Bastian - Chapter 152 - Rotten Wound - WoopRead
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✧Rotten Wound✧
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Odette stood at the hospital window and looked down into the hospitals backyard. She was due to be discharged and while she waited for the finalisation, she spied a young couple sat on a bench outside. It was the very same bench she had sat on during that despairing spring day when it felt like her whole world had collapsed.
After a moment, the pair got back up. The woman had hurt her leg and the man was helping her hobble back to the hospital. It was nice to see a couple so in love like that.
Even after the couple disappeared into the hospital, Odette continued to stare down at the vacant bench, light's gleam on the remaining snow stung her eyes. She was still staring when Dora arrived after met the messenger from the admiralty.
"The Master says he is very sorry he can not accompany you personally home, but he has been caught up in some very important work. He instructions to escort you to the Ratz town house, when you're ready ma'am."
Bastian had returned to work a few days ago. He always left before dawn, but would return in the evening. Odette was always asleep, but Dora had informed her that Bastian would always watch over her sleeping form. Maybe it was for the better, she could only guess at how awkward it might be to have to face each other in this crisis.
Would she want to go back to him?
She didn't know.
Did she want to leave him?
She was not sure of that either.
Now it seemed like it might be a good thing. Whatever she chose, nothing will change anyway.
Odette gingerly put on her coat. She was still not fully recovered, but the doctors said she could go home so long as she was careful not to over stimulate. It certainly felt like things could not get any worse.
"I have a favour to ask you," Odette said. Dora started as she was picking up Odette's bag. She turned and gave Odette a look that made her heart sink to her stomach.
"Could you bring Meg to Ratz for me?" A faint smile appeared on her lips, the first glimpse of human emotion she had shown since that incident. But this spectacle only added depth to the abyss of Dora's heartbreak.
"I'm sorry madam, but..." Dora struggled to find the words to explain to Odette that Margrethe had been missing since the day she was poisoned.
It had been ten days and the dog was nowhere to be found. Bastian had released all the servants to scour the grounds for Margrethe, but there had been no sign of her. Bastian had given strict orders not to let Odette know, but it was going to be impossible to keep it from her now.
"What's going on?" Odette demanded, sadness already tingeing her voice.
"I am sorry madam, but Margrethe has been missing since the incident. Do not fret, people are constantly out looking for her and its only a matter of time." Dora knew it was a lie not even a child would fall for, but there was nothing else she could say.
Dora was prepared to console Odette when she cried out in anguish, hold her when she fell to her knees and bare the brunt of what ever insult she threw out in her anger, but none of that came. Odette just stood in the middle of the hospital room and stared at Dora until the dense silence takes her breath away.
"Okay, lets go back to Ardenne," Odette said, her voice was as cold and clear as today's azure sky
"B-But master said..."
