"Lia?" was Drizella"s only reply to the spot on question."Young miss is too smart for a two-year-old and you act differently from what a two-year-old would. For example, the first thing young miss want is to see the library, to know about the world..." Lia was pointing her finger up as she recounted the scenarios of her Young miss"s strange behavior.
Drizella tip-toed to where Lia is and squeezing a few tears from her eyes, she made a sad puppy face. "Lia don"t lik Dize anymoe?"
Lia was overwhelmed by her Young Miss"s cuteness, she was practically in cloud nine. She hugged the cute little thing in her bosom so tightly that Drizella thought this was the ending for her. "Of course not! Lia really love the Young miss! The young miss love Lia too right?"
Drizella nodded embarra.s.singly but added, " Dize love mama and papa way moe than Lia. Dize is sowwy Lia."
"Young miss don"t need to apologize."
Phew! That ALMOST SCARED me!
Drizella stares at the door and tagged on Lia"s clothes grabbing her attention. "When papa coming?"
Lia didn"t say anything for a few seconds before she thought up of an idea. "Young miss why don"t we play hide and seek. I"ll be the "it" and try to find you while you hide."
Drizella nodded her head with a lovely smile on her lips... knowing that Lia is definitely hiding something concerning her father from her.
I"ll use this hide and seek game as an excuse to find out what she is hiding and visit father.
"Lia cont to one hunded!"
"Yes. Yes. Young miss." Lia said covering her eyes. "1... 5... 6..."
Drizella made her way through the door, look around and enter the left side of the hallway... das.h.i.+ng in a straight line with her puffy dress.
She peeps through each door she came across not finding her father. Each time there isn"t a door to peep through she"ll stare at all the decorations on the cornice. The cornice is decorated with vines full of leaves and flowers. Even though it was beautiful what caught Drizella"s attention was a portrait of a woman. The woman resembles her mother, Camilla but she was different in many ways. Her eyes are sharper and hold many secrets. Her smile blossoms like a rose and the air around her seem to s.h.i.+ne her surroundings.
"WOW! Petty person!" Drizella was dazzled by her radience.
"Young miss. The madam"s older sister isn"t a petty person. She is a very kind and spiritful." A maid said as she heard Drizella"s words.
"No! No! Dize man beauty!" she corrected her words.
The maid gaze at the portrait of the woman. She responded in a fleeing voice, "Yeah, the lady is. She always... freely." She turns her gaze at Drizella and with a serious look she asks, "Why is the young miss out of her room. What is Lia doing?"
"Tis not Lia"s falt! Play hide and sek!" Drizella angerly shouted out. Realizing her rude behavior she lowers her head and in a soft small face mumbled, "I"m sowwy..."
The maid patted her head and left without saying anything but Drizella knows that she has forgiven her. Feeling glad that everything is will she continued her walk to find her father"s room.
She came across three maids and four menservants fl.u.s.tering around near one door. Their complexions are all pale, some faces are even making scary faces making Drizella wonder what is going on there.
Just a peek is alright and it might even be father"s room since father always look sick... Wait... But now he looks very energetic and full of energy. The last time he visited me father was grinning widely that it creeps me out when I saw him.
Drizella was just going to peek but unfortunately one of the maids b.u.mps into her sending her straight into the room. The maid was rather fat and was breathing heavily that she didn"t even know that she has sent someone to their doom.
Drizella was shoved around by all the people running back and forth that her head was getting dizzy and she felt like she was going to puke. Without realizing a hand grab hold of her dress pulling her up to meet their eye level. Drizella who was feeling nausea came back to her sense when she notices she wasn"t touching the ground. Looking up at the face that hold her up by the neck she saw her father making her so happy but that only lasted a second...
"Who u miste?" Drizella asks not believing this person is her once gentle father. This person aura felt intense and
Albert was surprised that his daughter doesn"t remember him. He was still the same person he thinks he is.
Not hearing the voice of the man who has the same appearance as her father Drizella look around the room, to her surprise there were around nine to fifteen women laying around naked everywhere and the room smell was full of l.u.s.t with a faint scent of iron. What makes her more anger was the man whose appearance is like her father is also naked with only a white robe on.
Just as Albert was about to speak he was interrupted by the tears gathering in his daughter"s eyes, leaving him troubled.
"Y papa? y do tis?" (Why papa? Why do this?) Noticing the changes that have been happening to her father, Drizella realize that this person is really her father. What she doesn"t understand is how a person changes into a different person in such a short time.
"Your question is different from the previous one. Why?"
"Dize know what she see!" Drizella said at straight at him without blinking.
Albert seeing his daughter innocent eyes was about to reply when inside his head voice sounded out saying "Should you really be saying that Albert. Who knows what your daughter really thinks behind those innocent eyes. Isn"t everyone looking at you with disgust and contempt wis.h.i.+ng for you to die an early death. At her closely is she really as innocent as she seems."
Listening to the voice he kept his gaze at his daughter for a few minutes... a second later he burst laughing and throw Drizella towards the wall without caring whether she was his daughter. "Why are you even looking at me with those dreadful eyes!!"
Drizella didn"t have a comfortable landing though she is very glad that her father isn"t strong otherwise she would have really gone to the other world. Her father must have used some kind of magic unconsciously to cus.h.i.+on her fall. The wall that she was blown to was cracked into a circle with crumbs falling down onto the half broken ground.
Even though her insides weren"t hurt badly, her small two-year-old body has scratches all over. The scratches weren"t deep enough to reach her bones but she could die of blood loss if she wasn"t treated.
What! What is this?! My condition... is worse than... coughing up blood!
All the girls who were laying around the bed hearing the loud noise and seeing the damage were so scared they scrumble away while screaming. Some completely naked while others only with a cloth to partly cover them. However, Albert wouldn"t let everyone go scout free, one by one a girl is struggled by the neck to death in his hands. All the servants have already flew the scene after seeing Albert stand up.
By the broken wall, there lay a wounded little girl not being able to move or scream. She was scared weightless by her father"s action. All she could do was watch as her father ma.s.sacre everything in his sight like a madman. Her vision was going blurry but she could hear her father"s laughter as if he was enjoying killing. She wants to stop him but she can"t move a muscle... Is everything going to end like this...
...
"Young miss! Where are you! Young miss!" Lia called out after a round of searching around Drizella"s room. "She wouldn"t have gone out now right?"
Lia walk out the door searching for a small figure but to no avail did she find a small figure.
"Lia what are you doing?" a maid said seeing Lia"s suspicious behavior.
"I"m looking for the young miss. Have you seen her, Anna?"
"The young miss? Yes, I have, she said that you two are playing hide and seek."
"Y...Yes, we did but only inside her room! ...Don"t tell me she took this chance to search for the Master?"
Anna shocks her head not believing that the young miss would do something like that until she and Lia saw other servants running away from the Master"s room.
Lia grab one of the maids shaking her and ask in a trembling voice, "What... What"s going on?!!"
The maid was so scared that it took her five seconds to answer, "The... he Master... ha... has gone mad!"
"Did you see a little girl in there?!" Lia was realizing the worst possible situation.
"Girl? Girl... Yes! Yes! now let me go!" The maid shoved Lia"s hands away running away as fast as she could.
Lia was about to run towards the Master"s room but was stopped by Anna by the arm. "We aren"t a match for the Master! You know that right..."
"But the youn..."
"...Let"s ask the Madam."
"But... But the Madam... birth..."
"What other choice do we have and it has been a few weeks now... We don"t have a choice or time!!" saying so she ran down the hall to where the madam is. Worry could be seen in her and Lia"s face as they run towards their last hope of saving the young miss.