[SCENE I: THE COSSETE
"Begin the judgement now!"
It's empty... but I can hear voices.
I can't feel anything, it is as if I was imprisoned in an eternal abyss. Hindi ko maramdaman yung kung anong sakit na dapat kong maramdaman. Hindi ako makagalaw. Pinilit kong imulat ang mata ko ng ilang beses at nagtagumpay din sa pang huli. Unti unti ding bumalik ang sense of touch ko, ngayon ko lang nalaman na tila nakatali ako na gamit ang isang mahabang tanikala, isang mahabang kadena.
Pinilit kong makagalaw mula sa pagkakatali nang makaaninag ako ng liwanag na papalapit sakin. The cold palm suddenly touched my face, I even shivered. I can't see her face, but I know, shes a woman, but maybe not a human.
She leaned to my direction and utter something, something familiar that I can even understand, but it is still on the tip of my tongue. The fact that I can comprehend it, that just means that I'm still conscious, maybe. She started speaking, hindi naman malabo, pero may mga statement na hindi ko maiintindihan. I'm still struggling, but I can't just turned deaf when someone's telling me something.
"Vives nunc ut Cossete. Sophiae Syldoniae haeres filia. Sub Musis Septem Praesidio eris, Vasallus... tis."
She disappeared from my sight as I keep on telling my insights to keep on being conscious. I closed my eyes, hoping that it was not a curse, like a spell with eternal curse. I had enough of dying.
"Dying?!"
I suddenly opened my eyes as I exclaimed that word. I'm sure that I died just a few moments ago. I hurriedly grab my neck and breathe heavily. I feel like I'm being suffocated but at the same time, not.
Kung ang basehan ng pagkamatay ay pagkawalan ng ulirat at hininga, alam kong namatay na ko. Hindi ko pa napagtatanto ang nangyari, pero ang una kong nakita ay ang mga matang nakatingin sakin. They're all wearing an old medieval maid outfit with black and white tussle. They looked startled as if nakakita sila ng multo.
That's when I realized that maybe... I'm actually a ghost. I'm dead, and they can see spirits or they're dead from the ancient times too. Masisi ko ba ang sarili ko kung yun yung una kong iisipin? Well, that's the only possibility that I can think of right now.
"Lady Cossete." Napatingin ako sa nagsasalita. An old man wearing black old suit and a monocle. Hinanap ko kung saan sya nakatingin only to find out that he's been staring at me for a while.
I blinked as I pointed my forefinger to myself, "You mean, me?" I looked around, I even looked behind me just to prove that maybe... maybe I'm a ghost. I furrowed my brows just by looking at him with a very confused expression.
Tumingin ulit ako sa mga kasama ko sa kwarto. They've been nodding.
"You can see me?" I asked them while still pointing at myself.
All of them remained silence for a seconds, the old man broke the silence first.
"Of course, my Lady. We've been here a while ago before you wake up," the old man stated.
Alright, this instance is confusing me to the core that I couldn't even comprehend what's actually happening.
"Lady Cossete, is there any problem?" the lady in maid suit asked, staring at me in a worried face.
"I-I'm... who's Cossete?" Odd. But kind of familiar name. I shifted my eyes from their direction to the corner of the room.
Napasulyap ako sa paligid ko. Kahit siguro pag apatin pa yung kwarto ko sa apartment na inuupahan ko, mas malaki pa to.
Everything is sparkling that it is kind of sore to the eye. The old furnitures are arranged as if someone is actually living here from a noble society. Even the beds are tucked in a very neat manner, the color pallete is very vivid that it suits the mood and the temperature.
Not a common style if it's in contemporary house designs, but this is much more can be compared to the Renaissance and Medieval Designs. This is too much for a word elegant! Because first of all, this is too extravagant that I will be very hesitant to touch things even if someone permits me to do.
I looked at the maids in front of me once again.
They're much more startled than before. The fact that their eyeballs almost poke out from their socket tells me how shock they are from seeing a talking slash confused ghost.
"What do you mean 'who's Cossete'?" I almost jump put from the bed just by hearing a loud but deep voice that I almost thought it came from profound chasm. I looked at the direction of the voice.
It is from two similar face, para bang nasa salamin lang sila. Their red dark hair resembles a blood a lot, it compliments their sapphire and cerulean colored eye that I almost lost in thought. Their looks stand out the most just by looking at their snow like skin, and a high level facial features. A dreamboat indeed.
"They're twins, obviously. But who are they?" I thought to myself once again.
"Cossete Syldonia, don't tell me, you run off and escaped again last night that's why you woke up late?" one of the twins said. His hair is more messy than the other one, he has a mischievous looking eye, na hindi mo mapapansin sa unang tingin mo. Probably the playful one.
Unti unti silang lumapit sa pwesto ko. One of the twins reached for my forehead which is inaasahan kong tatagos lang since I'm a ghost. But then, a sting of pain suddenly vibrated from my forehead, a proof that I'm not a ghost but alive.
"You—" I glared at him as I'm rubbing my forehead.
As I was rubbing my forehead, the urge of looking myself at the mirror is too full, but I still need to comprehend things just to clarify.
He laughed as if it is a very common thing to do.
"That's so unlady-like, Cossete." he smirked and throw a cloth to my face.
One of the twin just stood there as if he was annoyed of waiting. Contrary to the first twin's eye, he have this very cold cerulean eye, one that exudes authority. He sigh and sat on the bed.
"Lohr, the lady's forehead is exposed to people. If other people see those marks, they'll think that the house of Syldonia is abusing the lady." he said while rubbing my forehead.
I'm even more confused, first, everyone is treating me so nicely as if I'm from a very rich family with a spoiled brat attitude. Second, they're calling me Cossete.
Cossete...
Cossete...
My eyes widen when I realized something familiar. I pushed one of the twin lightly and ran to the nearest window. I must clarify where am I right now!
"Cossete! This is not a time to play around!" he screamed like an older brother. But despite of that scream, I chose to see everything for myself.
Binuksan ko ang bintana ng kwarto ko just to be suprised. This is just too much...
This geographical feature doesn't look exactly as a modern world, more importantly, this is not a setting that I can see everyday, well not unless I watch fantasy movies and this is just a CGI.
From the high mountain ranges, down to rolling green hills, I can tell that the pollution is not yet rampant in this world, I couldn't hear car sounds, not even a bicycle, but instead a familiar vehicle during Spanish era in Philippines similar to Kalesa, a land transportation being pulled by a horse.
A busy wet street that can cater today's living basic needs, people wearing a Victorian outfit, either men or women, be it commoner or high ranking people.
Aside from that, I can see a floating continent on the sky, stuffs that I can only see on RPGs and fantasy movies, a man from a shop carrying a sac of unidentified object, merchant casting magics on a busy street as if he doesn't care if people see those kind of stuffs.
To make it crazier, there's a flying... something, going to my direction.
"Flying what? Orange? Banana?" Ah, sa ganitong panahon naaalala ko yung teacher ko sa math kapag di kami nakakasagot ng kompleto sa problem and solving. To think that I, someone who's dead experienced this craziest dream I ever had.
"COMING THROUGH!" Nagising ako sa pag dedaydream dahil sa sigaw ng lumilipad na tao. If it's even a person. Wouldn't it be alright to imagine him disguising as a human? To think that this world surpassed the goal of the Earth to have a first flying car, instead they have a flying human.
Anyway, this madman is approaching in a crazy speed which seems to be fueled by blue pixies. Napaupo nalang ako habang papasok sya sa bintana kung nasaan ako, kung di ko pa ginawa baka natumba na ko mula sa kinatatayuan ko. Nakatulala pa din ako habang nakatingin sa kanya.
"Apparently, maybe for this person, I'm actually ghost."
Tumayo ako mula sa pagkakaupo while hands on my hips, I furrowed my brows indicating a displease expression. I looked at him while tapping my right foot on the flourished floor.
"You're crazy..." I said and pointed at him.
"Who's in the right mind will fly from far away to someoene else's direction?!" I screamed due to frustration. I can't take it anymore. Kung nahuhulog lang ang eye socket at baba, like the figurative expression, baka nasa sahig na yung baba at mata nila dahil sa pagsigaw ko. Even the calm and collected butler looks shocked from my scream.
"And what on earth is this? Who are you people?! Why are you wearing like you're cosplaying something?! Where am I?!" I screamed my lungs out because this is the only thing that I can do right now. Be frustrated, and it sucks. This is too much!
"Earth?"
"Cosplaying?"
A question, after question, after question. The three men, which includes the twins and the man who flew to my direction along with the maid just stare at me as if I'm a madman.
They tilted their head as if questioning my existence. Akala yata nila may sira ako sa ulo, o kaya nakuhaan ng turnilyo sa utak. To be honest, I'm as confused as they are, so it's probably much better not to look at me as of I was spitting fire from my mouth.
"You have a very strange vocabulary today Cossete." the flying man said. He even tilted his head as if he's really curious about what's going on.
"You are all the strange one here!" I glared at him, still impatiently tapping my foot on the floor.
"Are you perhaps possessed?" I looked at the other twin, the one with sapphire orbs, startled. I'm not cowering in fear, it's just that, after this whole magical thing, soul possession, transmigration are the nearest possible reason why I'm still here, alive.
This is not the time to be shock. I need to clarify something, I need to prove if my conclusion is either right or wrong. Whether I'm having a good flashback of someone's life, or I'm really experiencing it first hand.
"Am I... Cossete Syldonia?" I looked at them, although I have a shrill voice right now, I still had the courage to ask because of too much confusion. Well, no one can blame me, I can't even blame myself even if I want to.
I just died a few moments ago, been chained with a very long heavy chain in a dark abyss, spoke to a suspicious lady and faced three pretty men that even the most handsome men of my previous life cannot be compared. As much as I want to ask other things, that question just pop out with confidence.
"Oh Lord Artajerjes." all of them sighed exasperatedly at the same time, shocked. Even the composed one of the twin seems to be restless and shocked.
"Have you hit your head somewhere hard?!"
"Elsiff! Call the Capital's Doctor!"
They're panicking. If this is a normal scenario, I will think that they're kidding, that this is just a joke time with a camera. A prank. But right now, I couldn't even comprehend and bring myself to laugh even though they're acting as if I had done a very dumb mistake. What a very cliché scene during a panic scenario.
But it seems like I really do. The nearest conclusion possible is, I'm probably experiencing paramnesia. Or I am in an instance that can only happen inside a novel. Their so called... transmigration. This is so unbelievable.