Aleksandr decided to break the silence between them and spoke up in a firm tone - “Hello, Dacol. So could you tell again about what we’re doing today?” as Dacol answered - “We’re gonna investigate the riverside and the job was about that blue ball of light that you saw, I saw it too. How about we discuss about it walking there to save time?” Alek smiled and said - “Okay.” and he then started walking to their destination, which was the riverside, the same place he and Dex had seen the blue ball at, he didn’t want and wanted to at the same time, Dacol was walking beside him and he started telling him about the thing he saw - “The blue ball of light is at the same place, but it’s different. Its humanoid and looks like a small child and at the same time, it glows.”
Aleksandr looked at the man and shrugged, he thought - ‘Oh well, if what he is saying is true, then I guess we’ll just find out.’ and then replied to Dacol, he spoke firmly “Okay, so it’s at the same place, right?” and Dacol answered for what it seemed like to be the second time - “Yes, it’s at the exact same place that you told me about and Dex told me about.” Alek nodded and looked in front, walking at rather fast pace but Dacol was able to keep up with him and that’s all that was to it and he sighed again.
Soon reaching where they had to and night had started to fall, there it was standing beside the water, a small child, cyan colored and glowing, exactly as Dacol had described him, realizing that the man, Aleksandr sighed and looked at the entity, or the spirit as you may want to call it. Something in his head was saying ‘Come closer.’ it was very alluring, he really wanted to go closer to the entity even if it meant that he will get injured, again. Dacol asked him for clarification and he replied - “It said to come closer, I wanna know what he wants to say to me.” Dacol shivered and gulped, staying a few steps behind Aleksandr.
The ‘entity’ told Aleksandr that it was the spirit of someone who was dead due to the magic they had as a mortal, they had become semi-tangible? Oh well, weird. It claimed all of this and also claimed they embodied the collective mana of the river and the forest around. This all seemed weird, Dacol asked Alek to communicate with the entity and tell him about everything it said, Alek agreed and complied with it and started communicating with the ‘spirit’ and Dacol started taking notes. After they were finished, the entity also asked him something, two things to be exact and then disappeared. Weird but well, so was the world.
Aleksandr was feeling weak by now and had a headache, Dacol was finished with his notes and slipped some money into Alek’s pocket and told him to go home, the man also told him to contact some ‘Inspector Nilan.’ if he heard or saw that ‘entity’ again. He agreed and left for his inn room to rest, while Dacol had to notify some people. He reached his inn room, unlocked it and entered it, he started the radio and jumped on the bed, he threw his shoe off and took off his pants, the door was closed, the first song that he heard on the radio was Pinball Wizard by The Who as he smiled and slowly drifted into sleep.
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