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He turned back to the table, and the image hovering above portrayed a young human girl standing next to two other humans, a male and a female I assumed to be her parents. They were standing outside a glass building. There were other humans in the background, but they were blurred out, irrelevant.
“Those aren’t modern clothes.” Charlie raised his hand as though to stroke the material of the humans’ coverings. “Are you sure she’s still a child?”
“You think this is a vision of the past?”
“Maybe that’s why the vision felt distant to you. You’ve never done that before?”
“No.” His eyebrow raised slightly, which was all that showed his surprise at Charlie’s suggestion. “Or at least I’m not sure that I have not.”
While Daithi pondered the power of his visions, my mind focused elsewhere. “You don’t think she is a child?” I asked with hope.
Charlie pointed at the figures. “The woman’s dress is touching her ankles. She’s wearing a hat. The man has a flat cap and a jacket. That isn’t something that anyone would wear these days unless it’s fancy dress.”
“Do you know when it is?” Savida asked curiously.
“I’m not a fucking historian, so I can’t tell you exactly. I don’t recognize the building, but it feels like it’s in England. It reminds me of the Titanic pictures.”
“Titanic?”
Charlie sighed and ran his hands through his hair. “It was a ship that sank in the early 1900s.”
“Then you believe it could be 1900s,” Daithi concluded. “That was not long ago?”
Charlie was silent a moment before saying in a low voice, “That was over a hundred years ago.” He paused again. “I don’t know how much you know about humans, but there are very few that live over a hundred years.”
My heart sank to my stomach. I shook my head fiercely. “She is not dead. She is not.”
“I’m just saying it’s unlikely. If she’s still alive, she’s going to be as wrinkled as a raisin.” Charlie pulled a face.
“A raisin?” Savida questioned.
“Literally, it’s a dried fruit.” Charlie looked at me solemnly. “I’m guessing a soul pair is someone you want a romantic relationship with? But basically, she is going to be past all that, if you catch my meaning.”
“I will cherish my soul pair no matter her form,” I told him earnestly. I was giving up my search for my family to find her. She would be my everything. Even if it was only for a short while.
“That’s very romantic.” Charlie said with an expression which made me believe he had a strange taste in his mouth.
Daithi interrupted, “Does this help find her?”
“If I give you a piece of paper, can you print this image onto it?”
“Please. That is not a challenge.”
Charlie ran into another room and returned with a white page. He put it in front of Daithi, who, waving his hand again, seemed to drag the image from the air and place it onto the paper. “This will benefit you in finding her?”
“I can upload this onto the internet and do a reverse image search and see what comes up.” He saw my frustrated frown and explained further, “It will tell me if there are any other images of them which might give me more details about who they are.”
“This will take a long time?” I asked, embarrassingly desperate to find her. Now that I know we could be so close, and that she might not have much more time left.
“Research can sometimes lead to a dead end. I’ll see what I can do as quickly as possible, but I can’t give you a date and time when you’ll meet her.”
I looked desperately at Daithi and he answered my unspoken question, “You will meet her. We will find her. Be patient.”
* * *
To lighten the mood,Savida regaled Charlie with stories of our past visits to other realms. Savida had a talent for storytelling. He embellished where needed with funny descriptions and threw himself into acting out the characters.
I was sure Charlie’s tiny human brain was fit to bursting as the daylight gave way to the evening. Eventually, he stood from the sofa, stretched and said, “Just in case you have dimensional travel lag and need to sleep soon, let me show you the guest room.”
