Path of Light.

Chapter 67

There are countless marble stones piled up in the corner of the wall. These stones are of different shapes and sizes, and they are very messy.

On the wooden table in the middle of the studio, there are still statues of figures, only the faces are carved out, and the rest is still full of angular rock bodies.

The floor was covered with a thick layer of gravel and powder, and it had a rustling feel to step on.

Roy heard Moira's exclamation, and turned his head to look. Moira was standing next to the shelf next to the door. It was a row of sculptures covered with silk. In the studio, this silk-covered sculpture Sculptures are very common. Usually, when Ms. Belinda is working, there is still a lot of dust here.

Many finished sculptures are covered with silk to prevent dust from falling.

There was a row of statues under the piece of silk that Moira lifted up, and Roy didn't usually notice this side, so he leaned over curiously...

This row of stone carvings is just placed on the second floor of the wooden frame. If you want to see clearly, you have to bend down or squat down.

Looking from left to right, the first marble sculpture is a pair of women's hands holding a newborn baby. Those gentle hands are rough carved, but the baby in the palm is round and smooth, and every part of the body is beautiful. Polished glossy.

The second marble statue is a woman's hand holding a baby who has just stood up, and the baby is looking up at the sky...

The third marble statue is a little boy standing in a small wooden boat, his hands are holding the side of the small wooden boat, and a pair of big women's hands are around the boy's waist to prevent him from falling into the sea.

At this time, the face of the little boy on the statue was very similar to Roy...

Roy also knew that the big hands of these women should be Ms. Belinda's hands, but there are no statues with big female hands here.

The fourth statue is a little boy who looks like Roy sitting on a rock by the sea and looking into the distance...

The fifth statue is a little boy surrounded by a group of elf children, all pointing at him.

The sixth statue is the boy sitting lonely on the swing under the tree, watching the elf children playing not far away.

The seventh statue is that the boy pushed open a door with infinite surprise, which is almost exactly the same as the door at home.

The statue finally overlapped with the scene in Roy's memory. He clearly remembered the joy of moving to the new house here.

The eighth statue is a boy lying on the wall, peeping at two half-breed elf girls in the neighbor's house washing clothes in the yard. Those two elf girls are Sabrina and Moira. At that time, they looked exactly like It's almost the same now, not like a little girl.

"Yeah! I still remember that you were only this tall when you came here, and your favorite thing to do was to hide behind the wall and watch my sister and I work in the yard secretly, Roy...you grow up so fast! Moira squatted beside Roy and said softly.

Now Roy is a head taller than her, but she hasn't changed much.

The ninth statue boy is running on the beach, the sand, the waves, the shells, Roy grows bigger.

Roy, the tenth statue, began to lift Sabrina's skirt, and Sabrina glared at Roy sullenly.

Statue No.11 Roy took a wooden stick to barrel the nightsaber of Mrs. Winnie's house. The cub of the nightsaber opened its mouth and showed its sharp teeth, which made Roy's expression change greatly...

Roy, the No.12 statue, became as tall as Moira, and the two stood back to back to compare their heights.

Moira touched herself in the stone sculpture and exclaimed, "Two years ago we were about the same height, Roy, now you are a head taller than me!"

Roy, the No.13 statue, was beaten by Sabrina on the ground. It seemed that he had been beaten badly, and he was powerless to fight back.

The No.14 statue is Roy sitting on the reef fishing, the figure and appearance are almost the same now, the work is only half completed, and the face is still a little blurry...

Roy didn't even know when Ms. Belinda was sculpted. Moira covered the statues with the piece of silk again, stood up straight and looked at Roy seriously, and said with a look of surprise:
"Speaking of which, Royce seems to have grown up overnight..."

"Let me think about it, probably after you peeked at Sabrina taking a bath...after you were beaten up, you suddenly became a lot more mature, and you didn't play with us very much, and often went to the beach to fish alone ’” Moira murmured to Roy.

At this time, Sabrina's voice came from the next yard:

"Moira..."

Moira quickly stretched her neck and agreed: "Oh, I got it, I'll be here soon..."

After speaking, she ran two steps outside, as agile as a night saber, stepped onto the balcony railing, jumped lightly onto the grass, then jumped over the fence in one step, and returned to her yard.

The movement is coherent and done in one go...

Seeing that Moira had returned home, Roy was not in a hurry to leave Belinda's studio. He moved a small stool, sat down in front of the wooden frame, and opened the silk cloth again.

From the seventh statue, Roy only had some memories in his mind, which became clearer as he went on.

Looking at these statues, Roy knew that each sculpture was Ms. Belinda's deepest memory:
Those gentle hands raised Roy little by little...

Moving because Roy can't make friends...

Watching Roy's rapid growth...

From the tenderness at the beginning, to the worry in the middle, to the anxiety of watching Roy grow rapidly.

Roy could clearly feel the mood of his mother Belinda from this row of statues.

He grew too fast for an elf.

When facing Roy's rapid growth, she didn't know how to do it at all.

In the eyes of Ms. Belinda, Roy may now be like a five-year-old child.

But he has already started to enter puberty, and he has walked into the Elf Academy full of joy, and occasionally washes skirts and shoes for Ms. Belinda, and can also make delicious fried fish...

This feeling cannot be expressed in words, so she engraved the love, worry, and anxiety in her heart on the stone.

It's the kind of helplessness of 'I haven't learned how to be a good mother yet, but my son has grown up'...

Sure enough, Roy found a few more books at the bottom of the wooden shelf...

"Human Growth", "Adolescent Restlessness", "Maturity".

They all analyze human beings from the perspective of elves, or half elves.

Roy finally knew that everyone around him had noticed it since he woke up, but he had Roy's previous memories.

Plus he just got a little duller.

In the eyes of Ms. Belinda, Roy has just changed from a rebellious period to a mature one.

Roy put everything back in place before exiting Ms. Belinda's studio.

……

Back in the room, instead of lighting the candles, he cast the dim light technique.

Then there was a cloud of shimmering light floating between his hands.

Under Roy's control, this sacred twilight floated above his head.

The light was like a desk lamp dimmed.

Roy sat on the head of the bed and opened Windsor's diary.

The paper quality of this diary is very poor, the pages are a little yellowed, and even brittle to the touch, and the pages will be damaged if you don't pay attention.

However, the pages inside were well preserved, which shows that Windsor must cherish it very much...

The first page was Peleus' blessing, but when Roy turned a page later, he saw the neatly written elf language:
'On July 1399, 7, Peleus stole the apples from the orchard of Just's family. He didn't take them back to eat, but moved them to the market to exchange money, just to buy me a diary with the exchanged Kohler. , If I know that he will steal things for my birthday present, I would rather not have anything on this birthday. '

The following diaries are also full of long-winded words that dislike Peleus.

I don't write every day, sometimes it's just a sentence, sometimes it's a short paragraph.

It is almost writing about the difficult life of the two people in the country.

Sure enough, there was a change after turning a few pages later, and I saw Windsor wrote in the next page:
'October 1399, 10, no one wants to hire Peleus, everyone knows that he likes to steal things, no one trusts him, and no one wants to be friends with him, he only has me, and I will not abandon him. '

'November 1399, 11, it's too cold here, we want to leave here, go to a place where no one knows us and start a new life, Peleus intends to go south, wherever he goes, I will be with him. '

Roy flipped the pages back casually, intending to take a look.

Lots of hardships on the road, until one page reads:

'June 1400th, 6, the city is called Castletown, where there is fish and fruit, and we have at last found a strange city to live in. '

'On September 1400, 9, Peleus met Jefferson, a fellow villager who also came here from the Forest of Eternal Night to make a living in the city. '

It turned out that they had known each other for more than four years, and Roy could finally confirm one thing. Peleus went to the tavern that day, and there was a high probability that he was looking for Jefferson.

……

'On June 1402, 6, Peleus went to steal again. Why can't he get rid of his bad habits? Maybe I should find a job. '

'February 1403th, 2, I'll soon be able to go to the library to work, and I hope I can earn enough to support the two of us. The fruit here is cheap, but the rent is a bit expensive. '

……

From here on, Windsor's handwriting has become much more beautiful, probably because the work in the library has brought her a lot of changes.

Until the last few articles, Roy finally discovered Windsor's helplessness, anxiety and anger.

'On March 1404, 3, Peleus said he couldn't turn back, that person was always behind him, always letting him steal something, Statue of Liberty, can you tell me... what should I do? '

'July 1404rd, 7, Peleus did something stupid today. He may have stolen something very precious. He was afraid of hurting me, and now even I can't find him. '

This is the last page of the diary.

Roy sighed and put the diary by the bed.

I already knew that there must be some connection between Peleus and Jefferson, but now Jefferson, like their brother and sister, has been buried in the western suburbs elf cemetery...

Jefferson is dead, Peleus is dead, the Holy Grail is missing, and even Windsor is dead.

Obviously the other party wanted to cut off all the clues. Roy pressed his swollen temple with his hand, waved his hand to turn off the sacred light, and lay on the bed unable to fall asleep for a long time...

(End of this chapter)