The Girls of Ohmer Chapter 4 Nina finds a clue

The girls of Ohmer Chapter 4
Nina finds a clue

The midwives house was a long wooden structure consisting of 3 stories. The ground floor contained the reception area, a waiting room and birthing rooms. The second floor had rooms for new mothers while the third had residences for the midwives who worked there. Although some children were still born at home, most parents preferred the security of having so many well trained and experienced women on hand in the event of a difficult birth. The midwives here had never lost a child or mother in all the years of their service. And still they worked on a donation basis. Every family paid what they could and that provided for all the needs of the midwives.

Nina picked her way through the rubble as she proceed to the stairwell. Some of the steps were burned so she carefully climbed to the second floor and headed toward the room previously occupied by her daughter. As she approached the door she could see that it had been knocked off its hinges. The doorway itself had deep gouges in it, presumably from what looked to be the claws of an animal, or a demon. The thick stench of evil hung in the air and Nina had to resist the urge to vomit as she searched for clues. She knew that in such a situation as this, going to the magsiatrate would be useless.

Nina sat on the sooted floor and crossed her legs. Taking a deep breath she close her eyes and tried to reach out to the memory of this room. Everything in existence is made of energy, and energy stores information. One only needs know how to read that information to learn anything that happened in anyplace they are, a useful skill for one such as Nina.

To be accurate though, there is only one such as Nina. She knows so much because she remembers so much. Not just from this lifetime but from all lifetimes. For ages her soul has bounced across the cosmos, through different dimensions and worlds.

All souls carry a memory of past incarnations, but never has a person discovered how to tap into those memories. That is never until Nina did. Actually it wasn't Nina who did it. It was Serendipity, a sorceress who lived during the time of the wizarding wars, when men wielded magic and chaos ensued. Serendipity discovered quite accidentally ( which was her way of course ) how to tap into soul memory. Seeing immediately how this knowledge could serve her in the future, she fashioned a simple spell, a soul charm. The soul charm would be activated in the event that a future self were to wish she could remember. And to ensure the charm was activated she made sure that any body that soul entered would be inclined to be forgetful. A paradox for sure, that is how Nina became the smartest most forgetful person in her world. She had a ditsy streak a mile wide and was often forgetting the smallest most common things, while remembering eons of experiences.

As Nina meditated on her surroundings, she began to see visions of what had transpired in this room. She saw her Daughter holding the new baby. She saw a midwife making rounds. She saw ...

Her eyes flew open in terror, this was a trap! One of the demons had stayed behind! Nina rolled to her side and towards the door, narrowly missing a swiping claw that impaled the floor where she had just been a fraction of a second before.

"Stand still witch!" The demon screamed in a thousand voices. Nina summoned all the power she could muster and let loose a bolt of sunshine and love that nearly blinded her with brightness. The demon was incinerated in the spot.

Nina recognized that demon, now she had all the evidence she needed. Oh this was the worst kind of disaster. She ran downstairs and outside to her mount. Taking the duck out of the cage, she scrawled a quick note to Erika, placed it in the ducks little satchel and sent him on his way. " Home Quackers! With haste!"

The duck flapped off into the distance making good time with the help of a tailwind.

Nina jumped up into blues saddle and went charging in the opposite direction. People scattered out of her way on the city streets as blue ran headlong through the city, slowing for nothing and no one.

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Back at the cottage, Erika had just finished sweeping all of the bear hair off the floor. This she deposited in a sack marked "Bear Hair". The hair would later be used for insulation in winter jackets, or stuffing for pillows. It made the lightest, fluffiest, bestest pillows ever.

Bear Dog Vampire and Vay were playing outside.

"Hold him!" Bear Dog Vampire was telling Vay.

"I'm twyin!" Vay insisted, as popsicle the cat wriggled within her grasp.

The two girls had decided that the best way to cheer Erika was to make popsicle look a bit more like a unicorn. What better than to coat his pencil with glue and sprinkle with pixie dust? The glue had unfortunately dripped all over and as a consequence the cat and both girls were covered in sticky glue and sparkly pixie dust.

Popsicle wriggled out of Vays arms and ran to the barn, leaving a sparkling trail behind him.
"Pop sick O! Come baaaaack!" Vays cries did little to convince the cat that a most immediate escape was in his best interest.

"Oh well" said Bear Dog Vampire " I guess he'd rather be a kitty with a pencil stuck in his head than a unicorn"

Just then Erika looked out the back door. " What in the world!?"

The two girls on the back porch had made a glittery and gluey mess! It was on their hands and arms, their clothes, even in their hair! Vay had most certainly gotten the worst of it, a haircut was the only thing that was going to get all of that glue out!

Vay looked at Erica with a big smile, she raised her hands in the air and shouted " SUPWISE!!!!!" As remnants of pixie dust filled the air and settled all around.

If it wasn't for nevertime, Erika would never have time for herself.

Just as Erika was preparing to get ready to think about cleaning up her younger sisters, Quackers came flapping and quacking and honking into the back yard.

Quackers looked terrible, his usual glossy coat of feathers was sooty with some singed and burned. He was flapping about and quacking so, that Erica could barely get the message from his satchel. As soon as she did, Quackers took off to the barn waddling and quacking angrily the whole way!

Erica unfolded the note and read aloud to her sisters.
" Danger! Go to the tinkers house in the village! Tell him Serendipity sent you! Tell him Brock has returned! The tinker will watch over you until I return with your parents. Be swift, go NOW!
Love and hugs and kisses
Nina"

"The tinkers house?" Exclaimed Bear Dog Vampire " that crazy old
coot that rides the ostrich?"

Erica shrugged and surveyed her sparkly sisters "well that's the one place the two of you will fit in looking like this."