章 99: In Estrella

"Ferdinand! The lights!" Arabella held onto him tight. She shut her eyes tight and buried her face in his chest so she wouldn't see their surroundings.

They were too close to the edge right now.

Just two steps and it's the water.

He even went where there was no railing. They were facing the wide expanse of water right now.

When she was little, one night, Arabella almost drowned in a pond in their garden when she escaped to pick flowers that she heard only bloomed at night.

Since then, she was scared of bodies of water when it was dark. Even a pond still scares her when it's dark.

It became a trauma she carried for so long even to the next life.

Living until she was forty in her previous life didn't help at all since she still had memories of it.

[She's gripping my clothes so tightly. She's that scared?]

"It's alright. I'm here with you. There's nothing to fear," Ferdinand wrapped her in his arms. "Try to look around you. It's already bright everywhere."