59_ brighter place

Third Pov


"How can we get inside of that palace, Exodus?" Joshaque asked when they saw that the carriage, where they saw Serena get inside together with the people with her, had stopped. though they saw that the people with her haven't shown any kind of bad behavior toward their princess. Still, they have to be cautious.

"What if we talk to them calmly?" As far as I can see, those people were not bad people. "The way they treat Serena." Exodus suggests.

However, for almost how many hours that they have been thinking of what to do, they never notice that they are losing time since they just plan to stay in the place for a day.

And when they already decided to push what they first wanted to do, They go back from hiding when a lot of strange things appear from nowhere and forcibly damage the gate of the palace that they just broke easily since those creatures were like wolves, though even if they looked like wolves, all of them don't have fur. It's like it's been shaved or something.

The two soldiers of the Crimson Blood pack wait another minute before they silently sneak inside the palace. And when they successfully reached inside, the first thing they saw was a man shouting at Serena that she had to save herself and the princess needed to hide. They saw that there is one girl who helps the princess get inside the inner side of the palace.

The whole place was a mess, though they hadn't seen what the real form inside was before those strange creatures attacked the people inside.

They know that this is not their battle yet, but as they saw that the people there wanted to help their princess, maybe they have to return the favor.
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Serena

The old man pulled me and Erich together since he was holding us both, and in a blink of an eye we were in front of the gate, and the old man just sliced my wrist and my royal blood dropped into the cold cement door of the old palace.

Erich and I didn't move in shock yet, after a moment, the door made a creaky noise and slowly opened while my blood was still dropping since every time I tried to pull it back, the strong power of the old man stopped me.

In a blink of an eye, the door opened, and the old man dragged me and Erich inside. We stepped inside quickly.

I wanted to look behind us, but I couldn't do that since this old man gave us a hard time doing that because he was at the center while holding my hand and Erich's hand, which are still intertwined.

"move faster "I have to fulfill what I need to do here."

I just heard the door creaking and then closing behind us. After that, we all walked inside. As we were inside, one thing we noticed was that the light inside was too bright. a hundred times brighter than my own palace.

I don't know what I would call the beautiful design at the top of the palace that gives off a brighter light, yet as I see it, it has more than a hundred lights all around the ceiling.

"fantastic. What kind of place is this? Tell me I'm still alive, don't you?" Erich said that I couldn't answer since I was thinking that too. This is the first time I have looked around here so clearly. It's like a dream come true.

Everything was wonderful, "yet don't forget that you were being trapped and kidnapped by the old man beside you." Elena said ruining my dream even if it was just a second.

"Don't worry, I didn't forget." I'm still looking for the right timing to escape. Yet, can you give me time to admire the place? I know that you were amazed by it as well. I said it in my head while I kept on walking with Erich and the old man.

Then, when we are already in the hall, the old man will stop and look at me.

"She will come back alive now because of you." I come to a halt for what this old man says. Is he starting to go crazy? What the hell is he talking about? Who is the person who would come back alive?

Yet there's nothing I can do other than follow him wherever he goes.

"Let's try to fight back, Serena." With our combined power, we have at least a small chance. "Fighting back was much better than doing nothing," Erich said. which is true. It's much better to fight back than to die without doing anything.

"Then how can we do that if we both cannot move without his will?"

"Then how can we do that if we both cannot move without his will?"

I asked Erich while the old man was pulling us in the most uncomfortable way.

I can hear him talking to himself, but I don't know if I heard it right because he was saying, "Where are you, baby?"

Like, what the hell is he talking about? However, I just let him go because we were still thinking of ways to escape from him.

The man suddenly stops in front of a mahogany wooden door. It's a huge door, and it has a sign that could resemble a child's drawing of a sun that we have never ever seen in our entire lives. Then the man leaning his hand on the closed door said, "

"This is the last room where I saw her being punished by many witches." "I saw her being forcibly imprisoned in a casket."

Erich, look at me; maybe we were thinking the same way. This old man was going through the pain of losing his love. He's doing this because he's in pain after losing someone. I didn't know who could be the person in his life about whom he wanted to reminisce, but I understood him.