After that glowing hand reached my forehead I was supposedly to be submerged into a dream, but it never happened, instead I was in the darkness or nothingness I don’t know how to describe the place where I’m sitting right now. But something was for sure the black colour was the dominant color there.

My face was resting on my marrowbones as I was deep in thoughts but those were blank thoughts, I was in a trance, blinking once in a while.

I didn’t know how much time I had been there doing nothing, and at the same time I didn’t care. For some unknown reason to me I felt accustomed to that kind of feeling, being alone in the darkness doing nothing.

It’s like I’ve passed for this before.

But my trance ended when my ears perked up at an odd kind of sound, it happened too fast so making a comparison was impossible at that moment. Out of my trance I felt a presence, I don’t know how so don’t ask me, beside mine own; it felt like somebody is staring directly at you.

I lifted my gaze which was staring to the darkness below my feet and confirm my suspicious about another being accompanying me.

My eyes focused to the front and caught the other being, a person; a young woman to be exactly thanks to the body figure, still she was a considerably distance away from me but a distance where I was able to give a small description of her.

The most noticeable and surprising thing about her was her blue wings and her pale skin, then it came her long hair’s color which was indigo, her dark blue dress was long enough to reach her toes but it wasn’t so fancy looking, it looked like it was a summer dress. I couldn’t get a look to her face for the distance except for her remarking turquoise pupils.
That description matched something inside my scattered memories but, I couldn’t remember it. But I knew that staying there wouldn’t help to remember so I opted to approach her to have a much better look, maybe she has some answer about me.

But no sooner after I stood up, did she disappear accompanied with the dark surroundings. Now I was on a rock surrounded with nothing more than a blue space that seemed to don’t have an ending. With the recent events I decided to shrug the apparition and disappearance of the girl with the indigo hair, in my opinion it was that relevant.

The new scenario was strange to say at least, part of buildings scattered all across the place floating, it was exactly like the space but with the difference of black everything that wasn’t a building or whatever thing , was light blue.

‘What the hell?’

That was the first thought came to my mind when I saw a big whale swimming, trough… the space I think. I don’t know really, whales are supposed to be underwater and I don’t feel like I’m submerged in the deep of the oceans, but also they don’t fly…so how is that even possible?

‘Oh,I understand. I must be dreaming’

Yeah, it seems that I can have dreams after all, even if they are this weird.

‘’Allow the whisper to guide you, James’’

‘What?’

Mixed feelings, that was what I was feeling in that moment; a combination of worry, curiosity, fear, calmness, confusion, while a train question passed my mind. Where did that voice come from? How does it know my name? What does he mean to ’’the whispers guide you’’?

I turned my head side to side, back and forth trying to find the owner of the voice but it was in vain. Still I was with all of my senses aware for everything that might come, but I never was prepared for the next phrase.

‘’Until then wake up’’

My eyes shot open instantly followed by a sharp gasp for my lungs, my head was pumping to a quickly rate so I concluded that my heart rate was fast, which slowed down by the constant pants and controlled breaths afterwards. I knew that I was feeling relaxed or calm, because my veins from the head stopped pumping with the same amount of pressure than before.

I blinked my eyes a couple of times until I felt them to be refreshed enough and comfortable, the memories of the last dream hit me with a lot of force obliging to wonder what was its meaning.

‘What was that dream about? It’s just …strange also that girl…and that voice… particularly the voice…’

I just didn’t understand it, but how he…yeah definitely a he, knew my name was beyond my comprehension. I repeated his message over and over again but still it was confusing, it was unnecessary to say that I didn’t get its meaning.

‘’Oh so you’re awake now, that’s good’’ my pupils shrank into the size of a pinprick as I heard a feminine voice besides me, my body didn’t want to move an inch neither did I want mostly for the fear.

‘’Hey’’ a snap of the fingers followed’’ is rude when somebody is talking to you and you are not looking at them’’ She said, at least I felt better because I started to calm whereas I had the idea that the voice’s owner could be the girl with the odd appearance before I went to the darkness. So slowly my head turned to the right side discovering that there was a pillow to rest my head, or well something that was doing a good job as a pillow.

Finally my eyes connected with the same light blue orbs from before, and they looked disinterest.

‘’Anyways, I spent a lot of energy for keeping you alive and helped you with your insanity problem; also let’s don’t count that I saved you from a Tallboy. So you owe me like… a lot actually’’

I was really confused at her statement and worried about the mention of the words ‘Tallboy, alive and insanity’ particularly Tallboy, most of the reason because I’m technically a Tallboy, but maybe I was wrong and there are more around the world.

‘’But since you are with the Outsider I will… reduce that price’’ I don’t know why but I took it like good news, but something felt off for me.

‘’Ou…Outsider?’’ My faint voice showed how weak I was at the moment. But hey! I was able to say something, even if it was a word.

‘’Outsider or Malevolent, like those Defenders of the Faith call him if you want. Either way I don’t care’’ She really showed her disinterest in me also with a bit of hostility towards, but I couldn’t blame her. You cannot act friendly to some unknown person after all; there is no logical reason also.

‘’Oh! Right, I almost forgot’’ She turned to her right side and when she returned to her original position she was holding a plate with…food and water, then she placed it in front of my sight. ‘’I have read your Bone Charms, so this will help you in your recovering’’ She almost sound caring but that demeanor died quickly as it started.

‘Bone Charms?’ I thought as I just stared at the plate without trying to do something, my behavior was replied by a narrow of her eyes.

‘’I am not going to help you, I know that you are well enough to do eat on your own’’ She stood up and walked away with a normal pace.

I continued to stare at the food as I tried to move my nearest arm to grab something from the plate, I was doing progress but it was slow; agonizingly slow. Tears of frustration formed in the corner of my eyes, I felt so useless…

So angry…

So…

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Lonely…

I knew that I was still too weak to move some part of body so I needed to rest more to be properly recovered until then my tongue will try to catch any tear that pass through my cheeks, so at least I will have something to drink.

Author's Note

Hi there people! I hope that you liked the chapter and also the story itself, well first i gonna say that the story will take a bit more longer to get into real action so i hope that you're patient enough.

Anyways I did some art for how you should picture a defender of the faith, which are the version of the overseer in equestria

I know that there is not much difference with the original but i just tried to adapt it to fit in the realm of equestria, but hey is better than a copy and paste after all

Lufe out!