THE MYSTERY CITY

CHAPTER 74

“But he deserved it! He deserved it!" she wanted to shout to her conscience to stop tormenting her.

“They deserve everything! Is not it?" the reflection from the ulcer answered her, shocking with its complete resemblance to the Dark Side.

Somewhere inside, a purulent wound opened up, poisoning the image of good Alice with a stench. A defect that sat in the most hidden, darkest vaults of the soul. Waiting in the wings. An inconspicuous vice of a determined girl who did not give up at the sight of monsters, who did not break under the yoke of nightmares, who defended her friends. Such a sweet and kind Alice. Gray Cardinal of the Four, with a scarlet edge of the soul. With a rotten heart.

“Sometimes I remember her, Alex! the Fox said softly, looking at the cenotaph.

Feelings bursting out drove her along the entire shore, as if she had become possessed by several demons at once. The girl beat her fists against the pebbles until she bled. Stones stained with blood were launched into the wa