The Demon's Bride

Being Ordinary

Vella saw Nancy storming off and turned her face to Elise. Elise looked up at her staring and asked, "What is it, Vella?"

"I've never seen someone so brave to go against a mythical being in a state of aggression." She spoke with her stale tone that it almost sounded as though she was being sarcastic and cop but perhaps she was really being sarcastic to Elise at the moment. Vella paused and added with a sigh. "Next time, you shouldn't go against them. That one just now you were lucky but I doubt you would be next time."

"I would stand down if it isn't my matter, however, you're my friend now, Vella. It's a problem to me if I back down to see you harmed." Elise replied with a smile. Though it was true that some of mythical beings are frightening like the ones who attacked her town, she knew far better than there are mythical being who still could be reasoned with. But next time, she sure have to rethink her move or else she wouldn't leave unscathed.

Vella stood there watching her for a moment. Sure enough Elise was a smart girl and after hearing "ex-convict" she doubted the girl would still want to befriend her but she didn't place her focus there. She was just a girl with a warm soul. Vella chuckled faintly, her usual face that was coated with coldness and cynical gaze now turned to a heartfelt smile. "I never thought I will get to hear that again." She whispered and walked away from the hallway.

"In any case, I didn't know that you remember the laws of the Church." Vella spoke.

"Yes, it's a dream for me to work in the Church." Being a studious girl with a dream achieving to pass the test to work in the Church, for her remembering the rules of the Church is something that she have to remember by heart. Thus she didn't think it was much of a praiseworthy act but Vella had a disbelief expression.

"If I'm not wrong, the laws of the Church is about two thousand, right? You remembered all of them?"

"Yes." Elise nodded in confirmation.

"Haha," Vella suddenly burst to a chuckle, she patted Elise's shoulder and shook her head. "But surely thanks to that we could see Nancy's irritated face. Thank you, Elise for helping me. But next time you don't have to, as you know Nancy isn't the only mythical beast here. I am too a mythical being." Vella spoke. Her cynical and cold expression seemed to ease after the scene.

"That-" Elise paused thinking whether it would sound rude and asked. "May I ask what kind of mythical beings are you?" Carmen is a vampire and there are less mythical beings that could take human's appearance. For times, she saw Vella a little different than any mythical beings she knows.

"You'll know soon enough." Vella replied ambiguously.

They hadn't paid well attention enough to their surrounding as they walked down the hallway. Without knowing when he arrived, the butler Maroon had stood at the end of the hallway. His dull eyes peering the two, more specifically to Elise who was standing beside, Vella. To this point, after meeting Maroon for several times, Elise could only ask herself, perhaps she had done something wrong to receive such a hard to describe cold gaze from him? Her opinions of the butler being not a bad person still hadn't change but she know felt very uncomfortable with his peering gaze.

"Elise, bow." Vella quickly bowed after whispering to Elise and immediately Elise did what her friend pointed.

Maroon seemed to make a judgement with his eyes. "Don't speak in the hall." He warned coldly and disappeared back to his job. That being said, Elise took a note at the end after a while of watching Maroon, the White's mansion's butler. He was strict, cold, standoffish, but perhaps still not that much of a bad man.

On one evening, outside the back yard of the White's Mansion, Elise began on pulling the white bed covers from the wooden bucket and gave it a good whip to drain out the excess water before hanging it to the long thread. Seeing her works finally ended for the noon, Elise wiped her sweats with her forearm. Aryl her little friend who always seemed to be complaining of her friend's invitation nevertheless leave some times to check her fellow faeries, she usually did it in either early in the morning or late at night. But today, Aryl told her that she had something important to discuss with her friends and left for a whole day.