The Fighters (Amicia x Melie |A Plague Tale game)

Ch 6: A cellar

Hi! 
I hope that you guys are safe during the quarantine! And I hope that maybe my work will make you just a little bit better during this depressing time!

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Melie opened her eyes and looked around. She was lying in the middle of a big chamber in the Chateau d'Ombrage. Yesterday, when they were sitting by the fireplace, Hugo quickly fell asleep so she and Lucas went and searched for something to sleep on. Thankfully, they'd found some straw mattresses. Maybe they weren't in the best condition but at least they were clean. 

She wanted to go back to sleep when she suddenly heard some humor coming from downstairs.

"What the fuck does that even mean?!" she heard a muted voice coming from that direction. It was Lucas'.

"Didn't know that the kid can swear." she thought and grinned.

She quickly got up...and sat down even quicker because an enormous pain exploded in her right foot.

"What the-" she bit her lip and examine the foot. There were lots of scratches and a deep cut in it.

"It's probably from that accident at the rat pit." she thought and then blushed hard after remembering what happened yesterday between her and Amicia. She glanced at the other girl who was still sleeping calmly on a mattress not so far away from her.

'Does she remember it too...or was it all just my imagination?' she thought.

Not wanting to be that creep who watches people as they sleep, the girl decided to check up on Lucas. The foot was still hurting her but after all those years lived in cellars and gutters...it was nothing.

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She went downstairs and entered a strange room with lots of pipes, cylinders, ampoules...and it smelled like Lucas.

"It must be the laboratory Lucas told me about yesterday." She remembered

She found the boy standing by the table and making some notes. He was so absorbed by his work that he didn't notice her.

"Shit!" he said and scratched off something on his paper.

"Ohoho! Someone is swearing." Melie teased him

He jumped up "Melie! You scared me."

"Sorry." she chuckled "I'd never thought that you can swear, tho." she looked at him impressed.

He shrugged "I'm just a human, you know. I'm trying not to when I'm in front of Laurentius or Hugo but this stuff..." he sighed fixing the sheet of paper "Is driving me mad."

"What are you working at?" she leaned in

"You see, when you all went to sleep last night, I couldn't help myself and went to check out the laboratory. The equipment here..." he looked at the steel cylinders and sighed "...is so beautiful. And all of these books...the greatest alchemists had spent decades writing them...so beautiful..."

"Yeah..." Melie was very confused but happy for the boy "Whatever makes you happy..."

"Oh it certainly does! Even more! It inspired me! That's why I'm trying to decode that one recipe."Then he added sadly "With little effect as you can see..."

Melie wasn't any good with 'emotional stuff' but she started to really like that guy so hoping that would help, she put a hand on his shoulder and said "I'm sure you can do this, you're Laurentius' successor after all."

His eyes widened "Yeah...yeah you're right! I can do this."

"Well" she thought "That went much better than I expected."