Phoenix woke up the next morning a bit more refreshed but he was still confused.
"Mr. Wright, you have a visitor." the same nurse from the other day announced.
"Is it Maya?"
"I don't know, sir, it's a little girl."
"Ah, well… let her in." Phoenix was confused.
He wiped his hands against his face as he sat on his bed. A little girl? He didn't have a child, that's what they told him, so he had no idea who…
"Good morning, Mr. Nick." He was startled by a little voice.
He looked but he didn't see anyone, he looked down and he saw a, more or less, ten years old girl, she had chestnut hair tied with two pigtails and she wore clothes similar to Maya. She had big eyes and she was looking at him with both joy and worry.
"I… Hi, little one. Who are you?"
"My name is Pearl Fey, I'm mystic Maya's cousin, and I study in Kurain to become a medium." She happily recited, like if she had memorized.
"Ah… Really?" Phoenix asked in awe. "So you are Maya's cousin…"
"Yes." She nodded. "Mystic Maya said that you couldn't remember anything, so I had to come."
"But why are you calling Maya with 'mystic'?"
Pearl seemed surprised.
"Mr. Nick! You have to remember mystic Maya and how important she is!"
"Alright, alright." He almost cried, defensively. The girl seemed pretty angry. "First, my name is not Nick, is Phoenix. And I do remember Maya. Well, not really, I just know that I know her. But why is she so important?"
"Mr. Nick!" She repeated, ignoring his attempts to make her remember his name. "Mystic Maya, is the future master of the kurain channeling technique…"
"Somebody will have to explain that to me." Phoenix mumbled.
"…Not only that, Mystic Maya is…" She placed her hands in her cheeks, smiling like if she was giving a big secret away. "… you're 'special someone'."
The lawyer took a few minutes to understand what she said.
"Wait… Maya and I… Are together?"
"Yes!" She yelled, happy that he finally understood. "You are her prince! Love is something that cannot be forgotten!"
The image of Maya came back to Phoenix's mind, but now he looked at it with a different point of view. Was it truth? He had a relationship with that strange girl?
"Well, 'prince' sounds a little… childish."
"But it's true! You would give your life for her, that's what you did when the car was about to run her over…"
"What?"
"When the car was about to run her over…" She repeated. "You jumped and pushed her to safety, don't you remember? Then the car hit you instead and you ended like this."
"I… No, I can't remember." Phoenix mumbled.
Did he truly do that? He risked his own life to protect her?
"And then mystic Maya, stayed all day in the hospital, she slept in a sofa in the waiting room so she could be at your side, so she could be here when you woke up."
Phoenix remembered Maya's bloodshot and bags, now he knew why she didn't slept well. She probably stayed hours awake waiting for him to wake up, she probably didn't even slept at all because of how worried she was.
"She called me yesterday saying that you finally woke up, so I came from Kurain village to see you. I'm really happy because you are well."
"Ah, wow… thanks, Pearl." Phoenix was tankfull and he turned his attention back to her.
"You're welcome. But… ahmm…" The girl mustered while biting her thumb, like if she was thinking.
"What?"
"Is nothing, is just that you always called me 'Pearls' before." She told him with a shy smile.
"Ah, ok. Then, thanks, Pearls." He smiled.
Pearls giggled. They talked for a few minutes, but the girl didn't answer any of his doubts, Phoenix discovered that she had a vision of the world that seemed to be pulled out of a fairy tale. For her, the lawyer seemed to be some kind of hero from a book. Sometime later Phoenix started to show signs of exhaustion because of the painkillers, so Pearls said goodbye.
"I have to go, Mystic Maya said that you needed to rest. She will come to see you soon, Mr. Nick, so you can be together."
She expressed that with a spark in her eyes that make him feel uncomfortable after she happily left. Phoenix adjusted himself in the bed, thinking about Maya. It was truth that her visit woke feelings in him, he felt kindness and friendship, but not love. Or he misunderstood the signs? He shocked his head, later he will have time to clear things up, and at that moment he felt way too tired to want to do anything besides sleeping.
Translator notes:
RE: Hikari R: Well yeah... First of all, I know that Maya wears a yukata, but the original story says kimono, mainly because the narrative is in Phoenix's perspective, so it makes sense that with amnesia he can't tell the diference between a kimono and a yukata. That is also the reason Maya's bun it's called a top-knot. And second (and most importantly) There were no americans involved in the creation of this fic. The original autor is spanish and I'm (the translator) mexican.
RE: to everyone: Thank you all, in the name of the original autor and mine, for following this story.