"Stop! I'm friend!" A high pitched voice sounded from the light next to me.
Am I the only one who can hear it?
I turned my head, and saw Edward sheathe his shown blade, and Katherine looking past my eyes.
I guess they can hear it as well?
"Tjer, it's a fair one—a fairy to be exact," Edward said, holding his loosened hand around his sword handle.
"A fairy? What is that?"
"It's a spiritkind—but why would it show itself?"
"Because Tjer is friend."
My head slowly turned to my side.
"Why am I friend?"
"Because you helped."
"When did I help you?"
"Not me... sister...lost sister in forest!"
What did I encounter in the forest...
"Are you talking about the wooden mother?"
"Mother? What are you talking about?" Edward pitched in, his eyes had widened.
"It was in Lusd, I don't think it was a monster—a creature made from a mother's desire."
His hand left his side, settling onto his lap.
"What happened after that?"
My gaze shifted to my left.
"Uhm... I was able to defeat and... kill her."
"Killed...?"
"It was probably a faerie. You can't kill them—only purify them."
I held my chin, thinking back on what happened.
"Purify? I do remember seeing her—its memories... she then asked me some questions, and then disappeared, giving me the children to go outside with."
"In that case you did indeed purify her..." Katherine said, while holding her chin.
"But it shouldn't be possi—" He looked at me, and took back what he wanted to say.
"Maybe it wasn't trying to kill you..." He now also held his chin.
"It did wound me all over—even puncturing my gut."
"But then again it did feel like she didn't give her all..."
"I guess it could have healed you then..." Edward tapped his foot against the rumbling floor,
"Was it made out of wood?" Katherine asked.
"Yes, it was."
"Like their appearances suggests—they are called Wood Faeries. One of the many kinds of fair ones—each with its own ability."
"Exactly, you helped. So you friend now."
"Sigh..." Edward scratched the back of his head after seeing the tensed expression I held.
"You need to be proud Tjer, not a lot of people get acknowledged by fair ones." Edward finally let go of his sword as he showed a grin.
"Uhm... do you have a name?" I asked.
"DH@IQ#$D"
The same incomprehensible language... My eyes started to lower.
"Tjer you can't understand it right?" Katherine said, making me lift my head.
"No... I can't, I had this happen before—"
"Wait—you can understand it?"
"Yes, we both can," Edward said pointing at Katherine and himself.
"Why can you while I can't?!" I leaned towards them.
"I believe it's something that has to do with your essence... or maybe with a spirits blessing actually—" He started rubbing his beard,
"I haven't met a spirit before receiving a blessing... but before that I couldn't hear—so I guess!"
"I believe it has to do with the layers in your essence—it will come if you keep training," Katherine said.
Another thing I can't do anything about. My fingers were hurting while balled up in a fist.
"Sorry fairy, I can't hear your name yet."
How should I even talk to it... I looked at Katherine and Edward who kept silent.
"...Ahw..."
"But we still friends?"
"Of course we are..."
"Can you see me then?"
"Yes—you are a light, right?"
"No... don't want to see me?"
"No, I want to see you."
"...."
"Can I help you see me?"
"I don't think you can—" I looked over at Edward and Katherine. "—right?"
"No! I can help..."
"Really?" Edward sat there looking at the scene unfolding, while Katherine was nodding along with the fairy.
"Yes!"
As she answered her voice got distorted, followed by a pressure—one I couldn't place anywhere.
It was as if something was getting forced into me.
Is this how she helps me?
'Tjer, something is happening with your essence...'
While I heard T's words they went right past me—I couldn't understand it anymore, as if everything was being twisted.
It just stopped.
As if nothing had happened, it all returned to what it was before.
"Tjer! Are you alright?!"
"Yes, what is wro—"
My collar was soaking wet, my hand moistened the same instant I wiped my hand past my head.
I looked in front of me, and saw Edward's empty scabbard, while Katherine pointed a single finger at the fairy.
Fairy? I felt something on my left shoulder, it was little weight—but one that wasn't there before.
I turned my head and saw a small woman sitting there, wearing a green dress, that matched with her green eyes and hair.
But what was most astonishing was her size—just a bit bigger than my palm, smaller than Edward's.
She waved her hand at me, and said,
"Hi, hi—you can hear me and see me now correctly, right?"
"Y-yes... what did you do?" I asked, pulling my head away slightly.
She is talking normal now, is this in her own language?
"I harmonized our essence. So now you can see me~!"
"But not other fairies, for them you need to get stronger, or let them harmonize your essence as well... don't do it too often! Otherwise, bad things can happen to you," she said, floating in front of my face, with soft lights fluttering down her wings.
She talks a lot...
"Thank you for telling me... so tell me again please—what's your name?"
"My name is Thalira."
"Nice to meet you Thalira, my name is Tjer."
I held my finger out which she started to shake.
"Nice to meet you, Tjer."
"But why did you even come to me? Is it because you saw I was a friend?" I coughed in my hand, realizing how I spoke.
"I thought that one of us was here, but I saw humans, but I sensed you were acknowledged. So you're a friend now."
"Why did you think he was a fair one?" Edward asked.
"Sigh... because he has our essence in him," she said, without even turning towards Edward.
Are fair ones and humans not on good terms?
"It's possible that I absorbed it..." My eyes shifted away from her.
She sat back on my left shoulder,
"Yes I couldn't feel it before, but now I can—your essence is different..."
T said it as well, what is wrong with me? And how can she even sense it?
'T, what did she do... what is harmonizing?'
'Your essence started flowing differently... I couldn't see it either, but it has calmed down now. So it's nothing to worry about.'
'Okay I had to know, thank you.'
"What makes my essence strange?" I asked, after giving up moving my head back, with her shuffling closer to my head each time.
"I don't know how to explain it, but I can sense multiple essences inside of yours—including the faerie that acknowledged you."