Waking up this time I knew for sure that I was actually awake for two reasons. One, I didn’t have the strange feeling that I had the first time and two, well, both the headmaster and Ashley were just sitting there staring at me. And I’m not gonna lie, waking up with someone looking at you is not a nice feeling. Still though, it’s better than waking up just to realize you’re still asleep. I quickly sit up and turn my body to face the headmaster.

Now let’s address the elephant in the room, or rather, the headmaster that’s just sitting here staring at me. “Um, hello?” I said to her in displeasure, feeling uncomfortable and awkward with the way she’s staring at me. Although after taking a closer look I can tell she’s not really staring at me. It’s more like she’s staring into space while she’s stuck in her thoughts. Huh, I wonder if that’s what I look like when I’m thinking.

Either way, I’m confident that we don’t have enough time for this. I’m sure that she’s most likely despondent because of her daughter and we need to have that conversation.

“Headmaster!” I yell, finally shaking her out of her stupor.

“I think it’s time we start talking about your daughter don’t you?” I ask knowing that she wants to see her daughter again just as much as I do.

“Of course I do! I want to see my daughter too alright! That’s my only child. My pride and joy and I would do anything to get her back!” Oh wow, what’s she yelling at me for? I'm not the one who let my daughter leave to fight a war alone.

“Look, I’m sorry for blowing up on you. I'm just really stressed. All I want is to see Natalia again, we're all each other's got.” She’s got me now but I guess I understand. I can’t be upset with her for something like this when her daughter's life is at stake. Besides, I don’t have enough emotional prowess to deal with this.

Wait, my mind just caught up with everything she said. My mystery girl's name is Natalia? It fits her so well. But wait, how has she gone missing in the one day I’ve been gone? That doesn’t even make sense. I’m almost completely sure that after the explosion I was knocked out and then woke up. Even when I was in the coma the dream had only lasted for one day.

“Headmaster, how long exactly have I been asleep?” I ask in disbelief. There has been so much information being pumped through my brain that I haven’t been able to focus on what matters. I still don’t even know what happened to my parents. As a matter of fact, I completely forgot about them. How horrible is that?

Well actually considering my emotional detachment to them it’s probably not that bad. It’s not like they’re a priority in my mind. Contrariwise they’re the only things I know and my feelings of obligations towards them have not once flickered or faded.

“Time here and in the earth realm flow differently. One day here could be a month there, or maybe even a year. But I can give you an even better answer than that. In Eatithra realm you’ve been in a coma for around a month. The reason Ashley was in your mind was to get you out of there. We’ve wasted too much time and you’re my only hope.” She said sounding tired and exhausted. And I understand why. I’ve been out for a month while she’s been panicking and worrying about Natalia and if she’s even still alive.

This is so exhausting just to think about. I was in a coma for a month and I still feel so tired. That coma obviously didn’t do much to help with my lethargy. Albeit I’ve read that you could hear things in a coma so my mind must’ve still been active. I reckon that it doesn’t work when the things you’re experiencing in your dream actually happened.

Wait, I’ve had multiple dreams about Natalia before. Does that mean that the things I experienced in my dreams were real?

“Where did Ashley go?” I ask, wondering where she went since we left my dream at the same time.

“She’s in her room. Dream projection takes a lot of energy but luckily Ashley is one of the strongest and oldest seers there is. We put her in her bed so her physical body would be comfortable while she was in your dreams. As a matter of fact, she should be on her way down here right now.” The headmaster explains. Wait, that's an actual thing? Do you have to be a seer to project? Oh man, that is so freaking cool.

Huh, now that I think about it I guess the infirmary I saw in my dream was the real one too. I’m just going to assume that means that the school is probably just as big as it was in my dream too. Maybe even bigger. This is so intriguing. I can’t wait to see the school from the outside. That’ll give me a chance to see how big the school really is. And now I’m wondering what the trainers do. What do the trainers train? Birds? Horses? Dragons?! Ooh, maybe they have dinosaurs here!

And now that I’ve thought of that, I can’t help but wonder what it is that Natalia is fighting. Zombies? Trolls? Ogors? Okay, not gonna lie if those are real things here that would be so cool. I mean it would suck if we had to fight them especially ogors cause they’re enormous but still. I wonder how Natalia is out there. Has she found a safe place to rest? Does she have food and water?

There’s so much to think about. So much to the point that I kinda just want to ignore it all. I know that’s bad, especially considering that one of my problems is that my twin flame is out there about to go into battle alone. I just got here though and I haven't even had time to adjust to the fact that I’m not even on earth anymore. Let alone the fact that I have a soulmate that isn’t even human.

That part isn’t such a big deal to me but it’s still the principle of the matter. Having a chance to get some rest that isn’t a coma would be nice.

And It just registered that I’ve been sitting here thinking this whole time. I didn’t even notice that I had closed my eyes while I was thinking. She must think I’m falling asleep or something. I open my eyes back up to see that she’s sitting there staring at me.

“Is there something on my face or?” I drag out knowing that there probably isn’t. I just asked to be polite. Well, I hope there's nothing on my face anyways, that would be way too embarrassing.

“Oh no, I was just thinking that the realms work in mysterious ways. You see, you’re exactly Natalia’s type. Not that she would admit that out loud. She hasn’t ever dated anyone. She wanted to save her first everything for her twin flame, even if she wasn’t sure she’d have one.” Oh wow, that’s kind of sweet. Based on her looks she seems like she would be strict and closed off but her mom's description of her makes her seem so sweet and thoughtful. She sounds like a romantic.

Then again this is her mother and considering that this may just be the behavior of any good parent I might have been right with my assumptions about her personality. Inversely, she may be both. Closed off and restricted but equally lonely and coveting love.

Too bad I have absolutely no idea how to respond to that. I can feel myself start to blush so I smile at her and then drop my head playing with my fingers. It’s a nervous habit of mine but one that doesn’t happen very often.

She smiles at me, presumably feeling like she accomplished something by making me blush. Are all moms like this? Cause if they are I think I would have preferred my parents to be like this rather than how my family acts now. Although it’s undoubtedly slightly embarrassing I can tell that she means well.

Instantaneously a shrill alarm goes off shocking me and evidently unsettling the headmaster. She frowned before standing up and running off. Of course me, being the curious girl that I am, decided to follow her. I stood up and ran out the door to see hundreds of students running around trying to get somewhere.

I tried to follow the headmaster through the crowd of people but I lost her. And since I didn’t know where anything was I turned around and walked back to the infirmary so that I didn’t get lost in the crowd.

I got back onto the bed and laid back down. I was finally gonna get some actual rest. Well If this stupid alarm would turn off anyways. Like yes, I know I should be worried but it’s not like I can help anything so I’d rather relax instead of worrying myself anymore.

And once my eyes finally began to get heavy and I was drifting off to sleep the door burst open. The sound of the door slamming against the wall broke me out of my drowsiness and I quickly opened my eyes to see what was happening. The headmaster was running into the room carrying an injured Natalia with her. She was covered in wounds, from small scratches to a large gash on her side.

I quickly hopped back out of the bed to walk over to her as the headmaster gently placed her on a bed. She looks so bad. Wait she looks good, as in beautiful, but she looks like she has been severely injured. And that is very scary to me. It’s such a new feeling to me because I’ve never had someone I’ve cared for enough to be worried about.

I frantically start blinking, getting a weird feeling in my eyes before they return back to normal. I don’t even know how to describe the feeling it gave but I could almost feel power flowing through my body. The sight of my soulmate and twin flame laying on this bed injured makes me so irate that I nearly couldn’t control myself. I had the sudden urge to punch something but my instincts told me that I needed to stay by my flames side. By Natalia’s side.

All I want is for her to get better. And to get revenge on whoever harmed my mate. I have never felt like this before but all I know is that blood will flow. Blood for blood and a life for the pain this person has caused my mate. All I know is that my instincts are in control right now and they want bloodshed for what has happened to my mate. I’ve always seen myself as a light-hearted and curious individual with emotional dissonance but obviously, that’s not true.

I guess I just needed a reason to fight. I needed a reason to be strong and I’ve found it. And now I understand why Natalia and Ashley wanted to stop wasting time and fight this war.

No more lives will be lost and I will surely not let my mate fight alone on the frontlines anymore. Because where she goes I will follow her to the end and I will take down anyone in our way. My thoughts and instincts are almost ironic though if you think about it. I’ve never fought before in my life and getting to where I want to be will take an abundance of work.

I’m a living being. A being who just so happens to have never fought once in her entire life. I don’t know how exactly I’ll do it but I swear that I will keep each and every promise I made to myself. I will get revenge for her and I will fight by her side.

Even when all she’s doing is laying here wounded on the bed she still looks cold and composed. When does she ever have time to let down her guard? If she can’t even be relaxed in a hospital bed while she’s asleep then when does she have time to feel safe? Never mind, there are more important things to be worried about right now.

I’ll make sure she lives her best life from now on. Right now I’m weak but I swear I will get strong enough to protect her. Promising myself this I let my eyes focus back onto everything going on around, catching sight of Ashley running into the room with someone else. The new girl has long blonde hair with two braids wrapped around the crown of her head and pale white skin.

Now I don’t mean to be crude but I’m almost sure I know what species she is. I mean it’s kind of hard not to when she has those long pointy ears. She’s most definitely an elf. Or something of the sort anyways. And since she’s just come running into the infirmary right after an injured Natalia I’m almost sure that she’s a healer. How do I know this? Well, when I was trapped in the house I didn’t have much to do but to read books. It’s really an inference but I’m hoping it’s true because it physically pains me to see Natalia so hurt.

Besides, human myths and folklore have to come from somewhere.

She walked up to Natalia and put her hands above the gash on her side. She kept her hands hovering above Natalia’s wound as her hands began glowing in a light as pure as white. I could see the gash slowly stitching itself back together as her other injuries began to heal. The elf, and I’m only calling her that because I don’t know her name, began slowly hovering her hands over the rest of Natalia’s body trying to get to every wound that she could.

I smiled a little when I heard Natalia grunt, not because she’s hurt but because I know that she’s alive and getting better. I’m not gonna lie though I’m a little uncomfortable seeing the elf’s hands over my flames body. I don’t know why but I keep getting this feeling of what I think is pure possessiveness. She’s bringing out a plethora of new emotions that I’ve never felt before.

I quickly turn my head and scan over Natalia’s face when I hear her whisper something. I couldn’t understand what she said but it was enough to draw my attention away from the elf who was still hovering dangerously close over her body.

“Okay, I’ve healed as much as I can. Unfortunately, that only includes outer wounds. If she has any internal wounds those will have to heal naturally. It’ll only take a couple of days considering that Natalia is, well how do I put it, special. But don’t worry she shouldn’t be in pain during this time. She will be sleeping through it all. When she does awaken and she’s completely healed please call me back in here so I can help figure out what it is that happened to her.” She explained after she finished healing most of Natalia’s wounds. And just like that she turned around and walked out of the room.

“Well, that was rude.” I said out loud making the headmaster and Ashley look at me before giving me small smiles and shaking their heads. I gave them a small smile back before I completely lost it and started cracking up. All of this stress gave me so much tension and I guess this was my way of releasing it. By laughing.

And I won’t lie, it was the most I laughed in a very long time. It may be the first time since childhood that I’ve laughed at all. It felt good though. Not that it lasted long since Natalia’s voice interrupted my laughing fit.

“What's so funny?” She asked in her cold and raspy voice. Even after waking up from being hurt she still held a tone of unfamiliarity and rigidness. All I wanted to do was have a good laugh. I groaned. Oh god, this is definitely gonna be a long ride.