The legend never leaves...punishment cannot and will not stop her! Yes! Sparkie Spiritra is back with a whole new chapter to If You Can Hear And Remember Me! Coolness? I know ya'll missed me! So here it is. Major chapter and a tearjerker.
Chapter 8
The Blizzard
Delphine sat by the window with Al playing a board game. "Al? Do you know who I am?" Al looked startled. "Uh, Delphine...what do you mean by that?" "Did you know me before my accident?" "Yep." She rolled her dice and moved to the cooresponding spot. "Well?" Delphine said impatiently. "Well what?" "What was I like?" Al didn't want to tell her how horrible she was. And how she captured her and her friends Claus and Lavie. And how she brainwashed her own brother...which eventually almost cause his death. And finally, how she saw Cicada "die" and did nothing about it until it was too late. "I...you were...um..." "Fine." It started to snow lightly. Delphine got up, grabbed her coat, and went outside. She ran down the sidewalk. Al stood up but could not move. Her feet were glued to the spot. Her mouth was glued shut. Meanwhile, Delphine tore down the street. Her legs carried her farther and farther away from home. She began to cry in anger and frustration. Not at Al. But at herself. For letting this happen and being so helpless...
It began to snow harder. It soon became so thick that Al couldn't see out the window.
Later that night, Cicada, Kisara, and Kisarami came home, followed by Holly and Sparkie playing snow tag. Al almost collapsed. What was Cicada going to do when he found out..."Where's Delphine?" Cicada asked. Al snapped back and ran to him. She collapsed into him and buried her face in his chest. "She's...She's g-gone!" Cicada couldn't believe her. "What do you mean, gone?" "Sh-she asked m-me w-what she was l-like and I c-couldn't tell her, and sh-she l-left!" "Where?" "I d-don't know! She just ran d-down the r-road!" Kisara glanced at all of them. Then she pushed her mother aside and burst out the door. "Kisara! Get back here!" Kisarami ordered. Kisara did not stop. She ran right to the stable and got Isis, her pinto. "Shh, girl, we're on a rescue mission!" She rode out in the direction Delphine went. Minutes became hours, and she was on the verge of giving up. Then something caught her eye. A hand was coming out from the pile of snow in front of snow. Kisara rode over to the spot. She grabbed the hand. It was icy to the touch. She pulled with all the strength in her small body. She pulled up Delphine's frozen form. "Delphine?" Kisara asked weakly. She put her ear to Delphine's mouth. She was still alive. Kisara took of her cloak and put it around Delphine's shoulders. "Isis. Head, please. Atta girl..." Isis lowered her head so Kisara could lift Delphine on her. After securing Delphine to the horse, Kisara got on and rode until Isis got tired and fell. Isis had been their map, as she knew the way home. Now they were completely lost. "Please...God, please make her OK. Make her be alive. Make us get home." Kisara silently prayed.
About an hour later, a pickup truck with a woman and two twins, a girl and a boy, pulled up next to them. The woman immediatley rushed over to the spot. "What happened, little lady?" She had a southern accent. The two kids kicked open the car and half ran, half fell to the spot. "What's going on?" The boy asked. They looked about 14. They were in sweat clothes. The boy had a long red ponytail. The girl had the same shade of red braids. "What's wrong with that lady?" She asked. "Please. Help us. My name is Kisara Kisarami. This is Delphine Eraclea. She needs help. My horse broke her leg in a fall and I don't know my way and Delphine's sick..." "Hold on." The woman lifted Delphine into the back seat and wrapped her up in a bunch of blankets. "Jake, do you think you could help Cassidy get the horse into the car?" "Aye, aye, ma'am!" The boy and girl ran out to the back. "Kisara, you can get in the passenger's seat. My name's Alicia Miller, by the way." "Thank you, Mrs. Miller." A grim look cast upon Alicia's face. "Actually, it's Ms. Miller. I'm divorced." "Sorry." "It's OK, you didn't mean harm. You didn't even know. So, how'd ya'll get out here?" "She ran away." "Why?" "It's a long story." "Where do you live?" "On the outskirts of the city." "Then we have time." Kisara began.
"You see, Delphine had a heart attack. She lost all of her memory and she asked Al what she was like, and Al couldn't do it because..." She went on to talk about the Guild and how Delphine had been Maestro and what she had done.
They finally got back to the house, with Cicada waiting outside. Jake and Cassidy got Isis back into the stable and Alicia helped Kisara get Delphine into the house. Kisarami rushed to her daughter and threw her arms around her. "Never run away again, do you understand me?" Then she looked to Delphine, and her face softened. "On second thought, good job." Cicada came inside and lifted Delphine into his arms. He rocked her back and forth. She was icy to the touch. "Delphine, please wake up..." He shook her in an attempt to awaken her. "Let me take her temperature." She put the thermometer into Delphine mouth. When it beeped a few seconds later, she looked at it and gasped. "Good Lord!" She exclaimed. "It's 64 degrees! She's got hypothermia!" She immediately got Delphine on a hospital bed and into the emergency room. And for the first time, Cicada let a single tear slip down his cheek.