kingnovel Chapter 468 Gemini
Chapter 468 Gemini
As the night deepened, the outline of the white royal city loomed in the darkness, like a giant standing silently in the silent night.
The Temple of Light also slowly returned to its former tranquility after a period of chaos. Candlelight flickered in the corridor. A goddess was carefully protecting the candle in her hand and approaching the Zulfa Sanctuary. She walked slowly, as if she was afraid of disturbing the peace of the night.
The light in the sanctuary was dim, and only the outlines of the ancient stone walls and the bookshelves that reached the ceiling could be seen. The goddess first looked at the dinner she had brought earlier on the table at the door, and then continued to move forward. Her eyes slowly swept across and finally stopped at a wall.
"Lord Saint?"
The moonlight outside came through a small window high up in the stone wall. The window was very small and could not be opened for ventilation, just to add some daylight to the church during the day. At this moment, there was a ladder under the window for taking books. At the top of the ladder, someone was standing on tiptoe, looking out through the tall stained glass window with an extremely focused expression.
Her figure was stretched in the candlelight, appearing exceptionally slender, her long silver hair cascading down like a waterfall, swaying slightly as her gaze turned. If it weren't for... this would simply be a saint in an oil painting...
Ava hesitated for a moment, looked back at the untouched food at the door, and boldly reminded, "Why didn't you have dinner today? Is it not to your liking?"
"It's quiet outside..." the saint on the ladder said with a melancholy tone.
"Yes, Lady Freya." The new Shen Da answered respectfully.
"What happened, Ava? You know, right?" Freya still didn't come down from the ladder. She was looking forward to the outside becoming lively again. It was the first time in her life that she saw so many people. It was also the first time she knew that there were so many people in the temple. Where did they hide on weekdays? Those people were holding torches and shouting. It was very lively. This was a scene she had never seen in the tower. Would it be more lively outside than here? What about the streets? What about her mother's palace?
Freya liked this place, liked this window. This place was closer to the outside world than the Shining Moon Tower. She couldn't help but put her head closer to the window and blew white mist onto the glass.
Ava hesitated for a moment without saying anything, and Freya on the ladder turned around suddenly and looked down at her expressionlessly.
Ava was startled and quickly lowered her head, leaving only the back of her head visible to the Saint.
"Raise your head!" The elegant saint's voice suddenly became sharp!
"—you said you weren't afraid of me!"
The Zulfa Temple is now empty. The saint's voice echoed repeatedly in the room, creating layers of echoes, just like the underground dungeon in the Temple of Atonement. Ava shivered with fear and quickly raised her head.
"Yes, Lady Freya, yes! It is an honor bestowed upon me by God the Father to have the privilege of taking care of the Saint. Every day I pray before meals to thank God the Father for his gift. I have never, never..." As she spoke, she saw tears in Freya's eyes.
"grown ups……"
Ava felt both fear and pity. She was fearful of her mood swings and felt pity for her loneliness as she had never stepped out of the temple. Ava had a sister who died young. Her body was different from other children since she was born. It was twisted and spasming, with a big bump on her back, like a cooked shrimp.
The local priests even refused to baptize her, and they had no money to treat her. As she grew older, her body became more and more deformed. Her mother said she would take her to Highgarden to try her luck with the bigwigs in the Temple, but the child died on the way.
But she stayed and was fortunate enough to enter the temple. She had heard the story of Saint Freya a long time ago. She was so kind and helped countless desperate and helpless civilians. Ava looked at her twisted body and always thought of her sister who died young.
It's just that my body is different from that of ordinary people, it's no big deal - Ava really thinks so.
Even when Saint Freya was in a bad mood and grabbed anything at hand and threw it at her, she didn't think it was a big deal. The same was true when her sister was in a bad mood and she could just coax her.
"You must know the Bible of Light better than I do." Ava forced a smile, trying to calm Saint Freya down.
"The twins are order in chaos and unity in division. Their existence allows the gods to glimpse the brief perfection in eternity and to be enlightened by the truth. In the twins, He sees both sides of light." Ava felt a little ashamed of showing off her knowledge in front of the scholar, but when she saw that Saint Freya was no longer angry, she continued talking.
"The Father God prefers twins. He regards them as his most precious creations and guards their souls with endless light until eternity. Even among the twelve bishops, there is a pair of twins. Lady Freya, you are unique." Ava said in a gentle voice. "Everyone said that you were also a child kissed on the forehead by the Father God."
"Da da."
There was a noise on the ladder. It was Freya slowly coming down. Ava quickly reached out to help her. She was so short that she looked more like a child in front of the younger Freya.
"Ava." Freya reached out and touched her face in the dim light. The woman's skin looked rough, but it felt smooth to the touch.
"You are unique too, Ava."
Freya's voice softened, and her fingers moved upwards, touching Ava's eyes little by little. The next moment, she pressed her cold fingertips on Ava's eyeballs. Ava's tears came out almost instantly, and her eyelids opened and closed uncontrollably, trying to push the foreign object out, but the saint showed no intention of moving her fingers away, so she could only endure it and remain motionless.
"You are different from those previous gods. I knew from the first moment I saw that you are not afraid of me, and even..." You even have pity for me. What a strange god.
Ava sometimes looked at her with eyes that she was familiar with. There was a girl who looked at her the same way before, but she messed up. Somehow, she kept the eyes of this goddess.
"Because you are a good person, Saint." Ava said with tears.
"Puchi...Haha, hahahahaha!" Freya was amused by her. She just laughed at first, and then her body trembled more and more violently, and she laughed crazily.
——She smiled, so she must be happy, right? Ava felt the fingers on her eyes move away. Just as she was about to breathe a sigh of relief, she saw a flash of light and a burst of force. The thin Shen Da flew out and hit the bookshelf behind her.
"Freya! Don't do this! She will get hurt!" A scream was heard, trying to stop the moody saint.
"Shut up!" Freya's sharp voice sounded. "You are pretending to be a good person again! How disgusting! How disgusting!"
Ava lay on the ground and couldn't get up for a long time because of the severe pain in her back. In a daze, she saw the lily-like skirt moving in front of her.
"Don't let me hear anything about the twins again. I didn't leave your tongue so you can say these things." Freya's eyes were as cold as ice. She was tall to begin with, and now she was glancing down with great imposingness.
"I'm not a twin." Freya's voice was cold. "Father God said that the fate of twins is like a tangled thread that cannot be completely overlapped, nor can it be separated."
"So I'm not."
She was just a monster parasitic on herself. They were never an inseparable entangled thread. They were destined to be separated.
One day, there will always be such a day!