“A witch! There is some confusion. We only have human slaves. We follow the guidelines and kill every witch that we find.” he said in a self righteous tone as he looked around as if scanning the whole area for possible threats.
“There are no knights or councilmen following me and I do not need your bullshit.” she said in an authoritative tone, “a person selling other people calls himself following the guidelines and showing his righteousness! Do you even know what you are saying?”
“Hazel no!” but it was already too late, she had made the man a toad that was jumped and hoped and croaked but she ignored him and then looked at the other guard who was terror struck.
“Are you going to take me to the witches here, now?” the man nodded his head like a rattle drum. He did not want to end up like his friend who was only a few inches now.
He guided them in without caring about who will guide the door anymore. Life was more important than anything.
And the woman looked like she would burn the whole building if she did not get what she wanted.
“Why are you so sure that she is here? If she would have been a slave, she would not have been selling jewels to others.” said Anne looking at this place with wryness.
Her eyes stealthily checked every cell, afraid that her nightmare was going to come true.
“You know why! You can feel it too!” Hazel cut it off as she penetrated each cell with her gaze but all of them were humans.
The man passed through three more passages with cells on both sides instead of walls that were filled with men and women but most of them were women.
They looked pale, weak and soulless. They did no even shout for help much to the supposed Anne who had visited this place for the first time.
She lowered her head and looked away. If she looked at one more soulless person, she was sure, she would burn this whole place and set all the girls free.
“This is not the right time. But I promise I will do that with you.“ Hazel held Anne’s hands and squeezed it a bit to assure her when she finally nodded but the feeling that a rock was crushing your chest did not go away.
It only increased when she noticed women lying naked full of marks and fresh injuries on their bodies on those cold grounds.
No explanation was needed to know what had happened to them. Her blood boiled and she wanted to jump when the man finally stopped.
“All the cells after this one have witches. But I am not authorized to go there. Two witchers are appointed as the guard of that area.” he pointed at two men standing in the distance and ran in the opposite direction afraid that he would be dragged by them.
Hazel stared at the naked girl and the rage in Anne’s eyes and sighed. Her sister had always been so kind that she thought about everyone except her.
She closed her eyes and uttered a spell. The wound of the girl started to heal.
The girl stirred with surprise and touched her back when she did not feel the pain anymore.
Anne smiled, and then casted a spell too. Now the girl also has a fresh gown on her body and a bed in her cell with a soft mattress and warm blanket.
With shock in her eyes she looked around but found no one except a slight breeze on the door of her cell.
“You still did not want others to know that it was you! I wish I could be this kind.” sighed Hazel who was suddenly dragged by Anne when she was waiting for the girl to look at them so that she could assure her.
“We will assure her when we will free her from that cell. Now move.” Her voice was indifferent but Hazel could feel that she was angry that we are not saving them now so she pursed her lips and kept silent.
The guards when they noticed two girls coming towards them, they exchanged glances.
“We are here to buy a witch. The guard who had escorted us ran away after leaving us here, saying you will guide us from here.” said Anne in a cold voice when they nodded.
“We apologize for the inconvenience. But humans are mostly afraid of going to a witch.” Then he stared at young girls, they looked only in their twenties and smirked, “mostly only witches come to buy a witch. You must know that it is not easy to control them.
Why don’t you go and look for the human section again and choose one?” Though his face was still respectful, he said in an arrogant voice as if he was looking down on them.
“You do not need to worry about us. Lead the way.” he rolled his eyes!
Humans! They have always been arrogant fools who do not know what is good for them.
He opened a large door and then there were cells on both sides like before. The only difference was each cell was cast a spell to protect them from escaping.
When the guard saw them looking around so intently, he smirked, saying that the girls are finally afraid.
“You do not need to worry. Their chains are anti magic. They can not perform spells in that and the door of their cell was casted with a spell that stops them from using force. They can not attack you.” his head was raised high and an air of arrogance and superiority in his voice was clear but what caught their attention were the chains.
“Who made them?” asked Hazel as if something snapped in her making the witcher taken aback.
“That.. we have witches working under us too.” he said, taking it as just a curiosity when the woman came closer and held his collar, “i want to meet that witch.”