The Whispering Verses Chapter 823: “To Dorothy” (Part 1)
Chapter 820 "To Dorothy" (Part 1)
Nothing new happened in the Duke's Manor on Friday night, but probably because of Lesia's kiss that smelled like tears, Shade had a strange dream, and when he woke up, he felt that he was not as good as in the guest room of the manor. It was an exaggeratedly large bed, but he still preferred his own bed.
On Saturday morning, Shade and Lesia said goodbye to Miss Carina and returned to the city in a carriage. In the afternoon, Shade went to Dr. Schneider's clinic on time and participated in the group study meeting.
Things in the city of Fort Midhill were aroused, and the news of the arrival of the two gods in the Sikal Mountain area had naturally spread to Tobesk. Although on the surface, this matter had nothing to do with the correspondence group of ring wizards in Tobesk, the four of them spent most of the study meeting this week discussing the issue of Middleburg.
Although Shade was very sure that whoever got into trouble would not get into trouble with the old priest, the most important thing was still caring about the safety of Priest August. Another thing worth mentioning is that Dr. Schneider is happy to say that Tobesk does not seem to be the most unlucky city this year:
"Oh, friends, I am not gloating, I am also sorry for what happened in the mountain city in the east of the old continent. But this at least shows that bad things can happen anytime, anywhere, and the city we live in It’s just that the first one was unlucky, not always unlucky.”
Dr. Schneider was very optimistic about this, and then changed the topic and asked Shade to find a way to go to Fort Midhill in the near future to check on the current situation of Priest Augustus. After all, he is the only one who can travel between the two cities conveniently.
The study meeting ended at around four o'clock in the afternoon, and Luvia hurried to the Prophet's Association. Shade made an appointment with Dr. Schneider and asked the doctor to go to him at ten o'clock tomorrow morning. Then he and Dorothy went to Röntgen Avenue to take the carriage on the corner.
The weather in Tobesk is good today, and people are wearing more clothes in late autumn. The blonde girl was wearing a red scarf that looked like pure wool.
"Lecia is acting strange today."
The two walked side by side on the bustling streets of the east side of the city. The surrounding buildings were covered with metal pipes, shining in the autumn afternoon sun.
Dorothy whispered to Shade:
"She suddenly communicated with me this morning, but it only lasted for a few dozen minutes. She left a very strange sentence in my diary."
Passing by the fat woman holding a bread bag, the writer whispered:
"It says - [Dear Dorothy, you are me and I am you.]"
She added troubledly:
"It's strange that there is only this paragraph, and it was written after it was scrawled repeatedly. There are wet marks next to it. I think it may be tears. I am a little worried, Shade, are you not capable? Is there any way to contact Yoder Palace? ”
"Speaking of which, there is something I haven't said yet."
Shad, with Mia standing on his shoulder, said immediately, slowed down and took out a folded envelope from his pocket and handed it over:
"In the morning, Lesia's maid sent me a letter, asking me to give it to you after the study meeting this afternoon."
Mia on her shoulder barked several times into the alley aside, startling the wild cats looking for food in the alley and quickly fled into the depths of the alley.
"Letter? Lesiya needs to write a letter if she has something to do. Wouldn't it be more convenient to write a diary after exchanging it directly? And why should it be delivered through you?"
Dorothy became even more suspicious, opening the letter as she walked without stopping.
She first found a few petals from the envelope:
"What does this mean? However, it is indeed Lesia's handwriting, and the letter paper is also commonly used by Lesia. Shade, you know how expensive this kind of letter paper is."
She was stunned when she saw the content on the letter. Seeing Dorothy stop, Shade and little Mia stretched their heads to read the contents of the letter, which read:
【You and me are like the front and back of a mirror. Although we will never be able to meet each other, just relying on you makes me feel complete. 】
"Look, it looks like a love letter."
Shade joked, and stopped together with the blonde writer lady, waiting for the workers in patched clothes who were carrying heavy objects to cross, and they nodded to Shade to express their thanks.
Dorothy looked a little unhappy:
"She must have encountered something. Normally Lecia would not say such things."
He held Shade with one hand, put all his body weight on it, and then closed his eyes. After opening it again, the cat on Shade's shoulder did not make a sound to remind him, it was still Dorothy:
"Lecia rejected my exchange!"
Dorothy looked very ugly and spoke faster:
"She has never rejected me before, and I can no longer remember how many times we have exchanged identities. She came to experience the ordinary day of a common girl, and I went to experience the troublesome life of a princess, and finally wrote down our respective experiences. In the diary, we complained to each other and enjoyed each other's lives. But now, she actually rejected me."
Grab Shade’s arm tightly with your right hand:
"Did something happen to Lesia?"
Shad frowned and walked forward with Dorothy. He also showed a worried expression:
"Maybe it's something else. Come on, let's go to Mary Jane's Flower Shop on Silver Cross Avenue now, where we can contact the Yodel Palace."
Dorothy was really worried, and Shade was also walking in a hurry. The two rode a carriage from the east city of Tobesk to the city center.
After pushing open the wooden door of "Mary Jane's Flower Shop", Dorothy was shocked. The entire flower shop was filled with bouquets of red, pink, white, yellow and blue flowers. Those bouquets occupied almost every corner of the flower shop, and there were even flowers in the hanging baskets in the air.
"Is someone planning to hold a wedding in a flower shop?"
Xia De asked in surprise, but still did not forget to walk quickly to the counter. Dorothy fell behind and looked at the flowers, while Shade went to talk to Princess Agelina's maid in the flower shop.
Not long after, Xia De came back worriedly:
"The maids at the flower shop cannot deliver messages to me. Last night, Agelina told the maids at the flower shop that if I came today, I would only hear one question: What is my sister's favorite flower?" ”
Dorothy said almost immediately:
"Her favorite was white lilies. I still remember that after we got to know each other, she insisted that I change the plants in the flower pots on the window sill of the apartment to lilies. We argued about this for several days, and finally she I only agreed if you promised to help me write the manuscript."
When Dorothy said this, she showed a nostalgic expression:
"She is really beautiful. Let's look for White Lily here."
The servants in the flower shop received the news in advance and could not help the two of them search. Therefore, Shade and Dorothy could only search in this "prosperous flower field" by themselves. Although there were many flowers, Bai Baihe only had one bunch with a note inside:
[Blonde girl, do you still remember our first encounter? 】"
"What does this mean?"
Shadow was very confused and left the flower shop with Dorothy.
"This is our first exchange."
Dorothy stood on the side of the road, looking across the bustling crowd of people in autumn clothes on Silver Cross Avenue towards the Yodel Palace:
"I was panicked that time, thinking that I had lost control and fell into a hallucination, or that I had accidentally been mentally affected by the properties of some relic. That night, I used Lesia's body to run out of the Yodel Palace, and in I was holding on to the lamppost and looking at the Silver Cross Avenue in the dark night with my scalp numb. Even after a long time, Lecia would still laugh at my ridiculous look when I mentioned this incident. Later, in order to apologize to me, she said: There was a letter written behind the advertising paper on the street lamp pole, asking me to use my body to get it."
Dorothy’s expression softened a lot:
"That's one of the few real connections we have."
"What was written in the letter?"
Shad asked with great interest, Dorothy shook her head:
"Shadow, that's the girls' secret."
"Okay, lamppost? Which one is it?"
Dorothy clearly remembers the lamppost, just opposite the Yodel Palace.
But there were quite a lot of things posted on the lampposts. While Shade was looking for auction house advertisements, steam company advertisements, and city hall wanted notices, Dorothy stood aside and waited with her lips pursed.
Suddenly, a group of teenage children came running up smiling, half of them wearing patched clothes, and the other half wearing very new clothes. They held hands together, sang nursery rhymes, and joked as they passed Dorothy. The blonde girl watched them go away, feeling many emotions for a moment.
"Ha, found it!"
Xia De stood in front of the street light pole and pointed to the small advertisement "Retired Royal Army Doctor of Delrayon, specializing in treating various difficult and complicated diseases":
"Dorothy, what are you looking at? Look, it must be this. The city hall cleans advertisements on lampposts every day and will not allow such advertisements to appear on Silver Cross Avenue."
As he spoke, he tore it off, and sure enough, new sentences were written on the back in familiar cursive letters. Shade and Dorothy looked at it together. It read:
[In this late autumn, looking at the fallen leaves, I want to kiss the side of your face. 】
"Lecia wants to kiss you?"
Xia De was stunned for a moment, then looked at the blonde girl in surprise:
"You, I, you, I thought, I, wasn't it?"
He was a little incoherent, and Dorothy looked at him angrily:
"Don't worry, Lesia and I only like men. Although we have **** with handkerchiefs, we are not crazy women from the Witch Council. After kissing us so many times, you still doubt this?"
"What does this sentence mean?"
Shad pointed to the back of the flyer "Retired Royal Army Dralion Dr.", Dorothy fell into memories, and then bit her lip:
"I probably understand. This happened three weeks ago. You frequently went to Fort Midhill at that time. I asked Lesia in my diary what you were doing recently, and then we talked about you. The kissing thing."
Her face was slightly red, and she lowered her head and walked west along Silver Cross Avenue with Shade:
"Lecia jokingly said in her diary that although we are both willing to kiss you, we will probably never be able to kiss you at the same time. When I returned to my body, I saw that she left a leaf in the diary. , there are red lipstick marks on the leaves, she said."
Xia De looked at him curiously. He really didn’t know this part, but the blonde girl suddenly turned around and walked towards the street:
"Detective, don't pry into the girls' privacy. I know that you are still thinking about reading our diaries."
Of course Shade is thinking about this matter. Their diaries are definitely more interesting than most popular novels of this era.
"Go to my apartment. I made that leaf into a specimen and hung it on the wall. If I guessed correctly, when Lesia used my body this morning, she left a message behind the specimen. She What happened to me that made me need to be so cautious in delivering the news?"
Miss Writer was worried, but Mia was not anxious at all. The cat could tell that Shade didn't feel anxious or worried at all. The cat just wants to know what time dinner will start tonight.
The two of them and the cat got on the carriage again on Silver Cross Avenue and headed to Quill Street in the University District. Dorothy lived in Building B, No. 211 Quill Street, and she rented the third floor alone.
The blonde girl took out her key and opened the door downstairs, and met the landlady wearing a hairnet walking downstairs. The landlady frowned at Shade's arrival again, and then said to Dorothy:
"Luisa, everything you ordered has arrived. Are you very loose recently? Oh, a young girl should save some money on her own, otherwise she will have to be a miserable person who depends on men for food in the future. I don't see this kind of thing Too many.”
Xia De thought she was probably warning him.
"What did I order?"
Dorothy frowned slightly and came to the third floor with Shade. Opening the door, you immediately saw the brass-colored metal floor-standing clothes hanger placed in the center of the living room, as well as the red dress on the hanger.
Not only the skirt itself, but also the waistband, stockings, black leather shoes, hair accessories, hats, and cosmetics are all available. Even for attending the most formal occasions, this outfit is more than enough:
"What exactly is Lesia going to do?"
If I was worried at first, now I am a little angry.
The blonde girl entered the bedroom and stood on tiptoes to remove the leaf specimen hanging on the wall beside the desk. When I turned to the back, I didn't see any letters or notes, but after opening the back cover of the photo frame, a slender note did slip out. As expected, it was still Lesia's cursive handwriting.
Dorothy turned around and wanted to watch it with Shad, but she saw that Shad was looking at the photo frame standing on the desk with Mia who was looking around:
"How rude."
Dorothy reached out and slammed the photo frame down on the table, but that did not prevent Shade from recognizing that it was a black and white photo of Lesia, cut from a newspaper.
The new note also contains inexplicable words:
[It will be an eternal regret not being able to dance together at the Haggis dinner in midsummer. 】