Shadow
Mother's House
"It'll be all right," Xavier says with a smile. "We'll have to look harder now."
Alli stares at him in curiosity. "You're strange, you know that?"
"Yes," he answers. "I've been told that many times."
It was dark.
Her dimension was lightened by candles floating in the air. The brightness from her doorway shined into the room as it was displaced by two figures standing in it. One was a man with long black hair that was held by a binder. The other was a woman who had even longer hair that ended by her waist and was a golden colour.
"How is the Earl?" he asked the girl who was sitting on the bed the was in the center of that dark room. A man was laying asleep in it. She gave him a smirk.
"He was crying until a moment ago," she said solemnly looking to her duke. "I guess he was afraid of meeting the fourteenth."
"I'm not surprised," the woman stated. "I would be terrified of meeting my nemesis after seeing him destroy my family."
"Why would he be though?" the man asked himself. "I thought he 'wanted to be by his side'?"
The girl only smiled at him. The woman crossed her arms with a sigh. "I've only been here for five years, and I still don't understand him."
"Makes me jealous," the man stated with a grin. "I guess after being with him for fifteen years makes me understand stand his feelings. Right, Road?"
The girl smiled with agreement as she turns to the duke. "We have pledged an alliance with him; it is our duty to follow any order his gives and never doubt it. Despite that, however, we've come to where we cannot fully comprehend our feelings.
"We then want to 'understand'."
:+:
They stop in front of an old cottage house that stands in a field of barley. It snows after about two minutes. Alli walks up to the door and knocks on it. A person comes to the door and Alli immediately recognizes the face.
"Shouldn't you be trying hide from someone?" she asks with a smirk. The person frowns after realizing who it was.
"How did you find me?" they ask. She only smiles.
"Honestly, I had no intention of finding you here. I have some questions to ask Mother," Alli admits. The person stares at her for a moment, then closes the door. Libya stares at Alli in confusion.
"Who was that?" she asks. Alli turns to her.
"An old friend," she says. "I want you two to stay out here, we don't want my friend getting upset on your arrival. He's already worried that I'm here. . ."
"But it's freezing!" Libya exclaims angrily.
"It'll only be a moment," Alli assures her companion. The door opens again, and she enters. The house is warm, but still has the faint cold feeling of winter to it. She sits at the table in the center of the room. An elderly woman comes up to it and sits across from the golden-haired woman. The person joins at the table as well.
"What's happened, Allison?" the woman asks as she crosses her arms. Alli leans in and folds her hands.
"I've recently come to a bump in the road," she says with a sigh. "He's following me."
"Who?"
"I can't say his name, but our friend here knows exactly whom I'm speaking of," Alli says whilst pointing to the person sitting next to her. "I need help finding Helena, but without being caught by Maggie."
"Well, you've obviously come to the wrong person. I don't know where she is," Mother says with a huff. "I can't help you with Maggie either. Has she already found you?"
"Yes," Alli growls as she leans back into her chair. "She's also tried to kill me."
"You must be quite valuable for them to be wanting you so badly," Mother says as she inhales her pipe.
"That's the thing, I don't know why they want me instead of someone else!" Alli says angrily. She turns to the person sitting next to her. "If anything, they should be after you."
"At least I still have time before they do come," they state with a sigh. Alli turns back to Mother.
"Do you have anything that could lead me to Helena? Or some sort of place that she's connected to?" she asks desperately. Mother stares at the woman with surprise.
"What has you so rattled that you came here, Allison?"
Alli leans in on the table and stares intently at the elderly woman. "She has my sister, Mother! They took her two days ago, and I was late by a mere minute!"
"Why does she have Gabrielle?"
"She knows what happened with-" Alli stops after realizing who sits next to her. "She knows things about the past."
"And you think she might tell her something that happened with him?"
"Knowing Gabby, she probably won't say a word. She's stubborn like that," Alli mutters. Mother stares at her. "Look, I just need something to lead me in the right direction; some place that I could start."
Mother continues to stare at the golden-haired woman. "She was born in Greece, start there."
"Thank you," Alli says with a smile. She stands whilst grabbing her bag with her bow inside. She turns to the person who sat next to her. "He's coming, you know. He'll know where you are after I've been here. I'd suggest moving in the next thirty-six hours."
"How do you have connections with Mother?" they ask. Alli frowns.
"She helped me on my feet at a dark time in my life," she explains. "I owe it to her by visiting now and again."
"You said it would only be a moment!" Libya exclaims angrily as the golden-haired woman exits the cottage house. Alli shrugs.
"I had important business to discuss," she says nonchalantly. "I've received a location for us to start with."
"And where's that?" Xavier asks as he stands.
"Greece."
It's a short one, but that's okay! Not all chapters have to be super long! (Yes they do, you're just too lazy.) I finished reading the new chapter of DGM last night, and it was, how do I put it, AMAZING! I saw Road, and I instantly screamed inside my head. I actually drew the page that she was on, I was that excited. Well, I have a box of whales that are calling me. Happy New Year!
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