rose nursery rhyme

The ghost team has left, and the original silence has returned to the street.

The crying stopped for a while, and Xidi walked forward for a while, then turned back: "They're gone."

That group of ghosts originally appeared out of thin air, and now they disappeared out of thin air, leaving no trace.

It was as if he had chosen this time to show up, just to cry at this intersection.

Xidi kicked the stone slab on the floor twice, not very happy: "I made the child cry."

He's still brooding over it.

When the two went upstairs, the boy sat on the edge of the bed dejectedly, curling the ends of his hair with his fingers, even the strands of his hair seemed to hang down unwillingly, and he glanced out the window for a while.

It was his fault that such a small child cried like this.

Even the most inhuman little pervert knows that he should take care of the cubs and not bully them for no reason.

Even if this 'cub' has been dead for many years.

Brace: "He's crying, not because of you."

Sidi: "What's that for?"

Brace: "He's a ghost."

This explanation doesn't convince Sheedy: "Ghosts are children too."

I will cry, I will be afraid, and I will be unhappy.

Bryce smiled.

"That child is a ghost." He explained to Xidi gently, "A person can only become a ghost if he has special obsessions in life. Those obsessions are also what he misses after death, so he can't be regarded as an ordinary human being."

He's a ghost, and he died once.

The child holding the candlestick is no longer a human being, no matter how normal he looks, there is still a large part of the 'human' qualities in him, which are scattered into the dust along with the disappearance of the physical body.

What can be remembered and expressed in the end is the most profound part of their life before they died.

In short, a lack of humanity.

Sheedy: "That's why he always cries?"

Bryce: "Yeah."

The child probably died crying.

He couldn't control his behavior, he could only act out his deepest emotions before death over and over again.

It's like a projection left in the world.

Xi Di understood, and finally stopped worrying about this matter, took off her clothes, and stuffed herself into a ball under the quilt, with only half of her head exposed, blinking her eyes quietly.

The little pervert seldom fell silent, so he seemed very obedient.

"Do you know what's going on?" he asked Brace. "What are they?"

Brice sat beside his bed, and smiled when he heard this: "Did you see it?"

"Yeah." Xidi had had enough tossing around tonight, and now she was very calm, she didn't even bother to stretch out her arms, she just complained coquettishly, "You're not surprised at all, but you didn't tell me."

When he went to study the ghost team, Brace didn't move, just stood aside and watched silently.Xi Di is unstable and unstable, and this can be seen.

"It's just an unfounded legend." Brace said, "When I first came... I didn't expect to see him so soon."

Sidi: "What legend?"

Bryce: "The Ghost of the Three Forks."

Simple and understandable name.

Sidi: "That's it?"

Brice patiently told him: "It is said that a person has a last wish before death and has not fulfilled it. After death, he will turn into a ghost and appear at the three-way intersection at midnight."

"They are trapped in the human world by their own wishes, holding sacred objects in their hands, and walking in a line. When they meet a living person, they will hand him the candle in their hand, and then that person will replace the ghost in the line location."

"Only when the next person takes the candle can the ghost be truly freed."

"There are rumors about them in every region," Bryce said. "There will be some changes in the details, but the basics will not change."

The kid who was the leader in the previous line did hold a candlestick in his hand.

Sheedy: "So, if he does give me the candlestick, I'll turn into a ghost?"

Bruce watched him silently.

"It's possible," he said.

Xi Di was a little regretful: "Oh."

It's a pity that he didn't come to see it. He still doesn't know what it's like to be a ghost.

After thinking about it, she felt that if she really became a translucent thing, she would have to be trapped in this city all the time—this is not possible, so Xidi had to give up this idea, and said instead: "You just arrived Did you know when you were here?"

Brace: "I'm not sure either."

The epidemic doctor's performance was obviously not right. Combining his advice with some of the more well-known stories here, it is not difficult to guess what might happen.

Besides, half of the people in this city who have just died, there are a few who have a particularly strong will before they die, and they can keep their souls, and it seems that it is not particularly impossible to form such a team.

It's just that this story is not only spread in this area.

The origin of the legend of the three-way crossing has not been verified. It seems that as long as there are three-way roads, there is a possibility of them appearing.

Even Bryce couldn't guarantee that they would see the ghost team on the first night of their stay here.

So he didn't mention it.

Sidi: "You just said the Hallows."

Bryce: "Yeah."

Xidi: "Is the candlestick in the child's hand a sacred vessel?"

Brice seemed to have expected him to ask, "I'm afraid so."

Sidi: "The Hallows of what? Of the rose of thorns?"

In fact, there is no need to ask, he can also see that the candlestick is in the shape of a rose branch. In this continent, there is only one belief related to roses that can be named.

Xi Di wrinkled her nose: "Why are they everywhere?"

He obviously ran out to play, but he found that this ghost thing was everywhere, which was a bit annoying.

Brees did not deny: "After all, 'rose' is very important to the mainland."

The foundation of the mainland cannot be overemphasized.

Sidi: "What about the thorns?"

Bryce: "...what?"

He seemed to pause briefly.

Sheedy repeated: "Roses are important, but thorns?"

Bryce was silent for a moment.

It was midnight, the moon was in the middle of the sky, and a bit of cool evening wind came in from the window, curling his long silver-gray hair, and it fell on Sidi's face impartially.

a little itchy.

Sidi rubbed herself against the pillow, waiting for Brace's answer.

"Thorns..." After an unknown amount of time, Bryce spoke slowly, his voice lower than usual, but his gaze kept on Sidi's face, as if to see his reaction clearly.

"The thorn is the dirt that entangles the rose," he said at last. "'The thorn' is evil itself."

Sidi: "Oh."

The boy simply commented: "Nonsense."

Bryce remained motionless, lowered his eyes, with bright moles of tears, and his eyes were covered by light eyelashes: "How do you say?"

Sidi simply turned over on the bed, turned sideways to him, and hooked out the pendant hanging around her neck to show him: "Do you know the name of the rose in 'Born Rose'?"

The eyeballs of the 'God's Eye' hang in mid-air like flowers.

There are so many varieties of roses in the world, but in the symbol of thorn roses, 'rose' always represents only one thing.

Brice said slowly: "Wendra."

Means 'pure'.

"Purity without pollution, abandonment of original sin, and... eternal faith." Xidi was raised by the Rose of Thorns cultivator, and she knows more about this, so she can casually count a large number of Vendras. The meaning of rose.

"They use thorns as a metaphor for evil." Under the moonlight, the young man showed a sly smile at Bryce, showing his pointed canine teeth.

"But have you forgotten? Roses have thorns."

Flowers and branches, leaves and thorns, and roots that go deep into the ground, all these things together can be called a complete rose.

Nothing is missing.

If things with thorns are evil, so-called 'roses' are no good either.

Bruce was silent for a long time.

Finally, there was a soft 'huh'.

Sidi didn't continue the topic, and grabbed a lock of Brice's long hair that fell on her body, and played with it around her fingers.

Then sighed softly: "You seem to know everything."

So does the Fairy Knight, and so does the Ghost of Three Forks, and he even knows a little more about Thorn Rose than others.

"I'm a bard, wandering around." Brice didn't look at him, and he didn't know who was explaining to him. "You have to know more than others to tell a story."

Sidi couldn't understand what he was saying.

The young man talked nonsense for a while, and he had no more worries. Now he was sleepy, his eyes were half-closed, and he stared at Bryce almost in a daze.

Half his face was buried in the fluffy pillow, and when he got a third look, Brace leaned down and kissed him softly for a moment.

Looking up again, Xi Di stuffed herself into the bed again: "I'm sleepy."

"Yeah." Brace gently covered his beautiful eyes with his hands.

"Go to sleep," he said, "good night."

****

Early the next morning, Alex came looking for someone again.

He still wore the plague doctor's mask on his face, covering his entire head tightly, only revealing a pair of blue eyes behind the glass sheet.

He seemed to be preoccupied, and didn't even notice the disappearance of the suicidal birds everywhere in the city.

The mask covered his expression, and he could only see that he hesitated to observe the expressions of Brice and Xidi before asking, "You two, last night...how did you sleep?"

Sheedy: "It's okay."

He was telling the truth.

The little pervert is full of energy, messing around with Bryce in the middle of the night, running downstairs to study the ghosts does not delay his rest, no matter what he did last night, if he sleeps until dawn, everything will be fine.

Alex secretly observed the boy's expression, and saw that his companion in the cloak didn't react too much, guessing that the two of them shouldn't have seen anything last night, he was a little relieved, and asked: "Then what are you going to do next? "

Better go, he must see them out of town himself.

Alex was used to worrying when he was a doctor, and he always felt that the city was very unsafe.Even if it was two unrelated travelers, he didn't want them to stay here for too long and catch the plague.

That is the most painful way to die in the world, and no one knows better than him, the plague doctor.

Besides, there are...

Another threat he didn't want to mention.

At times like this, Brice never spoke, and it was up to Xidi to decide whether the two would leave or stay.

Sidi: "Um..."

He thought for a while and decided, "I want to go for a walk in the city."

It's a ghost town with nothing in it, and it's full of nasty birds.Xidi originally planned to stay here for one night before leaving, but now she temporarily changed her mind.

——There is such a large group of ghosts in this city, this is something he has never seen before, why not stay for two more days, in case there are other interesting things?

Anyway, they are not in a hurry.

Alex: "..."

He had a brief contact with these two people yesterday, and he knew what they had decided, and it was useless to persuade him no matter how hard he tried.He himself knew what was going on in this city best, and 12 people were worried, but after all, they just met by chance, and after repeated reminders, the epidemic doctor finally walked away in three steps.

Before leaving, he didn't forget to put the key of the store into Xidi's hand.

Anyway... It's useless for him to keep this thing.

The author says:

Santa Compaña, a Spanish legend, is a ghost that walks through the forest with a sacred relic, always appearing at the three-way intersection, looking for a substitute.