Her confused look only continued after his response. He was so strange.... and vague! She wondered if she would ever get a straight answer out of him. Why did he feel that he had to be so secretive? "I'm afraid I don't understand... You don't look twenty. And what do you mean, 'someone like you?'"
A Botanical Lullaby
- Thread starter Enelya Norvayn
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"I don't look twenty because we stop aging around late teens to early twenties. Wait.. that doesn't make sense. How do you tell a 1 or 2 year difference?" It took him a few seconds to realize something. "Oh! That's right.. I'm in this kid's body..." After a few more seconds, he realized something else. "Oops! You thought I meant years when I said twenty.. huh..? I meant centuries. heh.."
Enelya's eyes went big, and she breathed..."Centuries?" She rubbed the back of her neck, trying to comprehend what Corona was telling her. "What are you...?" She was thinking immortal, but decided to let him explain it to her. She didn't want to give him another excuse to be vague again anyways.
"Oh yeah...that sort of gave you hints at to what I was.. I was trying to be vague about that...um...oops." He sighed but then shrugged. "Oh well, the jig is up..I'm an angel if you must know. And in case you were wondering, yes I am immortal. My best friend and mentor is over four-thousand years old. It may seem like a long time.. but to us it isn't really like that. You are just so used to things growing old and dying within a century. But to us that doesn't happen."
Enelya bit her lip. An... angel? Enelya furrowed her brows, trying to understand what he had just said. Why would an angel be co-exisiting with Paul? And does Paul know that Corona is an angel? She looked up at him, studying his face, as if now that she knew he was an angel, things started to fall into place. "Does Paul...?" She looked down, probably not...
"Does he know? Yes, he does. He found out just recently. Though it was more by accident than anything else. Of course, Paul isn't an angel in any way whatsoever, he is most definitely a human. But I'm afraid giving you any more information on this subject, such as why I am in his body, is strictly confidential."
Enelya nodded slowly... "I understand now, I think." Maybe Paul was destined to something great, so that he needed the assistance of an angel. An angel! Enelya didn't know they existed... Just something told in fairytales... She smiled, and rubbed her forehead. She then looked at the green liquid coursing through her veins... She didn't think she was exactly human either... But then, what?
"I hope so, cause I don't know how to understand it any clearer than that." He said that in a joking way.
Enelya smiled at Corona's poor attempt at humor. She shook her head, and stood. Peering out into the distance, Enelya wrapped her arms around her torso. "I will wait for you..." She said, "Endlessly." She whispered it into the horizon, and looked back at Corona. She bit her lip, and decided to ask him something... "Do you know what I am, Corona? Now that we have discussed what you are."
"Erm..what do you mean? As in... race? Well that can be tricky.. you could be lots of things. I always just thought you were a human, mutated or blessed perhaps? I don't really know." He took off his glasses and put them in his pocket. His vision had temporarily become 20/20, unlike its normal self. Corona had told Paul that once he had completed his training that his vision would be permanently repaired, but until then it will only happen randomly.