The Demon's Bride

Elise Make a Friend, The Flower Crown-IIII

On another bright afternoon, Elise sat on the green field near the garden with Cynthia. Different kinds of flowers laid beside them. But Elise's blue eyes were glued on Cynthia's nimble hand who had weaved the flowers' stems into a crown. Turning the well-made crown on her hands, Cynthia checked over the structure before passing it to Elise's hand in delight. "What do you think? Beautiful isn't it?"

Elise nodded with all her might. "It's beautiful, Cy!" She saw Cynthia giggled and murmured "excuse me" to take back the flower crown for a moment to place it upon Elise's red hair. "This is how you used it."

A cat with golden fur and three large striped on his body ran toward them. On the cat's small mouth, another batch of purple flowers was brought. The cat stopped beside them bending his head to allocate the flowers in one large batch. When he looked up to the adorable little girl touching the flower crown on her head with extra carefulness in order not to break it due to its fragileness, the cat spoke in human language.

"I never know that you are good at making those, Cy." Cynthia glanced down at the cat who was undoubtedly her friend Austin with a sighing reply.

"My little sister used to beg me to make one for her." she thought for a moment to stop the knitting on her hand. "Anyway, Austin I thought you could only speak in meows?"

"I wouldn't you're not a cat and how could you understand if I spoke in meows? I can speak well even in my cat form." He bragged. Cynthia was about to reply to his words but Elise had taken the cat on her arms to carry it to her side for a long petting and brushing to his pelt. Feeling the ticklish little hand rubbing on his neck, Austin protested with a "No, don't." but his cat's instinct took over him as he had purred with a relaxed face on top of Elise's lap.

"Meow." Austin subconsciously let out a voice that made both Cynthia and Elise burst into coordinated laughter. The laugh was loud enough to bring back Austin from his listless state and jumped from Elise's side.

"You adorable being if you look at me that way, how could I get angry?" He protested in a gentle manner whilst rubbing his paw and licking it. "You shouldn't rub me too much. I don't like tickles."

Cynthia had a hard time composing herself. From behind she rubbed again the unclosed wound on Austin's pride. "I thought you weren't going to speak in meows? It took you less than a minute to actually purred."

"I can't help it, alright? Although I'm a werecat, I'm still a cat." Austin cursed under his lips. "Do you know where did the Lord go?" Cynthia raised a question that quickly steered Austin's attention from the latter. "The human person named Mr. Brown who was working with him invited him to his party. I heard that the human is trying to make a relationship to happen between his daughter and the Lord."

"Hah." Cynthia scoffed aloud stopping her hand to shook her head. "How stupid. I don't think humans forgot the forbidden rule against the marriage of human and mythical beings don't they? He must be crazy enough to marry his own daughter to a mythical being."

Austin kept on playing with the lavender that Elise moved in front of him to give it a good chase and huffed harsh breathing to answer Cynthia. "Well our Lord doesn't look like one and not even us know if he is a mythical being. He looks very humanly except for the fact that he isn't humane at all. Well except for the fact he brought Elise." Austin smiled to the little girl and Elise returned back the smile warmly making a fuzzy warm feeling to the werecat.

"Also, I have a piece of big news for you." Austin jumped to the spot beside Cynthia and talked again, but the little girl spotted a flying being with the legs of a horse. It was the faeries that Ian told her about before in the carriage, the faeries named Sulix.