Chapter 53: Di Santris
Acantha saw that people in the village look like they haven’t eaten for weeks.
She even saw some children who looked very sick, and their bodies looked like they were all just waiting for their deaths. Why wouldn’t they get out from here and find some food for themselves?
"Didn’t the empire have a plan for this?" She asked as she tugged on Helion’s clothes as the people started getting out of their house and were starting to look at them like they had seen a miracle.
"The empire already sent someone from the capital to give some food to those people who don’t have enough." Helion said, which made her look at him.
"If the empire already sent someone, then why are they still like this? It looks like no one has visited here before, based on the way the people look.
"Why do they look like this?" Acantha said as she went to ask the man, who was surprised when she did.
The coachman looked at her, and she saw that there was some panic in his eyes." I-i-" He said while he was stuttering, and his eyes became uneasy.
"What’s wrong with people here? Why does it seem like if you’re going to ask them, it feels like they are scared with someone or something?", She said as she glared at the coachman, and she saw him gulped.
"You, tell me why the people here look like this."Acantha didn’t want to scare him, but it seems like the coachman didn’t have a plan to tell them the reason why the people in the east look like this.
"Forgive me, my lady, but -" The coachman said as he looked at her like he was going to die any time while he was kneeling in the ground.
"But what?" She looked at Helion when he asked the man. "Are you scared of someone and not of me?" Helion said as she could sense the danger and warning in his voice as he looked at the man.