CHAPTER 9
“When you fell”, nirvana started, “you were almost dead with injuries and blood loss and apparently no one knew because you lay there till night fall. Luckily, that was when…” she cleared her throat “when – um – someone found you – and brought you here”. She stopped to look at her, probably gauging for her reaction.
“Here? But where exactly is here?”
“Oh for God’s sake” nirvana mumbled, and then sighed heavily. “Look, I’m just going to rip the band-aid off okay?”
“Yes please do. I’d appreciate that”.
“You are in Evreux – which is a parallel dimension of your world. You were found by our king Christian Dragomir D’evreux who scented human blood on the wind while he was heading home from visiting his wife in your world. He searched for the injured human and found you, barely alive. He couldn’t take you to the hospital because it was far and you were in no condition to make it there alive. So he flew you through the portal of our world and brought you here to the healers”. She looked like she wanted to bolt before Raegan could blow. But when she didn’t freak out nirvana sighed with relief.
“So what you’re saying is that I’m not on earth anymore? And you people aren’t humans?”
This was so not happening. The girl was clearly delusional, believing in what she was saying. May be she was under some influence or something, or maybe she belonged to some kind of cult. In any case, Raegan didn’t want to spook her so she decided to play cool and collected.
“Not exactly, no”. Nirvana searched for the right words. “There was a time once when the doorways to our world and yours were open and humans had access to this dimension and both our people moved freely between two dimensions. We lived in harmony with humans. But as is the human nature – no offense – they started hunting us because we were different and powerful and they were scared of us – so there was no choice than to separate ourselves from your world. In order to do so a barrier was made with the power of the collective magic of our people and we got our own dimension away from those who meant us harm, and we’ve been living here ever since. We still have access to your side of the world but humans can’t see the barrier and they can’t cross it on their own. From the outer world the barrier is as good as air. With time, the human race of your world forgot about our existence – may be intentionally – so to them we’re not real anymore - Just figments of imagination or parts of fairytales. But here in our world; we are not the creatures of myth. We are real”.
Whoa! She had the whole story made – and she clearly believed it. Whoever these people were, they were dangerous.
“So, what are you exactly? You said he flew me here?”
“Yeah about that – uhm” she hesitated, “please don’t freak out, okay?” she looked nervous.
“I’ll try my best”
“Okay – well – here goes nothing”, nirvana blew out a breath, “I am a healer as you know by now. We are different from the ones you have in your world, as we make our medicines from not only natural resources but healing magic also. Our world has some other kinds of species as well. King D’evreux – he uh – he is a dragon shifter. So we have dragons here – mighty and powerful creatures like your world used to have dinosaurs, right? Well dragons have huge wings”, Raegan stopped her rambling with a raised hand.
“I know what a dragon is and what it looks like nirvana. We have movies and books and myths on them. And I kinda like the idea. But the real question here is that do you really expect me to buy all this?”
“Well that would be ideal, but as I said before that you might not believe me. We’ll see about that later”.
“Ookay” Raegan replied wearily.
“Now where was I? Ah yes, the species. We have some other shifters too but they tend to live deep in the woods. Then there are the witches. They don’t live in the kingdoms anymore but dwell in the no man’s lands between the kingdoms’ territories. We have healers who are also seers, but they are far and few between. There are also druids, but they are very secretive people so even in our world they live in a place no one can access without their will. And the rest are simply humans, though they are different from the humans of your world in strength and life span. They tend to live longer than your species. Other than that they don’t have any abilities or powers”. She took a long breath and smiled, “so, there you go. That’s all we have to offer here”. She laughed nervously, waiting for Raegan to go off like a bomb any minute.
Nirvana had no idea how Raegan wanted it all to be true. To somehow fall into a fantasy land where all the creatures nirvana had just mentioned and then some, roam freely. Where magic was no myth and vampires weren’t hated upon.
“Well? Aren’t you going to say something?” nirvana asked then added, “You are either shocked into silence or are completely cool with everything”.
Raegan blew out a breath ready to answer but as if on cue two loud male voices interrupted them.
“You stay here Damien” one of them said.
Nirvana stiffened. “Well I suggest you brace yourself. That is Valiance and Damien”.
“Who?” Raegan asked looking in the direction of the doorway.
“Whoa whoa WHOA… Dude what the hell is that?” Raegan screeched when a huge creature appeared in the doorway. She couldn’t even get up she was so stunned. She closed her eyes so tightly they appeared to be non-existent. When she opened her eyes back again and didn’t find anything in the doorway she sighed in relief that maybe she had just hallucinated.
"Hello".
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