Chapter 38: The Unexpected Encounter
Annalise found herself standing in the dark empty corridor located at the far corner of the east wing of the castle, an area that was still too foreign to her.
She had no idea how she ended up in that place. All that she could recall was that she was bundled up under the quilt on her bed with all of her husbands present in the bedroom. Her memory was too hazy for her to properly recall anything other than that little information.
As she looked around her surroundings, her ocean-blue eyes landed on a familiar structure - it was the pavilion that she noticed during the daytime. It was standing at the very end of the corridor.
She looked further and her eyes landed on the sky which was filled with millions of stars and a full moon which seemed quite odd because she recalled seeing a crescent just a couple of days ago. Based on that, it was too early for a full moon, still one was present right in front of her eyes.
"Isn’t it beautiful?" An unfamiliar but sweet voice spoke out of nowhere, startling Annalise and as she hurriedly turned to face the direction from where the voice had come, she found a young girl of around fifteen or sixteen standing there with a blue glow covering her from the head to toe.
She had pointy ears, long red hair, dark green eyes, and a very pretty face. She looked like a fairy that had existed only in stories ever since they also disappeared thousands of years ago along with the other pureblood seelies.
"W-who are you?" Annalise asked as she took several steps back only to find her back pressed against a pillar in the corridor, reducing her chances of escaping from the scene.
The girl smiled, her face becoming even prettier as a result. "Why are you looking afraid? I’m not going to hurt you." Her voice was so sweet that it almost made Annalise want to believe her words.
Thankfully, her mind was working rationally for once and didn’t get tricked by the sweetness in the girl’s voice or the delicate and harmless exterior that she was projecting.