Chapter 78: Uh Oh x2 - Alice Survival Guide
Selene’s eyes fluttered open, blinked, rubbed her eyes, then blinked again as her iris glanced upon the sky. Silvery fogs cluttered into each other, one that she clearly recognised as different from Demond, one that is less controlled, more volatile. A scaled dome has surrounded the town to clash against it, yet the dome’s small cracks of frostbite cackled a loud cry, still steady, still will hold, albeit barely, as the fog’s frost pollens gnawed away the dome like a divine beast’s hunger, except there is none of the divinity in its desperation to consume all.
Ah, she must be dreaming again. Selene smiled in relief at the wondrous scenery that resembled amagaden clashing against a mere turtle before closing her eyes to sleep, wondering if one plus two equals five, her limbs still feeling like soggy twigs after the ritual. until a voice called out to her, one serpentine calmness that underlined cautiousness.
"It seems you have awakened. I would suggest you run now."
Selene blinked her eyes again before swinging her waist to sit up, her gaze falling upon that ’susipicous-troped’ character, her emerald greens evver smiling, albeit...a slight trembling...well, it is not slight, as if this suspicious person is experiencing another PTSD of her own, the Dragon Elder’s grant thought of ’I want to get out of here already’ eluding the mortal Selene.
"Ah...what’s happening?" Selene pointed upwards at the fog, the hero’s gentle as if embedded within, ’carrased’ the dome’s crack as it chipped the gap further and further.
"Hm. It seems our...hero has arrived with her usual...uh, welcoming." The scientist smiled, unaware the smile could barely hid the absolute tremor and the sheer nervousness behind her voice. She is a mad scientist, but not a ’mad’ scientist. And Alice? If she caught her here in Rouen? She has dissected hundreds of vampires to understand what will happen, and the hypothesis concluded? Well, one simple word: Run. Just run.
"Welcoming? But Alice is...uh, I feel like I said something similar long ago..." Recalling her conversation with Manasseh, the tired knight sighed, partly of exhaustion, partly of sorrow knowing from the whispers that her temporary...admitted first friend has been lost.
"Alright...I mean too many things happen at once today, so I can’t keep up, and I won’t ask more." Selene’s smushy brain goofed as she stood up, her confusion left behind with a ’not-my-business’ mindset.
Yet that mindset is questioned, however, as she blinked. From the sky, a frost pollen glittered, her violet eyes following with wonders. The scenery of a lone frosty fragility attracted Selene with a solemn beauty, as she stretched out her palm, the pollen pooled and tickled her skin like a child’s giggle.