The Demon's Bride

Come With Us To The Other Side, Decision To Make-II

They passed to the green path, hiking up to the small hill made out of a blanket of weeds. It had been more than a few kilometers after they exited the mansion and at the spot from where she stood, the mansion's shadow had become fainter making an uneasy feeling creeping to her heart. "If we go any far than this, I will forget the way back to the mansion."

"You don't have to remember. " Aryl whispered faintly so the girl couldn't hear what she had just said. Pulling Elise's long sleeve to lead her into the small forest beside the green path. "Come here, a little bit more walk and we'll arrive." Elise felt a little relief hearing Aryl's words if she had to walk a little further and arrived at the place where Aaryl wanted, she could go home faster.

Mila, Cynthia, and Austin would be very worried that she didn't come back home and to her, they are very kind people who played with her. She had been very careful about managing her good behavior and followed whatever they told her as she didn't want to make them disappointed. She had done good things in her previous houses but they still threw her out of the house.

Just by imagining Master Ian's or the other people's in the house disappointed expression made her heart break.

"You could walk pretty far. Don't you feel tired, Elise?" She heard Aryl talked and brought her back from her reverie.

"I often walked." Aryl replied with a long interested oh. She had walked even further than the distance they walked. The furthest she ever walked was when she needed to walk over from one village to another three villages, it was the hardest walk for her as she couldn't eat or drink anything other than the water in the river that she passed on the way. The day on the slave building she couldn't walk due to her fever, but now she could walk even further than before.

"We arrived." Aryl flew over her eyes to hide the view and greeted. "Welcome to the Sulix's Lake." she stepped over to the side to reveal the beautiful place they arrived at.

The place she stood at was in the middle of the forest, although the path which she walked before was dark, the silver moon sparkling right above the lake brought a very bright light on the place. As though the stars from the night sky landed on the bushes and trees, Elise's eyes were stuck at the glittering golden sparkles scattering over the surface of the Lake.

Other Sulix with pale-colored skin flapped their feathery colorful wings over and crowded around Elise's head with cheerful giggles. "This is she?" they sprung up to her eyes.

"She smells good!" the other one laid on Elise's red hair to sniff. "So sweet!" another one commented.

Aryl snapped her finger to allocate every other Sulix's attention, "Let's stop here, shouldn't we? We have to go now, or else that De-" Aryl cleared her throat knowing that she shouldn't call Ian with his usual name and corrected. "-Lord Ian came back."

Elise cocked her head to the side, showing her clueless look at the Sulixs around her. "What are you talking about?" Aryl didn't reply at her words and instead cued her friends to pull Elise's nightgown sleeve toward a gate that was made out of living branches from the ground. Elise tore her gaze from Aryl to the lake's surface that had begun to produce bright light as though it was beckoning her to enter.

Feeling a bad hunch on her heart, Elise stopped her movement making the Sulixs surprised ber her abrupt stall. "I think I need to go now." Elise's turned her body to the back and walked but hear Aryl spoke. "Where are you going? Elise, come with us to the lake. If you enter now, we could come to the Sulixs' land. Our bright, fun, and exciting land that would never make you sad."

"I can't go with you, I have to go home now." Elise took more steps behind but Aryl and the other Sulixs didn't back down easily. Their voice changed into a seducing tone, giving a sweet approach to little Elise.