Aliena had soo many questions and she realised she was even more and more thirsty for that tea. She drinked more, even if it was so bitter, but the answers from the scholar were not materialising.
She realized that the last sip of the tea left a drop on the brown table, near the mooncake and she could sea the moon reflection in it. But it was still day, just the beginning of the evening which should have a lot of light in Hong Kong.
How was that possible?She was indeed back in 2013, it felt so real, but she wasn't herself, she could not put her thoughts together. She could not open her angel wings and fly, she could not find the answers from the scholar, she wanted to scream, but she knew nobody will understand her. The Library was closed that day, the birds were talking, but she was silent. She felt nothing but the impossible mission to find what happened there with her time and space, she was like a student in the exam room, she felt she forgot everything and could not trust her instinct to remember.
-The scholar looked into her eyes and slowly disappeared with the early evening wind. But she knew something there happened in 2013 and it was now, was she locked in a time space secret room, was that library real, was she there and in what form?
She saw a medium mirror in the shape of a circle, covered with an old blanket that probably the libranians used to protect its glass. She wanted to take off that brown blanket and see herself in that mirror. Was she still beautiful as she always was in her trips around the Universe?
She kept adding that bitter medicinal tea into her cup and after drinking it, she just saw that tea started to dance in small drops.
-What, is she hallucinating now? A dancing tea here and now, just after the evening wind took away the scholar and his answers.
-She wanted to politely ask the tea to stop dancing, but instead she started to scream at it until she lost her voice.
-Why are you screaming like that, asked a drop of tea that was ready to join the dance circle of the other drops. Do you know who we are, what we are, our power?
Aliena was shocked, she looked closer, she could not believe it, such a small drop of tea having such a strong voice that she could hear so clearly.
She lost her voice, she could not put herself together so some tears started to jump on her face. Those tears joined the dancing tea and started to speak.
-Aliena, you feel like a human now, we are drops of your soul, a part of the universe that you left here and we can help you find yourself.
But before she could answer, the dancing tea started to go around her, like a circle of fire reflected in drops of water.