Changing The Course of Fate

Chapter 44 - Terror in the Night of Winter

But he was able to see what the black-hooded figures did. They started walking towards the town mayor's office.

'What in the fucking hell was that?!' He cursed.

Pier immediately closed the curtains of his window and hurried to open the door. Once he was in the bricked hallway, he hurried towards the knight's quarters to call for his knight.

While he was half-walking and half-running, thoughts were running in his head.

'The town mayor is going to die?' It was just like what he imagined in those detective and crime documentaries where people would leave a note about someone getting murdered.

'But why did they tell me not to come?' He was also confused. What was the purpose of their letter if it wasn't to lure him out in the town mayor's office?

Why did they let him know and told him not to come?

His hurried steps resonated throughout the empty halls and the chills he got from time to time made him a little bit scared at what he had seen.

'Surely I wasn't hallucinating, was I?' Pier questioned his vision but he knew that he had an extraordinary vision because he can see things from far away distances so he was almost a hundred percent sure that what he saw was real.

When he reached the knight's quarters, he immediately voiced Gideon's name.

Why would he go there alone? His safety was more important so he decided to take Gideon with him.

"Gideon!" He called out and Gideon who was talking with his friends responded without hesitation at his young master's voice.

He left his friends who were confused as to what happened but he did not mind. He saw the exasperated and fear-stricken face of his young master which made him alert.

"What's wrong, young master?" Gideon said when he reached Pier.

Pier pointed outside and spoke

"Come with me, now! The town mayor is going to die!" He half-shouted and Gideon's eyes widened in response.

Gideon's friends who also heard his statement became flabbergasted at the words.

"Young Master, a-are you sure about that?" Gideon's friends asked. Pier nodded his head frantically and immediately ordered them.

"Gather the knights and immediately head to the mayor's office. I have personally seen people who wore black hooded cloaks head there earlier!" Their spines shivered and fear swept across their emotions at the young master's description.

"We will heed your commands, young master!" Pier nodded his head and together with Gideon, they started heading out in the snowy streets of the town square.

The eerie feeling Pier got when he met eye to eye with the people who wore dark hooded cloaks intensified once he was out in the open area of the town square.

He also forgot to wear his winter clothes outside so the cold heightened his shivering.

Gideon was worried about Pier's actions but he still decided to follow him. Pier was a person he knew that does not like doing something that would waste his energy and he saw how nervous the young master was when he called him.

They trudged through the snow which was starting to pile on the streets, the town mayor's office was still a few minutes walk from their building and he had to exactly cross the middle of the town square to get there.

Light from the houses shone upon them and it gave Pier a small sense of assurance. Their shadows walked upon the miniature mountains of snow and their breaths fogged as they were exposed to the almost freezing temperature.