Fortune favors just the brave - that the blessed always say
Love will come in time – but I'm always late
Pray the wine my will to take and those evil hands to tie
Wreaking havoc, baneful sight is growing dim~
Tie the dream, I've had my fill,
Raze the love and tie my will
Fires ploughing up my head-
Oh forgive, I will forget…
(Avantasia – Blizzard On a Broken Mirror)
,,Kat, there's prophecies."
Waiting, triumphant, curious tone; nothing good to hear from Nathali.
,,2012, yeah. I know. Why?"
,,Well, I can't seem to find them anywhere! And like, anywhere. I've been to all the Earth libraries; Alexandria, Vatican, internet, non-earthly ones; nowhere. They're nowhere!"
,,What am I supposed to do with that?" she sighed, rubbing eyes. When that girl wanted something, she was impossible to shake off…
The smaller girl crossed legs, glancing out the door, then closing it.
,,Were YOU asking?"
,,No. Maybe in the Wind Tower there will be something."
,,Wind Tower?" Nathali titled head to the side, frowning.
,,Haven't heard of it? It's a place for all the birds, wind elementals, air creatures, snd the usual, winds, ghosts, Wind Lady… um, you know. And there's a library too." Nathali frowned.
,,How did you get in there? I didn't get past the guards in the main hall."
,,I am part wind elemental, remember?" she raised a eyebrow.
,,Oh, yes… sorry. There's one demon that might know! Are you in for visiting him?"
,,Riiight. Where can I find him?"
,,Um, and when you're at it, could you ask a small favor too?" Nathali made a innocent grin. She rolled eyes.
…..
The Black forest's market – black too, by the way – was a place to find everything.
,,Please," he was smirking. ,,you want to know about the location of the prophecy book AND are asking a favor from your cousin, who STILL HAS DEBTS HERE? And you think that will be cheap?"
,,…No."
He stood up from the table, closing the tent more.
,,How much?" she sighed, rubbing eyes again, thinking about her poor account and how into minus will it be after this payment.
,,Two hours, let's say."
She looked up, sensing a flicker of lust from the incubus.
,,…Excuse me?"
,,Oh please, m'lady. You always solved your payments like this. Why not again? It's a really good offer."
She groaned mentally. Indeed, like a real slut, she used to do that…
,,Otherwise it would be how much?"
He ripped a piece of paper out from under his table and wrote something down. Then he pushed it to her.
,,That's blackmail! Are you selling me your whole head?" she shrieked.
,,You can leave. Either to the back with me or through the front alone."
She sighed again, then sprung forward and closed a hand around his throat tightly.
,,If you dare mentioning this anywhere, ANYWHERE, you're dead meat, UNDERSTAND?"
He nodded, not a bit appaled.
…..
,,Wind Tower, otherwise also Sea Castle, Earth hall, and so on. Other elemental ones. But I get only to the Wind Tower, so we're screwed."
,,No, we're not!" Nathali stated optimistically, sitting straight on the bed. ,,You at least found some locations out-!"
,,THAT PIECE OF INFORMATION WAS WORTHLESS FOR ME! I could have just flied there and checked for myself, and what good are the places I can't go to to me? That fuckin' CHEATER! When I get my hands on him I swear I'll rip his-!"
,,You can go there and check," she interrupted her.
,,And if nothing's there?" Kate asked challengingly and crossed arms.
,,Well… I know! You remember the time we called Lorraine?"
,,Lively," Kate said sarcastically, sitting comfortably into the armchair.
,,We could call someone other!"
The demon raised a eyebrow. ,,Seriously? Who would come?"
,,Someone surely."
,,I don't think it's a good idea."
,,Oh come on! You know I'm a great medium! Anyone gents into me, you just have to think of him! What could possibly go wrong?"
She rolled eyes. ,,Okay, we can try. But that's it, just try, alright?"
,,Right!" nathali nodded and exhaled.
,,But if it's HER again, I'm throwing you out of my bed and room!"
,,I promise I won't let her in. What, you think I liked her in me? Hell no! So don't worry."
,,Fiiinee. Sit and concentrate…"
In a matter of seconds she nodded and Kate ran a hand across her forehead. The girl immediately collapsed and she jumped away, not knowing, who will come.
Nothing happened.
She slowly relaxed, even when the smaller one moved. She paced around the room in silence and darkness, opened the window, closed it, then sat down to the armchair across the bed, contemplating getting a cup of tea while waiting
,,Nathali?"
Her cousin sat up, glanced on her, around the room, then on herself and with a small groan lied back down.
,,Great medium, eh?"
No response. ,,Hey, kitten, are you alright?" she got up and hovered above her, hand outstretched – then she pulled it back, sensing a vibe. Male vibe.
She sat up, staring on Kate.
,,Um, hi?" the demon raised a eyebrow, immediately noticing differences. No response, not even a flinch. She just stared… she? Right?
Kate sat again, fidgeting under the intense gaze.
That… creature… seemed very content in it's place, as if it knew it here perfectly, placed in a position on the bed it was many times before.
It was used to being quiet, just watching her every move like when you watch someone that doesn't communicate with you by anything but telepathy unless not being in the astral sphere.
And all those faces, movements, that calmness were so terribly familiar she got nervous, because she – for the world – couldn't figure out just who was lying in her bed… placed like someone she knew…
Who she thought of, touching her cousin's head?
,,If it didn't go as planned just tell me," she stared everywhere but that other one's eyes, already knowing that yes, indeed, it went as planned.
,,Who do you think you're talking to?" it asked, seemingly a bit amused.
,,Um, Nathali?" It raised a eyebrow.
,,And you're crazy?" This time she didn't respond.
,,WHO are you? I'm really lost, I'm sorry."
It half-snorted, half-chuckled ( a thing she, too, heard before) and lifted up two fingers opposite each other.
,,Do you see the energy?" Indeed, that could be seen. It was a black-red-green aura with a bit of reddish pink…
,,Y-y-yes, i-in the astral," she stuttered out, now knowing but not really being able to respond properly. She was pleased beyond happiness and horrified at once.
,,Excuse me," she jumped up to the door right when the other collapsed again, and on shaking legs ran to the kitchen to get water.
After a while Nathali came running back, confused.
,,Well- what? What happened?"
,,N-n-n-no-not-thing…" Kate stuttered out drinking the third glass in a row.
,,What nothing? Who was here? And why are you so stuttered out?"
She gulped it down, then blurted out-
,,Lust."
She really thought of all scenaries she could; most were ridiculous, some serious, some plain usual, some post-apocalyptic – but she didn't even dream that the first meeting in the human sphere would be in her cousin's body.
…