103 Library of the Realms: The Akashic Records (1/2)
”A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
-Saul Bellow
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”Well then, young master... I and Odette have to finish some preparations for your brother's birthday... I assume that the stomach ache has been relieved now. After all, bitter medicines are always effective.”
Oh, so the preparations were this hectic huh... I only realized that. Well, I have had always deprived myself of logic and reason back then, probably the same with the other ones in my age, always ignoring the seemingly-insignificant details, which tends to be, of course, important at some point yonder.
”And, I hope that you taken into account what I just said.” He added which seemed like a whisper of concerns, bowing down one more time with a serious expression on his face.
”Yes... Probably”.
”Very well young master, you should be going... Lady Jean is waiting for you.” Raising his head, both he and her daughter got back to their work at the Mansion's grand hall... where the celebration is to take place... While, I, find myself trending my thirteen-year-old shiny shoes towards my mother's and sister's favorite hang-out place- the Garden.
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”Azazel...” I called out, making sure that I'm alone, before I could reach the garden to meet my little sister, not paying head anymore of that pianist who spells both threat and decadence, going further down the pathways leading further away from the mansion.
”Yes. Master?” She responded, looking somewhat... irritated?
”Uhmm... Is something boggling you? You look...hmm... angry.”
”Incorrect, Master. I am not angry knowing that you have had another maid before me, who is very beautiful and is to your liking, but I believe that you called to retrieve updates in accordance with the Patriarch's Paradigm Shift?”
”R-right... Any luck?”
”Yes, Master... but do pardon, for the time that it took... I was rather mesmerized of how you seem to like that Odette traditional maid, rather than letting you know my current findings...”
”Hayst...It's ok. Good Job, but next time, you should not prey on people's internal perspectives like that...So, care if you'll explain your findings for me?”
”Affirmative. Master...My analysis pronounces that this is indeed an illusion... And that cube that the Patriarch extracted from your head is like a key...”
”So, this is really an illusion huh... Then, does that mean that everything I'm seeing here now is but fragments that he wants me to see?”
”Yes.”
”And that, this is altered in some ways, right? That, this is not purely all.”
”Unfortunately, if you mean that everything or some aspects are falsified under the discretion of the patriarch... No, Master.”