The Witchness (English version)

Chapter 11

It's already the middle of the night. Mrs. Montgomery and Klaus called the gardeners a little earlier so that they could get the area around the castle back to how it looked before. It had started to rain. The magical beings sit in the living room. Your wounds are cared for, everyone warms up or rebuilds another. Elizabeth and Luca are sitting on the floor. She snuggles up close to him and he is wrapped up with her in one of the blankets that are mostly on the sofa. Even the wolves were allowed inside the castle. Poppy, in her human form, connects her pack members. When she's human she looks like a child caring for a couple of wolves, but in her wolf form she looks so adult and dangerous. The wolves in Clifftonfort are generally very large and well built as they have to protect an entire country. Nor would it occur to any of the villagers to kill them. They also protect the village from intruders and would not even think about leaving their habitat in a foreign area. Everything is correct in this country.

Midory and Violet wipe the blood from each other's skin and also take care of their wounds. The minutaurs and centaurs work together to help the gardeners and maids with all the work. Mrs. Montgomery is sitting on a bench in front of the castle walls and staring at the chaos that has been created. She has tears in her eyes. All of this reminds her of the moment when toffee killed lilies. In the end, it looked the same. Everyone was on their nerves, there was chaos and blood everywhere but toffee was still alive. Only her beloved sister was dead. Lilies and Toffee had a similar fight as this one today with the exception that she never used all her strength to achieve what Sarah did. It is true, she was the most powerful witch on earth, but too weak to kill the love of her life. Lilien fought not out of hate but to defend them. Even if she cursed him and gave everything to never see him again, she still loved him. Toffee wasn't always a lizard-like heartless monster. He was once a loving king with a heart for children and magic. Unfortunately, however, his interest in black magic was aroused and he began to use it. At first it was minor incidents like making people sick who deserved it, but it quickly increased. He began to conjure up demonic figures. Lilien was fed up at the time and often admonished him not to use black magic any more. He didn't listen to her and one day he was caught conjuring up a demonic warrior. Now his wife had to be consistent and cursed him. The allegation was 'a curse by using black magic'. It wasn't easy for her, because as I said, she still loved him, but her daughter was only five years old at the time and she was afraid something would happen to her. They banished toffee from the kingdom and no one knew what he was doing, where he lived or what his plan was. He conjured up dark demonic knights to be his subjects. It was a hundred and ten years before he came back and took revenge on Lilies. Lilies have been badly injured and their magic has been used up. After a few days of pain and suffering, she passed away in her bed, her daughter tightly in her arms. Nora was with her at this point. Lily's death was difficult not only for the castle residents and their families, but also for the whole country. Clifftonfort was once an entire kingdom. Nobody knew anything about magic or magical beings, Lilien was just their queen. After her death, Sarah was sent to the castle of Count Dracula. She had forgotten Nora. Nora bewitched her so that she would forget all the memories in which she participated. Only the Countess knows the reason.

Mrs. Montgomery wipes the tears from her face and tries to pull herself together again. Klaus comes to her and takes her in his arms. The experienced witch bursts into tears. Nora and the Count met years ago at a royal ball. Klaus has always been one of the nobles, but he was always different from the other men. He wasn't pretentious or snooty, in fact he was a very funny adventurous man. Klaus wasn't always a Dracula either. He was living in Orcish with his parents at the time. Orcish was a small piece of land in the middle of Central Europe. To Dwarven you had to travel by carriage for about 20 days and from Dwarven then another 2 days to Clifftonfort. Today Orcish is no more as it was considered too small and people simply added it to the next larger neighboring town. Klaus was the son of the Baron and Baroness von Orcish, Lady Liltah Rosenton and Lord Hastat Koslexander. They have always been vampires, but nobody in the country was suspicious.