Barbaric Spouse, Descry the Night's Lure-Chapter 223: Scene CCXXIII

“Q-quickly, we ought to leave. A trap was set by the lords seeking lands. We have to escape their sentence- gh!?” — Suddenly, struck by an arrow on the side of his rib, his stability almost made him fall. Glancing at the source that charged onto him along with many others that were invading their village.

“Thaor!”

“Fast! Run with the children!”

“Papa!”

“Come, Lea!”

Forcefully, the Father pulled them out of the home they had lived in. The mother, weakly as she managed to run as her life’s partner had told, grasped the hand of her daughter to the pain and realisation the events meant. Moving away, opposite to the spouse’s direction... not looking back unlike the innocent girl carrying a small brother... for fatality was felt in the air to befall them and Lea’s concern was placed on the Father they were leaving.

“Don’t look back, my child!!”

“!? N-no!” — Against her Mother’s order, Lea continued to look at the Father who stayed behind... One that after nodding with a clear smile to his family’s escape took a piece of their home. A long piece of wood that once was a branch... which would be the only weapon he would use against those seeking his blood. — “Papa!”

Even to the pull of her Mother’s, the child’s eyes watched how the father fought, noticing the many wounds on his back dripping the blood she barely caught sight of earlier.

“... Don’t look back!... Don’t look back, Lea!”

“... f-... father...! Sniff!” — Her innocent sound let out broken as she finally looked away. For the father had been lowered to the ground receiving what the child could tell would take her loved parent’s life. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

“Come on, we have to run! Hff!”

Shock prevented the girl from noticing how far the mother’s effort had taken them while in tears, yet they were still on the village’s grounds... when the mother suddenly pulled her into an abandoned house, exhausted, and aware she was not going to be able to escape and protect her children if she was to go with them.

“Lea. Huff... Lea... Gasp. Child, You need to listen to this mother.”

“...”

“Lea!”

To her name’s desperate call, the girl met the mother’s weary eyes. Hugging the brother in her arms, unconsciously protective as she had been told.

“... Lea... Mama will also stay behind.”

“?! No... no, Mama. What will Lea and Rie do without their mother?!”

“You will run... you will run, grow and have children... You have to escape and live, dear child.”

“No... No! I don’t want to...!” — Crying as the mother also could not keep the tears within, the girl was embraced by the thin woman. Being caressed lovingly, and kissed on her forehead just as her brother who even in the chaos did not cry and cuddled to the warmth of his sister.

“You have to... Once you have children like this mother has... you will know why this mother always smiles.”

“Hng... no... mama, come with Rie and the child...”

“Escape, Lea.” — Hearing how the slaughter closed onto them the woman, told the girl. — “This will become your past. Happiness will come back. This mother promises.”

“N-no...”

“There’s someone over there! Don’t let them get away!”

“Lea, please, run!”

“No! I don’t want to lose Mama!”

In grief by the child’s reluctance, the woman’s face distorted at the sound of men coming their way. Hence, like the Father had done although with no excuse of a weapon, the mother came out from their hiding place. Meeting eye to eye with the armed men, while the girl followed appalled.

“Mama! No! Mama!!”

“...”

“... You men... do kill this mother... yet let the children I gave birth to live.”

“... Those are not our Lord’s orders... woman.”

“... What are your Lord’s orders? Bloodbath?”

“Hahahaha! The woman appears to be brave... of course. The orders are not to lose a soul alive.” — Threatening the men laughed at the mother, peeking at the children behind her, coming closer with clear intentions.

“... Lea.” — With the hand she kept on her daughter, the mother pushed lightly to convey the urgency of the girl’s escape. However, sadness and ignorance were keeping the child from obeying. Shaking her head to the mother’s hand... Ultimately being robbed of the sibling she held while denying with her head to her mother.

“?! Rie!!”

“No! Release my son! Leave my children!!”

An unfair struggle commenced between the woman and men for the baby that now cried as it was taken forcefully and roughly. The girl also, trying to get the brother back, in the rush of the tussle, was powerfully kicked by one of the men, so then the mother would be hit and a merciless end to a family would be given.

— Escape, Lea! —

“.....”

— The child is young to die! Run! —

Painful and difficult as the woman in her first memories cries echoed in her spirit, Ewelina woke up from the nightmare her soul would continue to recall in her present.

“sniff... Although, I ran as you told me... They reached me and was killed, Mama...” — Scary shivers from blurry memories provoked fainting blue in Ewelina’s blood. Feeling the slaughter lived by the small body of Lea as vivid as her life as Ewelina is. — “Just... as gruesomely and as miserably... as father, Rie and yourself did...”

*Knock knock knock!!*

“?!?!”

Fast, the distinctive eagerness a girl she shared every day with called to her door, causing the woman to jolt from surprise as the tears that had fallen were quickly wiped while also sitting on her mattress. Aware that in no time, even if no permission was given her energetic purple would run inside to greet her loved Master.

“... Maaaster’s Wii~fee~” — Smiling, ignorant of the trouble the woman was suffocating within herself so no concern would invade her again, Nu peeked from the door. Mischievously playful, smirking as she wanted to start the day with her dear Master’s wife, surprising her while waking her. — “Ah! Master’s wife has woken up before Nu arrived!”

“Haha... Good morning, sweet Nu.”

“How come Master’s wife woke up before Nu arrived? The other days even to Nu’s powerful knock, Master’s wife did not wake up...” — Fast on her feet, the girl came to the mattress and climbed it. Crawling to Ewelina’s side as she innocently asked. Observing the nervous Ewelina who tried to avoid her intent stare that somehow could tell everything without hearing it first.