the 𝙒𝙊𝙍𝘿𝙎 of the 𝘾𝙇𝙊𝙒𝙉

「 nine 」

The night smells like a sin.

Since being born without a choice, I already knew the terrifying horror of my existence.

Tired of being restless, and I still had to live a life that I didn't even choose. For years and years, I tried to lift my curse, yet it only had gotten worse.

Having pride as if I had found an answer to all of this. Running away was natural. Having no sense caution, I abandoned my sanity outside and was only left with the false voices echoing in my mind.

Parched by time, I gritted, shoes stuck on the ground, and feeling stupid.

It always got upset that no matter how I struggle to set myself free, I could never escape this cursed path.

In the cold night breeze, with a cloak resembled the dark rear part of the building, his black hair had also swayed.

"Carlyle Vieira of the Rabbit's Hole," I stated in a low voice.

He chuckled, "Seemed like you're back to your senses, Miss Ellianna."

I sighed, "Everything doesn't make sense to me," and answered.

Carlyle stared at me with an equal pair of vacant gaze, as if he was looking at the bottom of an ocean. He might have taken my words to indiscriminate between a joke and seriousness

But I was serious. I left my parents to escape, but it costed my rational thinking. I was kidnapped and was about to be sold to prostitution, but I was saved by a person who came from a circus. Again, I was able to escape a more tragic fate than my tragic existence.

How could a freak from a circus infiltrate that auction house?

There was only one reason unwavering on my mind: they were more than a circus. And I remembered him telling me that the Rabbit's Hole was different.

Carlyle looked so composed, as though he had control over everything.

I saw him touched his earpiece. Someone must have contacted him. "You know what, Ellianna," he said, standing up. "We don't have much time to waste here."

Swallowed by the disarraying events, I had no complaints about him helping me stand. In one abrupt way, he grabbed me by the waist and pulled me up! Everything on my field of vision became upside down once he threw me over his shoulder!

"Hey!" I exclaimed, hitting his lower back with  my fists.

"Aw, Ellianna!" he grumbled and started running to a direction called 'I-do-not-know'.

"I can walk on my own, put me down!"

"Blah, no." I could feel the teasing smile playing on his lips, even though I couldn't see him. "If I'd let you, you'll just slow me down."

I groaned loudly, frustrated. I was all dizzy already, yet seeing this shitty world in a bottom-up state, it made me want to lose my head. Having no choice, I remained obedient.

Each time Carlyle took huge strides as he ran, a bounce would be created. And I would sadly experience the nauseating intensity of it. Now, I wanted to vomit my brains out.

Sighing, I patiently endured the discomfort.

From what Carlyle had shown me, I could depict what kind of organization the Rabbit's Hole was. Certainly, that auction was a place where sinners assembled. The circus freaks came therefore unexpected, toppling down the unpurified souls to color the place with crimson blood.