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Camila swam up to the surface coughing before climbing out and standing up as she found herself in a cave. It looked like an old mine that was still lit but no one was in the site. She called out but no response so Camila walked following the lanterns till the bright light of the sun. She went near before being blinded by the light as her eyes refocused as she looked at the sky and her mouth dropped open.
The entire place was just as Lilla described it. Large bones the size of mountains no... it was the mountains of this place, with a large skeletal structure around the entire place the head at the very north of the area. "It made it Lilla, I made it..." Camila sobbed dropping to her knees. She wiped her tears before feeling the sudden coldness of snow as she rapidly ran down the mountain her clothing was not made for the condition as she was halfway down before slipping and tumbling down.
After getting down the knee, she checked her bandaged ear as the cloth had unraveled, the bleeding had stopped and there was no infection but the notch in her ear was still there. Camila checked the satchel she had taken and dumped its contents on the floor. Quills, ink, Lilla's diary, a few odd coins, and the wooden carving Camila had which she pulled up it then turned into a staff. "I could have used this the entire time!?" She said before holding it as she took off her hat letting her long hair flow before walking towards the nearest town.
The market area was busy with many witches and demons who walked around selling and buying goods Camila was astonished by this, it was nothing to what the people o Gravesfeild thought, it wasn't a hellish landscape it was nature. She continued walking around as her stomach grumbled before counting the coins in her palm as she approached a stand selling odd fruits before taking one of the shelves and placing a few snails on the counter before taking a bit as she then held the fruit in her throat before vomiting on the street. "Oi!, lass, you're gonna clean that or what!?" The fruit seller asked as Camila jumped from the sudden shout before looking at the vendor.
"Yes, sorry sir!." She said before dropping to the floor and wiping it with her blouse getting stains on it. After she was finished she then asked: "You wouldn't have known a witch by the name of Lilla Clawthorne would you?"
The vendor then chuckled and laughed. "That odd witch?! Not really but her family has a small stand a few blocks that way." He said pointing in the direction as Camila headed to the area only to bump into a group of teen witches.
"Excuse me but you have to pay to pass." One of the teens said with three eyes before snatching the satchel that Camila had before taking the journal. "Interesting."
"Give that back!" She yelled trying to reach for it but was too short as she took her palisman moving it trying to do something only for a few sparkles to pop out of it.
The three-eyed witch laughed. "What kind of witch doesn't even know a spell?!" The teen said before making a small fire in her palm as she held it near the diary. Camila gasped in shock when... the witch then started to get sucked into the ground.
"What... No! not..." The girl didn't finish as she was sucked into the ground as well as the others, muffled yells came from the ground with the dairy laying on the floor as a hand grabbed the diary before handing it to Camila.
"There you go little one, I swear children these days have no respect for other's property. The witch said, she wore long boots that went with her socks. a long dress, and bad very long puffy brown hair holding a staff with a dodo bird, she looked at the diary, and her brown eyes widened when she saw the name on the front. "Lilla... what..." The witch then grabbed Camila by the shoulders and started shaking her over and over.
"What happened to her, please tell me where is my sister!" She shouted as Camila could do nothing but hug the woman as they both sobbed.
Lilla licked the blood from her nose which was twisted and broken and her face had a few bruises courtesy of the witch hunters as her leg bled, she looked in the other cell next to her, seeing Samuel's hands in chains as he had a cut on his forehead and a black eye from when he was arrested by Thompson who was currently walking by them as he opened Samuel's cell and unlocked his chains. "You are really a man of God reverend, the town's people including the mayor have pleaded for your release and so it shall."
Thompson stated before glaring at Lilla. "You on the other hand will face the justice of the lord and face trial for your devilish crimes, and Samuel here will be the one to decide your life."
Lilla's eyes widened as she charged and began reaching to him like a caged animal to which he responded by hitting her face and making the witch fall to the dirty unclean floor.
Thompson then placed his hand on Samuel's shoulder. "I trust that you will make the right choice for your town and the lord, it is his will, after all, I'm sure you'll succeed in his name." He then left the reverend as a few witch hunters escorted him out as one of them entered Lilla's cell, Samuel could do nothing but hear the cracking of a whip and Lilla's screams.