Deep Sea Embers

The familiar house stood quietly at the end of the quiet block, with bright and warm light shining through the windows on the first floor.

The sky had completely darkened, and the street lights on both sides of the road made the surroundings more peaceful. Hairou slowed down the car slightly. During the last 100 meters approaching her home, she slowly adjusted her emotions with gentle deep breaths. .

She helped Fanna calm down, but she knew that her mood was actually not as relaxed and indifferent as she showed.

The scene when she said goodbye to her father seemed to have happened a moment ago, when she had no idea what was going to happen in the city-state - but her father was obviously aware of it at that time.

This is a kind of belated separation of life and death. His father asked him to go to the cathedral to seek refuge. He went to the ancient store in Xiacheng District... But why did he go to that ancient store?

A series of questions suddenly appeared in Heidi's mind, but soon, she put this question aside for the time being - the light in the foyer of her home was on, it was waiting for her.

The dark gray car drove smoothly into the courtyard. Haixi pushed open the door of his home, walked a few steps inside, and suddenly stopped in surprise.

The person waiting for him at home is not his father, who should have arrived home long ago in theory, but his mother - her mother wears a woolen shawl with dark blue stripes on her back and sits on the bridge next to the dining room. He wore thin glasses and read the newspaper attentively. There was a pile of newspapers on the table next to him.

The papers seemed to be old newspapers moved from my father's study.

Heidi was at the door of the restaurant and didn't react for a while.

She couldn't remember how long it had been since her mother had not left that bedroom - it seemed that for many years, the kindness in her memory had been staying in that dimly lit bedroom, and there was always a child beside the dining table at home. The empty seat. My father said that seat was for my mother, but there was never one.

People sit on it.

Heidi always thought this was a very strange thing, but after so many years, she had become accustomed to her mother being confined to her home. Until this moment... when she saw her mother sitting on that chair, she felt as if she had lived in another world. sense of unreality.

Heidi subconsciously took two steps forward, and the sound of footsteps finally caught the attention of the old woman at the table. The latter started to take care of the house, and when she saw her daughter, she suddenly smiled: "Ah, Haixiu, you are back. ”

"I..." Heidi opened her mouth, and she didn't know how to talk to her mother. Although she went to her parents' bedroom to greet each other almost every day, she felt as if she and her mother had been together for more than ten years. We have never seen each other before. "I wasted some time at the cathedral. Are you... are you okay?"

"I'm fine, I'm right here." The mother smiled happily, and there seemed to be some brilliance in her eyes that Heidi couldn't understand. She got up from the chair, slowly came to her daughter, and looked at her daughter in a daze. Heidi's face reached out and touched the latter's hair, "Let me take a good look at you... I haven't taken a good look at you for a long time..."

"Don't we meet every day," Heidi said subconsciously, and then looked at the old woman in front of her with a little worry, "Why did you come out of the room? Are you feeling better today?"

The mother smiled, as if talking to herself, and as if telling her daughter: "It's better, it's better... By the way, why hasn't Morris come back yet?"

"Father hasn't come home yet?" Kelp was stunned when he heard this, and felt a little worried in his heart, "He should have arrived home early. The place he went to was closer than the cathedral, and he didn't miss it for a long time like me...

"Maybe the car broke down on the way," my mother said slowly. "His driving skills have never been worthy of consideration. Come on, let's wait together.

Him. "

Heidi nodded hesitantly and followed her mother back to the dining table. Then she noticed the sumptuous meals on the menu - they were not the dishes that the maids of the Tang Dynasty usually cooked at home.

"You did this?" Heidi raised her head in surprise, "You haven't had sex in a long time."

"It's leftover. I haven't downloaded it for a long time. I can't find where the ingredients are. I had to ask the maid to do a lot of things for me. And I don't know how they taste."

My mother smiled softly, "Fortunately, I still remember the general process."

As Heidi listened, the sunlight fell on the food on the table, and she couldn't help but pick up the Aizi to try to taste it. As soon as she raised her hand, she heard her mother's voice coming from the side: "Wait until your father gets home before we start dinner.

Heidi's movements suddenly stopped.

She had not heard this sentence for many years.

At this moment, a slight noise suddenly came from near the door. It sounded like the sound of a large bird flapping its wings, mixed with a slight snapping sound. Heidi was just about to wonder what it was. Then I heard the sound of taking out the key and turning the doorknob; I saw the door of the house not far away being opened.

Father is back.

Morris stood at the door habitually. The starry feeling caused by Ai's direct teleportation from the Homeless Ship had not yet passed. The churning and chaotic senses made him dizzy, so that for more than ten seconds, Here, he thought he was hallucinating.

He saw his wife sitting at the table, waiting for him to come home for dinner. Then he realized it wasn't an illusion.

The "miracle" he sought from the industry space eleven years ago was finally solidified on this side of the curtain after the intersection of flames and history - the thing he didn't even dare to ask for in his dream came true. .

After standing there for a long time like a melted statue, Morris finally took a step forward, walking faster and faster step by step.

Sharing the flesh and blood of the Abyss with his family members on the Lost Home, analyzing knowledge from the shadows of subspace, and becoming a member of a secret society... Not long ago, these things were weighing heavily on his heart like a heavy burden. , but suddenly, the weight of these burdens seemed to disappear, and he seemed to see the most reasonable interpretation in it.

The realization of any miracle requires payment of a price, and now, this price has fallen on myself in the most gentle and thorough way. It’s time to embrace it.

Miles hugged his wife as she stood up from the table.

"I finally saw you..." the old scholar said in a low voice, as if he was afraid that the Sea Emperor next to him would hear it, and he was also afraid that the wife in front of him wouldn't hear it, "I.

"Okay, the kid is watching - you still have a long time to explain to me what happened, but there is no rush now."

"Oh...oh, you're right, you're right."

Morris responded in a panic. He let go of his wife, turned his head, and saw the Communist Party member looking at this side with surprised eyes.

"Ahem... I came back late. The car broke down on the way. I need to find someone to tow it back tomorrow." Morris explained a few words unnaturally and then quickly changed the subject, "Are you okay? The cathedral. Are you... okay?"

"Aside from being quite frightened and confused, I was unscathed like everyone else," Kelp replied, looking his father up and down again. "But you...why do I think you are weird? What happened on the way back?" Is something wrong?”

"What can I do?" Leiris said immediately, as if he was afraid that Heidi would bring the topic to his itinerary in the past period. Then, he noticed the sumptuous meals on the table.

The expression on the old scholar's face suddenly became complicated.

"I... had already eaten before I came back," he said vaguely, "on the boat... at Mr. Duncan's place."

Those ugly and scary "fish" appeared in his mind.

At the "Feast of Subspace", he was as nervous about fish as the ancient remote hound, but under Mr. Duncan's gaze, he still bit the bullet and ate the flesh and blood of the deep sea child—— He couldn't remember much of what happened next.

I just remember how delicious it was.

Now he couldn't take a bite.

But at this moment, my wife’s voice came from the side: “I made this with my own hands.

"My mother hasn't cooked for many years," Heidi said in a tight voice, "She feels better today, so..."

"Then I'll have some more." When Maurice heard this, he sat directly at the dining table before his daughter finished speaking. He immediately picked up the soup bowl on the dinner plate and took a big gulp.

Drink it down.

"How does it taste...?" my wife asked expectantly from the side.

"A bit...salty." Morris said hesitantly, but then he dropped the bowl again, and finally took a few more mouthfuls. He smiled while swallowing, awesome, so good...You always do this when cooking. become……

"If you don't think it tastes good, don't eat it!"

"I didn't say it wasn't delicious..."

"Then just shut up and eat, and you still earn so much for just one meal?"

Heidi raised her head, looked at her father, and then at her mother.

It had been years since she'd heard a conversation like this - and after all these years, nothing seemed to have changed.

So she laughed, lowered her head, cut off a piece of fried pork steak and put it in her mouth.

It's definitely a little salty.

…

My uncle had already fallen asleep and was very sleepy - it seemed that he had not had a good night's sleep for a long, long time, so much so that he started to panic in the middle of a conversation with himself.

Vanna walked slowly to her bedroom angrily.

She had already put on her home clothes and simply tied her hair into a ponytail. After changing out of her scarred armor and putting down the giant sword, the city judge who had returned from the battle put on a Aoqi seems to have become a young person with his own life and his own joys and sorrows like an ordinary stock.

Light girl.

When she was at home, she would not hide her emotions and worries, so her uncle obviously saw that she was worried, but in the conversation just now, he didn't ask anything.

The two of them also silently did not mention the matter of "subspace blessing".

It was obvious that my uncle did not want to add to his burden.

But Fanna herself knew that the burden in her heart at the moment was not just the so-called "subspace blessing", it had nothing to do with her own life or death.

She returned to the bedroom, closed the door, went to the dressing table, and took out the ornately decorated ceremonial bow from the twitch.

This is a sacred object of the Church of the Deep Sea, and it was also a gift that Bishop Valentine personally burned and gave to herself after she was baptized.

This sacred object symbolizes the beginning of her faith in the storm goddess Gemona.

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