Chapter 45: 46. Dark Moon

"are you human?" all of sudden the boat driver asked me. 

I did not reply, I looked at Hana in confusion. We were in the middle of the river. Hana was confused too. So we finally decided not to say anything. Meanwhile the boat owner was looking at me in confusion, and fear perhaps. 

When the boat owner looked at the river again, I just realized I was sitting near the edge of the boat, and unavoidably my reflection was on the surface of the water. 

"How could she go in here?" He asked again, looking at Hana, in startled expression. 

Sir, please don't tell anyone. We beg you," Hana begged him. She took out a pocket of coins to him. 

The boat owner looked at the river again. Perhaps he saw my reflection there. Then he smiled and refused what was in Hana's hand. 

"After you have done with your shopping, I suggest you to take my boat again," What he said surprised both of us. "I will be waiting for you there," He pointed at a tree that was blossoming by the side of the river, "My advice is to stay away from any things that can bounce back your reflection, such as mirror, water, or anything," That was exactly what Hana said to me before we left, "If somebody else knew your real you, I cannot imagine what the story will be written for you," Finally he rowed the boat again across the river. 

It was like a small shop owned by an old man. The visitors were cramped until the outside. 

I had thought that even though it was small, it had quite complete collections, until finally the shop owner's reply answered my curiosity when Hana gave him a piece of paper. 

"This one is not available anymore. The main book has many parts which are not allowed to be rewritten so that I don't sell it anymore. " Said the owner. 

"Have you tried in the palace library? I believed it is still available in there, one or two books," He added while putting back some books that were left by the buyers. 

"Can you find me one book only?" Hana was trying to beg him. Of course she did not want that her trip turned to nothing. 

The shop owner came closer to her and picked up that paper again, "I don't want to promise anything, but if I find it, I will contact you," 

"It seemed like it is a very rare book," I said. 

"No, it is not rare. It is just after the leader died, the books were pulled back by force. The next leader did not want that book existed anymore. It is not even available in the library. The only place that the book might still be available is by crossing to another world to reach the dark moon," Hana explained. She looked desperate. 

"What is the dark moon?" It seemed like my unstoppable curiosity pushed my lips to throw that question. It was something new for me, of course I was so curious. 

"Dark moon is the biggest market. It is a black market actually," So, in this such dimension there was such a place, "You can find anything there, not only books or forbidden ingredients, even anything anyone might not think about can be found there. It is just you simply have to provide as much money as possible for those people, and they will do what you want. If they cannot provide it, you can go to the desert worms and ask them to do what you want. They will do everything at stake to get it," Hana said. 

"Does it mean immortality spell and fire lily are included, too?" My question out of curiosity. 

Hanna stopped abruptly whatever she was doing, "How did you know about fire lily?" she was surprised. 

"Actually I have ever been to between dimension," I spoke slowly. I did not know if telling Hana about this would be good for me or not. 

Shocked. That was her expression she showed me. "How could you go there?" She asked fast as if it was something attracted her so much. 

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Hanna interrogated me as if I was a criminal. She asked a lot of things, such as how I could go there, for what reasons, and what were things I knew about that dimension. 

For Hana—that I knew as one of Azalea's maids, she had never gone there. She just heard it from that woman. Somehow, the myth of fire lily had certainly been heard by all creatures from different dimension. 

"What is it like?" For the umpteenth time she asked me. 

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"Like ordinary markets, there are buyers and sellers," I replied shortly. I was confused how to face Hana and all he curiosity about that dimension, "I just knew that that place is called Dark Moon," 

"That is true, we call it the Dark Moon," She replied enthusiastically, "I just heard you can find all kinds of things in there. Is that true?" That question of Hana reminded me of many strange things I could find there. 

"I guess so," I was not convinced myself. "We just passed by that place, so we did not really explore all parts of that market. But as far as I know finding strange things in that market was easy. They sell things that I thought impossible to be found in my place," I explained it to her. A glimpse of memory when I threw up in that place came up. 

"What are they? Did you see the trade of slaves? It has been banned here. What about fire lily? Once Azalea asked her guards to look for that flower, but although they had been waiting for almost a year and every day her guards came to that church, not even one flower they got." She talked explicitly while I just told her what I knew. 

"Does Azalea want resurrect?" I gave Hana gestures of a corpse or a mummy. 

"No, it is not like that. She wants to meet the Manjis. That is all," I was a bit astonished with the reasons Azalea hunting for fire lily, what did she want from them?

'Gosshh, sending her guards to stay there for almost a year? Looking for fire lily just want to see he Manjis. Who is more stupid?' I thought.

From all what Hana had told me, I could say that she was very curious with that place. She was so eager to tell all she knew about that place despite her zero visit. 

I got a bit bored, but I kept listening to her. Not about the rumors about that place that attracted me, but the way she told me stories about that place made me realize another side of Hana I never knew before. She was so much like Emma.

This gave me the spirit to leave this place and back to my place. I did not know how long I had lived here, and how their conditions were at the moment. Those were bothering my mind.    I looked out through the window glass that was placed low from my place where I usually practiced with Azalea or learning to read with Hana. 

As far as my eyes could reach, nothing I could see but rubbles of buildings and some people walking among the ruins of those buildings. Some buildings that were still standing looked so quiet. I wondered if there were people lived there. 

"Hana, can I go home?" I encouraged myself to ask, "I feel I have lived here for very long time, I cannot contact my friends," I saw her walking towards me, "I really want to know their wellbeing. Can you tell me how to go back to my world?" 

At first Hana was just quiet, then she spoke softly, "It looks like pretty hard to do that. You have to ask Miss Azalea directly if she allows you to go home, or if not," She turned to the window, perhaps she also saw the scenery of the city from this place, "How if I take you for a walk? Miss will not go home any sooner. The guards said that she will be home later from the schedule," She looked enthusiastic, "I know some good places and I believe you will like it," 

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After finished practicing archery with Yoru, Hana asked me to follow her. We walked toward the forest I had visited with Azalea to find that horn. 

"Don't go that far," She warned me. 

We went into the forest from different way from the previous route we took. Hana chose a route seldom used. The deeper we went in, the bigger and the thicker trees welcomed us. 

"We will watch a show," She said. 

Hanna asked me to wear a mask to cover my face so that they might think I was a spirit of a dead person. We sat on a trunk of a fallen big tree. I also saw some creatures were coming. The place now was quite crowded which was so contrast with the previous situation. 

A small stage which was made of stone piled up became the main place for a performance. A woman wearing long white gown was playing something like ocarina. It was a beautiful performance when she sang an unfamiliar song for my ears. All audience was carried away with her show. 

From one performance to another there was a pause. Before the next performer came to the stage, I saw the woman who performed first jumped out of the stage, and in an instant her body turned to be a deer-like animal with glistening white color. It was the same animal Azalea hunted for the horn. 

The second performer came on the stage. She looked so beautiful even though her body was white pale. The dress she was wearing was so gracious and beautiful. Suddenly I felt that the weather dropped. I rubbed my both palms to warm up my body. 

"She is one the guards of Miss Azalea," Hana whispered.

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