As Velez walked down the stairs, the surrounding light began to change, turning into a warm yellow glow.
It looks like a sunrise, but it's not, it's just a cycle of light.
There are no windows here, and no trace of the sky or the outside world can be seen from inside.
When she came to a sealed iron door, she spoke to the communicator on the side:
"it's me."
The thinking machine hummed, then the lights turned from red to green and the heavy door opened.
The room is a circle, and the walls and floors are made of obsidian, but here, there is no sunrise light, and there is always darkness here. Hundreds of tiny linear light tubes surround and hang around the black stones, shining brightly. Out of the stars in space.
A figure emerged from the darkness and moved across the room in Velez, shifting in his chair.
Velez herself found a simple wooden chair. After sitting down, she put her hands on her slender and elegant thighs.
"Looks like a great night, Kalima."
"Yes."
The other party replied calmly that Velez had always been curious about why the other party lived in such a place, but the man never gave her a real explanation.
Her most common answer is usually -
"Only in the shadows do stars always shine so brightly."
Then, the human figure stood up from the chair and walked out of the darkness. She wore the same light and flexible armor as hers, her pale hair was tied up with a row of gold buttons, her body was strong and well-proportioned, her curves were exaggerated, and her blue eyes were sharp and firm.
She smiled at the Mother Superior when she saw her.
"Anna, are you dreaming again?"
"Isn't it always like this?"
Kalima Seid Olsson is Velez's most trustworthy person in the order. She is not only a skilled nun, but she also has a certain talent for touching the souls of others.
More importantly, she is also an expert in dream interpretation and is very good at interpreting dreams.
And there is no doubt about her purity. According to the information, she is 26 years old and comes from an ancient family in Terra. She has served the empire since the Great Crusade.
Originally, she was even qualified to compete with Velez for the position of Sister, but she voluntarily gave up and told Velez that she saw some kind of unique light in her body, and concluded that she must shoulder a huge responsibility. Mission and Responsibility.
Kalima Seid Olsson not only has outstanding personal strength, but also has an extremely profound background. She even influenced the will of the top leaders of the state church. It was with her support that Velez became a senior nun.
"let me see."
Tina smiled and put her thin, cold hands on Velez's face.
She was silent for a long time, and finally when she put down her arms, she uttered three words——
"——Pelting the Death Star."
At that moment, some force rushed through Velez like a storm, making her feel as if she had lost her balance. The false night sky in the room around her quickly disappeared, and the world began to churn and change.
She couldn't help but blink her eyes.
When Velez opened his eyes again, he saw a completely different towering corridor.
The corridor was lit by flickering candles - hundreds, even thousands. The floors and walls were made of pale stone, spliced together like broken pottery, and the sounds of a storm echoed through the room. In the corridor, a biting wind blew the candlelight slightly.
"this place…"
Velez looked at Kalima, who smiled at her.
"Your home."
The nun nodded.
"Yes, home."
They walked down the corridor together, Kalima whispering beside Velez, observing all the details of the dream.
Usually the shape of a place in dreams would be different and distorted, but not here. Except for the candles, this place was exactly the same as the home in Velez's memory. Even the smell was exactly the same.
The smell of candle smoke, the smell of rain and cold air, and the earthy aroma of the pine forest.
Every hanging was in its place, every book and parchment in the little hole in the wall was exactly where it should be.
"I've never seen this place."
"Because I haven't dreamed about this place since I left. It's been... many years."
Velez realized that he was holding a lamp in his hand, and then raised it slightly higher.
"here."
She pointed to the stairs leading up. The bare stone steps were smoothed by generations of footsteps. If I listened more carefully, I could hear the chirping of the birds above.
The two began to ascend the stairs, which were narrow and steep and spiraled upwards.
The chirping of the birds grew louder and louder until the door to the top of the tower appeared at the end of the stairs, the floor covered with feathers and straw swaying in the wind that poured in through the huge windows.
Several black swallows perched in their nests with their claws bent, crying toward the storm.
Velez didn't look at them, and neither did Kalima. They were looking at the mountains in the distance and the terrible storm that enveloped them.
Then Velez put his hands on the stones of the window frame, feeling the coldness under his hands, and the mountain wind blowing on his face was still cold, mixed with rain.
"Why did you bring me here?"
The nun turned to look at her most trusted advisor.
Kalima nodded toward the distant mountains, and Velez took a closer look and saw the lonely figure of a bird coming through the storm.
She shouldn't have seen it, the sky was still dark, but the bird shone like the lamp in her hand.
Its feathers burned brightly in the violent thunderstorms and predawn darkness, scattering some of them with each flutter, leaving a trail of light.
"The dawn will soon follow him."
Velez looked at the shining birds in the sky and whispered:
“What if the dawn never comes and darkness forever covers the sky?”
Kalima smiled and looked at the young nun patiently.
"The dawn will come, it's destined... After all, if there is night, then day must come too, you just have to follow your heart."
Velez shook his head.
"But I'm afraid, I'm afraid that one day I will live up to my oath..."
Kalima stepped forward, put her arm around the nun's shoulders, and pointed to the stormy sky.
"Follow the silver eagle, Anna."
She pointed to the bird, the raptor.
"The light will follow him and burn away all the shadows."
Velez did see it, a blinding light behind the silver-gray falcon lighting up the entire sky.
The storm is easily driven away by it.
No, it's not just light.
It is a miracle.
The light continued to radiate from the eagle in the center, until that light was the only thing she could see, until she was enveloped in light and heat, feeling an incredible warmth not just in her skin but in her soul.
"Follow the eagle."
Then the eagle and the rainstorm disappeared, and Velez returned to the secret room of the monastery in a dazed moment.
"Then the time has come."
Kalima grabbed Velez's face so that she could only look at her, her blue eyes bright and firm.
"You have realized that he is in danger while dispelling the Death Star, so don't hesitate. This is your mission."
A tear fell from Velez's eye, and Kalima wiped it away with her thumb, tracing the outline of her jaw.
"Remember, we will never break our oath, and I will always stand by your side."
After the other person removed his hand from his face, Velez smiled hollowly.
"Yes."
She had broken many things in her long life, but she had never broken her oath, no matter how much pain it would have caused her to keep it.
"We will not break our oath."
After Velez left, Kalima returned to her chair, as still as a statue—
