Chapter 97:
There was a rapping at the door and then a creak, Amaterasu opened the door and peered in. The room was pitch black and not a single sound was heard anywhere.
“Sister.” he began as he walked into the room “Sister Marigold, I have brought some food for you to eat. It is most delicious if I say so-“
The candles in the room flickered on, and illuminated the figure in the center, Marigold. Around her objects in the room were levitating and revolving around her as she sat still, and it sent a chill up Amaterasu’ s spine.
He placed the tray on a desk, and began his approach. He dodged the objects carefully and he moved towards his dearest sister of despair.
Finally, he reached his sister
“Marigold, I have brought you something to eat.” She wasn’t responding “It isn’t polite to ignore people Marigold. You could get punished for this from our dear brother.” She still showed indication that she was listening to him, Amaterasu began to get frustrated and touched her shoulder.
As soon as he touched her, every object afloat became suspended. Amaterasu pulled his hand back immediately, but it wasn’t fast enough. Marigold turned around and faced him her normal green-grey eyes glowing to a yellow and her face was saddened. Amaterasu began to hear a voice in the corner of his mind and it was beginning to reverberate in his head ‘YOU THINK I’M WEIRD’, ‘I’M A FREAK’, ‘WHY ME?!’, ‘I SHOULD DIE!’ was all that was heard. Without realizing it he had shut his eyes and clapped his hands over his ears trying to block out the sound. When he opened his eyes he noticed that all the objects in the room began moving again and in a rapid motion. He noticed that the tray that he had brought in was afloat as well and the larger objects in the room.
He began to run to the door, but he got knocked over by a flying desk. He got up and smashed the desk into pieces. Afterwards, he picked up the largest piece and began to make another attempt at running towards the door, this time whenever something threatened to knock him down he batted it away with the wood. When he finally arrived at the door he looked back for a second and noticed that there was nothing grounded except for Marigold, including him. He reached for the doorknob as his body became light and began to float in the air, then with all of his strength he pulled himself though the door into the hallway where there was still gravity.
“Damn! She is one crazy woman! I think she could give old Magier a run for her money.” After saying that he dusted off his shirt, pulled on its lapels, and picked up another tray on a table in the hallway and left towards his next destination.