Chapter 25: 25- "That's Oliver's mission."
"H-how did you get inside?" The frightened man drifted backward, his body trembled as he stared at the woman before him, her purple eyes were more terrifying.
"Your guards were sweet and lovely, they took pity on a young stranded girl and let me in." Her tone was flat, she walked toward the frightened man with slow terrifying steps.
"I did nothing wrong, the supplies were adequate, I had no idea he was an I…imposter." His voice shook. He looked out of the window searching for an escape route.
"We both know how many feet go way down, jumping off the window ends your life." Her intimidating smirk made a shiver run down his spine.
"It's better than being tortured by you." He spat out. Hearing his courageous words, a smile raised on her lips.
"Be careful what you wish for, I'll be more gentle than death if you surrender yourself willingly. If not-"
Her words halted when the man jumped out of the window. She sighed and wandered toward the window and glanced outside.
The man didn't fall as he had assumed, he was stuck in thin air. His body moved upward as a strong force shoved him back into the room.
"-Your life will be a living hell."
"Please pardon me, I'm innocent." He pleaded as he broke down.
"Well, well…" She trailed and walked around the man. "Loyalty is hard to come by." Nobody detected the sadness in her voice.
"Take him away." She ordered and two girls appeared in the room, they took the man and disappeared.
She ambled toward the table and the side of the room, and a picture frame caught her attention.
"I'm sorry, Charles." With that, she disappeared.
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"How many were they?" She asked her servant.
"Just the two of them, Oliver and Michael." The servant answered.
"They are in town?" And she got a nod.
"It's the Ginnak's girl, isn't it?"
"Yes."
She smiled a little and gazed out of her window.
"Mistress Gretel? Are you alright? You've been weird since yesterday." The servant pinpointed. She servant glanced at Gretel with concern in her eyes.
Gretel looked over at the servant. "Can I ask you a question, Marie?" The servant, Marie nodded. And Gretel proceeded,
"Why does it still hurt after so many years?" Raw emotions were detected in her voice.
"What hurts, Mistress?" Marie asked.
"My heart." She replied after a few suspended seconds.
"You saw him yesterday," Marie mumbled.
Gretel nodded. "I hate feeling vulnerable, and this is the one thing he brings with him. I should have killed him when I had the chance." She said and fisted her fingers.
"But you didn't," Marie said, she shifted closer to Gretel and held her hand. "Why don't you find someone else, maybe the pain will stop or reduce. It's been too long."
Gretel looked at her little servant girl and smiled, she ruffled her hair and held her hand. "Thanks, Marie, after all the disloyalties you remained faithful and good." A thought crossed her mind and a smirk found its way to her lips. "And how did you know so much about love? Huh…Simon?"
Marie blushed, and redness crept down to her neck.
"No, of course not!"
A knock came on the door, capturing their attention.
"Mistress, Master Dominus is here." This made her groan.
"What does he want?" Gretel asked, clearly annoyed.
"He wants to speak with you."
"Tell him I'm not around." The maid bowed her head and went off.
"I wasn't aware you've turned into a liar." The voice from behind startled them. Dominus.
"Excuse us, Marie." Marie bowed her head and left the room.
"What do you want?"
"I've got news about Charles, he's heading East. If you're fast you'd get him." Dominus said with his typical plainness.
"What exactly do you want, Dominus?" Gretel asked, she knew her brother, he wasn't one to appear without a motive. And by motive, an actual motive.
"Trying to be a good brother." The glare from her made him clear his throat. "How many days are there before the blue signal?"
"I want no part in the Ginnak, it has destroyed my life before and I'm not going to allow it again."
"Gretel…"
"You can't threaten me, no matter what you do, I'm not joining." She said firmly.
Dominus paused for a second, "Michael looked pale this morning, I wonder what snapping his neck would turn his pale face into." He then smirks to himself.
Gretel turned pale. "Fine." She said between her teeth. "On the thirteenth day after the next full moon, the red moon will also surface at midnight."
Dominus cocked his eyebrow, "Red moon?"
"The red and blue signal. It's kinda complicated this year, the red and blue signals are appearing at the same time. But the blue part is when the clock strikes Eleven in the evening, it will last for one hour."
"Mhmm…" Dominus thought for a moment, he gazed at the table at his side before shifting his gaze to Gretel. "I should get going." He said and stood up.
"The Ginnak's girl, don't kill her." This caught his attention.
"Why?" He stared at her face as he waited for a reply.
"You can't." She waited. "The Ginnak has already consumed her, you should have done it years ago. The blue signal takes longer to come by and you decide to wait for it, and waiting for it means stepping back for the Ginnak to take over again."
"I…couldn't let her go again, the blue signal seemed the best option then." Gretel smiled a little. It had been a while since she heard emotions in her brother's words.
"The day of the red moon is the day the Ginnak takes over, trying to end her then would only fasten the Ginnak's process." She turned around and took a few books from the table and walked to her shelf. "I heard her wedding is coming soon."
This caught Dominus off guard. "Her wedding isn't until two months from now." He said.
"Did Simon give that information to you?"
"It's what everybody in the palace knows."
"No, what everyone knows is that the wedding is in three months, what you know is two months from now; something Simon told you. But the truth is her wedding is on the same day as the red moon."
"That's impossible." Dominus looked at Gretel with disbelief. "I would have known if the wedding was that close. And Simon would have Informed me."
"Simon didn't tell you as payback for keeping the Ginnak's identity hidden from him. What do you think Oliver is here for?"
"Simon told me he was clean."
"Yes, he was clean. He wasn't foolish to just enter the palace without being clean."
"King Magnus wouldn't allow the marriage to be held that quick."
"That's Oliver's mission," Gretel said.
"Dammit Simon." He cursed.
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