SILENT HILL: LIVING STATIC
Book 2
From the moment Nen asked where they would go next, a strange screeching moan rumbled the road. Lightning began to flash as raindrops hurrled towards the ground like Japanese World War 2 kamikaze pilots. A few rumbles, and then another long screeching moan echoed through the sky. The lightning gave a brief look at the horrid monstrosity that had been stealthfully following Douglas' car. It's HUGE. Now whatever it was, it was making its presense known. The sight of this black mass of whatever it was scared Nen. "What in the hell is that thing?"
Cheryl looked at it for a second. She then got into the driver's seat of her car. "Hurry! Get in unless you want to be two red smears on the pavement!"
"Kayla, why do I get the feeling we've done this before?" "Probably because we have."
Kayla got in the passenger's seat as Nen got in the back. A little boy awaited him. "Hello, mister."
Nen wondered why in the hell a little boy would be here in this place. "Cheryl, who is this kid?" Cheryl looked into the rear view mirror. "That's my son." Nen looked at the kid again. "What's your name?" The boy smiled and said, "My name's Herald, sir. Herald Mason." Nen shook the boy's hand. "I'm Nen Gott, and the lady in the passenger's seat is Kayla Warden. Now, let's get the hell out of here!"
Cheryl hit the gas. As soon as they did, the titan of a creature roared and started to run. Each footstep made a mark in the pavement and vibrated the car. The creature started to pick up pieces of the road that he made when he was running. He threw them at the car. Cheryl pushed down on the accelerator and turned hard to the left. The huge mass of road just missed them. The huge wall of black flesh lunged at the car. It seemed hopeless. They all prepared for the end. Suddenly, far off sirens sung their song. The monster stopped in mid-air and repostioned itself. Cheryl said, "Now is NOT the time to stop and stare at the creature!"
She continued to drive at full speed down the road. "Hang on!" Cheryl said roughly. From the darkness behind the car hundreds of little creatures started growling and running towards the car. "Those things must be insanely fast! I'm going at 120 miles per hour!" Cheryl said, almost in a state of panic. "We need to get shelter! When I tell you to, jump out of the car!"
A sign popped up from the darkness for a split second. "OLD SILENT HILL" "Okay... Almost there.. JUMP!"
Kayla and Nen jumped out of the car and onto some thick grass. It was painful, but it was a very useful cushion. They would've been dead if it had not been for Cheryl's precise timing. They rolled around constantly as the little creatures followed Cheryl's car and off into the night. They ignored Nen and Kayla. "Nen! Are you okay?!" Kayla shouted, trying to find Nen through the darkness. Another voice came back. "I'm alright! I found some shelter! Follow my voice!"
Kayla started walking towards the sound of his voice. "Keep on walking! That's it! I see you now... Follow me!"
Nen and Kayla started running towards some steps. Ahead of them was a sign and a two large doors. "Midwich Elementary".
"Alright Kayla, lets go in."
They both stepped inside. The first room was a rather squarish room. To the left was a desk with a map on it. To the right were some benches, and above the two doors was a long, slender window. Nen searched around his trenchcoat and found a chest pocket flashlight. He put it in his upper left chest pocket. Kayla found one as well and did the same thing. Nen took the map and they headed through the door on the opposite side of the room. They entered into a long hallway. To the right were some lockers and a few doors, to the left looked to be some sort of reception area. "Did you hear that Nen?"
Nen looked around. "No, I don't hear... anything out of the ordinary, as strange as that may sound."
Kayla looked towards the doubledoors at the end of the hallway to the left. A strange, mouldy colored creature laughed in a deep voice and started to walk towards them. It was truly disgusting and it carried a rusty knife! "Kayla! What the hell is that thing!?!"
Another one came out of a locker and joined its comrade. It moaned and wheezed. Nen searched around in his trenchcoat again and found a knife, as did Kayla. At least they were even now. "I don't know what it is, but it looks like.. Demon children or something! My God, it's horrible!"
The two demon children rushed towards them. Kayla stabbed one in the head, pulled her knife out, and slashed it across the chest. It fell down and started twitching and moaning. Kayla stepped on it a few times. Hard. It was dead. Nen on the other hand wasn't faring so well. The demon child facing him was much more experienced in fighting. It made a few quick slashes towards Nen and cut his right leg. "Argh!"
He knocked him over and was poised to strike. He pushed it to the left and reversed the tables. Now HE was on top if it. The feel of its rubbery flesh was truly horrid. He took his knife and drove it deep into its heart. He then pulled up and the knife came out of its shoulder. It died. Nen got up and wiped his mouth off. The adrenaline then went away and he felt the immense pain in his leg. It definitely slowed down his walking.
"Kayla, right here on this map it says infirmary. It's right there." Nen pointed to his right. "Perhaps there I can bandage this wound."
They walked inside and found a bed. Nen sat upon it while Kayla opened some drawers looking for bandages. Finally she found a medical kit. She layed it on the bed and open it up. Fortunately in college she got a bachelor's degree in healing, so she knew how to treat the wound. After doing so, Nen stood up and his leg felt like new. "Kayla, what the hell is going on in this town?" "I wish I knew Nen, I really do wish that I knew. This place is like hell."
Nen got up and Kayla followed. He walked into the courtyard and across the yard into another hallway. After walking down the hallway, he stopped for a moment. Something was familiar about a door he was in front of. He opened it up and stepped inside.
"What are you looking for, Nen?" "This place.. It feels familiar to me and I don't know why." "Really? I... I feel the same way." "That's strange. But we've never been here before, right?" "Apparently."
Nen walked around the classroom, surverying everything. After looking at some strange drawings, he found a desk with something scribbled on it. "Go home. Thief. Drop dead."
"Go home thief drop dead?" said Nen with puzzlement on his mind. He walked outside where he came from. The world started to spin, he could hear his heartbeat, the world now started to change.. To blur... Moaning, screaming, the banging of metal and the skinning of flesh... It all stopped and he found himself on the floor. Daylight poured through his closed eyelids and sounds of children could be heard.
:"John?! Someone help, I think he's hurt!"
(John? That's..That's not possible!)
Nen opened his eyes and he was on his back. Above him was Alessa. "John! I thought that something terrible had happened!" Nen blinked his eyes quickly and rubbed his head. "Alessa?" She nodded. She grab his arms and bolstered him up upon her shoulders. "Here, this should help." She so dearly wanted to get out of school. She never wanted to resort to using them, but in this case she had to. She walked into history class and she concentrated on the teacher. "There you two are! I was about to se---" Alessa used them. (((TEACHER. LET ALESSA AND JOHN GO. NOW.))) The teacher began to see visions of a bizzare, horrific twisted world. Flesh for walls! Metal grating floors! Children bleeding and skinless in hanging cages! She accepted what was told to her and the vision went away. "Alessa, you and John can go today. I can see that he is hurt and that you are in a severe amount of stress. Off you go!" Alessa supported Nen out of the school and layed him on a wooden bench outside. "The sunlight should do you good, John." Nen took a few deep breaths as some birds chirped and a few cars drove by. It must've been around 12:00. "Alessa, I'm.. I'm fine.. Let me tell you something, it feels so great to be out here in the sunlight. I think I've been seriously deprived of it recently." Nen basked in the sunlight for a few minutes and Alessa sat next to him. "Sunlight sure is nice, isn't it John? Being cooped up in a school and then suddenly being released into the sunshine. Sure, maybe the other kids are able to, but only for so many minutes before we get to go back inside." Nen then wondered how Alessa got them out. "Alessa, how did you persuade our history teacher in to letting us go for the day? You seemed to do it so easily." Alessa looked at very green grass surrounding the bench. "I have other powers besides reading people's thoughts. I can also make them do things.... I could even kill someone if I wanted to. I could kill our teacher. But I'm not that kind of person."
"You can kill people with your mind, Alessa?" Alessa nodded. "I wish I wasn't able to. I.. I did kill someone once. It was in self defense. I didn't want to kill him." Nen raised an eyebrow. Alessa continued. "It was a bully. He was hurting me, calling me mean names. Hitting me. Spitting on me. Calling me a witch, a thief, so many other horrible things... I wanted to be like the other girls, but.. I wanted him away. I didn't want to kill him, but I guess I didn't know my own strength. Instead of pushing him, he suffered a heart attack. I overdid it and he died. The teachers and the principal didn't suspect anything, but some of the kids did and started to accuse me of being a killer... I.. i.."
Alessa began to cry. "I'm sorry, John. I shouldn't be telling you these things! These are not thoughts for a little girl! I shouldn't even be thinking like this.. It's not for someone like me!"
Alessa cried harder. Nen felt very bad for this girl. Such sorrow and pain. "Alessa, I'm sorry... If I had known I wouldn't have asked."
"It's okay, John. It's not your fault. You were just curious. Truth is, I'm glad you're around. I don't want you to leave. Everything was just so bad for me, but I feel like because I now know someone who doesn't make fun of me, that maybe I can be a little more cheerful. Would you like to meet my mother, John?"
Nen thought about what she said. Should he? Why not. He nodded and Alessa got up as she wiped the tears from her eyes. "Okay, lets go."
Just as she grabbed his arm, the moaning and screaming started up again. "Alessa! It's happening again!" The world started to get darker. "W...t..No...Ohn... Ot... gain!" "Help me, Alessa!" "..Y... ther.. Elp...." Everything went by like the speed of light. It was as if he wasn't there. Snippets of the world he could experience, but it flashed in and out like a strobe. After awhile he could make out a blurry house. Getting closer.. Door.. Open.. Room, table.. Sitting.. Alessa's mother? Alessa. Drink...
"..ink that.." a warbly voice said.
Alessa, the only clear figure left, grabbed Nen hand and made him pick up a drink. Looked like a tea. He took a drink. The world got a little clearer. He took what strength he had left and drank it all. The world was back now and he was absolutely exhausted. Nen took a breath and exhaled. "John!"
Nen looked at Alessa. Always there for him. "Thank you so much.." "Don't thank me, thank my mother!"
Nen searched around the kitchen and there at the sink was a woman. She put down a dish she was washing and walked over to the kitchen table. "Ah, our guest of the hour. Welcome.. John?" Nen nodded. "Thank you. You made that tea, right?" The woman nodded. "Well, I thank you so much for that. These headaches I've been having have grown increasingly more violent. The world keeps going dark and blurring out, and if it had not been for your tea.."
(I would've gone back probably to the dark school, or maybe even back to the hospital.)
"If it had not been for my tea, you might've died. Who knows. Anyway, all I know is that you're doing much better. My name is Dahlia Gillespie."
(Alessa Gillespie then.)
"Pleasure meeting you, Dahlia."
(Wasn't there something in reports that Dahlia Gillespie was a cult leader who.. BURNED HER OWN DAUGHTER ALIVE?! JESUS CHRIST!)
While he thought that, Alessa looked at John for a second, then back at Dahlia, then back again to John. "Well mother, I'm going to show him my room. Cya later!" Alessa grabbed John's arm and walked upstairs and into her room, then locking the door. "John, I heard what you thought. In papers? Who are you really?" said Alessa, trying to keep her voice down so that Dahlia would not hear her. Nen sighed. "I thought you'd never ask."
(This is going to get interesting.) Thought Alessa.
"Okay, my real name is Nen Gott. I'm a detective... As strange as it may sound, from the future. I went there looking for clues on a murder. While there with a fellow detective, things started to go strange. There was no one there. Fog. Monsters. Flashbacks to the past. Metal grating. A car I was in crashed. Someone named Cheryl Mason and her nephew. We finally arrived at a school. I think that the times when I've been having these headaches.. You see, the first time I met you, I was sleeping in a hospital. Alchemillia. You know, Alessa.. A girl in a dress exactly like yours walked out in front of the car I was in, and the driver, a detective as well, swirved and we crashed, and while I was unconscious I woke up in a hospital. After living there for about 5 days, I fell asleep and woke up in the school as a completely different person named John. I excused myself and walked out of the classroom.
Then I met you after acidentally stumbling into the girls bathroom. On our way back to the class, I had another 'headache' and woke up in the hospital again, this time with a temperature of what sounded like 120, even though I was freezing. I was in a tub, and they were pouring ice on me, it was terrible. Afterwards, I woke up after that car crash and met Cheryl and her nephew and went to our school... I don't.. I don't know what's real anymore, and frankly, it's starting to scare me, Alessa. And now that I feel like I'm in some sort of alternate reality, that this might be real, that maybe I have a chance to save you. Maybe I have a chance to save you from what will happen to you, if this really is real. I know what your mother is going to do to you. I want to help, I really do. If this is real."
Alessa sank into a chair in the corner of her room and absorbed what Nen just said.
"Wow." was all that came out of her at that moment. "My mother..? But why? She's a great person, I love her."
"I don't know," said Nen, "but I'm going to find out."
TO BE CONTINUED
Book 2
From the moment Nen asked where they would go next, a strange screeching moan rumbled the road. Lightning began to flash as raindrops hurrled towards the ground like Japanese World War 2 kamikaze pilots. A few rumbles, and then another long screeching moan echoed through the sky. The lightning gave a brief look at the horrid monstrosity that had been stealthfully following Douglas' car. It's HUGE. Now whatever it was, it was making its presense known. The sight of this black mass of whatever it was scared Nen. "What in the hell is that thing?"
Cheryl looked at it for a second. She then got into the driver's seat of her car. "Hurry! Get in unless you want to be two red smears on the pavement!"
"Kayla, why do I get the feeling we've done this before?" "Probably because we have."
Kayla got in the passenger's seat as Nen got in the back. A little boy awaited him. "Hello, mister."
Nen wondered why in the hell a little boy would be here in this place. "Cheryl, who is this kid?" Cheryl looked into the rear view mirror. "That's my son." Nen looked at the kid again. "What's your name?" The boy smiled and said, "My name's Herald, sir. Herald Mason." Nen shook the boy's hand. "I'm Nen Gott, and the lady in the passenger's seat is Kayla Warden. Now, let's get the hell out of here!"
Cheryl hit the gas. As soon as they did, the titan of a creature roared and started to run. Each footstep made a mark in the pavement and vibrated the car. The creature started to pick up pieces of the road that he made when he was running. He threw them at the car. Cheryl pushed down on the accelerator and turned hard to the left. The huge mass of road just missed them. The huge wall of black flesh lunged at the car. It seemed hopeless. They all prepared for the end. Suddenly, far off sirens sung their song. The monster stopped in mid-air and repostioned itself. Cheryl said, "Now is NOT the time to stop and stare at the creature!"
She continued to drive at full speed down the road. "Hang on!" Cheryl said roughly. From the darkness behind the car hundreds of little creatures started growling and running towards the car. "Those things must be insanely fast! I'm going at 120 miles per hour!" Cheryl said, almost in a state of panic. "We need to get shelter! When I tell you to, jump out of the car!"
A sign popped up from the darkness for a split second. "OLD SILENT HILL" "Okay... Almost there.. JUMP!"
Kayla and Nen jumped out of the car and onto some thick grass. It was painful, but it was a very useful cushion. They would've been dead if it had not been for Cheryl's precise timing. They rolled around constantly as the little creatures followed Cheryl's car and off into the night. They ignored Nen and Kayla. "Nen! Are you okay?!" Kayla shouted, trying to find Nen through the darkness. Another voice came back. "I'm alright! I found some shelter! Follow my voice!"
Kayla started walking towards the sound of his voice. "Keep on walking! That's it! I see you now... Follow me!"
Nen and Kayla started running towards some steps. Ahead of them was a sign and a two large doors. "Midwich Elementary".
"Alright Kayla, lets go in."
They both stepped inside. The first room was a rather squarish room. To the left was a desk with a map on it. To the right were some benches, and above the two doors was a long, slender window. Nen searched around his trenchcoat and found a chest pocket flashlight. He put it in his upper left chest pocket. Kayla found one as well and did the same thing. Nen took the map and they headed through the door on the opposite side of the room. They entered into a long hallway. To the right were some lockers and a few doors, to the left looked to be some sort of reception area. "Did you hear that Nen?"
Nen looked around. "No, I don't hear... anything out of the ordinary, as strange as that may sound."
Kayla looked towards the doubledoors at the end of the hallway to the left. A strange, mouldy colored creature laughed in a deep voice and started to walk towards them. It was truly disgusting and it carried a rusty knife! "Kayla! What the hell is that thing!?!"
Another one came out of a locker and joined its comrade. It moaned and wheezed. Nen searched around in his trenchcoat again and found a knife, as did Kayla. At least they were even now. "I don't know what it is, but it looks like.. Demon children or something! My God, it's horrible!"
The two demon children rushed towards them. Kayla stabbed one in the head, pulled her knife out, and slashed it across the chest. It fell down and started twitching and moaning. Kayla stepped on it a few times. Hard. It was dead. Nen on the other hand wasn't faring so well. The demon child facing him was much more experienced in fighting. It made a few quick slashes towards Nen and cut his right leg. "Argh!"
He knocked him over and was poised to strike. He pushed it to the left and reversed the tables. Now HE was on top if it. The feel of its rubbery flesh was truly horrid. He took his knife and drove it deep into its heart. He then pulled up and the knife came out of its shoulder. It died. Nen got up and wiped his mouth off. The adrenaline then went away and he felt the immense pain in his leg. It definitely slowed down his walking.
"Kayla, right here on this map it says infirmary. It's right there." Nen pointed to his right. "Perhaps there I can bandage this wound."
They walked inside and found a bed. Nen sat upon it while Kayla opened some drawers looking for bandages. Finally she found a medical kit. She layed it on the bed and open it up. Fortunately in college she got a bachelor's degree in healing, so she knew how to treat the wound. After doing so, Nen stood up and his leg felt like new. "Kayla, what the hell is going on in this town?" "I wish I knew Nen, I really do wish that I knew. This place is like hell."
Nen got up and Kayla followed. He walked into the courtyard and across the yard into another hallway. After walking down the hallway, he stopped for a moment. Something was familiar about a door he was in front of. He opened it up and stepped inside.
"What are you looking for, Nen?" "This place.. It feels familiar to me and I don't know why." "Really? I... I feel the same way." "That's strange. But we've never been here before, right?" "Apparently."
Nen walked around the classroom, surverying everything. After looking at some strange drawings, he found a desk with something scribbled on it. "Go home. Thief. Drop dead."
"Go home thief drop dead?" said Nen with puzzlement on his mind. He walked outside where he came from. The world started to spin, he could hear his heartbeat, the world now started to change.. To blur... Moaning, screaming, the banging of metal and the skinning of flesh... It all stopped and he found himself on the floor. Daylight poured through his closed eyelids and sounds of children could be heard.
:"John?! Someone help, I think he's hurt!"
(John? That's..That's not possible!)
Nen opened his eyes and he was on his back. Above him was Alessa. "John! I thought that something terrible had happened!" Nen blinked his eyes quickly and rubbed his head. "Alessa?" She nodded. She grab his arms and bolstered him up upon her shoulders. "Here, this should help." She so dearly wanted to get out of school. She never wanted to resort to using them, but in this case she had to. She walked into history class and she concentrated on the teacher. "There you two are! I was about to se---" Alessa used them. (((TEACHER. LET ALESSA AND JOHN GO. NOW.))) The teacher began to see visions of a bizzare, horrific twisted world. Flesh for walls! Metal grating floors! Children bleeding and skinless in hanging cages! She accepted what was told to her and the vision went away. "Alessa, you and John can go today. I can see that he is hurt and that you are in a severe amount of stress. Off you go!" Alessa supported Nen out of the school and layed him on a wooden bench outside. "The sunlight should do you good, John." Nen took a few deep breaths as some birds chirped and a few cars drove by. It must've been around 12:00. "Alessa, I'm.. I'm fine.. Let me tell you something, it feels so great to be out here in the sunlight. I think I've been seriously deprived of it recently." Nen basked in the sunlight for a few minutes and Alessa sat next to him. "Sunlight sure is nice, isn't it John? Being cooped up in a school and then suddenly being released into the sunshine. Sure, maybe the other kids are able to, but only for so many minutes before we get to go back inside." Nen then wondered how Alessa got them out. "Alessa, how did you persuade our history teacher in to letting us go for the day? You seemed to do it so easily." Alessa looked at very green grass surrounding the bench. "I have other powers besides reading people's thoughts. I can also make them do things.... I could even kill someone if I wanted to. I could kill our teacher. But I'm not that kind of person."
"You can kill people with your mind, Alessa?" Alessa nodded. "I wish I wasn't able to. I.. I did kill someone once. It was in self defense. I didn't want to kill him." Nen raised an eyebrow. Alessa continued. "It was a bully. He was hurting me, calling me mean names. Hitting me. Spitting on me. Calling me a witch, a thief, so many other horrible things... I wanted to be like the other girls, but.. I wanted him away. I didn't want to kill him, but I guess I didn't know my own strength. Instead of pushing him, he suffered a heart attack. I overdid it and he died. The teachers and the principal didn't suspect anything, but some of the kids did and started to accuse me of being a killer... I.. i.."
Alessa began to cry. "I'm sorry, John. I shouldn't be telling you these things! These are not thoughts for a little girl! I shouldn't even be thinking like this.. It's not for someone like me!"
Alessa cried harder. Nen felt very bad for this girl. Such sorrow and pain. "Alessa, I'm sorry... If I had known I wouldn't have asked."
"It's okay, John. It's not your fault. You were just curious. Truth is, I'm glad you're around. I don't want you to leave. Everything was just so bad for me, but I feel like because I now know someone who doesn't make fun of me, that maybe I can be a little more cheerful. Would you like to meet my mother, John?"
Nen thought about what she said. Should he? Why not. He nodded and Alessa got up as she wiped the tears from her eyes. "Okay, lets go."
Just as she grabbed his arm, the moaning and screaming started up again. "Alessa! It's happening again!" The world started to get darker. "W...t..No...Ohn... Ot... gain!" "Help me, Alessa!" "..Y... ther.. Elp...." Everything went by like the speed of light. It was as if he wasn't there. Snippets of the world he could experience, but it flashed in and out like a strobe. After awhile he could make out a blurry house. Getting closer.. Door.. Open.. Room, table.. Sitting.. Alessa's mother? Alessa. Drink...
"..ink that.." a warbly voice said.
Alessa, the only clear figure left, grabbed Nen hand and made him pick up a drink. Looked like a tea. He took a drink. The world got a little clearer. He took what strength he had left and drank it all. The world was back now and he was absolutely exhausted. Nen took a breath and exhaled. "John!"
Nen looked at Alessa. Always there for him. "Thank you so much.." "Don't thank me, thank my mother!"
Nen searched around the kitchen and there at the sink was a woman. She put down a dish she was washing and walked over to the kitchen table. "Ah, our guest of the hour. Welcome.. John?" Nen nodded. "Thank you. You made that tea, right?" The woman nodded. "Well, I thank you so much for that. These headaches I've been having have grown increasingly more violent. The world keeps going dark and blurring out, and if it had not been for your tea.."
(I would've gone back probably to the dark school, or maybe even back to the hospital.)
"If it had not been for my tea, you might've died. Who knows. Anyway, all I know is that you're doing much better. My name is Dahlia Gillespie."
(Alessa Gillespie then.)
"Pleasure meeting you, Dahlia."
(Wasn't there something in reports that Dahlia Gillespie was a cult leader who.. BURNED HER OWN DAUGHTER ALIVE?! JESUS CHRIST!)
While he thought that, Alessa looked at John for a second, then back at Dahlia, then back again to John. "Well mother, I'm going to show him my room. Cya later!" Alessa grabbed John's arm and walked upstairs and into her room, then locking the door. "John, I heard what you thought. In papers? Who are you really?" said Alessa, trying to keep her voice down so that Dahlia would not hear her. Nen sighed. "I thought you'd never ask."
(This is going to get interesting.) Thought Alessa.
"Okay, my real name is Nen Gott. I'm a detective... As strange as it may sound, from the future. I went there looking for clues on a murder. While there with a fellow detective, things started to go strange. There was no one there. Fog. Monsters. Flashbacks to the past. Metal grating. A car I was in crashed. Someone named Cheryl Mason and her nephew. We finally arrived at a school. I think that the times when I've been having these headaches.. You see, the first time I met you, I was sleeping in a hospital. Alchemillia. You know, Alessa.. A girl in a dress exactly like yours walked out in front of the car I was in, and the driver, a detective as well, swirved and we crashed, and while I was unconscious I woke up in a hospital. After living there for about 5 days, I fell asleep and woke up in the school as a completely different person named John. I excused myself and walked out of the classroom.
Then I met you after acidentally stumbling into the girls bathroom. On our way back to the class, I had another 'headache' and woke up in the hospital again, this time with a temperature of what sounded like 120, even though I was freezing. I was in a tub, and they were pouring ice on me, it was terrible. Afterwards, I woke up after that car crash and met Cheryl and her nephew and went to our school... I don't.. I don't know what's real anymore, and frankly, it's starting to scare me, Alessa. And now that I feel like I'm in some sort of alternate reality, that this might be real, that maybe I have a chance to save you. Maybe I have a chance to save you from what will happen to you, if this really is real. I know what your mother is going to do to you. I want to help, I really do. If this is real."
Alessa sank into a chair in the corner of her room and absorbed what Nen just said.
"Wow." was all that came out of her at that moment. "My mother..? But why? She's a great person, I love her."
"I don't know," said Nen, "but I'm going to find out."
TO BE CONTINUED