"Clybia?" he frowned "what do you mean?!" he asked being totally irritated.
"Simple, she wanted to go and I let her go" said Ryle acting chill
"you very well know this is not okay, you let her go alone why?" he asked again
"She was bot feeling okay here Jason!" Ryle answered
"Please Dad don't be so okay with the fact that she is alone there, you could have sent Andrew and Madrine with her" Jason was definitely not taking it very well that Arora was literally in an other town alone (obviously excluding the servants and guards there)..
Ryle smiled, "and you think she would have waited enough to ask them if they want to join her mini trip"
"What other things do they have to deal with rather than being love birds? They could have joined her " Said Jason sarcastically about his Elder brother.
"Atleast someone in this Palace have pretty succulent and complete love story, I assume Lil Man " Came a voice form behind followed by Rule's uncontrollable laughter.
It was Andrew Vaneson who just came in his Father room, evesdroping to what his Younger brother was saying about him.
Jason made an annoyed expression, and did not turn back to see or greet Andrew.
And Andrew did not take a note of that either he sat on the sofa taking an apple in his hands biting it and looking at both of them, not really bothering what they were discussing.
"Dad, are you done laughing?" asked Jason not very happy by his father laughing at his vulnerability at this point.
"Oh God, Well what were you saying " he said breathing in between the sentence.
"You can not let her stay there alone, let me go Clybia!" he immediately said what he was thinking and wanting to say all this time.
Ryle looked at him for a while and said
" No" with no expressions on apparently
"what do you mean, No?" he asked mad confused
"Jason, stop it okay? let her be for a while, do not put her on the verge she has already been so depressed all this time don't increase it more , Do you understand?".
"But-" Jason got interrupted "DO YOU UNDERSTAND?" Ryle said firmly
while Andrew was just there sitting and having a good look on this scenario
"Yes I do" said Jason
"But please Dad let me go atleast three days after ?" he tried to ask again
"Do you think she is going to be very happy by the fact that the moment she asked for some space, you did not respect her decision?" Ryle was very serious about it this time
Jason looked down trying to find more justifications and he came up with one to let his father know how worried he was about her
" I won't disturb her space or peace I just want to make sure she is okay, please let me ago after 3 days to her " he insisted
"Your wish, I won't be responsible if she ends up being mad at you" said Ryle
Jason nodded and left
Ryle shook his head "The young man is already losing it all in love" he said to Andrew.
he chuckled.
"Did you take any reports about Nick?" asked Andrew
"Yes, he has not been near the town since he left announcing the separation" said Ryle with Alot of anger in his tone
"you won't ask him to come back?" asked Andrew again
"No" the answer was one word from Ryle's side
The room went quiet for a while then Andrew asked again
"I heard you were in a discussion with the Royal witch earlier? everything okay?"
Ryle sighed heavily
"I fear the entities might try to return"
Andrew stood up and came towards Ryle, and put is hands on his father's shoulders
"Everything is going to be okay Dad "
he consoled Ryle
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The apothecary was filled with the men of the neighborhood who Ellen came with to visit Adward
The verbenas were not very happy by the rush and chaos going on but they all took royal permission before coming to the apothecary so they could not do anything rather than being patient.
One man was asking Adward how he was while the other was telling him his hunting story from two days back Adward was feeling much better and smiling.
A man told him what diet plan and remedies he should follow to get well soon followed by his wife's suggestions
While Ellen stood there observing him and his health
After a while the men started leaving emptying the apothecary one by one while Ellen was still there.
The man told Adward to get well soon and left , now leaving only Adward and ellen alone.
Verbenas were not in the apothecary at the moment either.
"how are you doing?" Ellen Finally asked
"Better" Adward said with a nod and small smile on his face
"I am glad you are getting a better treatment here" Ellen said looking around
"yeah, only if the magic was not involved I would not have ended up here" said Adward
There was a moment of silence, then Adward said again
"how it have been all these days I was not there?"
Ellen looked a bit uneasy
"chaotic, So much chaos and strange things happened I am not yet coping up with them very well" Ellen confessed
Adward sighed, he so how felt a very strong feeling of something not okay, and should he tell about Stella to Ellen or not
"You tell me, how did this happen? what happened that day at your house?" Asked Ellen instead
Adward looked down at his lap, trying to find the right words to start with
and then proceeded to tell Ellen what happened that day and how Stella ended up almost killing him.
Till he completed his sentence his forehead covered in sweat
which explained enough how anxious he was about all of this .
Ellen listened to it carefully and asked " why is she back" Adward looked at him and then told him about the day he woke up from the coma
he told him how Stella appeared in his dream and that she was warning him that she is coming back
"I fear she will take my twins away from me Ellen, what do I do!" he panicked
"Calm down Adward, she won't do anything like that, she can not come back here she can not take the kids away, Royals won't let her enter the town at all, blach magic has no place in this town" the hatred for magic and witches were clear form Ellen's tone
Ellen handed him a glass of water while Adward drank it and calmed down a bit
after a while Adward initiated
"what about Roselle and the girls?how are they doing?"
Ellen sighed heavily this time
"The girls are doing good, while Roselle is not"
Adward looked a bit concerned hearing that
"why what happened?". he asked Ellen
And Ellen told him about the paranormal activities happening with roselle, proceeded by her constant denial towards turning
Ellen told him how worried he was about roselle and her health
"She has got more pale than before I fear the stress might turn her sick" said Ellen
"don't worry she would be fine, Don't forget she is special"
"I don't want her to be a special one Adward!" Ellen exclaimed
"I don't want them to think she is an outcast, I don't want that they refuse to accept her as their own , I can not see crying all her life cuz these people refuse to take her in just like her mother "
Adward shook his head
"you might lover her mother so much but do not let your fears be infused in Roselle's mind Ellen, don't teach her to live the way 'they want' her to live , give her the confidence to be herself " said Adward
Ellen did not say more , he had nothing to say.
The apothecary went silent again, and after a while Ellen left saying goobyes
They both were scared to lose their children
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Mason came back to castle after meeting Roselle in the woods
and went straight to his room
After a while when he came back taking a shower he heard a knock on his room's door
It was Karl, Mason allows him to come in
Karl got a message from Sybil for Mason
"Long live the prince " said Karl and bowed
Mason nodded
"What happened?" he asked the reason why karl came
"Sybil asked me to tell you she needs to talk about something important "
Mason nodded and asked him to leave
After a while mason left his room and went to Sybil
Her room was as usual covered in darkness and she was standing near the hearth
"You asked for me?" said Mason
she turned around and nodded
"what is it?" asked Mason
Sybil proceeded to tell him about the unusual high temperature witnessed by the guards near Clybia in a forest, and when Ryle asked her to find out and she performed a spell the spell got interrupted by the same whispers he told her about
Mason frowned listening that
"what are you going to do now?" mason asked
"I have took permission from the King to visit that place " Sybil confessed.
"are you sure Sybil?" he asked "yeah!" she answered and picked something from the table
"here take this" said Sybil and handed him over a necklace
the necklace had Sybil's blood with a spell performed on
"If something happens to me this blood will turn black" she confessed
Mason frowned looking at it and then nodded
"Take care of yourself" he asked her and left the room
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