“I am so sorry my love, but I don’t also understand what that's supposed to mean”, the duke responded in a worried tone to her questions.

“It’s alright... I have a lot of questions that I know it’s not easy to answer them all.”

“I know... We know and I am so sorry if we can’t answer them all for you”, the duke replied.

“But you told me you know half of the truth. I mean, I am also kind of confused about that.”

“The time of her accident and that time I dream of her at night. When morning comes, I cancel all my schedules and try to get back home as fast as I can.”

The duke tells her about when he comes back home to the mansion her eldest daughter was already in a coma. It’s been two days she’s sleeping without any signs of waking up.

“I was really shocked to see my eldest daughter be like that. I was far to get back home within two days.”

“You felt relieved at that time, am I right?”, she added.

“Yes... Honestly... I still felt happy when the physician told me that she was still breathing, her heartbeat is normal, and her pulse was alright and nothing to be worried about. We just need to wait for her to open her eyes, we just need her to rest more.”

“But that time you dream of hers, you already thought that she was already dead?”

“...”

“Is this the first time it happened like this, am I right?”, she continued asking.

“If am I not wrong, this is the very first time it happens in your generation. That the body is still here, but the soul is not?”, she looks at the duke straight into his eyes.

The duke looks away at her then turns to look back at the painting, then he said.

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“Yes... Maybe, I don’t know. What I mean is it didn’t even mention this kind of event in the book, my ancestor, even my father didn’t even mention this kind of phenomenon. So, I guess this is the very first time it happened to us.”

“Throughout our generation”, he added and look back at her.

“On the day I woke up, are you already certain that I am not your daughter?”, she asks.

“Not yet”, the duchess responded to her questions this time.

“Not yet?”

“Yes... I and my husband is still hoping that dream is kind of just a dream because your body still exists.”

“On the first day, you woke up, I’m not there it was because I am not feeling well because that time my beloved tells me everything about what he saw in his dreams. My eldest daughter saying goodbye and sorry was so heartbreaking for me.”

“I can’t really believe what I’m hearing”, the duchess continued.

“I already cried a lot. But on the third day, I visited you at night while you were still sleeping. I just want to see you, but that time I visited you, you were having a dream. You’re mentioning name’s that I even don’t recognize; you also mention guns and grenades. I don’t really understand what you are saying in your dreams on that day”, the duchess said.

“Oh... So, are you certain that time that I'm not your daughter?”, she said.

“Yes...” the duke responded.

“?”

“I mean, do you remember I visit you on the first and second day you woke up?” the duke asks.

“Yes, I did”, she replied.

“That time, I was observing you, but I guess, you also observe us, if I am right, you are also observing you're surrounding carefully?”

“Yes, I did.”

“You didn’t talk much; you just talk when the physicians asked you and I’m also there, but all you did was glance at me without saying a word to your own father.”

“Should I talk to you that time then?”, she asks.

“Not necessarily, but if it was my real eldest daughter, then she will. She will not let me stand there without saying any words to me.”

“...”

“Well, it just confirms my suspicious when my wife visited you at night. That the soul of my daughter was already gone, but her physical body is still here with us.”

“To be honest with you, I tried to look at all the books regarding my dreams, regarding our generation, the heirloom and the moon my eldest daughter mentions to me”, the duke added.

“But no luck, I guess”, she said.

“Yes... And I’m so sorry for that”, the duke replied.

“I don’t know if I can go back to the world where I live and I don’t know if my physical body is still alive”, she said while looking at her hands.

“Do you think, is possible, we swapped our souls?” she was kind of shocked by her own question.

Then she looks at the duke and duchess, she saw also to their faces that they were also shocked by her own question.