you do that." A deep and gruff voice said. When Dorris heard it, her body started to tremble for so reason.
Her trembling head looked at the man who appeared out of nowhere and stopped her perfect plan to escape. Dead yellowish topaz eyes stared back at her. With that, sothing clicked inside her mind.
Her distorted past... 'It was all due to this man.'
The unknown man understood the expression Dorris expressed. He carried Dorris back to the bed without saying anything.
"Father?!" Callan was the first one to break the silence as he went to Dorris who remained unmoved.
"Clean this glass, Nifa!"
"Yes," The girl with ash hair replied to the old man as she went to get sothing.
"Father, you're back." The old man said as he walked into the room. "Why didn't you tell us right away?"
"I am excited to see my long-lost daughter."
Callan, who was holding Dorris' hand that had so cuts, saw how it trembled even more. 'Nesha...'
He glanced up to look at her face, but her expression sent shivers to his heart.
"And what did I tell you, you should just call Charrio." The man in dark armor exclaid.
"Father! What's happening to Nesha?" Callan said with worry and fear in his voice.
Both the old man and the guy whom he called himself Charrio glanced in their direction. "Nesha is breathing abnormally!"
The old man Roc imdiately went to her. He checked her pulse, and her heart was indeed beating at an abnormal rate. Even her face was starting to get pale.
"Get-get away from !"
"Monster!" Dorris' lifa's energy, the color of red, was starting to flicker within her body. A pattern of red hollyhocks was appearing all over her body.
"Nesha! Calm down!" Old man Roc attempted to hold her firmly, but Nesha burst out with a flash of force. It hurled the three guys into the air, slamming and demolishing the solid brick walls.
Dorris's chains were also exploding with electricity at this point. But it didn't appear to have any impact on Dorris this ti. More accurately, she was not in her right mind at the mont. Her eyes were filled with panic as she clutched her head.
"Don't co near !" She scread with an ear-piercing voice. "Ahhh!"
"Nesha!" Callan wiped the blood on his lips as he desperately reached for Dorris. 'What's happening? Nesha!' He inched closer to her.
But before he could reach her, a magic circle ford beneath Dorris. "I'll leave. Do-don't kill please..."
Before Callan could hold her, Dorris disappeared with the magic circle. "Nesha!"
Charrio squird his eyes as he stood up. "I'll go after her and bring her back," Charrio said. Shadowy hands started to engulf him.
"Father, wait."
"What is it, Callan?"
"Ah...Um…" Callan's expression held conflict. The room was filled with montary silence as Callan didn't know how he would convey the words he wanted to say.
"We don't have much ti to waste." Charrio narrowed his eyes.
"Nothing. I'll also look for her." Callan hid his clenched fist behind his back.
Charrio just gave him an unknown look. "Suit yourself." He said and disappeared. When Charrio disappeared, Callan burst the wall with his wind. "Gramps, I'll need to go!"
Winds surrounded him and flew right off the hole. In his mind, sothing much worriso invaded it.
"I'll leave. Do-don't kill please, Father..." Callan clenched his fist. 'I need to find Nesha before my father does!'
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Dorris reappeared in so empty and dark alley in one of the districts of Aravan. Thunders roared as lightning flashed that served as the only light to the darkened place.
'I-I need to get out of here!' The cold seeped down towards the bare feet of Dorris as she aimlessly ran ahead. 'I need to get out of here!' Her mind kept repeating as she moved.
'Help! Please don't kill .' mories continued to pour in like a flood in her mind.
'Monster! Ahh!'
"So so of your mories are back." Dorris froze when she heard that cold and deep voice. It felt like it ca from the deepest part of hell. This made Dorris tremble even more.
"Do-don't get any closer!" Her teeth couldn't stop chattering. She was horrified to hear footsteps approaching from behind her. It steadily progressed from sluggish to quicker as ti went by.
And what added to this fear, it was headed in one direction. Towards Dorris!
Without looking back, Dorris started to run! "Please! I-I promise to behave! Pl-please, spare ." A mixture of tears and sweat already covered Dorris' eyes.
"Dorris, don't run. I won't hurt you." The voice was getting nearer to her. "It seems you haven't completely rembered everything yet."
'He called , Dorris!' Dorris tried to activate her teleportation, but with how much anxiety she felt, the chant in her mind wouldn't sync it. She turned towards the right. 'I don't want to die!'
{"Ahhh!"} As Dorris ran, fragnts of a woman being sucked dry until she beca a bone began to fill her head. And the one she thought she'd forgotten glanced at her with bloodshot eyes when he tossed that woman's remains away that ti.
{"Nesha, what are you doing here?"}
{"Father...I...I."} Dorris' younger self trembled in the sa way as she was shivering now.
'Why-why did these mories simply co back to right now?' 'Her heart was racing faster as she ran away. 'How could I forget about that monster after all this ti? The one we thought was our salvation...the one who showed love to soone like us? Why? ' Tears stread down her terrified face now.
"I need to get out of here!" Dorris ran and ran. She noticed barrels heaped up together at one of the alley's ends. She dragged her exhausted body into the barrels and hid. She put her hand over her lips to keep the noises of her breath from escaping.
'Please, please don't find here.'
"Nesha, where are you?" She heard footsteps approaching once again. That voice made her tremble even more.
"Why are you running away from , my child?" The voice was getting nearer. "It's been four years since we saw each other."
'No, please just go away!'
The footsteps approached nearer to the place she was hiding.
'Please goddess, don't let him find here.' She could feel the quivering of her body and the cold penetrating every bit of her body.
Dorris felt like her heart had almost stopped when the footsteps halted in front of the place she was hiding.
"Nesha..."
'No.' Tears continued to stream down her face. 'Please just go away.'
Lightning flashed and Dorris' eyes widened when she saw a shadow of a hand reaching the barrel she was hiding.
"You should not have co back here, Nesha." A deep and cold voice resounded behind her.
"Ahhh!"
Dorris grabbed the hand squeezing her neck as the thunder scread violently once again. She was hoisted to a great height over the grounds. "If you hadn't witnessed that, you may have lived regularly and peacefully this ti. I've even given you the opportunity to live and forget everything..."
'Soone, anyone, please help .' Dorris tried to yank away the man's grip on her neck. But he was too strong for her. She kept struggling but it was to no avail. Her vision was already blurring.
"Since it appears you still don't recall everything entirely, my child, you should sleep now..." There was a brief silence while Dorris croaked and suffocated in Charrio's grip.
Heavy rain began to fall as Dorris' body sank. Rain fell from her arms to her hands.
"For eternity."
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