Something was wrong...Terribly terribly wrong.
She wasn't sure what it was, nor how to deal with it, but something had been...[Wrong].
When she arrived after work from the clinic the apartment smelled...Weird.
She could smell faint traces of Elizabeth's mana tainted by...Sadness.
It was like she was about to commit something that would harm her, but she had no choice, the mana was weird, but when she came close to her room a pair of Shadow Dragons stopped her.
"[Mother...Mistress is...Asleep right now...Please understand.]" Said her daughter.
The little girl also smelled...[Wrong].
"What's the matter?" Asked Rossaline to the little girl.
She only turned her back to her while answering "[We can't answer that, what is happening right now with our Mistress must happen...But...Everything will be alright mother...We have to believe.]" She walked into the door dissolving into the shadows.
Only leaving behind a pair of armed shadow dragons guarding the door.
She could [Smell] Elizabeth's mana, and it was...Stable.
It was tainted by fear and agony, but she had been unstable after so many [Outbursts] from the [Taint]...And right now...She couldn't smell the taint.
So she should be fine...
Then it hit her...
The smell of Elizabeth got so strong that she almost felt as if the girl was in front of her...
But...It was...[Synthetic]...
The pair of Shadow Dragons flared their eyes red for a second and then dissolved into the shadows too, leaving the door unguarded...
Rossaline still didn't dare to open the door, and instead just...Put her head against it, she could hear Elizabeth talking to...Herself? She wasn't sure what to make of it, but the sound of a shower in the background was a signal that everything ought to be okay... Right?
Notice:
I have fulfilled my part of the deal [Paramour], you only need to keep [The Inheritor] happy now.
She awoke the next day with that notification hovering above her face, at some point she had gotten it, but...It smelled...Weird.
Unlike the ones that she had gotten at the start, this one reeked of...Something else, it was as if the [Notification] was...More mechanical?
It smelled like how a [Tinker] smelled when they were working in something, but that couldn't be right. Elizabeth wasn't a [Tinker] even if her [Skill] seemed to work under the same principles.
So with that weird foreboding feeling, Rossaline put on her nightgown and walked to the kitchen, unlike usual there weren't any shadow dragons around...The dining room felt...Desolated.
Not even her [Daughter] was around, and the little girl had taken it upon herself to be at the kitchen ready to assist her in the making of breakfast.
So instead she got to prepare everything, all the while that weird foreboding feeling kept pestering at her... She eyed the [Skills] that Elizabeth had gifted her with their [Bond], but nothing was there, if anything they felt as always.
So when the time for breakfast came and Elizabeth wasn't ready...She took this chance to go and wake her up, she still hadn't put the new [Wards] in her room...She hadn't needed them since she was aware of wherever Elizabeth was anyway...
