The Demon's Bride

Giving The Flower Ring, Movements Of The Creatures-II

Lady Eleanor Brown was a human with an exceptionally beautiful face according to human standards. He had felt since the first time they met in the ball that Milton Brown's daughter had kept her delicate eyes on him. He had bluntly rejected having any relation with women that have romantic feeling to him as breaking up a relationship would only lead to more trouble with lingering feeling around. Especially to humans who he could never have a feeling for.

Maroon walked back after placing the scalding teapot on the serving trolly to ask. "The party would be held the day after tomorrow, would you be attending, my lord?"

"Milton Brown is a good connection for the merchant's road, I'll attend for now." Maroon received his words with a nod and excuse himself as he had finished his work.

Propping his head on one hand after the leave of his aide. He continued with his work after a sip of the warm tea.

Days passed again and time for Elise to meet with Ian didn't come. The only time when she met Ian was often could be count as only passing by on their intersected path.

Nightfall came, moon hanged again on the sky as it brought the cold night for the people in Warine Land. Not far from the White's Mansion, a blue creature crawled and come to a stop wearily to hid in the bushes. The blue being had a face of an old woman. Her skin was pigmented in blue color, dry and horrifyingly ugly, and half of her face was asymmetrical. With white hair covering her cracking dry scald, she gave a smile that showed her yellowish corroded teeth to wrinkle her blue skin.

When she walked over to the bushes, eye on the house with her small black pupils, droll came out from her mouth. It was a mythical being called Black Annis, a being that loved to eat a human child and collect their skull as their trophy.

Beside her, a fellow Black Annis played with her long fingernails that had formed together with her fingers, sharp like a claw with traces of blood in them climbed up to the three nimbly.

The Black Annis that came to sneak a peek in the bushes was named Debora. The latter one on the tree was named Georgia.

"Is The Sweet Child here?" A sharp chilling voice came from Debora's lips, every time she opened her mouth, droll came to make his voice gibberish.

"She's here" Georgia jumped down from the tree and walked with her arced back. "I saw it with my own two eyes when the Sulixs took her to the forest, she smelled very delicious. She's small but we can divide her half for you and me." As the continued to talk, her words became harder to hear.

"How we will take her out?" Debora asked and heard her friend chuckling from the side. "The Demon would be out soon to the human's land. I heard it from the eyes."

"But I doubt it would be that easy. I heard that the mansion had a very strong magical barrier, how could we step inside without being killed?"

Georgia chuckled in a twisted screeching sound. "Don't worry, about that matter. I met someone who could help us with that."

Debora rose her eyebrows skeptically. "Really?"

Georgia turned her eyes, staring at her with her grin still plastered to her hideous face. "Do you doubt me? Would there be anything good in trapping you to death?"

Hearing her persuasion, Debora mulled a little. As the head of the Black Annises, she had growing power and it could be something feisty to other lower creature. However, Georgia had he own luxury for working with dark sorcerer thus taking her place as the leader wouldn't matter much to her. Instead it would only be burdensome to someone like her. It was also a good chance. There was a very old saying to creatures of the sweet child. One who could eat the sweet child, they could obtained an everlasting life. It was enough merit to Debora's eyes that her eyes turned red from the imagination.