“But sir, we need to enter the tree now! It’s been years since it came into this, and we already know what will happen. We just don’t want the disaster to be repeated. Let our men enter and handle the rest,” a guard said while arguing at Silvestre in his own house’s door.
“Handle the what? Do you even know what’s inside it? So far, the only thing that you know inside is that there are intruders. I’m asking who the intruders are, but can you give me an exact answer?” Silvestre argued with a high-pitched tone and goes down. “No one’s entering.”
“But sir we’ve already told that…”
“I said no one’s entering! Reclaim your orders and just prepare for surveillance. If you’re talking about the safest, this was. Those who entered are probably dead by now. I don’t want any more casualties,” Silvestre said.
The guards stooped down as they bite their lips, avoiding any further arguments. They bow down to ask for an apology. “We’re sorry, Mr. Enfina. We’ve been los
“Silvestre…” Vylleria cries her remorse while kneeling down beside the dead body of Launnar. Her eyes appeared read while her stomach hardens. “His breathing stopped!”“What in the world happened!? Don’t say… you killed him,” Silvestre said as he looks down with a scared stare but he reads Vylleria doing the opposite.“There’s no way I’d do that to the one I love! I would never… never do that! Don’t you dare come here just to say that!” Vylleria shouted with anger on her voice. Her eyebrows furrowed but then her sorrowful face comes back as she continues to cry in despair. Her scream scattered all around the area. “Launnar… I’m still waiting for you until you become an adult… Whoever happens to you, I won’t forgive them!”“Vylleria, calm down. Let’s grasp the situation here. This place is already a crime scene,” Sil
The verdict is final. On the exact night after the huge incident happened, the three became exiled. For the next five years, their names and faces are banned, else it will result in much worse punishment, death.Adeline and Celestia, the main suspects, are condemned to be kicked out of the haven to find a place compatible with them. The coven also charges Holessa with the same accessory for the punishment of assisting the two, which is the creation of the nullifying agent for Adeline’s potion.At half-past three in the morning, Adeline and Celestia woke up in two different excavations with a blockade made of planks above them. They feel something tied in their hands, limiting their movements. Above them is the moon that shines through the crossed planks, together with a light from a distant fire torch. Adeline realized that they’re already caught by the force.“Hello? I… Is somebody out there? I’m scared,” Celestia stuttered
After such a heartbreaking dismissal, the crowd surrounding the teary-eyed parents starts to leave one-by-one, until those who remain are the parents without Silvestre and Darius. Darius’s wife, Hilnora, went to search for Darius and sees him hiding behind a tree that is not far away from the spot. When she came near him, she sees him mourning by himself with a longing gaze and tears of sadness. He sobs all by himself where no one could see him.“Did you plan all of this?” Hilnora asked with furrowed eyebrows and cold watery eyes.Silvestre suddenly wiped his tears and stops sobbing after seeing Hilnora in front of him. “I’m sorry, Hilnora, but I need to save her.”Hilnora pulls his cloth and starts screaming with her sorrowful cry. “Why!? I already asked what’s bothering you but you didn’t even lift your lips. I’m angry that out of all these things happening will come from my daughter! Don’t you consider me as her parent? It’s not that she came from my womb, but I’m the on
The word spreads quickly. Ten minutes after calling out Vyldir, the covenants started gathering around the giant tree like a live concert, but it isn’t the purpose. A stack of wood is placed in the middle of it which acts as the stage. Moments later, when the people already filled the entire circle, Sivlestre starts walking up the stage and shouting fully with his loud voice.“People of the Oak Spirit. I’m sorry to say to you about what happened earlier. I know it is a hard decision for us parents to accept it. But I’m talking here right now because I’m now going to pass through that and go to the main agenda.“Yesterday evening, the accident we’re scared the most already happened. The giant tree lost its bloom, and as we all know, a curse wraps around the mysterious phenomenon. I’m sorry to say that we are now going to prepare for the worst-case scenario. I hope you cooperate with the government bodies well because this is a
An hour after sleeping, Hilnora wakes up in a familiar room where his husband works. She is sitting on the end of a long table with her hands tied behind her. When she tried to bite, she felt a cloth wrapping around her mouth. There’s no other person inside the building other than her and Silvestre, who is sitting to the opposite side of the table with her clasping hands.With her bulging eyes, she tries to scream while shaking her body, but the cloth in her mouth keeps her from shouting. When she realized that she’s just draining her energy, she stopped. Silvestre looks at her with the look of a devil as he barely blinks.“You better not scream, because it’s no use. Everyone is already preparing for war,” Silvestre said and stands up. He walks at her to release the cloth in her mouth. All of a sudden, she tried shouting, asking for her, as loud as she can. She still continues to scream even when Silvestre looks at her with pity.He
Darius continues talking about apologizing to her because of some misunderstanding and planning on revenge on the suspect. He didn’t know that behind him lies another death bed. When he thought that the prolonged silence was weird, he looks back but what surprised him is the scholar swinging a knife to his head in which there’s no way he can avoid.Suddenly, a sound of a blade cutting through a flesh entered his ears. Blood splattered in front of his face, which made him blink. Still standing, as he wakes up, the forensic is already out of his sight. When he looks at his right, he sees him skewered in his stomach by a spear that is entrenched in the tree.With the forensic being immobilized from pain, he coughs blood while other body liquids come out from his stomach. His eyes turned red while feeling the unwanted heat coming from his abdomen. Darius’s face turned ashen with his trembling lips and chin. Cold sweats start pouring out from his head toge
If you’re reading this now, I’m already far from this world with no particular destination. Maybe I’m jailed, tortured, or killed, but for sure, I’m already dead. But for those three that had been punished for entering the forbidden radius, this is for you, especially my daughter and Holessa. I started this letter right before the start of the crisis but later finished it after the war. I hope you’re with me until the end of this page.Silvestre is my friend, a long time since our teenage days. Unlike me which is the total opposite, I was amazed at how he reads people. That’s the reason why I approached him and we become partners in crime. It didn’t end in a proper conversation, but we avoided a long-term accident that saves most of the Oak Spirit. That’s how we became very close like we treat each other as brothers because honestly, he wants a brother and not a sister.He always tells me how he like
Holessa wakes up at the boundary where they parted ways with her family. She’s lying on the ground while her head rests on Adeline’s legs. Walter is also beside him standing as he looks down at her lying body. Holessa intensely stares at the two while the two wrinkle their eyebrows.“I’m sorry, Holessa. I shouldn’t have hidden the truth from you,” Adeline cried with her tears falling out continuously out of worry. Holessa stands upon herself from Adeline’s lap while ignoring their worries. When Adeline stands up to ask her what’s wrong, Holessa slapped her in the cheeks with the anger she gathered.Adeline’s face reddened as it swings together with Holessa’s palm. Walter’s eyes widened after seeing such an unpredictable event, but Adeline already expected it, accepting herself as the medium of her anger, but Holessa’s anger is far more than what she knows.“IK that you’re still a