Chapter 21: Protected You From This
"This reunion is nice and all, but now that we have all seen the precious bride of Frankenstein, can we go back to what is important? My mother has completely disappeared, and unless I am completely mistaken since there is no such thing as magic, she needs to be somewhere around here," hissed the woman.
I could tell by her voice that she hadn't moved from when she was ripping Dimitri's team a new one, but I also wasn't going to waste any wish energy trying to see what she looked like. I decided that I had gone long enough being blind that I wasn't going to abuse the privilege of seeing again.
"You're wrong." The words escaped my mouth before I could call them back, and I could feel everyone's eyes turning to me.
"Excuse me?" asked the woman. Her footsteps were nowhere near as silent as the military precision of the guy's footsteps. The heels clicked in irritation as if they were echoing their master's mood. "Does your village know its idiot is missing?"
Cocking my head to the side, I replayed her words over and over again in my head as I tried to figure out where the insult was.
"She's calling you dumb, Ma petite," purred Lust, and I could hear Dimitri's soft chuckle beside me.
"I take it you don't like that voice?" he asked, as his nose brushed just under my ear. Raising a single eyebrow, I looked down at him. "Even if you don't say anything, your face comes it subtitles. It is the cutest thing I've ever seen."
Shaking my head, I looked in the general direction of the woman. "I'm not sure. Did you notify anyone before you left home today?"
This time, Dimitri wasn't the only one chuckling.