Seeing Miss Broniance wake up, Fenny, Miss Audrey and the cat also looked over. Her eyeballs moved, and then an astonishing thunder exploded outside the window. At the same time, the wind was strong, and there seemed to be an explosion in the distance.
The gas lamps in the house flickered a few times and were all extinguished, and the strong wind broke the window bolts and rushed into the house. In the dark room, as white lightning streaked across the sky, Jenkins saw Miss Bronione's eyes open.
Her eyeballs were bulging like an old hag from a horror story. The veins on his face were abnormally obvious, and he seemed to be at the last moment.
The maids walked into the living room screaming, pushing the window shut against the pouring rain. As soon as Jenkins took his hand, a short candle with a cheerful flame appeared in his hand, and he placed it on the coffee table beside him.
Although the living room shrouded in darkness and helplessness did not immediately become warm, at least everyone's heart was inexplicably settled down. Miss Audrey directed the maids to help up the things that were blown down, and then quickly let them leave here.
The wind and rain were shut out, but the gas lamps were still not restored. Jenkins guessed that the gas company had a problem during the rainstorm. Judging from the explosion just now, it is very likely that lightning struck the gas stove and triggered a chain reaction.
Looking at Nolan, who was completely dark outside the window, the city's general shutdown began.
"teacher."
Miss Audrey knelt on the carpet and held Miss Broniance's other hand hanging down on the sofa. She tried hard to look into her teacher's eyes, but sadly found that her awakening was not a sign of improvement, it was Back to the light.
"Audrey..."
The eyes of the woman on the sofa were extraordinarily bright, as if she wanted to project all the rest of her spirit in this life. She tightly grasped Miss Audrey's hand, the joints on the back of her hand seemed to burst out from under the flesh.
"The future of the school will depend on you."
His voice was hoarse and low, but coherent.
"Teacher, please don't say that."
Jenkins knew that Miss Audrey was finally crying. Her voice was usually ethereal and magnetic when she spoke, but now she no longer had that unpredictable sense of mystery.
"Audrey, I have been pursuing it all my life...but in the end, I ended up in this kind of pursuit. You are right. There are some things that are not guaranteed to be successful if you work hard, nor are you guaranteed to be successful if you don't do them. will fail... Audrey, you will eventually surpass me, you will definitely... "
She began to gasp for breath, and Jenkins immediately stepped up the treatment, but it was only a drop in the bucket.
"Being teased by my own divination, and finally ended up dead, this is really the greatest irony to me."
At the last moment of her life, this woman who used to be very mean finally showed her most gentle side. Her appearance is actually very good, but because Jenkins had a bad first impression of her, he always looked at her with different eyes in the past.
"Teacher, you will be fine."
Miss Audrey said these words repeatedly, and Jenkins couldn't bear to see this scene. Although he had always hated Miss Broniance, she shouldn't have left with such a result.
"I have seen my end, do you know, Audrey, when a fortuneteller like us dies unnaturally, he can clearly see the end he is about to face, I have seen it, it is irreparable of."
Miss Audrey wanted to say something more, but Miss Broniance shook her head with difficulty to stop her.
The poor dying woman on the sofa looked at Jenkins again:
"Williamette, I want to apologize to you."
"No apology, you didn't do anything to harm me, and you helped me many times... I'm sorry I couldn't help you."
"Don't say that, young man. I died because I brought it on myself. I didn't realize until now that fate has arranged different roles for everyone. Fate has given me favors many times, but I want to be greedy. More things that don't belong to me, this is what I deserve."
Her eyes fixed on Jenkins, but there was a gentle smile on her face:
"Williamette, go your way. In this world, no one can show you the way, only you know where you are going. I know you are seeking the seat of the savior, and I know that you are very likely to have There are more than two qualifications. Do you know, William, I knew from a long time ago, even before you were born, that Nolan would be the last stage of this era. The attempt thirty years ago... cough cough … Not only did those who trusted me lose their lives, but they almost killed me too; thirty years later, I didn’t remember that lesson, and I wanted to try again, this time fate didn’t forgive me, my end has come… "
As a matter of course, Jenkins understood that the soothsayer who guided Leonsum and their friends to find the trace of the savior thirty years ago was Miss Broniance who came to Nolan with Robert by boat at that time.
The latter seemed to know what Jenkins was thinking, and said softly:
"It's [Stranger], the name of your book, maybe fate is playing tricks on me. I came to Nolan as a stranger thirty years ago, and sacrificed my friends in search of [Stranger]; thirty years Then I came to Nolan again as a stranger, sacrificing myself in search of [the stranger]. This is what I deserve... "
She gasped again, and Miss Audrey held her hand tightly.
"Williamette, can I ask you to take good care of Audrey in the future? Don't think that she is much older than you, but there are actually some problems that she understands far less than you do."
The woman looked at Jenkins with pleading eyes, and even let go of Miss Audrey's hand, wanting to reach out and touch Jenkins' face. Jenkins' lips moved but he didn't speak, just nodded slightly, the woman he was holding was about to leave.
Miss Broniones again took the hand of her most gifted pupil, whom she took for her daughter. The two met many years ago. It was a warm and simple story. The protagonist of the story was a young woman and a girl who broke into the divination tent of the celebration because of curiosity. At that time, Miss Audrey was about the same age as Phinney next to Jenkins .
The woman just looked into Miss Audrey's eyes and kept watching, but she didn't give her any more words, nor did she guide her to the future. The two just looked at each other like this, as if time went back to that autumn afternoon twenty years ago, in that small tent, they looked at each other through the crystal ball just like today.
Little girls were immature then, and now grown-up girls are mature.
Lightning flashed through the window again, and Miss Broniance's hand dropped from Miss Audrey's. No matter how Jenkins input the spirit of life, the body did not respond with any life.
Miss Broniance is dead.