Chapter 91 - Old Women With Trust Issues

"Are we really going to follow her?" one of the Crones at the back asked the closest Crone to her, pertaining to Fily.

"I don't know, ask Posa." The Crone snubbed at her, telling her to ask their supposedly 'leader' instead.

"Tch." The one who asked moved away from her and then went closer to Posa, their leader at the front, for a whisper.

"What are we doing?" she asked.

"We're going to capture the boys."

"And?"

"That's it," Posa said and pushed her as if telling her to be quiet and get back to her position.

"I don't understand. Why is she telling us where the boys are? And why is no one coming after us? Aren't they going to protect them?"

"Yorela's right. I want some action, Posa." Another one of them complained along with the first Crone.

"Shh-" Posa said, trying to silence her sisters from complaining too much since Fily was just in front of them and could probably hear what they were saying, but to no avail, Posa's sisters started murmuring to each other already about their complaints and concerns about Fily's intentions.

"What if she's just setting us up for a trap?"

"They're looking down on us for sending a child on our way."

"Does she think she could fool us?"

"Do something, Posa." The Crone closest to her whispered.

"Do you really trust her?" another one from Posa's right asked out loud, igniting a noisy argument from the same voices that made Fily stop in her tracks and warn them for being too noisy.

"As I've said, I'm here to help your dumba**ses catch those two annoying creatures. So if you don't want my help, you're free to go as you please." Fily said firmly while standing on the highest step of the emergency stairs that she decided to use so they wouldn't garner too much attention from the innocent maids on the hallways.

"How do we know if you're telling the truth?" Yorela asked, seemingly the smallest among them.

"Just trust me.." Fily sighed, almost making a facepalm because of the stress of dealing with these old women with trust issues.

"I don't trust you," Yorela said while squinting her eyes at Fily.

"Yorela," Posa said as a warning and held her sister back. "I trust her so let's go and get this done with."

"Posa."

"Posa." Their other sisters said, agreeing with Posa since they hate hassle as much as her.

"Are we really going to let this girl trick us this easily?!" Yorela said, getting angry now.

"You're too young to understand," Posa said, which shocked Fily a little bit. 

"Young? How is an old-looking woman young?" she thought to herself before paying attention to the rest of Posa's words.

"You might not know this yet but we know how to distinguish liars from those who are telling the truth. And this girl, no matter how ridiculous her reasons are for betraying her friends, she's still telling the truth and I can feel it."

"Posa is right."

"We shall continue. Move, girl." The others followed up, ordering Fily to move which she only did after thinking about why they were educating the shortest in the group that way and calling her young even though she's obviously old-looking already.

"Is she just new to this kind of thing?" Fily asked Posa which she nodded to reluctantly.

"Enough with the chit-chat young lady, just bring us there as fast as you can," Posa said after looking at the sun that was now at its highest peak of the day.

'But I'm weak.' Fily thought to herself while taking her dear time walking upstairs without any intentions of telling them about her true weakness.

"No wonder they're doubting your intentions. Why are you so slow? Are we there yet?" Posa said impatiently again, demanding an answer from Fily who was now taking a break from walking too much.

"Just go to the highest point and you'll find them there," Fily said.

"Highest point? You mean the tower?" Posa said, finally having an idea of where the two might be hiding all this time.

"Yes. And please don't tell them about what I did," Fily answered, which made Posa a little bit mad and excited at the same time.

"Why didn't you just say so earlier?" she said and leaped towards the stairs, her sisters following after her and overtaking Fily immediately with a wicked smile etched on their faces even if some of them were still under the influence of the chili powder.

"Do we really trust that girl? What if she's just planning to push us all off of that tower?"

"Could you just shut up, Yorela. I can smell the boys from up there." The Crone beside Yorela said as they passed through Fily's position.

"Tsk," Fily complained and sighed after realizing how far she would have to walk back to the library again.

'Should I just build something like Petunia's flying Gummy cloud?' she thought and started her long journey back to the library.

***

"Is that Fily? I think I just heard Fily… talking to an old woman." Lei said reluctantly and moved closer to the tower's wooden trap door where the voices came from.

"That's not Fily." Petunia lied again while thinking of an escape route that wouldn't make her an obvious accomplice to this abduction along with Fily.

"I'm sure that's her," Lei argued again while sticking his ear closer to the trap door when suddenly, he heard loud footsteps of what seemed to be the same people that were running after them just earlier.

"What the heck! They're here!" Lei said frantically and moved around to look for another exit but since he can't fly, there was no other way for him to escape this.

"What? Who's here?" Petunia tried to play dumb but was surprised when Lei suddenly carried her to her Gummy cloud and pushed it away from the tower.

"Hey what are you-?" Petunia tried to complain but was stunned when she realized what Lei was trying to do.

"Go," Lei said to Von and tried pushing him off the tower too but the boy wouldn't let go of him.

"But you…"

"Just go," Lei said again while grabbing two small blades from his pocket. "I'll stall them."

"I'll carry you, come on. They can't fly." Von tried to persuade him but Lei was already sure of his decision.

"Just go!" he said and waited for the trap door to open before them.