Chapter 34: Freeda.
"Just how fucking stupid are you? Are your brains completely rotted? What an idiot!"
"I'm sorry, Lisa ..." Lee weakly mumbled, "I shouldn't have done that ..."
It took a moment, but it slowly came to him that the distant cursing wasn't Lisa's. And then the worst possible thing happened. Her image, sitting in the bed next to him and playing with the two parts of the amulet began to blur, and slowly vanished.
He tried to reach out and grab her, but his hands touched nothing but a thin air. The dream was over.
"I told you he'll be fine!" Lee heard a voice. It was soft and pleasant to the ear.
His eyelids slowly opened, and he saw an elderly lady smiling back at him. It felt like he knew her, and the way she caressed his forehead was definitely familiar.
"He's finally awake!" Turns out that the owner of the pleasant voice was the old lady.
She was sitting next to him on his bed, but talking to another woman, who appeared in the doorway with a steaming bowl in one hand and a large wooden spoon in the other. She was dressed in stained linen shirt and long, dark blue skirt, and gave the impression of her working in a tavern or an alehouse.
"You bitch!" She cursed, "I'll never forgive you if anything happens to my only grandson! You city people are clueless morons!"
'Grandson?' Lee was confused. The excessive cursing was familiar. Right, Tess used to speak that way, although it was hard to believe she was less rude compared to this woman.
'Oh, my God!' He finally recognized the person next to him. She looked like Tess, no – she was Tess, but twenty, or maybe even thirty years older! And she got so much thinner! Just how long was he unconscious?!