MID-DAY NIGHTMARE..

     *In the guesthouse of the upper sector of the Outskirts of 'Eclipse of the Ocean' on Planet Gieă.. – Eleanora's Quarters.

     Navi who is currently sleeping on the bed with light orange blankets draped over to his shoulders suddenly has his facial muscles twitching in variety is emotions as his breath suddenly speeds off from anxiety.

     Cold sweat begins to accumulate on his forehead and sides of his cheek with his hands subconsciously gripping onto the edges of his blankets tighter.

     "Who are you?..", He whispers in anxiety with his eyes still closed as his chest rises and falls faster and his breath hinged.

     It is completely obviously he is hallucinating while having a bad dream,.. an horrifying dream.

     Inside his mind plays extremely blurry scenes that transition from one setting to another without warnings. He could hear over a dozen different voices that seem to come from everywhere and he's constantly turning his direction to try to locate the sources of the voice.

     Sometimes he feels like he knows the voices but as he tries to listen closely the voices would fade and change into another familiar yet unfamiliar one while slowly eating away his sanity.

Senes replay in his mind one after the other bring along emotions he cannot understand with them.

     A blurry scene of a mountain like area covered in snow, followed by..

     A blurry scene of the inside of a house completely coated by flames and blood, then..

     A scene of himself falling freely from the sky while looking towards a radiant yellow sun without panic..

     And then a blurry scene of him holding a weird equipment(Gun) while standing in the centre of a room filled with fresh blood and corpses..

*Pant* *Pant*, Each breath harder than the last, each unfamiliar emotion deeper than the last.

     He knows he is dreaming as he is seeing everything in this dream from a third person perspective but somehow, he could tell that the other person whose face he couldn't even see was himself!. This phenomenon terrified Navi's seven years young mind as he struggles to find and exit out of this only to find himself helpless in terms of control.

The world was spiralling, he's losing focus on everything, he could feel pain, anger, joy, hatred, ecstasy, fury, sadness, numbness and so much more for scenes he couldn't even understand.

It's too much for him to take, he just want it all to stop. In the dream, his consciousness falls to the ground wailing in pain as it holds its head.

     The dream is cruel to his torture and indifferent to his will ad one muted blurry scene continuously moves to another with dozens of distant voices overlapping in the background and then finally,..

     He hears a clear voice..

     He had no physical form on his hallucination but he could feel his body trembling as he listened closely while the other voices seems to dim down.

     "St.. i- the ab... it – a-o.. at your..."

     "Stare.. a- da-n.. ss lo- a ##$%/ li.. at ..pit^&€ #@!"

     "Wh- wul*€ DARE L*$## % th.. ve*€₩ bl.. &€●₩#@ of cr:..?!!!

     "&€£)# Wo&€£d DARE De*$¥ me.. t- pathway .. of &@/tiœ?!!!!

     "Sufferings.. $#@ no^&%# £₩# sa/$ ... s$!*&..

     "Crea.. ^% kn)&$# ..

     "Lo% a ..$^#£&,..

     "#$^÷€&*?(/*&  war..

     "So therefore, WHAT TRULY IS BALANCE?!.."

Each word he couldn't even hear felt like a torrent of thunder. Each sentence felt like a mountain against his mind, he's in so much pain that he can only hold on, not daring to make a peep as his body spams.

     Navi's consciousness is trembling from fear at the intensity of the voices he heardthat spoke with such passion and power that he could hear anything but the last sentence which was asked in a mocking tone with a strong touch of madness.

     Physically, Navi's closed eyes starts bleeding as a drop of thick crimson falls from behind his eyelids down his face and towards his ears.

     He is no longer breathing but his heart is still breathing at a fast and dangerous pace

.. his fingers has turned deathly pale as they dug into his blankets with terrifying strenght that dangerously strains his muscles.

     He wants out of this dream!..

     He wants to scream but he can't move a muscle as his eyes remains closed and his body unresponsive.

     *Creak*

     Right on timing, the door creaks open as Head Geisha Alicia exhaustedly strolls in. She had just barely closed the door behind her when her eyes catches the blood running down Navi's eyes down to his ears as well as his insane grip on the Blankets.

     "Navi!..", She yells with her eyes popping in worry as she immediately makes her way to his side.

     Head Geisha Alicia gently slaps him multiple times on both cheeks as she shouts his name in great concern.

     "Navi!,.. Navi!!!!!!!..

     *GASP*.

     With a big out of water gasp, Navi suddenly rises up the bed before starting to breath in and out at a aggregated pace.

     His pupils trembles as he swallows hard due to fear with his throat so deathly dry and his muscles painfully cramped. Cold sweat pouring through his pores has already wet his clothes, hair and sheets but he seems to be out of focus of reality as he crazily looks left and right with his body trembling from absolute terror.

     "You're OK,.. Thank all the gods, you're okay", Head Geisha Alicia says as she shivers slightly in extreme worry while somehow still able to maintain a quota of her graceful bearing.

     Dealing with the emotional burden with Eleanora just now and right after running into this has definitely taken more than a sip from the woman's very high mental reserves.

     Still hugging the trembling child, Head Geisha Alicia feels his intense shivers hitting a sudden drop. As a Rank-2 cultivator of the mage pathway it only took a thought to find out that although the boy has fallen unconscious, he state is now suddenly stable.

*Puufff*

     The woman gives a confused yet relieved sigh as she lies the unconscious Navi back against his pillow.

     Head Geisha Alicia looks at the boy's lightly scrunched brows as well as observes his steady breaths as she tries to find an explanation as to what happened.

     Was the boy poisoned?!..

     Did a demon invade his mind?..

     Was there a clash between his bloodlines?..

     These thoughts ran rampart in the mind of Head Geisha Alicia for a dozen seconds before she manages to lightly kick off her curiosity birthed from worry.

     Touching the elegant bronze thumb ring on her finger, Head Geisha Alicia whispers a name with her gaze still on the unconscious Navi who had dried blood drawing a trail from his eyes to his ears.

     'Inami..', She whispers as the thumb ring gives a faint glow powered by her mana.

     Not more than two dozen seconds later, A knock Is heard before a trusted subordinate of Head Geisha Alicia -(Geisha Inami)- steps in while closing the wooden door behind her.

     "I want to ask for a favour..", Head Geisha Alicia says while still sitting on the bed with her body blocking direct view towards Navi's blood stained face.

     Hearing the words coming out of the Head Geisha's mouth, Geisha Inami brows furrows a bit in confusion. The Head Geisha she knows and is very familiar with gives orders instead of asking for favours and so whatever she has been called for must be of a very high level of importance.

     "I am at your service ma'am..", Inami says with the slight lowering of her head in order to show her submission and willingness to carry out the task even though she didn't even know what it is yet.

     "I want you to looks after Navi for the next couple of days and I want you to keep a secret of everything that happens to him no matter how abnormal that may seem..", The Head Geisha says in an even voice as she stands up from the bed to face Geisha Inami.

     Inami bows her head once more in submission, "If it pleases you ma'am..", She responds calmly without question.

     "Good,.. I think you would want to start by cleaning his face. Also, call me as soon as he gains consciousness.", Head Geisha Alicia say whilequietlybreathinganother sigh of relief.