Reborn Ishl and the Magic Fixture of God
Rest in peace, the soul of his, holy land 2
The shade that stretches the night sky northeast looks like a completely different mountain than before.
The woods that surrounded the southeast disappeared. On the surface of the grasshopper's disappeared rock and earth alone, the changed figure of the great tree, where only the fundamental trunk remains, can be seen floating as a black shadow.
The area was covered in darkness and silence.
Signs of many people and forests disappeared, and only less than ten, the Ishurs and the righteous, remained in the lava rocks.
Falling to the ground, Coot picks up the pine light that was about to disappear and puts it up in the sky.
Just one red burning flame (Homura) in the dark night. Its flickering confuses the hearts of those who survive by a thousand.
I couldn't protect Emilia and Endra died. I couldn't protect them. Their dreams and hopes disappeared with dew.
It's a flame of anger and sadness for me. Even if it was planted by the Moon God, and I know it is, I can't contain this, what springs up in my heart.
Even if we shall continue to dance with remorse and sorrow upon the hands of the gods, is that why we shall cut off the remorse and sorrow as fakes, and wipe them away?
I won't forget that red fire.
Ishur walked toward the Miras, staring at the flames of flames floating in the dark night.
"How's Cerda?
Ishur stood beside Mira and said when he saw Cerda's face floating in the dim flame light.
Cerda seems to meditate her eyes and blur her consciousness. I don't even respond to the approaching Ishur.
……
Mira looks up and shakes her head to the side silently.
"Let's go back to the mining settlement. I'm worried about what's going on over there."
Ishur told Mira that he turned his gaze to Cerda again.
"Cerda may be dangerous to move now, but let's take him with us. There are also clerics in the mines. Something might still be able to treat it effectively"
Cerda put Desio and the others to sleep with sleeping pills, he said. If they are awake, they may also be given powerful healing magic.
"Okay, I get it."
Mira nodded and stood up, instructing Sharka to carry Cerda.
Next Ishur knelt one knee by Emilia's wreckage (whilst) and looked down at her face.
"I'll bring your sister. Wait a while."
When Ishur stood up, Rabena and Pilsa and Puri, who were beside Emilia and listening to Ishur speak, also stood up.
"Emilia's grave, are you going to make it here?
Pilsa asks Ishl.
"Oh."
Ishur answered briefly.
This place is called Oomeo's tongue. There is a "tongue” in the name, but it does not matter that it is the land in which the name of God is crowned. For the Cathedral Church, this inner circle is a sanctuary.
Can't you say it's the right place to bury your sisters who washed their feet from shadow work and tried to give themselves to good deeds?
"Emilia and the others will sleep here in the Holy Land, held by the gods of the earth."
Rabena smiles in the light of the pine lights. Pilsa and Puri have raised their faces and stared at Ishur.
"Oh, uh..., the red jade stone of the crown, no way, ah, in your hand"
The man behind Rabena shook his voice and asked Ishl.
It's dark and I don't know exactly what it looks like, but he's a skinny guy about thirty years ago. This man would be a jewelry appraiser belonging to the Holy Stone Mine arranged by Desio and Mira.
"You can't answer anything from me. Wouldn't you rather not go too deep?
Ishur took the perforated leather gloves from his jacket pockets, glued with harumel, as he said to the man.
He then removed the iron pieces that had been inserted between the leather on the left glove and put them on his left hand. For the red jade stone to pop out, it's quite compressive, but not as painful.
"If someone asks you after this, you don't have to hide it then. I don't mind talking like that."
Ishur said as he grabbed his left hand, opened it and made sure he felt it.
I haven't used holed leather gloves with small thin iron plates since my fingertips can't move because the back of my hand is fixed, and I haven't used them much before. If you go through the iron plate, your defense will drop, but you can move it to your fingertips without any problems, and naturally, you can't keep the red jade stone on your left hand exposed.
I guess I should really do my right hand as well, but I'm not even going to fight a fist-to-fist meeting, and I'm not going to do anything about it.
And if I wore gloves or something, then I might not have a strange integration like my left hand when I held another red jade stone in my right hand......
I don't know.
Ishur smiled slightly, one. And I told the man as I looked at my left hand in black perforated leather gloves.
"If you hide it badly, it might fit your eyes."
Ishur turned a sharp gaze at the man, only for a moment when he was finished.
Soon this man will be questioned by the Kings about what happened this evening and the red jade stone that got into my left hand. Nothing. This one has nothing to hide. I'm not going to hide this left-handed thing. I don't mind this man talking as he is.
Ishur grinned furiously at no one in the dark.
If you want the red jade stone in my left hand, I'll deal with you anytime.
Whoever it is.
"... I'm surprised."
Coot interrupted me from the side.
Coot shouted "sorry" to her as she bent next to Emilia, removing the gauntlet from her left arm and attaching it to her left arm.
Ishur's tense junction was imminent in front of the mining settlement, around hundreds of long steps (skulls, about two to three hundred meters).
As the road disappeared and walked to the flat ground with no grass trees, out of the darkness, I could see the dense black walls of the trees. The lush walls of the trees drew a beautiful curve and continued south.
"You're bluffing."
Into a trail in the woods, Ishur said in a small voice that the mining settlement was approaching.
In spite of the late night, many people walked out of the building, swarmed the area and felt wandering around.
When the Ishurs arrived in front of the gates of the settlement, Lucia quickly activated the magic of the martial arts and jumped over the fence built vertically joining Marutai, opening the gates from the inside.
Ishur paid attention to Lucia's bodily movements, her appearance.
Lucia's magic equipment doesn't seem to be specific to any one of these things, like acceleration, muscle strength enhancement, or physical hardening, but rather to bottom-up a person's entire athletic ability.
As a line came through the gate to the center of the settlement, slightly in front of the square near the mine, Dana Rubinoni, a court demon mentor, popped out in front of the Ishurs. There were several bonfires burning in the square behind her, bringing together many people.
"Mira!"
As Dana approached Mira to jump, she stunned when she saw Serda, whom Sharka could barely hold.
"I'm sorry, I'll explain it right later"
When Mira said so, she passed in front of Dana and headed to the house by the temple where Desio and the others were staying.
"Mr. Ishl, it's you, isn't it? Yveda, the wind guard of the gods."
Dana has asked Ishl with her face to her face.
The Wind Guard? Is that the name of that junction?
"You've used a hell of a lot of work. I've never seen magic like that before."
I make sure Dana pushes and leans over to Ishl.
Ugh.
Ishur accidentally turned himself back on Dana's sword screen.
Dana doesn't know if she's inside or outside the settlement, but she was watching the fighting between the two factions from some appropriate height.
What happened to the surveillance of the other court magicians? Were you watching with them?
Well, if that's why you weren't involved in the shadow-working raids of the Kings, that's fine.
"I will do the magic of the wind, too. Wonderful. I should have gone with you."
Ha, is that right?
... With that said, were there one Wizard of the Wind among the court demon mentors who participated in this Holy Stone Professor? Is that her?
But Dana has said something that's been missing for a long time, such as "I should have gone with you" and not knowing the details that happened with Oomeo's tongue because of watching it from afar. She caught a glimpse of the famous great magic of the wind and seemed excited.
"Master Ishr!
Mira turns around and urges me from the other side.
"Excuse me, later"
Ishur said a word to Dana, chasing Mira.
When the Ishurs came to the house where Desio and the others were staying, there was around them a man of the same court magician as Dana, and a righteous knight, standing in front of the door.
They all show such a bare gesture that they spoke to the Ishurs, but they seem reluctant to see how Mira is in a hurry or Cerda's injuries.
Ishur glanced at the knight standing in front of the door of the house.
I heard all the Knights were kings. Were some of you not part of that raid?
The man is about twenty years old, I don't even know his name and I've never spoken to him, but I remember his face. Definitely a true knight belonging to the White Shield Knights, coming with Bass Al and others from Krembel. It is a light outfit with abbreviated armor familiar on the road and feathers of a cape.
Ishur turned his gaze to the right and looked towards the square. From the tip of the oak tree in front is the square of the settlement.
Lighted by bonfires across the tree trunk and the black shadow of the branches, he caught a glimpse of soldiers with spears hanging in the square and miners under the mine head. They convey how they are moving and threatening the anomalies that have taken place inside and outside the mining settlement.
Lord Ishur.
Coot called from behind.
We'll see what happens to the others from Kahar.
As Ishur turns to Kurt, Labena and the twins look at each other from behind Kurt.
Ishur nodded to them.
"Nayal, Tam. Protect the Rabenas."
... Ok.
Nayal's voice echoes from ear to head.
There will be no more intervention by the gods, including the Moon God.
For a while, perhaps, unless something important happens again, something related to God's magic implements.
And Ishur nodded, and opened the door, which was half open, and went into the dwelling house of Desio and the others. The knight standing beside the door called out nothing to Ishur. Ishur didn't speak either.
When Ishur entered the house, it was a small refrain room with a small table and a few chairs arranged at the wall and two doors in the back and left of the front.
On the edge of the room lay a thin cloth on the floor, and Cerda was put to sleep.
Lucia and Nelly refrained on the side of the lying Cerda, probably the temple chief of the mining settlement, a magnificent cleric rounded her back since when, clasped her silver-working necklace with both hands toward Cerda and chanted some sort of spell-like thing in a whisper.
From the necklace, it seemed to Ishr that something glowing was spilling towards Cerda.
Is this the healing magic used by the cleric?
Ishur stared still at the cleric and at the ornament he had.
Something seems to have an effect on revitalizing the work of the whole human body, but in other words, it's like an indirect symptomatic therapy, which can't seem to stop the bleeding directly, disinfect it, regenerate parts of the mutilated skin to block the wound, etc.
This will finally extend Selda's life for a little while.
Hasn't Desio woken up yet?
When Ishur turned to the door where there were two, Lucia stood up and called out.
"The Lord is in the Ritual Chief's room. This way."
That's what Lucia said and opened the door in front of Ishl.
Once inside, a room with long depths appeared beside it, covered by lacquered walls. Behind the room are three beds lined up, with Decio and two attached clerics, sleeping in bed. Mira and Sharka are standing in front of them, talking to a tall man who looks like a true knight. The man was turning his back on Ishur, but Ishur quickly figured out who the man was. A large shield was erected on the wall at the edge of the room at that time.
"Rival Avisca......"
"Ishur."
Mira called out to Ishur when she whined like Ishur was relieved.
"Oh, Lord Bersch"
Rival has also turned around and called out to Ishur. And I said, slightly lowering my face.
"I hear you did a great job. Lord Bersch."
Ishur saw that look on Rival's face and sighed as he turned up, dropping his neck disappointed.
Apparently, Desio's betrayal was just my overcoming struggle, my bereavement.
"Rival, you and the knight outside, you two didn't act with Basal"
Asked Ishur powerless, Rival glanced at Mira for a moment and nodded.
"Yes."
Probably asked Mira the same question.
Ishur sighed again, looking at Mira and saying:
"How are the priests doing?
"It's okay. It is good to remain at rest until the temple director of the mine naturally wakes up,"
"Right."
Apparently the sleeping pills used by Desio and others were not that dangerous. In this world, on this continent, there are also life-threatening drugs that can be used, or dangerous drugs that have sequelae.
Ishur nodded and approached the rival, trying to look up and said to his face.
"Aren't you kings? What did you say to Basal to turn down a righteous raid?
Rival laid his hand on the bearded jaw and pointed his gaze out the door.
"Me and Oracio originally decided not to participate in your raid by guarding the settlement."
"Oracio is the one who's out there."
"Yes."
Rivals snort heavily.
That is......
"Basal knew you were righteous, and he tolerated it from the beginning, and took it off this raid," he said.
"From around the time he arrived here about us, the deputy commander might have suspected him of being a righteous man. But I think he also felt that he was not so aggressive. The main business of the Knights accompanying the Holy Stone Professor is the patronage of the Ritual Chiefs and the Holy Stone itself. It was decided to leave a few people in the settlement from the beginning."
Rival thought as he rubbed his own jaw and spoke as he chose the words.
"That's why me and Oracio were turned around to guard the settlement."
Hmm.
Ishur stared at the rival by tightening his gaze.
"You were the one who had the priesthood spirits in contact."
This really needs to be checked with the person, most importantly.
"Well, that's right. Did you find out?"
Rival glanced slightly open and smiled.
……
Ishur knelt his arms in front of his chest, raising one hand and rubbing around his temples.
Nothing. I wasn't certain the chief priest was betraying the righteous...
"What kind of interaction were you having with the Ritualist?
Ishur asked Rival as he raised his face. There was a thin, fatigue colour floating in Ishur's face.
Rival replied that Bassual had been asked what orders, instructions were being given by the king, whether the Knights had brought in any dangerous magic equipment, etc., and asked if he could bring anyone else to the righteous.
"I see."
Ishur said with a low voice.
I mean, not Desio, but Rivals were more righteous, and from the Kings, they were inside the enemy.
The possibility that Desio was adjusting against the Knights of the Kings was, of course, taken into account from the outset. Besides, removing Desio and the others in the Red Jade Stone handover is not a fatal failure. Whether Decio and other Church clerics participated as planned or Decio partitioned, there would certainly have been Serda's betrayal and more than the intervention of the Moon God, whichever was the same result.
But......
"Ishur is not wrong. Excellent judgment, and extraction."
I've said something before. Mira, who did, has told me to scream.
Ha. I'm glad Mira said that.
"Oh, thank you, Mira"
Ishur pulled in as soon as he smiled slightly at Mira and asked Rival again.
"You're going to be a righteous man, is that all right? I heard all the Knights of the Holy Capital were hardened by the Kings."
"Don't worry about that. I am not so aggressive as an ostensibly, anti-king, and there are many kings in my clan. If you dispose of me, you could end up with more enemies. Oracio feels a lot like me."
And Rival said that the Cathedral Knights were kept under the servitude of the Holy King's family, under the strong influence of the King for a long time, and that if all armies were to be regarded as kings, but about politics (that is, every word) unrelated to war, in fact, all that the Knights, the soldiers, each thought was a municipality, but not all were kings.
……
Ishur glanced at Mira for a moment, breathing briefly and dropping her shoulder.
The home of the Rival clan, so to speak, is it the Baron's or the Knight's? His family, his clan, like the Duke of Dielard family in Mira, are spreading their supporters across multiple factions for the survival of the clan.
"I hear the ritual chiefs were put to sleep with sleeping pills, often with rope and restrained, but did you intervene?
Ishur shifted his gaze to Desio and the others who fall asleep in the back of the room, he said.
"Uhm."
Rival nodded heavily.
Leaving a rival that he would stay on the side of the chief priests until morning to escort them, the Ishurs went out of the room. Cerda's treatment was still ongoing during the refrain. The cleric continues to cast his magic on Cerda with courage.
"I'll look at the house where Endora and the others were staying."
Ishur glanced at Serda and saw Sharka.
"I don't think there will be any more Kings raids, but it's forbidden to be alarmed. There are many people in the square. Be vigilant."
"Okay."
Sharka shook her head vertically as usual, answering briefly.
Mira said I would go too, but I don't know when Cerda will catch her breath. Ishur told Mira to stay on Cerda's side.
As I went outside and went through the edge of the square trying to get to the house where Emilia and Endora were staying, I saw about one body lined up among the people gathered in its centre.
Ishur turned his sharp gaze sideways.
Is it the body of the righteous shadow workers? There must have been seven or eight mercenaries of the men of Purple Spine Crystal from Khahar, besides the three women of Emilia.
Or it could be the shadow-working body of the Kings. If you have swept away the righteous shadow-workers who remained in the settlement, it is not strange that there are dead among them.
Ishur stopped when the women's mercenaries came to the front of the house where they were gathering and lodging.
The western lacquered, wooden two-story house looms as it becomes a black mass and crushes Ishl from the top. Now, the lights that leaked from the square and the lights of the lamps lit indoors had lighted the entire house thinly blurry to soothe only a little of its horror.
Ishur frowned slightly as he ran his gaze to the left and right.
With its slight brightness, I could see that all the glass windows inside the armor doors on the ground floor were broken.
When I opened the front door, the lock was open. Once inside, there is a small entrance hall with a steep staircase like a ladder, a door to the left and right. A small lamp hung on the wall to the right as soon as I went inside.
Not many signs of one.
If I were there, would I be right?
Ishur stepped into the back room when he opened the right door.
It was quite dark in the room, but I could see the chairs and tables falling, the walls burning everywhere, the lacquered walls cracking and dangling.
The lamp lights leak through the door from the back room, stretching thinly to the middle of the room.
When I continued to open the door of the room, the bodies of the three women were put to sleep in the middle of the room with the broken furniture on the edge.
A twin stood at his side.
The twins turned to Ishl at the same time. Two identical faces with no blurry expression look up at Ishl.
"What about Rabena and Grandpa?
"I went to one of the guys at the same party as Emilia's sister."
"Right."
You're a little careless, even though you're letting Nayal keep an eye on you.
But Kurt and the others will want to know as soon as possible what happened to the others. Almost as desperate as it sounds, it is possible that there are two or so survivors.
Ishur did it to Endora, the first hand of the body of a woman lined up with three gazes, bent down before her and reached out, softly why her forehead.
The first time I saw Endra, she tried to kill me. The second time I saw her, I was on my side. What, I could just talk to her for a little while.
"And the third time it's a corpse."
Is there such an irrational thing?
Ishur distorted his face and felt bitter.
Endra is lying on her back with her spine straight, hands and feet naturally extended. The clothes fabric is torn all over the body and all over the place and the red and black stains remain, but they all seem to be carefully wiped away, and her appearance does not convey a hurtful feeling. It was just that all the black gauntlets that were on her right arm, knives and other blades, had been removed. And, of course, a leather sachet that would have hung around your neck.
Endra's face was also as calm as if she were asleep, and that seemed to overlap, however, with the shadow of her sister Emilia.
"Emilia's sister, are you transporting her over there?
Either of the twins calls out to Ishl from behind.
Ishur stood up slowly, he said to the twins.
"Oh. In the morning, I'll take you"
Ishur said to the twins that he would turn his neck around to think a little.
"Do you want to go to your grandfather, then? Someone might survive."
"Yeah."
The twins gave a small grin when they both replied.
There were a few people in the house, and there were signs of one coming in.
Mira showed up through the open door.
Mira said to the lamp lights with a pale face that could tell.
"Cerda took my breath away"
When Ishur took the twins back to the house where Desio and the others stayed, and went inside, Cerda, a painful figure who had lost one leg and one hand, was lying on a cloth spread out on the floor.
The figure of the temple director of the mine, who had patiently continued to treat him, had disappeared. Nellie meditates on the chair at the edge of the room and sits in a disappointing arm like a man. I don't see tiredness in her appearance. Likewise Lucia remained the same as usual, standing in a beautiful position with her spine stretched out in the corner of the room.
Ishur dropped his gaze on Cerda's face lying on his back.
Serda's bloodless white face had a look that made the tension disappear and relieve her.
It also seemed like she had opened up from her lifelong misery.
What can I do from now on for her dead?
I'm sure that Cerda, along with the Emilia sisters, is also a new blame imposed on me.
I have learned of her suffering. Besides, that wasn't caused by her own.
At the same time that she betrayed the righteous, she is also a victim of being caught up in the politics of the Holy Kingdom and destroying herself from its tenderness.
So Mira stopped by Ishl's side.
"Ishur, will you give me a moment? I want to talk to you alone."
Mira stood directly in front of Ishur and turned to herself and said in a small, quiet voice as she stared at Ishur's face and whispered.
Mira was betrayed by her best friend, who took one of a pair of red jade stones from her enemies and the lives of many allies.
But that's not Mira's only responsibility.
Cerda's betrayal was unknown to me, unpredictable, and unprotected.
But even if Cerda turns up to betray me, I'm going to deal with it so that the worst can be avoided. If Nayal had been alive and well in the mining settlement, the Kings would have been as good as Cerda had put the Ritual Chiefs to sleep, and the Black Spine Crystal would have been very unable to kill the Endoras.
Rather than Cerda's betrayal, the blatant intervention of the Moon Goddess led to this. If this is the plan of the gods, isn't it rather me who brought Mira and the righteous into harm's way?
If I hadn't been on the side of the righteous, the red jade stones would have both been in Bionato's hands and Mira and the others could have been killed.
But the fact that Emilia and the others died and were deprived of one of the Red Jade Stones exists stubbornly. Isn't that because I was involved in this matter?
I have brought the gods into the civil strife of the Holy King, that is, into the strife of men.
Ishur nodded and agreed to Mira's invitation.
What Mira wants to talk about, and what I have to talk about.
It must be necessary for each other, for those who have died, and to crush Bionato's ambitions.
Ishur was invited out by Mira. Mira didn't bring Sharka. As an escort, Sharka has left behind the Sleeping Ritual Chief and other clerics from the Holy City.
Mira invited Ishur to the bottom of a large oak tree that stood between the houses, a short distance from the square.
People's hustle and bustle is still heard from the side of the square. What happened to the bodies arranged in the square?
Tomorrow, a convoy from Kahar is scheduled to leave the mine and return home. Maybe the hustle and bustle in the square is because the preparations for it have begun. Despite such a major incident in the tongue of neighboring Oomeo, the convoy will probably leave as planned.
"Ishur."
Mira leans over to Ishl just because her chest doesn't touch her.
The moon hides in the shadows, and the area is blurred and thin with light leaking out of the square.
The light shook in Mira's eyes.
Because of me, many people died tonight.
Mira said in a quiet, heavy tone.
"One crack of red jade stone has also been taken by the Kings. I watched everything sweetly."
Mira had a strong trust in me. He trusted me.
She was watching sweetly, probably because she was counting on me.
Mira used to say, when she told me my secret, "It's like being in a myth..." and so on. Even if that was the girl bullshit I tend to dream of, I didn't want to imitate it smashing.
I betrayed her expectations.
"The loss of the lives of my shadowworking sisters, entrusted by the Chief Cleric to the real Red Jade Stone, is also my responsibility."
Mira cut the words there and stayed between them. There is grief in her eyes.
"When I think of your sorrow, Ishur, I..."
"That's not true"
Mira's worried face rising in the dark at night is terribly beautiful. For a moment on that white face overlapped the figure of Melilla carrying the moon wheel.
I have to say that time.
"Mira, I want you to know exactly how you feel."
Put your hands gently on Mira's shoulders.
"Where do you think she was when you called my spirits, Nayal?
Mira put one hand against her chest and exhaled hard.
She suppresses Dawn's own mind and tries to be calm.
And when she let her mind down, she answered firmly in a restrained tone.
"Weren't you imprisoned here, in the mining settlement of Frage, in the demonic sealed kingdom? From there, at one end, I think he was back in the spiritual world. So I don't think the Great Spirit of Ishr was able to stop the Kings from moving."
Sure, anyone would think the same thing.
Now Ishur meditated his eyes, inhaled his breath deeply, and slowly exhaled.
Come on, let's talk. It is very courageous to reveal one's own secrets.
"When I revealed my secret to Mira before, I said," I want to ask the gods something. "Having the magic of God doesn't simply mean being graced by God."
Swallow accidentally.
"Grace, I think you will have something to do with the gods rather than I'm on their hands, maybe I'm playing something. Sometimes they intervene in what I do."
Mira looks at me silently.
"When Emilia was stabbed by Cerda, who turned into Endora, the Moon God moved. The Moon Goddess."
Ishur meditated his eyes again, looking to heaven and opening his eyes.
A thin cloud drifting in the dark sky, which flows slowly.
"The Goddess of the Moon has forced Nayal to return to the Spirit Realm, and has manipulated the world through time so that I cannot help Emilia. I couldn't move then. It would have been easier to help her."
An agitation runs in Mira's eyes. Mira's trembling heart comes from the hand on her shoulder.
"Surely we are now in a mythical world where the Red Emperor Dragon and the Great Spirit sift their power and the gods manifest themselves"
... Mira.
But sometimes it's unreasonable to take the lives of those who didn't have to die.
Ishur drowned his head.
"I'm sure there will be many more deaths around me, destruction and destruction in production."
You can't stop that on my own.
"I have so far lost my family, my relatives, the villagers, many people close to me. I'm afraid. Mira, you will one day..."
"... Ishr Sama"
Mira's hand has stretched out onto Ishur's back.
Her face, her eyes are right there.
"That's Ishr's mistake."
She smiled.
"Even tonight, all the beginnings began with Bionato's evil ambitions."
Mira went on to say that it had nothing to do with God's magic equipment.
"The gods will see what Ishur will do on this earth. Let me see what you can do. And I'm sure you'll be waiting to have all the magic of God in your hands."
Mira's eyes approach.
"So, Ishur, I'll do it again. Ishur, as you wish, you will not be full."
Mira......
"Whether I die or not, it is for the gods to do."
And something ran into Mira's eyes.
"Ishur will protect me like that shadowy sister, won't you?
Mira's arm went around my shoulder from my back.
Her lips softly, only touched her for a moment.
"That alone makes me happy."
The light of Mira's eyes danced frantically and swayed.