Thunder: Some light will be shed in this chapter, I hope everyone likes it.
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Chapter 06
Explanation Part One
"Would you like some tea?" asked the doctor as soon as he was done. Abashira slowly nodded, and he went to make them some.
"So, you're a shaman?" she asked in a weird surprised tone as she took a sip of her tea, the night's events began to fall like rain upon her, and her mind was as crowded as can be with different questions to the point that she couldn't even understand the most simplest thing.
"Yes, I hope you don't mind, many people hate shamans or don't even know what the word means." He sighed as he put his cup down, it sounded like it happened a lot to him in Abashira's opinion. They were each sitting on opposite sides of the desk.
"No, no! I'm a shaman too; I know what it feels like. That's the only reason I live in the forest." She reassured. The doctor raised an eyebrow.
"You live in the forest? This forest?" he asked disbelievingly.
"Yes, why?" was her only reply.
"You live in it, and you ask me "why?" you mean to tell me you really don't know?" he counter asked in a half mocking, half shocked voice. She just frowned a confused frown and shook her head. The doctor stared at her for a moment still surprised by the fact she had just given him, he sighed and thought of a way to clarify all this mess, starting from the forest's curse, he took a deep breath and then he began.
"You know why our hospital is at the outskirts of the city and right at the start of this forest, right?" he asked.
"Really!" she nearly yelled in surprise. "I didn't notice!" The doctor smacked his forehead.
"What?" I was running around with a bleeding child in my arms and you expect me to look at the scenery? I merely busted in!" she defended.
"Alright, alright, calm down, I'm sorry. Yes, you're right. But you have to go to the city once in a while, you must've at least noticed a tall building, right?" he asked.
"Well, I actually have a daily job at the city's greatest restaurant. But, now that you mention it…no I've never seen this place before." She said, Yura was listening to the whole conversation with amusement as he sat beside the bed Nataly lay on.
"No wonder why." He murmured to himself then cleared his throat.
"Anyway, the answer for my question is the same reason as to why Nataly's here." he stated puzzling Abashira even more. He paused for a moment, taking in Abashira's expressionless face; still a twinge of anxiety could be recognized, he sighed and started to look around frantically as if trying to shake something off his mind violently, he looked worried.
He then noticed the worried looks he's been receiving from both Abashira and Yura, so he calmed himself and took a sip of his tea.
"So why don't you start? Why not tell us why Nataly's here in the first place?" he asked almost like he wanted to change the subject. Abashira didn't dare to argue, not with the tone he said it with so she told them everything that's happened from the moment she heard the screams till she arrived at the hospital.
"I see." Said the doctor as she finished, taking one last sip of his tea.
"So after you finally found her you were captured by a rich looking short man?" she nodded.
"And he kept talking about a brother of his?" she gave another nod.
"The brother is supposedly killed by Nataly?"
"Yes." He nodded.
"Okay, I think I know who they were."
"You do?" she asked surprised.
"They call themselves the "M" brothers, Miro and Mori." "They're professionals, they've only made one public appearance to introduce themselves, they ran away with their gangs never to be seen again, no one was able to spot them but their masterpieces did show up, always in front of this forest." He empathized on the last sentence. Abashira's expression showed that she understood.
"So…you're saying that I, we….." she slowly said pointing at herself, the doctor nodded.
"You killed one, and Nataly presumably killed the other." He finished.
"It was because of the fact that the corpses were always found in the forest's outlines that everyone was warned to stay as far away from it as possible, the police thought that their hideout was located in the forest so they sent teams to look for them every once in a while but nobody came back, not even their corpses were ever found resulting in the rumor that the forest is actually cursed." He continued.
"It went on like this for years until the government thought it would be wise to put a first class hospital near the forest incase of locating any of the very few survivors who needed treatment, Nataly for example, consider yourselves lucky for escaping both of them!" He chuckled.
"Of course, it's a very rare occasion." He continued.
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