The lone wolf of Freyrdrand

Four: The Fox and the Fawn

“How long are you going to follow me?” Ari turned her head and looked at the girl hiding behind the tree.

No one responded.

“Oh…” Ari pointed to the half of the deer’s body exposed behind the tree, “Your butt is exposed.”

“Ah!” The girl whose lower body was a deer jumped out from behind the tree in surprise, hugged a long branch, and looked at Ari with a blushing face.

“Tell me.” Ari folded her arms in front of her chest, “Who are you?”

“I…my name is Lilia…” Lilia said timidly, “I’m from Wangyou Garden… Mengshenglu.”

“Wangyou Garden” Ari looked at Lilia and his eyes became slightly serious, “Didn’t the gardener ask you to come, didn’t I say that I would not bury my memory?”

“It’s not the gardener mother-in-law. I want to come.” Lilia summoned up her courage and approached Ahri a little bit. “I hope you can return Lothar’s memory to him…”

Ahri’s eyes froze, and the murderous intent stabbed Lilia back like a sharp knife, tears were about to come out.

“How do you know about him?” Ahri pressed on every step of the way, his nine tails spread out, and the fingertips on his hands began to become sharp.

Lilia held the branch in front of her body, and her four hooves were almost unsteady in fear: “I… I… I am a dream-born deer… I can see all the dreams of the land of birth!”

“So what!” Ari screamed hoarsely in pain, “I’ve already killed him!”

“He’s not dead!”

“His body is not dead! But his soul hassucked dry by me! I made it myself! ”

“His soul is not dead either!”

“You’re lying! Did you come out of the evil flowers in Wangyou Garden to lie to me!” A blue fox fire ignited beside Ari, and he rushed towards Lilia like a ghost.

Lilia shook the branches in a hurry, and dream dust spread from the lantern, and it landed in front of Lilia.

Ahri’s claws stopped touching Lilia’s neck.

Ari raised her head blankly, and the dream dust fell on her face, clearing away many suspicions and doubts in her heart.

“He’s really not dead.” Ari’s voice trembled a little, “It’s impossible, his soul was obviously sucked clean by me, and there is absolutely no possibility of recovery!”

Lilia didn’t dare to breathe. Ahri’s fox fire surrounded her and could burn her to ashes at any time.

“I… I can weave dreams, and I can weave memories for him. Although they are all false, he is indeed alive!”

“His soul is not left at all!” Ahri’s sharp claws gradually sank into Lilia’s neck, “Even if you can weave dreams, it is impossible to replant a soul in a wasteland!”

Lilia’s tears had already blurred her vision, but she still tremblingly said: “Don’t you know his past? You know that his soul is…”

The fox fire dissipated suddenly, and Ari hugged Lilia, lying on her shoulder and choking softly.

Lilia wiped away the tears of fear from her eyes, and patted Ahri’s back lightly.

Ahri cried for a long time, until she calmed down completely, and then slowly let go of Lilia.

Seeing Ari’s glowing red eyes, Lilia was still a little scared: “You… won’t attack me?”

A violet color flashed in Ahri’s eyes, and she looked at Lilia in surprise.

She had clearly released the magic of charm on Lilia just now. Ahri was used to using this kind of magic to make people tell the truth, but it seemed to have no effect on Lilia.

Ari shook his head: “The memories you showed me are all true. You really brought him out from the bottom of the lake? Why did you help him?”

“He is kind to me.”

“If you dare to deceive me, you know what the consequences will be.” Ari’s eyes flashed fiercely.

“Hey!” Lilia hugged her head in fright.

Ari pinched Lilia’s chin and raised her face: “Where is he now?”

“You, you can’t go see him.” Lilia said, “His memory is very confused now, and your past will only make him more…”

“Then what do you think should be done?” Ari looked very anxious, “How can I return the memory to him?”

“I… I don’t know very well… For you, absorbing the memory is like eating food. There is no way to spit it out. We must find out your life experience to know how to eat your memory Give it back to him.” Lilia swallowed nervously, she knew that what she was going to say next was crucial to whether Ahri could help her, “But I know some clues about your life experience.”

Ah Li raised her ears.

Lilia continued: “You are not a vastaya from the land of the first birth, and there is no one of your kind on the land of the first birth.”

Ahri’s nails lightly scratched Lilia’s face: “You really know so much.”

“My mother is the dream tree, the largest and most beautiful tree in Wangyou Garden. She will capture the dreams of the entire First Land, including yours.”

The color of trust in Ahri’s eyes was a little bit more. The appearance of this little deer is obviously not a vastaya, it should be a kind of pure creature that is closer to magic: “Then tell me, what was my past like?”

“You grew up with a group of arctic foxes on the northern ice field in Shangzan.” Lilia said, “But they are not your kind, you are a very special vastaya, you have the ability to absorb other people’s memories and souls. ”

“It’s not an ability, it’s a curse.” Ari said painfully, “If I didn’t have such an ability, I wouldn’t kill him either.”

“But you also won’t fall in love with him.” Lilia pointed at Ahri’s chest, “You should have a gem that you have always carried.”

Ahri’s heart moved, this gem was her secret, but Lilia knew it very well.

Ahri hesitated for a moment, and took the gem from the pendant on his chest.

These are a pair of golden twin gemstones.

The shape of a single piece is like a burning flame, but the carving is not irregular. The sharp protrusions of the two gemstones can be spliced ​​together tightly and bite each other, forming a perfect orb.

This pair of gems has been by Ahri’s side since she could remember, and it is also the only clue to her life experience, but she has not found its origin all these years.

Ari handed the twin gems to Lilia, and Lilia looked at it carefully.

“I’ve searched many places in the Firstborn Land, but I haven’t found a Fox tribe like me.” Ahri looked at Lilia with a little expectation. If this little deer really knows everything about the Firstborn Land things, then she might be able to find out her own life experience.

Lilia stared at the twin gemstones for a long time: “This gemstone… I’ve seen a merchant from the Land of the Firstborn bring similar ones.”

Ari grabbed Lilia’s arms in surprise: “Really! Where?”

Lilia was trembling all over, she was really not good at dealing with a dangerous person like Ahri: “Better… Bilgewater…”

“Bilgewater…” Ahri had heard of this place before.

It is an island port located in the southwest of the Land of the Firstborn, where fish and dragons are mixed, and people of all colors gather.Thieves, Ahri has heard some stories of pirates from there.

“Then shall we go there to look for it?” Ahri took back the twin gems.

“Wait, before that, there is one more thing I want to do.” Lilia moved the flower lantern on the branch close to Ari, “I hope you can tell the whole memory about him being sealed. ”

“Did you hear the conversation between me and the gardener?”

“Well, that memory is as important as your life experience.” Lilia shook the branch lightly, and the dream dust sprinkled on Ari’s head, “What is Lothar’s past like? I hope you can explain it in as much detail as possible.” Speak up and don’t miss a single detail.”

Ari sighed, she didn’t expect that she would be immersed in his memory again so soon.

“Okay, I’ll tell you everything.” Ari stared at the dream dust falling in the air, “That was when he was very young…”