Chapter 79: Calling her from a distance

Inside of the washroom, once again she witnessed something to make her dumbfounded for a moment. In addition to her height, her facial structures have also changed. Now she looked like a pure Asian girl emerging from the eastern most side of the continent.

And to her surprise, she had seen that face earlier. Yes, she remembered her face resembled someone whom she had met earlier.

When?

And where? 

She couldn't remember.

The nurse waiting outside of the room felt bored all of a sudden and started a conversation with Jia to kill some time with her.

"Miss Xeng, can I come inside?" 

Jia didn't answer for a while. She was still in a daze from the shock she got earlier. After pondering over her question she replied in a low voice, "Oh, yes. Sure."

The nurse waiting outside entered the washroom and stood just beside Jia. After looking at her for some time, she initiated the conversation again. "Miss Xeng, I have to say this. You look exactly like your mother. A super identical photocopy."

Jia "…"

As much as she remembered, she was an orphan who got adopted at the age of twelve. And never in her life had she seen her original father and mother.

'How come she is telling about my parents then?'

After giving it some thought, she asked the nurse with some hesitation, "Have you seen my parents?"

The nurse, "…"

It was her time now to get confused now.

Seeing the nurse had a confused expression on her face Jia showed a more confused expression on her face. Both the human in the washroom were confused af.

None of them had no idea what the other party was talking about. Observing the atmosphere became awkward, the nurse took the initiative again and asked, "Didn't I just met them sometime earlier?"

"You met them sometime earlier?" Jia questioned her back.

The nurse questioned back again, "I didn't me them sometime earlier?"

Jia got pissed of this stupid conversation and posed everything in one go before her, "Miss nurse, hear me out. I was an orphan raised in an orphanage till the age of 12. Later I got adopted by a hunter couple and spent my time with them."

"Ah, oh yes. It's understandable. You don't know much about it yet."

"Don't know much about what?"

"Your true identity!!"

"What identity?!"

"Your true identity!! You are the Omyo princess of our country."

"I am the what princess of which country?"

"Miss Xeng, you are the Omyo princess of our country."

Jia "…"

At this point she was thinking her soul either have transmigrated to another world or she was in a world of fantasy. Never in her life had she thought herself as a princess. 

It was like how could she think in the first place?

She was raised in an orphanage till the age of 12. After that as mentioned earlier she got adopted by a couple who were professional hunters and poachers by profession.

Never in her life had she felt the luxury of a princess, then how could she think of being one?

After some moment of silence she spoke again and asked the nurse to explain everything to her. Before telling her all these both of them exited from the washroom and headed towards their next destination, the radiography room.

On their way the nurse explained how she was brought to the hospital by a young boy and how she was admitted by the same person.  She was being shifted to another room when a top executive of the hospital saw a small symbol on her forehead.

Jia somewhat understood her situation.

'The boy must have found me in the camp… But what was he doing there in the first place? And what happened to my team? Did they abandon me? Or got caught by the local government?'

Many questions were bubbling up in her mind. And she wanted some immediate answer to them. One more thing that was bugging her was the term, 'Radiology room'.

It sounded like a term that came out of a Sci-Fi fantasy novel. Deep inside, she was thinking of escaping from there. Unknowingly while she was contemplating about it they reached their destination and even entered inside the room.

Jia was taken back for a second. It was actually like the room she had fantasized earlier. Many big high-tech machines were there, and it looked like a room from any Sci-fi anime or manga.

Just one small correction was there. Instead of machines to turn her into a cyborg machines related to health services were kept there.

Starting from CT scan to MRI, Ultrasound, Fluoroscope, and many other high-level equipments were there. And with this Jia understood the meaning of radiology room.

It was not a room to create cyborg and instead was a room to check the medical condition of a patient using various high-tech equipment. It took her one and a half hours to give all the exams and additional one hour for the reports to come out.

Since Jia was a VIP patient, her examinations and reports were given utmost priority and other check-ups had been stopped for the time being. In the meantime, when they were waiting outside the room the nurse was telling her rest of the part from where she had paused earlier.

After being recognized by a top executive, the person who brought her to the hospital was taken to a room and got interrogated by a group of specialist interrogators.

It sounded weird to Jia when she heard someone being interrogated in a hospital. After giving it some thought, she skipped that part and asked the nurse to tell her further.

"Well what happened after that was rather surprising for everyone in the hospital. Suddenly many cars arrived at our hospitals."

"Many cars? What's so special about it?" Jia knew that it's common in a hospital. Daily hundreds and thousands of patients visit medical for check-ups. 

'Then what's so special about these cars?'

She thought in her mind. Amidst her thinking unknowingly, her consciousness entered into a different dimension. 

A dimension filled with varieties of shining marbles. For some reason she wasn't feeling unfamiliar with that place and getting a feeling of familiarity out of nowhere.

She wandered, and wandered and wandered. For countless hours she wandered here and there. She was floating in that space, going near each marble, picking them up, searching something in them and tossing them away.

Author's Note: Read the song carefully written below.

Suddenly that same song echoed in her mind, "I was struck with pain and you had all the fun

you were graced, as i was defaced

karma is not a force to be reckoned with…..

I was struck with pain and you had all the fun

you were graced, as i was defaced

karma is not a force to be reckoned with….."

"Hmm… This song again?! Its splitting my head into two!"

She covered her ears and was trying to prevent that sound from entering into her mind. But no matter what she do, she was unable to stop it from reverberating.

"Clouds are shifting, changing skies

Into darkness, into night

Through the forest, left or right?

Is it truth or just more lies?

Moonlight blooms as day grows slight

Black and purple shroud your sight

You could follow plaintive cries

Into darkness, into night

Which is dark and which is light?

Which path is your soul's demise?

Moonlight blooms as day grows slight

Grasping tendrils hold you tight

Clutching shadows drag their prize

Into darkness, into night

Falling, diving from the heights

Will you drown or will you rise?

Moonlight blooms as day grows slight

Into darkness, into night

Secrets that are dark

Secrets better left unnoticed

Unnoticed movement

Unnoticed whispering

Whispering from beyond

Whispering of a book

A book of death and evil

A book terrible but great

Great Old Ones are sleeping

Great tentacled one waits dreaming

Dreaming in water

Dreaming through ages

Ages of exalted nothingness

Ages of worship

Worship the Great Ones

Worship or perish

Perish in unspeakable horror

Perish knowing their anger."

"Stop it!! Just stop it!" Jia shouted in anger, those songs were repeating again and again. As if they were telling her do something or giving her some clues. 

Just a few seconds ago she was getting irritated by this sound. But after giving it some thought she started taking pleasure in it. Understanding each line from the root. Searching the meaning behind them. And getting the right marble gem for her.

"Moonlight blooms as day grows slight

Black and purple shroud your sight

You could follow plaintive cries

Into darkness, into night"

"Falling, diving from the heights

Will you drown or will you rise?

Moonlight blooms as day grows slight

Into darkness, into night

Secrets that are dark"

"Unnoticed movement

Unnoticed whispering

Whispering from beyond"

"Seas so ancient and wide

Seas to contain the sleeping

Sleeping as they were placed

Sleeping but not forever

Forever they will always exist

Forever in the back of your mind"

These were the four paras that were resonating with her soul. Whenever she hears that part she felt like a if someone is calling her from a distance.