TORTURE OF WATCHING HER SLOWLY DIE..*:-:*.

***On planet Gieâ..

***In the Inner Outskirts if Continent 'Eclipse of the Oceans'..

***In a small house on a lonely hill..

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 Stepping out of the bathroom, Navi's current residence obviously is not the guest house quarters anymore. It is a wooden house structure that is more spacious that that of the Guesthouse quarters.

There is an open sitting room, a distance bed space and at a far wall sits a set of stairs attached to the walls that leads up to a cosy roof pocket.

 With less bright colours than his previous residence, this new apartment holds a big bed, a remote fire place, a set of L shape couch in it's sitting with a centre table.

The space also holds distant, neat big cabinets for sorting clothes as well as a division for the kitchen. A lot has changed over the last five years and the current residence is quite the full upgrade compared from his former quarters though Navi doesn't feel any sort of happiness concerning this so called 'upgrade'.

Stepping out of the bathroom, the first place Navi's eyes darts to is the big wooden bed with white covers though.. she isn't there.

His brows tightens in slight panic as he quickly scans around the apartment.

"Mom!.", Navi calls out with a deep tone that's more than he should have at his twelve old age.

Maybe it's because of his sleepless nights and days but his voice and bearing has undergone a more mature shift but this maturity does not hinder his concerns.

Scuffing around, Navi moves through the sitting room and soon gets to the closed glass window. Pulling the curtains, he looks outside for his mom's familiar figure which is not indoors.

A breath of relief soon escapes his lips as he sees Eleanora sitting a the vine swing attached to a tree branch outsidev while giving a dazed stare to the distance with her blonde hair scattering in the lightly blowing wind.

Navi closes his eyes for a second in relief before taking a step forward. He wants to dash out and bring her back inside because of her condition but then remembering how much she hates that kind of patient treatment,.. he stops himself midway.

Turning around, Navi hurriedly dry's himself before hanging the towel on a clothes hook. He opens up a set of cabinets from which he pulls out the first set of neatly folded simple robes he can lay his hands on.

Within two minute, he's all dressed up.

He hurriedly finds a small square jewellery case where he pulls out a very familiar teardrop pendant that serves as a token to his mother's love. After lacing the pendant on his neck with practiced ease, Navi's legs seems to move on their own as he soon finds himself with his hand on the house door's handle.

Holding onto the handle for a while, Navi practices a couple of warm smiles and relaxed expression and then,..

 *CREAK¡*..

The door opens up as he goes outside with a small smile on his face.

Sitting on the distant swing, Eleanora turns her gaze to Navi obviously made aware of his arrival by the sound of the door. Seeing her son, she gives a small smile that causes a small crack in Navi's own.

Eleanora.. his mother looks absolutely nothing like she used to. Her normally glassy skin has turned dry, her blonde hair has lost its beautiful lustre, her eyes had barely noticeable blue veins in them and she looks like she's lost two dozen kilos' in weight!.

Her neck has a hint of blue in them and her lips are cracked and pale. Her fingers has been skimmed down to bones and skin and although her eyes aren't the same, her gazeat him remains unchanged.

Filled with unconditional motherly love, adoration and warmth.

 Navi struggles with himself and his mind for a bit and then he finally managed to pull himself together as he keeps walking to his mother's side.

"I really don't know why you like this vine swing so much.", Navi says something a little random to get his mother attention off him as he's afraid she might catch the anguish in his 'calm' eyes.

"..I don't like the swing, I like the view.", Eleanora replies with her voice slightly hoarse as she shifts her attention towards the horizon.

Although not too luxurious, Eleanora had made sure they got their house on the side of a hill just so that she can enjoy the view of the sun rising above the forest's ocean of green in the morning as well as the view of the sun setting over the great border walls at dusk.

Geisha's or rather ex-Geisha's like Eleanora come in contact with a very impressive severance pay at the end of their lifetime long careers.

While in service, Geisha's don't get paid monthly or annually unlike other professions though instead they receive low allowances monthly. This method is implemented to prevent them from running away or losing interest in working but at the end of their career(however long it gets), Giesha's receive enough to earn them a peaceful and average life without worry for money in decades as they pass over.

This system is the inspiration for every Geisha to work hard no matter how hard it gets as they know that after retirement, they can live their lives in the most relaxing and peaceful ways.

 Eleanora being a top ranked Geisha that worked in the Guesthouse for over twenty-one years had relieved quite the heavy severance.

Enough to buy a moderate house and live for the next decades without worry of going hungry.

 Her status and value is very high in the business that if not for sickness that forced her to retire three years ago, she would have raked in a much higher severance.

Watching the sun rise and set is an hobby Eleanora has suddenly picked up during the past few months. They say that when someone is closer to death, their attitude changes and this change in Eleanora's attitude terrifies Navi internally.

 As a smart kid, he has long found out about what had happened to lead his mother to such a weak state though the story he learnt is not something he can do much about despite how badly he craves to.

The culprits are dead so there's no-one to direct his anger to. There's no alchemy pill in the Outskirts that can cure Eleanora as the alchemists in here deals only with cultivators. Because of this, knowledge on how to make a pill that wouldn't directly kill a mortal like his Mom has been lost in the Outskirts history.

And last but not least, another problem with possible treatment is..Eleanora.

His mother seems to have come to peace with.. death. As her son, no matter how bad it sounds Navi sometimes cannot help but consider Eleanora a little selfish for giving up on herself and on the future.

 Five years,.. they say she would be gone before this time limit. For the last period of five years, Navi has been forced to participate in the torture of slowly watching his mother die with each rising and setting of the sun.

Navi wants to cling on stubbornly to hope or miracles but his mind seems too mature and rigid for that. He ever so want to believe that Eleanora would make it and live out her days . He keeps trying to tell himself that she would recover though his mind keeps reminding him that however short.. Eleanora is already living out her days.

She seems peaceful infact.

"Navïælét -Vęr- Firųs.", Eleanora calls out to Navi with elven tongue while still looking at the horizon.

Navi hesitates a bit to respond.

His mother only calls him his full name when she's worried about something or when she's about to tell him something important.

 Navi does not know why but this time, it felt different. It feels more than a little off and his heart is sinking for some reason.

Steeling his nerves, Navi finds his throat irregularly dry as he answers without daring to check the expression his mother is making..

"Yes Mom.".

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