Deep at night when everyone had fallen asleep, Liliyana was following the strange aura oozing from the ground. Following for a while, she was led towards a cramped hall with a lone rusty door at the end. The maids warned her not to go inside as anyone who'd gone inside except their previous master had never returned. Even so, the devil fae listened only to her instincts.
"Alright..." Taking a deep breath with the door's hand gripped tight, she readied herself to get in, only to be stopped by a familiar voice from behind.
"I wouldn't advise going in there alone," turning around to Maria's voice, Liliayana let go of the handle and stared at her with squinted eyes.
"What are you doing here?" She asked, watching her slowly getting closer.
"Stopping you from getting a glimpse of a past you're better off not knowing," Maria answered.
Her hands folded on her side, the ex-queen kept her gaze glued to the door instead of the girl talking. Through that look alone, Liliyana knew that Maria was aware of something sinister lurking behind the door. But exactly what it could be? And why hadn't she shared it yet? Those questions were haunting in themselves. Read new adventures at m_v-l'e|-novelhall.net
"What are you talking about?" Moving her body in front of the handle, Liliyana gripped the handle with her tail. She didn't want to stop, not after being on the cusp of knowing the morbid secret of the mansion.
Stopping in front of the fae devil, Maria stared at her for a while.
"If you want to see what's down there I won't stop you beyond a warning, but I don't want you to tell the others," closing her eyes, Maria pondered over her past for a moment before opening them back up and revealing what lay behind that door.
"A vampire had cursed me when I was young, Raven and his friends killed him, but I suspect the Edne Runes were more involved with him voluntarily than I was."
"I didn't wanna alarm them!" Liliyana retorted, gripping the doorknob over Maria's hand.
Shifting her gaze to the handle, Maria moved her other hand on top of Liliyana's and tried to get it off forcefully, but the devil refused to let go, which only made the ex-queen angrier at the situation.
"Fucking fine! Do what you want but since we're here, you're not gonna twist this to make me look worse than what my contribution actually were in this whole mess!" Fearing Liliyana might attribute too much of the horrific acts to her, Maria decided to let go and finally led her into the basement.
The first thing was the vile scent of rot, it was pungent enough to make them wonder if their own lungs had been filled with maggots. But powering through the rancid entrance, they dragged their feet along a muck of flesh and blood. Worms swam along their strides as their steps disturbed the maggot infestation on the ground.
Neither of them wanted to be there, but at least once they were past the blood puddles, their feet landed on solid ground. Before them lay the harrowing sight of a hallway'; entombed with humans reaching towards each other from both sides. Wives reaching for their husbands, mothers to their children, and every possible relation, they were all trapped within those mummies of clay.
"Do you hear that?" Maria asked, moving her hand in front of Liliyana's chest.
"Hear what–" Right as she was about to ask, the devil heard it as well.
The voice of a crying child–no! Not just one! It was coming from every direction, from the front, the back, and even the ground and the ceiling above. And as the two were done trying to discern the source of the sound, their eyes turned to the front and their bodies froze then and there.
'They moved!' Inches from her face, the hand of an entombed woman right in front of her eyes. Glancing sideways at Liliayana with quivering lips and eyes, she saw the devil quivering with a man standing inches away from her face.
It was time to leave, but how could they? Without at least one of them not looking away...