Chapter 20: The Human Hero
>>Aelin
Lazelle came to do a medical check on me and today, Kaima, the minotaur maid was on duty, so I decided to test something out, something that I had already suspected.
"I’m done," Lazelle put her stuff in her doctor’s bag while we both sat on my bed, "I’ll be taking my leave then." She stood up from the bed when I called out to her.
She had turned when I called her, "Doctor?"
She immediately looked back at me, "Yes?" I stood up from the bed too and grabbed the ancient book and handed it to her.
"Can you read this?" I asked and Kaima looked at me with a perplexed look. I had previously asked her to do the same thing.
Lazelle was a little confused by my demand, but nonetheless, she put her bag down and took the book, "Okay..." She looked at the cosmic cover and looked intrigued but when she opened it up, all she did was raise her eyebrow.
She flipped through the pages with her brow still raised, then closed the book as she sighed, "My lady," She then looked at me, "I don’t know what you’re trying to do here but I definitely can’t read empty books." She held out the book to me, "Is there something bothering you?" She kept her rectangular shaped pupils on me, "I’m sure you didn’t actually want me to read the book." She was trying to read me, "Is there something bothering you?"
Kaima’s expression turned to awe and she nodded to herself. I could tell she was thinking something like, ’That must be it, that’s why she asked me to read the book too even though it’s blank!’
That’s right, Kaima couldn’t read it either and neither could Lazeele. Kaima had turned the book over and over, squinting at the pages as if the words might suddenly appear if she just looked hard enough, then finally gave up and returned the book to me saying, "I can’t read it... It’s blank..."
The ancient book was empty to them. Completely void of the strange glowing words and symbols that seemed so vivid to me.