The water was green, the rainy sky was black, and there was thick fog comparable to that in the normal world during a period of spatial chaos. This depressing and terrifying atmosphere told outsiders from the beginning that this dream was unusual.
There was no Megan or Audrey around, only Shad stood up from the dock alone.
"Are you dreaming now?"
Yes. This is their dream, not that you have entered another island.
"That's good."
Although Shad didn't understand dream abilities, he had talked to the doctor and knew that dreams reflected the state of the mind and soul. What he saw at this moment was enough to show how much pressure Megan and Audrey were under.
They probably haven't felt relaxed since they came into contact with the prophecy of bloodline.
Xia De took a deep breath and looked at his hands again. This was not a deep dream, so the "divine afterglow" did not appear. So he gently trembled his little finger twice, and the golden thread appeared from the air. Before entering the dream, the two had considered the possibility of separation, so the current situation was not very unexpected.
"Let's see what kind of dream Megan and Audrey have constructed."
The golden thread pointed in the direction of the forest path. After following the dark path into the increasingly bizarre town in the dream, the thread continued to move southward, guiding Shad to the Edwards mansion on the hill.
The island in the dream was not much different from the real island except that it was gloomy and scary, so there was no need to worry about getting lost. After successfully arriving at the locked mansion, Xia De gently clicked the door lock of the mansion, but nothing happened:
"The rule in the dream is that you can't force the door open?"
Having encountered a similar situation when he was dreaming with the doctor, Xia De thought about it and shouted loudly towards the lighted house in the foggy night:
"Hello, is anyone here? I'm here to see Miss Megan Edwards."
There was no response, so Shade shouted again:
"Okay, I made a mistake. I'm here to visit Miss Megan Edwards and Miss Audrey Edwards... in no particular order."
As soon as he finished speaking, the door lock popped open automatically. Xia De muttered something in his heart that no one could hear. He walked into the yard and came to the window. It was dark outside and the light was on in the room, but he couldn't see clearly what was going on inside from the window.
After knowing that he couldn't peek from the outside, Xia De knocked on the door and explained his purpose again. The door opened automatically, allowing Xia De to enter the room which was also filled with thick fog.
The room was brightly lit, with all the furniture and furnishings, but there was no sign of human life. This was probably what a "dangerous home" in horror novels looked like, reflecting Megan and Audrey's fear of the concept of the "Edwards family" itself.
Without checking the direction indicated by the silk thread on his little finger, Shad walked directly to the restaurant on the first floor where the Edwards family tree was.
It was a dark and foggy night outside the window, which made the room seem even brighter. Only the room where the restaurant was located was free of fog, and the candlesticks and kerosene lamps placed on the long dining table made the restaurant seem even brighter.
When Xia De pushed open the door of the restaurant, the owners of his dreams were already waiting for him there.
By the window, a girl in a black dress was looking at the night outside, her melancholy face reflected on the glass. At the end of the long dining table away from the door, a girl in a black dress, also wearing white lace gloves, put her hands together on the table and looked up at Shade.
The two of them were dressed and looked exactly the same, and they were both the owners of this dream.
Xia De held the door handle and looked at the scene in front of him. Then the girl standing by the window also looked at Xia De from the reflection of the window glass:
"Do you have anything to ask?"
The two of them said this together, which made the scene seem more like something from a horror novel.
Xia De nodded and pointed at himself:
"Why are you two wearing beautiful evening gowns, but I am only given ordinary clothes."
The girls obviously didn't expect Shad to ask this, so the girl at the window waved to Shad, and Shad's clothes changed from casual clothes to black formal dinner suit.
"Well, actually my own clothes are more comfortable."
Xia De said with a smile, and the clothes on his body changed back to their original appearance. Although this was not his own dream, thanks to his powerful soul, he could still do such a small thing as changing clothes.
He walked in and closed the door:
"So you've decided to tell me about yourselves now?"
"Yes."
They said together, their overlapping voices like an echo:
"This is a good opportunity. The dream can better explain the current situation. The ancestor has appeared, and the secrets of the Edwards family are gradually spreading to the entire material world. Some things must be made clear to you in advance... You don't seem that surprised?"
"I knew some things in advance. My perception is very strong."
He sat at the other end of the long table and looked at the two ladies standing and sitting in turn. Their appearance in the dream was consistent with their appearance in the real world, both so young and beautiful:
"Let me start by telling you what I know about you. Megan and Audrey are actually both you. The mental damage and soul discomfort in the past came from the two of you existing in the same body. After all, there can only be one soul in one body. This is the normal situation."
The two ladies looked at him with pursed lips, and Shade continued:
"It's not difficult to find this out. You are different after all. Two in one. Isn't this an appropriate description of you?"
He sighed:
"There are two things I'm not sure about now. First, why exactly did your souls enter the same body, and second, whether your souls have completely merged."
"The soul enters the same body. I will tell you after I wake up from the dream."
The girl at the other end of the table said:
"As for whether we have merged... it is better to say that we have never been separated."
The girl by the window walked towards the girl sitting, and the two held hands, and then they became one in a flash of light. Or, in other words, they became a strange body with two heads.
Even the beauty of the witches could not hide the horror of this scene. They stared at Shade:
"It's scary, isn't it?"
"I've seen worse things. And, this isn't what your souls look like, is it?"
Shade shook his finger:
"According to my original judgment, your souls are in a stage where they are one but have independent consciousness. The current appearance is just to illustrate that 'you are in me and I am in you'. If your souls are really as strange as this, your bodies cannot remain normal. The basic theory of the ring sorcerer: the soul and the body will affect each other."
So outsiders gradually become handsome.
The relationship between Megan and Audrey is completely different from that between Resia and Dorothy, or Helen and Grace. They are definitely not the same person, but it is also difficult to say that they are two people in a strict sense. The only thing Shad can be sure of is that Megan and Audrey do have their own independent consciousness, and are not the product of split personality.
Their situation was not as complicated as that of Resia and Dorothy, because their souls were relatively stable. They did not have the ability to completely merge into one like the princess and the writer, but they were obviously unable to separate.
"Please answer: Do you think we are one person or two people?"
The two heads merged together, turning her appearance in the dream into that of a normal person.
"Two people."
Shade said without hesitation:
"I firmly believe that you are two people."
Megan and Audrey finally smiled:
"If it weren't for the fact that only the friend with the Thirteenth Ring knew about our situation, I would have almost thought that you had investigated us before you met me."
Xia De deliberately asked:
"Then why don't you think that I heard about your situation from your friend who is in the thirteenth ring, and then approached you on purpose?"
The girl with brown shoulder-length hair blinked:
"That's impossible, because she... doesn't like men. Yes, she is different from me."
She stood up and walked towards Xia De. The sound of her high heels under her black dress struck Xia De's heart.
She finally came to Xia De and said seriously:
"You told me about your past this morning. I want to tell you something about me before I reveal my final secret."
This dream is as real as reality. The eyes that represent the witch are so powerful:
"Do you think I'm weird?"
"Why is it strange? It's more interesting."
Or very...
"Don't go on!"
Xia De stopped her from speaking in his heart, and then said to Megan:
"I know other girls who are in a similar situation to you. I can introduce you to each other when I have time."
"Really? How many other types of girls do you know?"
She pursed her lips and placed her hand on Shade's chest:
"Answer me one last time. Even if I am like this, even if I might not be human, even if my soul is so strange, are you still willing to protect me and accompany me to witness the secret of the family?"
"Actually, when you recover your eleventh ring, I won't be able to beat you... Of course I am willing. I am a person who keeps my promises."
He nodded slightly, and the owner of the dream also made a judgment:
"Yes, you are not lying."
She put one hand around Shade's neck and one hand on his cheek, kissing him as if they were on the dock. The contact between the spirits in the dream allowed Shade to further confirm the state of her soul. But before Shade could fully understand everything, the third and fourth hands "grabbed" Shade's head, followed by another identical face:
"Don't forget about me."
The new red lips made contact with Xia De, and Xia De closed her eyes and tried not to think about how four hands and two heads appeared when the two of them were standing so close.