10 Mist 1

She didn't catch her looks, but she knew it was an old woman who showed pity to Sarah. Without Sarah noticed, her vision blacked out, she couldn't hear any sound besides mumbling.

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She dreamt something, about her and Daniel. In their engagement party, both were standing together underneath the spotlight on the middle of the stage, dressing with matching blue colors. The MC gave them congratulation words and announce their official engagement. Colorful confetti surrounded them as her tear fell silently that night. Her dream to be officially together with him finally got recognized by both families. Lastly, the next step of her final dream would be her and Daniel's marriage.

Of course, she knew it would take four years after she finished university study, but at least both of them could wait with each other. She noticed that her mother was also crying. Her father was nodding as he held her mother, while trying smoothen her to calm down.

Sarah looked at her hands which was being held by Daniel as he smiled at her. He leaned closer and kissed her red lips. Sweet and memorable, she loved to savor his lips. Peeking slightly to the side, she could see a woman who looks like her sister looking at her with hateful expression. She didn't take it to mind, but she pondered why Kezia acted like that. Ignoring her, watched Kezia left her engagement party, she continued to enjoy Daniel's lips.

The couple still kissing sweetly as Daniel held her waist, grabbing her plump buttock and squeezed it hard as she almost let out her enchanting moans. He kissed her neck and bit it, Sarah whispered to him, "Don't... This is public. Everyone is watching us. My father..." Feeling wrong, she slightly glimpsed at her father who was still standing there smiling at her. That was weird she thought. Why did he standing there without doing anything? Why he was still smiling at her in this current erotic condition?

Sarah's father, Ranbo Ginga, told her that she could touch or making love with Daniel if they already officially married while their limit for engagement right now was only kissing. But now, Daniel was touching all over her body in front of her and his parents and all of the guests's anticipating eyes. Sarah's face turned red and she couldn't help herself to be embarrassed. "Stop it Daniel, don't..."

Daniel didn't hear her words and continuing what he wanted to do, crawling her fingers to trace her smooth skin shoulder, unzipped her zipper behind, and stroke her white back. He smells her hair heavily, "You are so sweet... I want to keep you forever..." He told her with a deep serious voice. He let out sexy groaned and gave her 'healthy front' poking naughtily at her lower area.

Sarah began to panic, she felt something was wrong. She squinted her eyes to look at Daniel who was still focusing on licking her ears. "Daniel?" She asked nervously. Abruptly, her surrounding turned gray like a monocrome picture. Her parents, the guests' smile were all frozen like a statue. She couldn't hear any classical music for her engagement being played, the smell of an apple air conditioner or even the ceremony buffet she loved so much, yet she could only hear was her constant gasping, smooching sounds, and his strong cologne.

Also, the only one who could move was only her and Daniel. His hands began roaming her body even wilder until her clothes left exposed. Sarah screamed and held her both hands covering her nakedness. But it was useless, he grabbed her hands, pulling her to him and tighten their gap even closer than before.

The light of the hall was blocking her sight to see him clearly. His face was covered with black, no, in fact, there was no his face. Shocked! She was in terror.

Suddenly the man face who supposed to be Daniel changed his face, slowly, into someone else and that someone was that bastard Badru Tribe's chief who she killed this morning! Fu*k!! He looked the same and that one eye of him who got hurt was no longer there or should she say, he only had one eye now?

"Ahh!!!!!!!" She shouted terrifyingly, trying to get away from him. Breaking his grips with force and back away immediately. Unfortunately, she was wrapped by a black shadow tying her hands and feet into the ground. Not only that, her mouth was being covered and she could only let out muffling sounds. She felt chaos in her heart. Her body got pulled and her head bumped to the floor. Strangely she could feel pain. She looked up and saw the man looked at her with a smile.

Looking back at him with her wide eyes, she heard him saying, "You're mine... You're mine... You're mine! You're mine!! You're mine!!! YOU'RE MINE!!!!"

His head fell, heading towards her face with mouth open wide wanting to swallow her up, yet now, the face suddenly changed to Daniel's face once again. He laughed like a maniac as his head split into two sides. In a short time, his blood covered her face and body in massive amount.

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"Daniel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" She shouted with a crack voice, Sarah got up, sitting on the bed with a pale condition. Her head and body were sweating nonstop as her lips trembling like a vibration. She heavily breathed, reaching her hands to feel her pulse, checking her heartbeat who kept beating fast along with her breath.

What was up with that dream? Why did she have that nightmare? Was it because of her former bad deed and the fact she killed someone multiple time now, so she experienced that kind of horrible dream? But, why Daniel was in that horrifying dream as well?

Speaking of Daniel, she didn't know how to say, was he alright? Was he alive? "Kaghh!" She coughed shockingly, due to her right hand laid her black short sword, it didn't glow red like last time, but it kept appearing in her hand out of nowhere. Seriously, it was freaking her out.

It vanished once again, her hand felt empty and the small dot was seen on her palm. Clenching her fist, she needed to know what was this item or how to erase it or so on, yet right now wasn't the condition to find out. She lost in her thought once again as she gradually realized she was in an unfamiliar room.

"Huh? W-What... Where am I?" She looked confused as she observed her surrounded. The room was plain cream with a bed, table, two chairs and a small fireplace on the wall. She was feeling that her body was weakening weirdly, she stood up and began exploring the room, trying to be oblvious about her sicken body. She noticed the sky was bright blue, so it should be around noon, she guessed it.

Approaching the window, she viewed the forest and wide grass field scenery. Feeling astonished from the view, she was trying to open the window, but it was stuck. How many time she tried, the window didn't respond the way she wanted. In the end, she gave up, leaving, and went straight to the door.

She opened it and walked outside. Stunned, a banyan tree in front of her. Turning to the sidelong wooden corridor showed in her sight, taking a deep breath she could smell lavender incensed. She felt familiar with the smell, but where was it? Yet, the fragrance calmed her body and surprisingly gave her strength once again. "There are more, if you want, I can take you there..."

Startled from the voice, Sarah screamed, "Ahhh!!" She jolted to the side until she fell unsightly. She looked at the small old woman with a black dress. She smiled at her and said, "You like the smell, don't you? If you want I can give you more."

Sarah shook her head fast and replied, "N-No thanks." The old woman responded to her with a nod. The old woman approached her and gave her right hand to help Sarah. Sarah glanced at the hand and the old woman, asking the old woman what she was doing right now.

"Take my hand, will you stand up?" The old woman urged her to obey her. So, Sarah just did what the old woman asked her to do. Taking her odd cold hand, Sarah felt freezing on her palm. As if she was being electrocuted, she immediately withdrew her hand from the old woman's hand. Fortunately, the old woman didn't take it offense. She told Sarah, "You're just waking up after three days stay in bed. Let's go to the dining room. You should eat more."

After she said that, she walked passing Sarah's body. Sarah turned her body around and looked at the small old woman's back. She had a feeling that this old woman had no ill intention, she seems nice. She even helped Sarah stay in her place. 'This old woman is a good person, alright.' She thought.

As if white flashed came across her eyes, Sarah blinked a few times as if she seeing things, Sarah swore she saw this old woman was short awhile ago, but why she was slightly tall now? Feeling weird, she tried not to follow her, but the old woman's voice reached her ears, "I think it's better you follow me if you want to go to the Haocun Kingdom." Without looking at Sarah, she kept striding her legs to the dining room.

Baffled, her eyes were open wide from her words, she muttered, "Who is this old woman?"

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Walking behind the old woman, she kept looking around the place she was in. At first, the place was bright, full of plants and open wide glasses rooftop, but as she kept going further away, she entered a dark corridor with dim light from the candle, the incense smells getting thicker, yet it didn't disturb Sarah fully, "It's still noon, right? Why do you light up the place?" Sarah asked her curiously.

She laughed amusingly and said, "No, this place was just built this way, ignore this, we almost arrive at the dining room." And so, as the old woman said, they reached and went to another bright corridor. In a few seconds, they arrived in the dining room. When she opened the door, she could see foods were being prepared on the table nicely and neatly.

"Come on in, take a seat, I will prepare you tea for a moment, please wait for me. In the meantime, if you want to eat it first, go ahead." Upon hearing that, the old woman left her as Sarah glancing at delicious hot foods while gulping hard. Her stomach told her to eat it, but her brain told her it was probably a trap, she was hesitated to eat it, after what happened to her last time eating a red worm, so she was being cautious than before.

But she still sat on the table and chose the food which she thought the possibility was real meat and looks okay. Chicken and bread. She smelled it and took a small bite. Munching on it carefully, savoring the taste as she bit by bit convinced it was safe. Taking a big bite she finished in one go, it was the same with other foods as she tasted it first then finished it. Clean without a trace.

Burping slightly, she excused herself for being unladylike. Covering her rude action, she convinced herself this was all due to her starvation. She couldn't help it to eat all the foods.

She drank a small gulp of water as she almost blurted out when she saw an old man sitting on a swing chair in the balcony not so far from her spot. She was stunned to see another person inside the dining room. He didn't turn to see her as he kept his head looking at the wide green field outside. His white hair was fluttering from the cold wind. She thought, wasn't he felt cold?

Abruptly the old woman came to her side and chuckled with her soft tone, "How do you like the food? Was it good?"

Sarah nodded, "It's good, thank you for your hospitalized. I've been taking care by you, so once again I'm sorry for bothering your time."

She laughed at Sarah's sincere words, she answered, "No, don't worry. It's my job to help people."

Sarah kept her face straight, she looked at the old man outside and asked her, "It's your husband, right? Isn't he cold? Even I who was inside, feeling cold from the outside air which come through the window. Look, even my skin turned cold now. Wait, is it the end of November now?"

The old woman kept her smile, she didn't understand this so-called, 'November' If she could take a guess, what Sarah was trying to say was the season time, wasn't it? She said, "Hmmm, you meant fall of the last month? Well, you could say the temperature keep lowering in each day. But, don't worry it's not going to kill that old man. He loved a cold place and beautiful view. Just ignore him and don't approach him. As I said once again, 'don't approach him'. He didn't like someone disturb his alone time. He always like that, so pardon for us."

"Ahh, that's why. Alright, I will not disturb him." Finally knew the reason, she didn't ask further. She didn't take it the old woman message seriously as she agreed to her words as if nothing important. The old woman served her tea as they both moving from the dining table to the small couch near the fireplace. They both sat down as Sarah finally, asked her, "Old woman, who are you? And how do you know I want to go to the Haocun Kingdom?"

She halted her pouring tea into the teacup, she told her calmly, "I heard you kept muttering to the Haocun Kingdom all the time while sleeping. And for my self, well, I'm just an old woman living in the middle of the forest with my husband. You could say, we originality from the Haocun Kingdom. You didn't notice?"

Sipping her hot tea, Sarah shook her head lightly, she explained "I've only met one person from the Haocun Kingdom. Black hair and black eyes, but I wasn't sure if the rumors were true about all of the Haocun Kingdom's people are like the one I mentioned. I can't judge it based on one person."

"Well, let me tell you. The rumors are true. We have black eyes due to our old legend, the founder of the country or should I say the first king, Li Haocun. So, the legend said, almost all of the people from the Haocun Kingdom have this king's blood flowing inside. Basically, we are the great-great-great children of his who turned into commoner, split up, due to our ancestors was the king's forgotten sons. You could imagine how many children he had at that time. Instead, the last one bestowed with an official royalty title was only his main son, Li Fai, while his other son turned into ordinary noble or commoner."

"Sorry I know it's not that important but, all the Haocun Kingdom's name started with 'Li'? It's their surname, right?"

"Interesting question, but no. Only the main son, Li Fai, and his descendant has his title inheritance. While the other unimportant son had their own title which was given by him. Like Su, Lu, etc. Anyway child, I still don't know your name. My name is Su Daiyu. And that old man right there is Huang Yong, my eccentric husband. Sorry for his odd behavior."

Sarah laughed lightly and told her, "No, don't worry. I'm... I'm Sarah." She answered her hesitatingly. She didn't know why she felt like this.

Curving her lips, Su Daiyu slightly giggled. As her black eyes staribg at her body and clothes, Su Daiyu told Sarah, "Nice to meet you, Sarah. Right now, it's better if you take a bath, I've finished preparing the hot bath for you and a dress. Sorry, it's mine, so almost all of them black dress. Sorry for this old woman fetish loving a black color."

Feeling her heart relieved she nodded and thanked her for her kindness again. She guessed it right. This old woman was a nice person. She could feel that the old woman genuie helping her, even her smile was so sweet. It reminded her own mother when she took care of Sarah.

Taking off her dirty tribe outfit in the bathroom which the old woman pointed at, she entered the hot bath. "Ahh~" Sighing happily, to feel this enjoyment she wished that she could stay soaking in this water forever.