Chapter 253: Viney Can Talk!
When dusk approached, Samantha returned to her chamber after another long, usually hectic day. Getting rid of the tight bodice and changing her dress into something more free and comfortable to move in, she sat on her plush mattress with ease, keeping her legs crossed as she pondered deeply on the matter Lucinda had told her about.
Should she bring it up with Ivan when he comes tonight? In all honesty, things like this were never deemed important in her village. When you get married, you live happily with your husband, become a housewife and have children, that was all she knew. The ceremonial pre-wedding ritual had been quite an advantage to her intellect, she had been educated on a lot of things, and her vocabularies were improving a lot too with the daily etiquette lessons.
She wondered what type of ceremonial ritual Ivan partakes in?
Still deep in thoughts, slender, vibrant, green tendrils slithered gracefully from the doorway, entering her room. They unfurled like emerald serpents, silently making their way across the walls towards the oblivious woman who picked on her nails.
When they snaked their way towards the surface of the bed to reach her side, they gently coiled around her leg, their touch as gentle as a lover’s caress, and the feeling of being wrapped by something nearly sent Samantha kicking her legs in the air out of panic, but after sighting the vibrant green vine that held on firmly, her heartbeat gradually returned to normal.
"You don’t sneak up on people like that, my heart was at the verge of escaping through my mouth." She admonished, her expression unchanged as she eyed the green vine who slowly released her leg. Taking a cobra stance, the vines stood, mystically coming together to form the same arm-sized vine that was big enough to wrap her entire body.
She knew the moment she felt the connection that it had to be her mischievous viney. From what she was seeing, it didn’t seem to be affected by the Autumn season that was approaching.
"Is it okay for you to stay out?" She asked viney whose tendrils coiled in response, although she had no idea what that gesture meant. Pressing her lips into a thin line to think, she suddenly asked,
"Can you make yourself smaller?" Her emerald eyes glinted.