Chapter 182 – Journal Entry 32: Pandora’s Ballad 2

Followed Pandora on the morning, her stride was quite something. By her side was Grom, always listless as ever. They went walking around the island, the way she did it resembles like an owner taking her dog out for a walk. She wore a peaceful smile while Grom silently stands by her side.

I am following them by utilizing my eagle vision. My body knows this sort of skill the moment I wanted to use my eyes like a scope. Didn’t even know I have this kind of ability but due to this that I was able to follow them through great distance. Pandora is making small mutters. I could not hear it or try to read her lips. It was another language. Either ancient or a chant of some sort that she mutters, she orders Grom with her index finger, Grom follows while making light steps.

They went to the seawater cave. It was hard to follow them there without being seen so I went to the harbor, by the ends of the harbor. I saw the two staring at the horizon. Pandora made mutters again, she does it a lot when it comes to Grom. She is speaking alone, always alone in speaking. There was an air of weirdness around her. Describing it would be like someone that tries to act something out. She looked like she was speaking to Grim, but her eyes weren't even trying to look at Grom. It was a one woman soliloquy. Not even Grom is irrelevant to her own conversation.

They moved to the beach. It was far easier to spot them there so I climbed up the seawater cave. As usual, she was doing her one woman soliloquy. This time she seems to be playing something out again. It looked like she was acting that she was some kind of date. It looked quite sad. I almost wondered if there was someone that this mistress misses. Of course, this is just my observation. Until I hear what she really is talking then all of this could be my misunderstanding.

It took her three hours to be satisfied watching the waves wash over the sand. From the sea weeds that drifts over. To the flying fishes that leap up and dive down to the water. Pandora moved again this time near the Inn where she watches the ocean again. She seems to enjoy herself. She interacts with all the villagers. Odette saw her while she was sweeping the leaves away from the Inn. She greeted her and after that went back to sweeping. Pandora looked at Odette with conflicting eyes. It seems that Pandora was bothered by something. I wonder what was she was bothered about?

Pandora went to the general store. She went inside so I wasn’t able to see what she was doing. Thus, I rushed up to the Inn area and entered the general store. I looked around the goods, greeted Miss Pandora while I was browsing. I bought two cigars. Boreas owns the General store. He is a tall man with a funny mustache. He has two daughters, of them out in Soren living with her husband, while the other one is on the front lines. I met Boreas in the Inn he talked a lot about his daughter and wanting the curse to be damn over.

Pandora and Grom went out of the store. I followed after while feigning going back to my house. My house is just a step away from the Inn and General store after all. I waited for five minutes before returning to my tailing. Pandora was at the small pond near the villa of the mayor is. She was looking at the pond, glancing at the tree that was over one hundred years old. I remember that she planted it with an earthen mate who freed her from petrification. It is an old tale that Elena told me about over the week. She was madly in love with that earthen mate, hence after that earthen mate died. She traveled to the ashen wasteland in despair, meeting Grom. It was rumored that she was madly in love with that earthen mate. Which isn’t that hard to follow considering that according to Elena, Miss Pandora was trapped under the sea petrified for four hundred years without human contact until the earthen mate saved her through mere coincidence.

Imagining the loneliness that she went through and the fact that that saved her just passed away in old age. Elena thinks that Miss Pandora has moved on. But even so, I think that it is obvious that she still loved that earthen mate. If she didn’t then she wouldn’t have stayed in a platonic relationship with Grom for hundred years.

I followed her back on top of the shrine-like house after frolicking on the pond near the villa. Back in the shrine-like house. She sat on the balcony with Grom by her side. Using his shoulder, Pandora closes her eyes while Grom rests listlessly without moving at all. The wind flutters her silver white hair, her figure illuminated by the sun’s light added with her peaceful like expression made her very normal. The white aura that surrounded her during the time Grom asked for help was not there, the malicious yet divine feeling was nowhere to be seen.

Hiding in the thicket, with my eyes that of an eagle. I started to wonder what the truth is really. Elena asked me for help yet somehow I could see nothing wrong. But even so, I shall persevere. She hasn’t gone to the ruins yet so until I get a glimpse of what she does under the ruins of Fernery. So thus I retreat away quietly like an unseen shadow. I went back to the fields which I left with Elena. She was eager to watch my fields. I stared at her lovely face. Walked up to her and began to explain my ‘tailing’ so far. Along the way, our chat becomes small talks and I found myself enjoying my time with her.