The lady beside the bed also stood up. Her movements were very gentle, as if she was afraid of waking someone up from their sleep.

A voice that was very familiar to Esther came from under the black veil: "Long time no see."

Esther hesitated for a while, trying to remember where she had heard this voice before, but she could not find a clear person. She decided to follow the other person's words for the time being: "Well, hello, we have met before. ……Yeah?"

"Yes." The voice of the lady wrapped in black gauze was cold. She stopped on the ground not far from the bed, but the layers of black gauze wrapped around her body became tighter and thicker as she stepped.

Esther confirmed again - there were no feet under the hem of the other party's skirt. Although she didn't know whether this ghost story rule should be applied here, what Esther was sure of was that this lady would not know how to look at it. He is a human being, at least definitely not an ordinary extraordinary person.

Esther considered her words, trying to sound more polite. She didn't want to make any move that would irritate this strange lady: "When did it happen?"

"A long time ago," when the woman said this, she raised her hands and reached for the veil covering her face, "and that was really, a very long time ago."

When Esther saw the other person's face clearly, she subconsciously took half a step back and clenched the dagger in her hand with her backhand, but did not raise it: "You are... I saw you in Backlund."

The face in front of Esther was familiar because she had seen him in Backlund. During that great smog, she, or rather the goddess of the night, "hidden" the witch who was present and spreading the plague.

But in this place, once again seeing this quiet and beautiful face, Esther's thoughts were somewhat blocked, but the feeling the other person gave her was completely different from the goddess of the night - this made Esther's previous Her guess was completely in vain. She originally thought that this place would be some kind of sealed object left by the goddess of the night, maybe a gramophone driven by extraordinary power, but she never expected that she would really see a familiar "person".

The last time I saw the other party, it was the divine vessel of the goddess of the night.

Because of the obstruction of the black veil, Esther couldn't even tell whether the other party was a living creature with a human appearance, or some kind of bound spirit body - although she preferred the latter in her heart.

Of course, Esther can also open a special perspective of spiritual vision and directly spy on the entangled fate of the other person, but she is not going to bear the risk of being blind for a moment here, it is too unsafe.

The lady opposite had a calm and indifferent attitude. She just stared at Esther quietly for a moment, then slowly shook her head.

Her movements are always very gentle, to avoid letting the black veil around her be affected by her: "No, I don't know. What you see should be my body."

"Then where have you seen me?"

"You are always with -, but I didn't know that until later."

The disappearing name made the surrounding black veil violently turbulent, as if setting off an invisible gust of wind. The lady quickly retracted her hands, letting her face be covered behind layers of veils again.

Such a change made Esther instantly understand who the other person's name was. It was probably the real name of the goddess of the night.

The woman fell back again and sat back to the original position beside the bed: "Are you the reason why He can always maintain a stable 'humanity'?"

"Well, you can say..." Esther looked at the lady hesitantly, not knowing where to start.

Although the other party did not look here, he seemed to be aware of Esther's embarrassment, and his voice gradually lowered: "After my body died, my spirit changed in other ways. I don't know why He did this." Do, but He shared something with me.”

Esther took two steps toward the middle of the room, avoiding a circle of black gauze stacked on the ground: "I'm more curious, what happened?"

The woman was silent for a while, then raised her palms covered by the cuffs and covered her forehead. The black gauze danced gently like ocean waves. The quiet and peaceful night emerged behind the woman, but it quickly dissipated.

"I don't know if you're familiar with the story of the Creator."

"I'm fairly familiar with it."

"And among the angels around him, the 'dark angel' is also called the half-body."

Esther's brows immediately knitted together, as if someone had just squeezed a whole sour lemon into her mouth: "So now you are not just..."

"He saw me as a 'backup plan,' a term I learned from what He shared. And for me, I was not Him, and I still considered myself 'Mother of Heaven.'"

Such a gentle and firm voice came from under the black veil, and Esther didn't know how to respond for a moment - Esther was not surprised that the goddess of the night would do such a thing, and there was no reason why Amon didn't want to come in here. , Esther seems to have found it too.

The awkward silence lasted for a moment. Esther shook her head blankly and slowly retreated to the window: "Sorry to bother you, if this is the city He asked you to take care of..."

The lady did not shake her head, but expressed her mood with a gentle wave of her hands: "No, this city already existed before I came here. I just replaced the previous overtired caretaker."

Esther began to stare at her again, always feeling that there was something she had missed: "I would like to ask, do you only have a spirit body now?"

"Because my body is in the place called 'Backlund' you mentioned."

"No, no, that's not what I meant!" Esther quickly explained.

A low laugh came from under the veil, which made Esther realize that it was actually an intentional joke, even if it was a bit too dark.

Esther's confusion only became more intense: "Your humanity seems..."

The lady's hand reached into the depths of the black veil that enveloped her, as if she was groping for something: "You can also see that my human side is too strong and inconsistent with my state, right?"

"Yes." Esther nodded. Her spiritual intuition was suddenly touched, and her eyes immediately fell on the lady's hand.

From the overlapping black gauze, the lady pulled out a thumb-long crystal. As the outer layer of secrets was retracted, the tiny light group condensed in the crystal began to flicker and fluctuate, making Esther instantly hear a blur. call.

"Okay, is this his verification of the 'anchor'?"

"More than that, the sleepy residents of this city are now my 'anchors', and I can use this to shape a dream that accommodates them all."

Esther smiled helplessly: "It's really strange. Obviously I can't dream... I didn't know they had such ability."

Under Esther's somewhat reluctant gaze, the lady stuffed the crystal back between the black gauze, isolating Esther's sense of it.

Esther resisted the thought of taking back the crystal and raised her feet to walk towards the window again.

The lady's voice happened to ring out: "So, do you need my help?"

Now, I owe you two chapters.

I will make up for it when I get better (gritting my teeth)