"No.. No.. No.. Not again.. You're right.. how can I forget that? Let's get out of here.. but.. I don't know how to do that without my mother knowing?" Forsythia said as she paced around the room in a panic..
The bird saw her like that and sighed "Squeak.. come on.. take your hand out for me.."
Forsythia came to an abrupt stop and looked at the bird suspiciously "Why.. do you need my hand?"
The bird made an angry jump on the bed and chirped "Just do as i say, and you'll know.. I won't do anything to harm you.. you have to trust me.. squeak.. Your father gave you the ring.. he must never do anything to harm you, I believe.. squeak.."
Forsythia heard the bird mention her father, and her expressions changed.. there was a sadness in her eyes, a smile that was not quite like a smile appeared on her lips.. she reached out her right hand, the blue bird fluttered it's shiny ice blue wings, and the next moment it was there, sitting on her wrist..
As she was wondering what the bird was doing, she felt a stinging pain in her wrist.. and the bird started glowing like arctic ice in the sun.. the glow was so bright that she covered her eyes with her other hand..
"Squeak... you can now open your eyes.." Forsythia heard a baby like chirping voice in her mind and she uncovered her eyes to look at the blue bird, the bird was gone, in it's place was the same flower vine ice blue carving that was on the ring..
She touched it and realized that it felt cold as ice.. She saw that the bird had disappeared, she asked "Where are you baby bird? I thought I heard your voice in my head just now.. why can't I see you?"
"Squeak.. I just used my powers to get you out of that place.. in that process, I used up all the energy that I had saved up after waking up.. so for now, I'm resting and gathering my energy back in the space, the carving that I gave you on your wrist.." the blue bird replied lazily as it felt sleepy..
Forsythia heard what the bird said, and looked around her surroundings.. it's true.. she was out of that house.. just like that.. "Haha.. How did you do that baby bird? Only now did I realize that I'm not in my room anymore.." After looking around she found out that she was in the backyard garden of her house.. she picked up her bag, that was on the ground, and hid behind a tree..
She peeked at the back door of her house, making sure that nobody has realized yet that she was not in her room, getting ready.. She communicated with the blue bird telepathically "if I knew, someday I'd have to runaway from home, I'd have learnt how to drive a car.. Guess I can only walk from here, until I get a taxi.. what do you say, which way should we go?"
The blue bird half asleep, replied lazily "Let me think.. um.. squeak.. let's go East.. I can sense an energy source' vibrations in that direction.. And what you need most now is some energy source that can help in the awakening of your powers..
Although I can recover my powers little by little if I stay in the space in your wrist, it's quite slow compared to the external energy sources, and we still need to increase to your powers quickly so that you don't get hurt... squeak.. As you keep on increasing your powers, I can also benefit from that.. "
Forsythia nodded her head in all seriousness.. she knew how important it was for her to become strong.. She had vowed to herself and the heavens to take revenge on Lucas.. she could not afford to slack off at this point..
"You're right.. baby bird.. I never gave it a thought, there are many loopholes in everything that happened in my past life..
Why mother forced me to marry Lucas? Why dad never contacted me or came to my wedding? Did he even know that his daughter got married? And what motive Lucas had, so that he agreed to marry me, a daughter who lived with her not so well off mother?"
She thought about all the mysteries, and all the doubts she had in her mind.. all those queries that had now answer..
"Don't cry.. this time, you have me, and I'll help you awaken your powers and become the strongest.. Squeak.." After what the bird said she realized that she was crying, and tears were flowing down her face..
She quickly wiped her face and said as she felt embarrassed "I'm not crying.."
"Yeah sure.. Squeak.. But first of all we have to find you father and ask him about the ring.. he might've given you the ring with some thought.. I have a feeling that there's something that only he knows.. and you can get more information from him about your powers, birth, and the reason he gave you the ring..
Because one thing is for sure, that you have only awakened a tiny bit of your powers that helps you in communicating with me.. squeak.. other than that we don't know what kind of powers you might have.. squeak.."
After the bird reminded her, it finally clicked in her mind that she never thought about it before.. she only thought that the ring was a present from her father to her.. she never asked him anything about it, even though the ring made her feel some connection to it..
Now that she thought about it, it all made her feel like she was a real fool.. one that only knew how to do what others ordered or asked her to do..
She shook her her head in resignation, and was about to speak when she heard the bird chirping in a frustrated voice "And.. you can't call me baby bird anymore.. squeak.. squeak.. I'm older that you or anyone out there in this time and place.. hmph.. squeak.."
"Pfft... hahaha.. haha..." Forsythia burst out laughing as soon as the bird finished speaking.. She couldn't see the bird but she could imagine how it'd look scolding her in it's tiny voice, jumping up and down with it's tiny appearance...