Book 16: Chapter 31
“So, in other words, you plan to forgive this child, Son?” Mom asked from her throne.
Mom didn’t have me kneel, but Lucia went down on one knee in awe. The child prostrated herself on the ground and quivered. Mom slouched to the side with one leg crossed over the other and played with her blonde hair. Her mannerisms and sitting style were the exact same as Mommy Elizabeth. They sure were good friends. Mom looked at the child with her eyes narrowed. She sighed:“Remember how many changes Mommy has made for you. Mommy is a descendant of the Galadriel Tribe, yet has to spare a dark elf. Whatever, though. Raise your head, Child. Now, salute my Son. He was the one who saved you.”
Lucia carefully stole a glance. Perhaps it was due to her once being a member of the Shadow Squad that she was in total awe at Mommy Vyvyan, who was sitting on the throne. That’d explain why she didn’t dare to budge or dare to say anything to the child in spite of worrying for her.
The child finally raised her head to look at me. She bowed her head and trembled: “Thank you so much for your benevolence, Your Highness… Thank you, thank you…”
“Don’t thank me. If you have to thank someone, you should thank Mera. If I didn’t hear you were related to her, I wouldn’t have thought of saving you.” I spun around and helped the child up.
The girl’s eyes were awfully swollen. Noticing the wounds on her face, Mommy Vyvyan came over and touched the girl’s face. The wounds on her face gradually healed, but she looked deathly pale. She lost too much blood after Mom last impaled her. She never got to rest afterwards and, instead, suffered. Not even an adult would be able to stand that, let alone a child.
“Mera… Mera… Sister Mera used to take care of me… In the past, she let me suck her blood when I didn’t have any to suck… Sister Mera took care of me in a lot of ways… Later… later on, I heard she came to Duargana. I couldn’t enter Duargana, though, so I had to capture an elf and bring them in. I didn’t kill the elf. He stepped into my trap, and the wolves gnawed him to death. I merely sucked his blood…. I had no choice. I need to suck blood on full-moon nights…”
I said, “Don’t tell me about that. I want to know about Mera.”
I felt my request was meaningless, because Mera… was dead. She was in a different state to Luna’s state before she was revived. Luna, at least, had her body intact, but Mera’s must’ve decayed already. Besides her house, she didn’t have anything else. She didn’t even have her own tomb as a matter of fact. There was no chance Mera could return to my side. What was the point of knowing her past?