I awkwardly followed the tall man into the remarkably large building.
"It's exquisite." I remarked admiring the décor. "This really isn't what comes to mind when I think of a mob bosses headquarters. It must be an awful lot to take care of." I continued.
"Take care of? We have servants for that." Elliot replied.
"Servants?" I repeated in disgust.
"Yeah, that's what I said wasn't it? What's so wrong about that?" He questioned me with a furrowed brow.
"It's fine as long as you pay and respect them." I answered.
"Of course we do." Elliot answered. "Oh look there goes one now." He pointed towards a woman dressed like a maid with her back to us walking along the corridor. Does he even bother to learn their names? I thought angrily. As the woman walked into a room to the left of the corridor I caught sight of her face.
"Elliot!" I gasped.
"Yeah what is it?" He asked, stopping to look at me.
"That woman has no eyes!" I exclaimed in a hushed voice. I had seen people with only one eye before, and I had known blind people but never had I seen someone who looked as though they had never had any eyes since the day they were born. This dream is beginning to concern me!
"Yeah well of course she doesn't she's a faceless." Elliot replied nonchalantly.
"A faceless?" I questioned.
"If you're not a role keeper, like me and Blood then you don't have eyes." He explained.
"Curiouser and curiouser." I observed. After a moment of walking in silence Elliot opened a door to the left of the hall.
"You can use this room." He said.
"You're really letting me stay here?" I questioned entering the large room. "Wow this is lovely!"
"That's what Blood said." Elliot replied. "Now how would you like to be entertained?" He said with a grin.
"I think I might go exploring." I said happily.
"Oh." Elliot said sounding slightly disappointed. "Well I've got work to do. I'll see you later then." With that he left me alone. The room was extremely large with a beautiful black, red and gold colour scheme. The bed was bigger than any I had ever slept in before. Immediately I untied by black boots, kicked them off, and jumped upon the bed. Even though I was a little bit disturbed by the dream I was still quite happy. I was staying in a mansion easily comparable to a five star hotel with two attractive men. Even though I was quite opposed to the notion of servants I couldn't help feeling ecstatic that there would be no chores for me to attend to.
"Miss Bellatrix." I turned to the door and saw a maid standing with a silver platter.
"Oh! Ah I'm so sorry." I sat on the bed looking guilty.
"It's quite alright Miss Bellatrix. Elliot asked me to bring you some tea and cake." The woman said kindly.
"That's very nice of him." I said as the maid put the platter upon my bedside table. "Thanks Miss…?"
"My name's Mary Gleam." Mary left with a kind smile as I began eating my cake. I cringed as the taste of carrot sullied my tastebuds.
I left the mansion once I had finished my tea, which was remarkably delectable and cast aside the monstrous carrot cake. I was surprised to see the two young boys Blood had shot at before loitering out the front of the large gate I was approaching.
"Excuse me! I wouldn't be playing around here anymore if I was you. That grumpy man who tried to shoot you before will be back soon." I warned.
"I'm so going to tell the boss you said that." The boy in a blue uniform teased.
"Yeah! He's not going to like you once he finds out." Said the other.
"The boss? You work for him?"
"Yeah we do lady, we're the gate keepers." The boy in the red uniform informed me. I began to giggle,
"What fearful gatekeepers!" I said pushing the gates open and ruffling their hair as I walked past. The brothers frowned at each other. I became concerned as their expression turned into a wicked grin.
"Lady we'd like to welcome you to the country of hearts with our local delicacy." They said in unison.
"Well alright then." I replied. One of the boys produced a colourful looking mushroom from their pocket.
"You've got to be joking; I'm not silly enough to eat that." I laughed.
"H-huh? You won't accept our gift?" said one of the boys as tears began to well up in his eyes.
"Oh no don't cry brother!" Said the other boy holding his brother. "Look what you've done lady you've made Dee cry." He scolded.
"I was just trying to be nice." Dee sobbed. I sighed and took the mushroom. I bit the top of the purple and blue spotted mushroom.
"There. Now don't cry." I said irritably.
Suddenly Dee's sad expression disappeared and was replaced with a mischievous grin. His brother copied his Dee's sinister expression.
"Oh don't look like you've fooled me. It's just a dream so I'll be fine." I grinned and walked away.
"Do you think she'll die brother?" Dum questioned with a grin.
"Probably!" Dee giggled watching the young woman walk off into the woods.