Chapter 180: The Familiar that Disappeared
Seconds turned into minutes, minutes into hours, and hours into days. Things started becoming normal at the Cursed Castle as no one ever discussed the incident of whatever happened on the day of Annalise’s visit to the Royal Palace.
Since she needed time to think through the matter, or more like needed a break from it, the dark lords decided to give it to her and focus their attention on other important things for the time being.
The special guests at the castle were more or less now a part of the little family and almost everyone had opened up with each other. These days, it was a common sight to see all the lords and ladies in the house present for the meals in the dining room and spending some time together discussing things either related to normal life or the case of the Portal Hall incidents.
While the men started spending some time sparring outside in the garden to train and keep themselves in shape for any unexpected moment, the women were either reading through most of the books in the library to get as much information as they could or just helping the servants with the housework as it was their way of relaxing and having a good time.
"Lisa, I haven’t seen that familiar of yours this entire past week even for once. Where is it?" Leela suddenly asked as she lightly moved her hands through the water that had lots of rose petals floating on its surface. Sera had even added some fragrant oils in it to make the bath more relaxing.
Annalise let out a small sigh as she shook her head before replying, "I haven’t seen it either since the very day we returned. It disappeared right before I entered the gates of the castle." She confessed as she remained sitting there in the pool with her eyes closed and her back pressed against the side of the pool.
She didn’t need to open her eyes and look at Leela to know that the latter was undoubtedly staring at her with her jaw hanging open in surprise.
"You can’t be serious! Are you telling me that you have absolutely no clue about the whereabouts of your familiar that just disappeared in thin air?" Leela asked as she kept looking at Annalise who was too calm considering the situation. Familiars were divine gifts of magic that rarely chose a master in this era and since Annalise had one, she should take really good care of it but her current reaction didn’t seem like she cared much about the little lion.
It seemed like Annalise guessed tge direction of Leela’s thoughts as she added, "It’s safe and is somewhere in the castle. I can feel its presence all the time and I know that it has been either getting familiar with every corner of this place or is up to something but I know that it’s safe and here with me."