Where am I? Zelgadis stared around in wonder. The meadow area wasn't one that he recognized, but considering his memory loss it's quite possible that he would have just forgotten.
"I was in Lina's room and she was sleeping. Then I fell and appeared here. But how did I get here?" Zelgadis mused to himself.
"Zelgadis?" Lina had dropped the flower she had in hand and was staring wide-eyed at him. "Is that you?"
"Yo-you can see me?!" Zelgadis was just as shocked as she was. How can she see me? I must be dreaming. Oh wait that's it! Lina was sleeping when I fell on her, I must have been pulled into her dream!
"Is that what you look like when you are human?" Lina stepped over to Zelgadis. If she had not heard his voice or if he wasn't wearing the same clothes as he normally did Lina probably wouldn't have recognized him.
Zelgadis looked at her a bit blankly until he remembered that he was technically cured. "Um yeah that's right. Lina do remember what you were trying to do earlier?"
"Earlier when?"
"Before you went to sleep."
"I'm dreaming right now?" Lina's mind was a bit muddled because she was in a dream but now she could remember all about what happened to Zelgadis. "Yes we were trying to find a way to help you."
"I'm beginning to think that I'll never be able to be normal again." Zelgadis slumped down.
"WHAT?! What are you talking about?! You are going to be returned back to normal! There's no hells way I'm going to give up till the end you idiot!" Lina whapped him on the head. "But what the hell were you thinking when you decided to try that spell?! I'd understand if you were stupid like Gourry or something but damnit you are smarter then that!"
"I guess I just got too desperate."
The two of them were silent for a few moments.
"So are you enjoying being like a spirit Zel?" Lina joked. He just looked at her with an annoyed expression.
"No but I'd better get used to it, because I'm probably going to end up dead anyway. And it's probably useless for me to even be talking to you like this because you'll probably just forget everything when you wake up." Zelgadis just picked up a stone and threw it.
"Hey wait how did you end up in my dream anyway?!" Lina glared at him.
"Well, am, um that is a um..." Zelgadis sputtered up blushing bright red.
"Well what Zelgadis?!" Lina grabbed him by the shirt and brought him to eye level.
"I don't think that matters right now do you?" Zelgadis laughed nervously.
"Oh but I think it does." Her eyes narrowed further. She would have done something further if there hadn't been a large crash somewhere to their left.
"Now what was that?" Lina and Zelgadis looked around the dreamscape. Parts of it looked fine and other parts were breaking down and being destroyed.
"I guess when I got sucked into your dream my mind started to affect the surroundings too."
"What do you mean by that?!"
"As the hours and days pass I'm having more and more trouble trying to remember things. My memory is starting to completely fail me. I guess once that happens I'll be dead."
"How much of your memory has been lost?"
"Quite a bit, I don't think I have much time left."
Mr. Hender walked around the library. He had woken up early and couldn't get back to sleep. Besides it's better this way anyway. Miss Lina and the others will probably be here soon. They had covered quite a bit of the library the day before but there was still a lot more to be done. "Okay then I might as well start early."
Lina opened her eyes slowly. She didn't really want to wake up the rays of the sun were forcing her to wake. She was going to take her pillow and put it over her head until she noticed that she wasn't sleeping on her pillow. Her head was resting on someone's shoulder. She didn't dare move and she was still as a statue. The reason being because of whose shoulder her head was on. She could see by the ivory tunic that it was in fact Zelgadis. She didn't move because she was shocked out of her mind. How is this possible? And yet Lina didn't even look up to his face. It was like as if she looked him in the face he would disappear again. Nor did she speak either.
Zelgadis himself was just waking up. When his eyes opened slightly he could see a spill of red hair resting on his right shoulder. Oh it's only Lina. WHAT?! His mind finally processed it. Now how the hell did this happen?! And how is that she's able to touch me? Can she see me too? But Zelgadis himself didn't move or speak. He was also having the feeling that if he did something that he would disappear again. So they both sat there in silence. Both wondering what the other was thinking but unable to talk.
Lina couldn't take this anymore.
"Zelgadis?" She dared to ask him cringing. But Zelgadis didn't disappear again.
"Lina can you hear me?!" Asked with a hopeful tone.
But Lina couldn't hear him. She could feel by the vibrations from Zelgadis that he had said something.
"I guess I can't hear you. Well it was a long shot anyway. At least I can see and feel you so that's a plus. But I wonder why?" Lina was confused she hadn't been expecting this. Lina looked up to look at him in the face and all of a sudden she felt a loss of tangibleness on what she was leaning against. She was now on the bed looking at the sheets where Zelgadis had been. "Damnit I knew that I shouldn't have looked! Arghh!" Lina pounded on the sheets.
Zelgadis just got up off the bed with a solemn expression on his face. "I knew it was too good to be true."
Lina herself got up off the bed and walked past Zelgadis only she stopped when her hand went through his. Zelgadis himself felt that same tingling feeling of ice and fire but only this time Lina could feel it as well.
"What the hell?! Zel is that you?" Lina looked blindly around her room in confusion.
"You can feel that too?!" Zelgadis tried to ask her. But then he remembered that she couldn't hear him. So instead he took her hand and lightly fingered the word yes on her palm.
"Gods, it really is you." Lina laughed out. "Well we'd better go see the others so that we can tell them what happened. I've got a good feeling that things are going to be brighter today."