Who is Michaela and can I meet them
This particular question happened to reach the young woman while she was laying down on a couch in her room.
‘You mean the Empress??’ Gabriel wondered.
It seemed that she had mostly calmed down after the initial shock from the random voices in her head, and had now decided that they were of no immediate threat as their questions so far were fairly silly and harmless. After all, if one of them was asking who the queen of this continent was, at this point they could be beings from another world. She also truly felt like the voices were coming from the sky and this telepathic communication thing was very similar to something she could do with Vivianus, albeit a lot more one-sided.
A lot of other people would still be extremely cautious and even afraid of something like this, especially with how it is in this world, but she never liked being hyper-vigilant and fortunately hasn’t had to be.
“Well, aside from the General and other higher ups, no one else has actually seen her nor heard her so uhh… I don’t think your chances of meeting her are very high.”
Gabriel got up to pick out a book from her infinity box, revealing a guide to the 9 and a half avian sovereigns. She skips towards the chapter about Michaela and starts summarising its contents.
“She has the powerful ability to predict everything that happens around her, and ever since the Great Divide and the Crow’s betrayal, she became the most dominant force of nature of the whole continent. Her wisdom and constant victory against the daemons has guaranteed her nation’s everlasting peace for as long as she sits on the throne.”
“Some of her most common names include: The Battle-Hardened Empress, Rosé-Eyed Princess, Queen of the Owls, and the Eternal Pearl.”
“Anddd… yeah that’s it really. Everything else is repetitive filler that’s just emphasizing on how smart, strong and pretty she is. Says she’s omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent too but I remember an old solider that came into the inn once that told me that no god is truly omnipresent.”
Speaking of that solider, she contemplated asking their patrons about the goddess, but figured that the result would be no different from when she was a child: either unconditional love and admiration, or extreme fear and trepidation.
"I could still ask the others for stories if you're really curious but... well, it's really hard to determine which ones aren't exaugurated." She paused. "And sometimes I don't think I want to know."
There may be another reason, Gabriel realized a bit later, (while she was outside harvesting exotic fruits from the inn's lil farm) as to why the voices do not know who the Empress is. They may just be that young, perhaps even younger than when Gab saw her first barred owl. However, if those voices weren't some cosmic entities from another world, that would mean that there are children that are possibly capable of telepathy and other such powers that not only allow them to communicate with Gabriel, but also hide themselves from her. She'd laugh at this thought if it weren't for the fact that there are actually children that get chosen by one of the animalia as soon as they're born.
How far does their telepathy even go? How much of her thoughts can they read? How would she know if they're watching her and listening to what she says? Do they stop and take breaks? or are they as constant as the eyes of the sky?
There is one thing Gabriel is sure of, and that is that the tone of these voices are nowhere near as threatening as when she was walking under the gaze of the barred owls. The voices were curious, but not intrusive, and felt oddly comforting.
It seemed futile to try and stop the voices anyway, since she doesn't know how and where they came from. So, until the voices start becoming a problem, she once again decides not to worry.