It was as if I'm drifting in an endless dream without an end, I feel nothing and my sense of self is slipping away with each passing moment, and yet I can still form thoughts.
"Is this heaven or maybe hell?" silence.
"How did I get here?" silence.
"Why am I here?" silence.
"Who am I?"
"Sasaki Kuroda"
A sound echoes through the nothingness, one I am both unfamiliar and familiar with growing louder and louder.
"The sounds of birds... crows?".
I jolted awake at the sound.
I'm in a dimly lit bedroom or to be specific what appears to be something closer to a small storage room than an actual bedroom, the only light source seems to be the moonlight coming from the windows
slowly my head clear and I can feel something in my left hand, I lift it up.
"A glass shard with a mirror finish"
As I tried to make sense of what's currently happening, I caught a glimpse of the reflection in the glass, there appear to be a young girl with straight silver hair and fair supple skin with golden beads for eyes, "who-?", suddenly pain raced through my right wrist as I let out a helpless yelp
"What's wrong with my wrist?" I thought as I instinctively raised my right arm.
It's soaked in blood with a fresh scar running through the middle however no visible wounds can be seen, I frowned and lay the arm down once more.
I gritted my teeth to fight the pain and after a bit it finally went away, exhausted from the ordeal my eyes became heavy as I start to fall asleep though not before something caught my eyes, A crow with multiple pair of eyes across it's body and a strangely iridescent feather sat atop the windowsill.
"Adel Argentum you won't leave me yet"
My consciousness linger just for a moment and then falter
The darkness returns once more but instead of nothingness I am now in a body I don't recognize, a smaller figure and hands with long silky hair brushing against my shoulders
"This isn't me, did I possess someone else's body? If that were the case then what happened to the original owner of this body?".
A though came in mind, "The mirror shard and scar".
"What drove her to-?", before I could finish my thoughts foreign memories start to invade my consciousness almost forcefully.
I woke up in cold sweat.
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It's early in the morning and I'm still here in the small room, "so it isn't a dream, I really am in another person's body", As I tried to remember what led up to this I started remembering memories different from mine.
It's the memories of the body's owner, Adel Argentum a 16 year old girl and an illegitimate child of the house of Willowearls that worked as a maid her entire life, before I could recall further a sharp tinge of pain made it hard to think.
I lied on the bed and wait until the pain subsides.
"My head hurts whenever I tried to think too much about her maybe I should just remember it naturally instead" I whispered silently under my breath a bad habit I caught in my previous life as Sasaki Kuroda although it matters little for the time being.
Before I could think any further a hurried sound of footsteps approached the door and a flurry of knocks came.
"Adel dear? Are you still asleep?".
I stay silent unsure of what to reply.
"Adel?".
"G-Give me a moment" I blurted out in a cold monotone voice.
"*sigh*I guess something never change".
"Well prepare yourself at haste we are preparing for the ceremony tomorrow and we're short on workers!".
"yes, ma'am".
A memory came rushing into my head, a bitter one.
The ceremony the head maid referred to is the "solstice coming of age ceremony", each year when a child of noble blood reaches 16 years of age strange creatures called faeries would appear and blesses them an act that gave them abilities beyond that of normal humans, they call these innate magic and it's unique to everyone. Though for some reason the owner of this body Adel seems to have a rather bad impression of this phenomenon.
Shaking my thoughts away I quickly prepared to leave, almost as if I've gotten used to it for years my hands searched for the uniform and wore it perfectly before leaving to do work around the manor, As I wander around to find the maid quarters I can't help but glance at the building and it's architecture "Is this really how nobilities in fantasy stories live like?"
Before I could continue, a black iridescent feather fell from the ceiling as a hand is placed on my shoulder, turning back I saw it, silver hair just like mine but red ruby eyes unlike my golden ones, I recognize him or Adel did, it's the youngest master of the Willowearls house, Damien Willow the one in the center of the ceremony tomorrow.