She quickly realized how her headache was still there and sat back down. "Look, I don't know what you think, but you were the first person to stop talking, and I didn't even know the reason why...and I don't want to know the reason why. While also, you are the only person I know, that I had protected, without knowing I was protecting you."
Nada stared at Aefia not knowing how to reply. She looked up at her face and slammed her head back on the table. "And I must have been blabbering nonsense again. Don't you have anything else to do?" She said while keeping her head low, and her voice coming out somewhat muffled.
"Aefia, don't just be harsh to her, she probably doesn't know all that you are talking about...you might just mistakenly send her further from you, and you don't want that, I am certain of it." Puppet whispered into her ears.
Aefia, hearing it's words, moved her head up. "Let's forget that anything happened after we came to this dimension, and let's... reconcile." She held out her hand at the shocked Nada.
She moved at such incredible speed, that Aefia almost fell off her chair thinking she might be far gone from her sanity. Nada grabbed her right hand with both of her hands as she moved halfway across the table, "So you are willing to forgive me?!"
"Look I will think of it, but I can't if you don't back up. And don't be too optimistic in front me, it's creeping me out." Aefia spoke through gritted teeth. She instinctly pulled her hand away from the tight grasp and held her burning knuckles. "And...your hand is absurdly cold, don't you have your pin or brooch around with you?" She spoke, trying not to be hostile.
"Oh, sorry about that." Nada moved back and sat back down. She picked up the third pencil from a row of them, and started writing on her assignments. "Why are you doing my homework? Are you sure you are willing to help me finish them?"
"You seemed pretty stressed earlier about your homeworks." Nada replied while happily scribbling onto her assignments. "Anyway, you seemed tired the last two days, what were you stressed about? I was concerned that your health was fragile, and I really wanted to ask you about it...but I was slightly afraid that you might find me irritating or annoying."
"And what told you that I would be just like how you just said?" Aefia asked while clasping her hand and using them to level her jaw on the table. "Maybe I need to be more precise, but why did you suddenly stop talking with me like I didn't exist in the first place?"
Nada started shaking in place, and it seemed to Aefia that she was recalling a specific memory where she might have been a bit out of the ordinary with her expressions. "Nevermind that, I think I am supposed to be sorry for whatever I may have done. You should continue with whatever you are doing, although...I won't have forced you to do it."
"Are you going somewhere in specific?" Nada asked while looking at her. "You just sat down here, you don't just want to leave immediately, do you?"
"Are you looking for a conversation where you can ask me about multiple questions that drove you into trying to be hostile with me?" Aefia spoke back. "I should say, even when you didn't speak with me for around a week and more, I was still alive. If you are worrying about how I have been doing with my own work and tasks, then I should say, I have never been better."
"...Are you still mad at me because I cut you off entirely without noticing that you were probably trying to just survive too?" Nada asked with an almost guilty look.
"I never said I was. In fact, I think it best, that after this, we can have a last conversation and I am done being your friend. I enjoyed the time I had spent with you, from the age of eight, to fifteen. Because I think, you are just too fragile to being called my friend." Aefia said while standing up.
"Look, Aefia I didn't mean to suddenly throw you out of my life like what you think! I was just adjusting to this new life that everything felt suspicious for me...so I may have misjudged you back then!" Nada spoke out.
"Then...why try and prove that you were really just trying to 'adjust' as you said, and then I will see if getting along with you will be advantageous for me. Otherwise, you have Anasiy and Diego to consider as friends too." Aefia spoke one last time before turning around. "And if you really want to prove yourself, you may try and get into a battle with me."
"A battle? With you to a battle?" Nada spoke as she was sent aback. "But I am still too weak. I don't even know if I am going to be strong enough to face a beast my phase..."
"Then you may drop my belongings and walk away." Aefia spoke while walking away towards a shelf nearby. A familiar shelf with books about outer worlds, but this time, she didn't have interest in them. She walked past those shelves and looked towards the restricted area again.
Should I or should I not? Confront the mage like that? Maybe the Guardians can help? But they must be busy right now. Multiple thought came rushing into her mind and left her in a stressful and anxious state. And then, she remembered that Puppet hadn't followed her back to the table, neither did the chimera.
And another thought went into the chaos of her mind, didn't Albert say that...he could see the chimera dragon in the body of a normal human who doesn't have the system or discover it yet. And it is completely off that the waving and tapping in the air could summon a system like that!
She traced the shape of the books on each shelves while passing through them, while overthinking her situation right now. She wanted to go and check if Nada was still upset over her words or if she was currently thinking about a response to give back to Aefia when she went back.
Nada...she is a very sensitive person and almost anything can hurt her, and that is something I don't want to see if she were to face a real enemy somedays. She can't fight her own mentality, how is she going to last the remaining of the time she is forced to stay in here. I may have an escape for myself, but for that I am just falling into a more work zone. I find it impossible to say, the sky is bright for anyone who is alive.
I have plans for her, that is why I need to mentally prepare her. But am I doing it the right way?...Maybe it isn't a matter for me now.
She continued walking from one shelve to another with almost nothing that interested her mind into, but she also wanted to read about something that her mind just couldn't think. Staying away from Nada, her headache was at ease and her mind started clearing up.
Wow, I need a bunch of applause for forgetting that I was supposed to be looking for Puppet and Cindy. Helio must have thought that Nada and I were just going to have a friendly conversation that wasn't going to be worth interrupting and walked away with them.
But now that they are gone, I think I can finally investigate something I have been longing to do until now. I want to read this ritualistic book that I am carrying, but I fear that I may get involved with the rituals a little bit more if I try to read it.
For now...I will stealth and enter the library. And this time, I will really kill that bastard before he flees again. I must remove all aspects of that demon spawn before I move on with my next step. Aefia throught through gritted teeth and clenched fists while lowering the hood over her face. Because this step will effect the remainder of my missions permenantly.
She took a step forward and flickered on a screen. This time, she made sure the signals of the cameras in the library that were guarding the door to the restricted area. And with the second step, a wave of magic spread across the ground she was walking on, and completely camouflaged her.
Using her stealth form, she quietly walked into the elegant archway and upon entering, the cameras blurred back to life.
***
"Ugh!" Puppet shouted as it flew through the air, pounced up and fell back down, in repeated actions and finally, slammed a book out of the shelve, which fell backwards instead. "What is wrong with me! I can't seem to control myself!"
"Chill out! If Aefia were here, she would smack the heck out of you, so you better behave otherwise if she comes looking for us, she might rip you into tiny glass pieces." Helio tried to grab onto the rageful Puppet.
"Cindy, catch Puppet." He commanded the chimera dragon as he ran from the opposite direction of the shelves. Puppet was an incredibly fast flyer and in a blink of an eye, it would dissapear into another space like teleporting there. Although, in reality, Aefia would be doing the same thing.
"When will she be done talking? Puppet fears no one except her and we might need her help in this. She was right when she said it was just a cat she had with the appearance of a wolf and as talkative as a parrot." Helio ran while speaking out loud, not knowing much about how it sounded.
He noticed a bright streak of a beautiful trail, moving around like fireworks and then, flames were seen. "Cindy caught it then!" He rushed into the confrontation between the two of them and grabbed onto Puppet's mouth. "Will patting it calm it down?" He asked Cindy while in panic.
Cindy couldn't speak, but she could understand what she was being told. When asked a yes or no question, she could either nod or shake her head. As an answer for this question, she nodded her headed as she quickly flapped its wings and flew over to Puppet and hugged it. Every movement left a crackling sound, which sounded slightly painful.
Suddenly, Puppet breathed out fire and fell asleep, while Cindy and Helio signed as they were relieved. "How such an awkward situation we had to go through. Am I right?" He asked Cindy while she slowly flapped her wings and landed onto his palm. She looked up and nodded with a smile where the flames were used to represent emotions.
Then, Cindy started panicking as she flew around a small space that seemed to be a gesture that said she was pacing a room. "Is there a matter?" Helio asked a little bit concerned. Cindy nodded as she flew faster and faster.
"What is the problem? Are you hungry?" And Cindy shook her head. "Sleepy?" She shook her head again. "You sense danger?" This time, she briefly nodded her head and pointed down with her leg at the twitching Puppet. "What is wrong with it?"
Then, Cindy showed an angry face and flew over to the end of the shelves while peaking at someone or something. When she found out that Helio was eventually following her, she pointed at the person sitting on the table.
Helio peaked over to see what it meant. "It's just Nada, she is thinking about something." He said as he was about to walk away. Cindy moved in the air to face Helio, and she pointed back at the table. This time, he took another look at Nada, and the way she was now holding the pencil with a little bit of trembling. Something was missing.
"I thought Aefia was supposed to be here?" He asked after a long observation. Then, Cindy picked up a bandage which Helio didn't notice she had brought it back with her in a swift movement. "What? She is supposed to be hurt?"
Cindy shook her head very urgently, and held out the bandage while making an angry face and pointing at Puppet who was slowly shaking with a nervous and anxious look on its face. "So, do you want to say that Aefia is pretty mad? Because Puppet was mad and it can feel the emotions she is currently feeling?"
Cindy nodded, but didn't stop pointing at the sleeping wolf, she seemed in a hurry. Helio took a few moments to realize that Cindy was trying to tell him to look for Aefia because her elemental animal had been acting abnormal just a few seconds ago.
Back at the table, Nada went through the conversation she had with Aefia about joining her in a battle and proving that she was worth being friends with. It felt to her that their friendship was at a fragile state, but thinking about how painful battles were, she stayed in place finding it hard to hold a pencil.
Suddenly, a shadow fell on top of the paper she was working on and she lifted her face. "Did Aefia tell you where she was headed?" Helio asked urgently.
"Not really. She asked me to join her in a battle to try and prove my worth, and then she angrily left without looking back even once." Nada softly replied. "I thought she probably went looking for you?"
***
Albert moved around the library freely in a rapid movement as particles slammed against his face. Abruptly, he was forced to stop as a barrier appeared in front of a bunch of shelves and then, she could see his own face on the glass-like shield. Then, slowly but surely, a figure approached him.
"Nevermind that, must be the Guardians' doings." Aefia held out a gun at the head of the iced mage as he was staring into the shiny surface with disbelieve in his eyes. "You left the room a while ago! How are you still in here!" His voice shook as he stood up from the ground and his knees shivered. Disregarding the matter, he threw a claw at Aefia's eyes.