Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 364 Successfully convinced them...?

In the room filled with the aroma of sawdust, there are several rows of display shelves nailed to the brown wooden walls, the succulents in the pots are bright green, and on the fireplace lies an unfinished book titled "One Hundred Things a Goblin Must Know in His Life". The page that was blown open by the wind has these words written on it: Adequate sleep is an important source of a good mood for the day, so goblins need to take at least seven naps a week.

Bookshelves, wardrobes, cabinets, low-legged round tables, old picture frames, hand-woven carpets and khaki sofas; half-woven scarves, leaf-shaped hair accessories, exquisite ceramic teapots and teacups, small and cute bowler hats and a few sheet music... The furnishings are all simple and tidy. The afternoon light shines through the window, and it feels warm and lazy. The emerald green vines climb into the room along the window lattice, and the half-palm-sized leaves sway slightly, as if saying good afternoon.

The small park was empty, with only the sound of falling leaves. Under the ancient sycamore tree, time seemed as quiet and peaceful as it had been for the past hundred years, and it had never changed.

Shesta stood in front of a half-person-high dressing table, straightening her messy silver hair after her nap in front of the mirror. It fell to her waist like a smooth and soft piece of silk, highlighting her beautiful figure and elegant and noble temperament. Then she nodded with satisfaction, put down the silver comb carved with roses in her hand, making a slight sound that made Shelia and Shemi's hearts tremble, then turned around and said to her two sisters with a smile: "Well, now, tell me why you disturbed my nap."

"Don't worry, I'm very reasonable. So, as long as this reason satisfies me, I can consider giving you a way out, okay?"

She curved her eyebrows, smiled and said the most terrible words in the world.

Xie Mi's face turned pale and she shivered uncontrollably. If she continued like this, she would probably scare herself to death. In contrast, Xie Liya, the second sister, was much calmer. She gestured to her younger sister, "It's not a big deal, I'll show you how to do it," and then turned to her eldest sister and said, "Actually, this was all Xie Mi's idea, it has nothing to do with me."

So your performance is to betray your own sister?!

Xie Mi almost wanted to overturn the small round table in front of him, but he didn't do it in the end because he thought this was his eldest sister's room. And whether to overturn the table was no longer the key point. The most important thing now was to save his own life.

Five minutes later, after the (forced) calm Shami explained, Shesta and Shelia finally understood why she suddenly returned to the hotel.

"Actually, this was all Metien's idea." The little fairy swallowed hard and said tremblingly, "She was the first to bring it up. I was just asking Big Sister what she thought."

The eldest sister, Xiesta, stepped out to smooth things over with a smile. Her voice and tone were very gentle, but there was a cold light in her eyes. The vague anger seemed to have turned into a substantial murderous intent, overflowing: "If you keep arguing, I can't guarantee what will happen, okay?"

"Would you like us to move our hotel to that Cloud Whale Island and travel with you?"

Just now when we were downstairs, you were proudly saying that it was your own idea, but now you are betraying your friends?
Xie Liya looked at her younger sister with disdain, and the latter glared back at her, her stubborn eyes seemed to say: What does it have to do with me? I just learned it from you!
"Alright, alright, you two, stop arguing~"

Shesta imagined that scene and thought it was really good. Such a journey full of fantasy and imagination is not only loved by Alice, a visitor from another world who is deeply influenced by various fantasy works, but also a dream experience for the travellers and fairies who are born with a desire for distant scenery.
but.

"But, little Shemy, you should also know the racial nature of us travellers." Shesta rubbed her sister's head and smiled, but there was a hint of regret in her tone: "Once we have completed our pilgrimage, we can only stay in the place we choose and can never leave again. So, although we also want to experience such a wonderful journey with you, I'm sorry, this is impossible."

"That's right." Xie Liya also said, reaching out to pinch her sister's face: "Don't always think that we are by your side, Xie Mi, even if you are alone, you have to be strong. We can't take care of you forever. Besides, you are not alone, don't you still have Xiao Xia and Mei Dien to accompany you?"

"Ugh!?" X2
……

"Oh, that's not the case, big sister, second sister!" Xie Mi shook off the hands of his two sisters and shouted anxiously, "Of course I know that the traveling elves can't run around after completing their pilgrimage, but what if it's not the case?"

Not like this? Then what?
Shesta and Shelia looked at each other, neither of them understood what he meant.

"It means..." Xie Mi put her hands on her hips and proudly said what she had learned from Lingge: "If you can't fly, let the ground below you fly! In this way, even if you are not free, at least you can be free with the ground below you!" After she finished speaking, she raised her chin and waited expectantly for the two sisters to make a sound of sudden enlightenment, and then come around to praise her for being able to come up with such philosophical words, saying that she has grown up and no longer needs us to worry about her... etc. But after waiting for a long time, she didn't see anything, so she took a quick look and found that the two sisters were looking at her with strange eyes.

"What, what happened!?" She was startled: "Did I say something wrong?"

"It's not that it's wrong, it's just..." Shesta hesitated, and Shelia commented directly: "It feels like it has nothing to do with the topic we are discussing."

"what?"

Xie Mi had not expected such a reaction at all. He panicked and kept muttering, "It shouldn't be like this! Lingge clearly used this sentence when he persuaded Yieta! And Yieta also agreed, so why didn't he agree when it came to the eldest and second sisters? This shouldn't be..."

"Yieta?" Shesta keenly caught the name she mentioned: "Is she the owner of the Cloud Whale Island you just mentioned?"

"Yeah." Xie Mi nodded sullenly, still struggling with what went wrong.

Shesta thought for a moment, "Can you tell us her story?"

Shemy didn't know why her elder sister wanted to hear this, but she nodded obediently and then briefly told her the legend of the wind in Avion and the story of Iyeta. But before she finished, she was interrupted by Shesta: "Wait, the Miss Iyeta you mentioned, does she really have six white wings? Did you see it right?"

"Of course I am right. My eyesight is very good!" Shemi patted his nonexistent chest and assured him, "Yieta herself said that her race is, her race is...what is it?"

The little fairy, who had good eyesight but apparently poor memory, was thinking hard when her second sister Xie Liya suddenly asked, "Feather Elf?"

Xie Mi clapped his hands, as if waking up from a dream: "Ah, yes! That's right, it's the feather elf! She said her race is the feather elf, so she has wings!"

Then she showed a confused expression. Although winged species are indeed rare, this has nothing to do with the topic they are talking about, right? Why are the two sisters so concerned about Yieta's race? Is there a sympathy between the winged people?
Neither Shesta nor Shelia wanted to explain. They looked at each other, communicated with each other, and finally seemed to reach some kind of consensus and nodded slightly. Shesta turned back to her younger sister and said, "In that case, then okay."

Xie Mi didn't react for a moment, and tilted his head: "What's good?"

"Didn't you say that you wanted us to move the Fairy Sleep Inn to the Cloud Whale Floating Island? I thought about it and it's indeed a good idea. And if we move the entire hotel there, as long as we stay near the hotel, it won't go against the nature of the traveling fairies. So we decided to agree to it. What do you think, Xie Mi? Are you happy?"

The proprietress said with a smile.

Xie Mi: “…”

Although the goal was achieved, I always felt like something was a little weird.

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)