She went for a break after she met Edward and then went to Duchess Vierra's chamber. The butler escorted her as they silently walk down the huge hallway toward Duchess Vierra's chamber. She looks around and realized that nothing has changed since then. It's the same gloomy and torturous hallway to her — her body starts to tremble and panic but she kept it to herself. In order to succeed, Elyse thought she must keep it together.
After minutes of walking in silence, they both arrived at the front of her door.
"Your Grace, we are here." The butler announced but Elyse remained silent.
"Your... Grace?" The butler tries to call for her attention yet her body won't stop trembling. All the torture — the abuse that she received in order to achieve the so-called love she thought she would have if she has gone through all those abuses. Yet she was an idiot for thinking that way. Duchess Vierra never loves her — and will never love her. She wanted only power, and the ones she loves the most is his sons and not his bastard daughter.
'What if she'll hits me?' She asks herself clenching her fist to calm down her nerves yet it didn't help. It made her feel more troubled and anxious as how Duchess Vierra would look at her daughter like some kind of thing she can control always.
Elyse thought her heart is now full of rage and hatred towards this family, yet there is also fear — anxious if, what if, the plan didn't make it?
"Young Miss, should I announce your presence?" She came back to the present when the butler spoke again. She sighs and gave her a smile while hiding her hands.
"I want to surprise Mother!" She said with her joyful tone. In these times, she always wanted her mother's warmth. In order for them to not know that she has regressed and was from the present as Elyse, she needed to act again as Aniya. However, it isn't that easy.
The butler suddenly gave her a pitiful gaze which surprises Elyse. "Why are your expression like that?" She wanted to ask that question but she remained silent and naïve. Her little hands and short height struggle to open the door. The door slowly opens and what welcomed her is the gloomy and dark chamber. Inside the room, she notices a woman sitting in a chair, looking outside from the huge glass window.
Her hair's blonde, pale skin, brown eyes, and pink lips. Duchess Vierra. The woman felt her presence, she slowly turns her face to look at Elyse. She flinched when their gaze met. There's nothing changed — the way she stares at her own daughter, her cold and cruel gazes never faded.
"Aniya." She called her name, slowly standing up, and gave her a soft hug.
"Happy Birthday, My Sweetie." She whispered, yet those whispers felt like death whispering at her. Elyse gulped and smiles like she was an innocent lamb.
"Thank you, Mother!" She said while smiling brightly as ever to her mother. Duchess Vierra smirked and gently pats her head.
"That's a good girl... Aniya. Make mother be proud of you." She spoke softly, all of the sudden, Elyse felt something strange inside of her. She froze, she couldn't say a word when she felt the magic inside her. It was black magic — it was rotating around her as if garnering its power when Duchess Vierra pats her head.
'Is this how Duchess Vierra manipulated me in the past?' Elyse asks herself and couldn't help but pity her old self as Aniya. She was never loved, and what's worst, the mother used black magic to manipulate Aniya. Maybe because there is always a big possibility that she will betray her own mother in the future. Which makes her feel disgusted. All she ever wanted is power. It's always power.
Elyse doesn't have any plans to meet Duchess Vierra. However, she wanted to confirm something before she proceeds to the next step of her plan. Duchess Vierra is the servant of Cain — a loyal servant of that. And there's a possibility that Vierra can use black magic, just like how Mara used black magic in order to be immortal. Deep inside, she doesn't want to believe that possibility but now she couldn't help but feel disgusted and guilty of herself thinking, hoping, that Duchess Vierra is not like that — at least she hoped. But Duchess Vierra really stood low, she has hit rock bottom on this.
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The Binding Fates SEASON 2: The Present
FantasyElyse has finally turned the clock back to the past. Meeting everyone again as what it was back then, will she finally be able to amend her mistakes as "Aniya"?
