“Wake up daughter”, Nanny spoke softly while opening the curtains, “It’s morning already, get up and make sure that your lazy brother is up too”.
She opened her eyes into a morning, the sunlight was shining on her headrest, telling her to get up sooner.
The engine slowed down, as entering into the premises of the Museum, which didn’t seem like the one they saw on the flyer previously, there were no buildings of the old times, nor the sky touching minarets could be seen.Murphy still had that confusion in mind, wondering why would someone attach an irrelevant photo to make their job advertisement.She tried to see as farther as possible, to the extent that her vision allowed, but to her dismay, she couldn't find anything relevant.
“Here! Put your hands over here to get your identity scanned”, she indicated towards a scanning device.Sam took the lead and placed his hand over the red laser lights carefully, getting his hands to get scanned, the device came into life, saving his information from the prints of his hand, and beeped after getting that done.Sam backed of
The tumbledown condition of the maid's room was preserved as it is by the application of glass frames on it, clearly protecting it from the reach of visitors.The room was a small one, having a chair in the corner, which was also surrounded by a glass frame. The chair was weary one, eaten away by moths at places, broken at one of the handles. That was the only chair there, indicating the unavailability of it for the maids over there.It had a brief description of its presence over there by the side."There were many of the props over her to be displayed, we have sent few for preserving and others for getting framed", she cleared, "There were many belongings of them found over here, that would certainly make someone c
Murphy gasped at the sight of what was inside the coffin and backed off.Exactly the skeletal remains of a human as she read on the manuscript, covered over by some cloth below the waist,whole of the flesh had sloughed off over time, the orbits were empty of any eyes that used to be there.But there was something unordinary about the skeleton, it didn’t have any muscles or skin on her face to have any expressions made upon it, but still, it clearly looked like a frightened away remains!
They turned around to examine the room, which was spacious enough as compared to the one below it. It was having huge windows like spaces, from which the wood had probably been eaten off slowly over time, and it was dark inside it too.The windows opened into a terrace like space but which was covered over by sand up to some level, but the sand was hindering the view over, darkening the inside of the room.Hellion climbed up there swiftly like a squirrel climbing up the trees, joining them in a moment, breathing heavily."So, here we are. It is the attic of the royal maids. At least it appears like that of it. But the sandstorms here had probably shunned off the sun from over here. It's because of the sand over it', she was speaking against her heavy breathing, "We will soon be able to bring it to the surface, and then we may enjoy the view from here, as the royal maids did".She was too interested in the idea of making it the same place a
Murphy slowly recognized the presence of Sam and Hellion over there.His arm around her, holding her away from the floor, closely towards him, while Hellion was leaning over and examining her heartbeat.His face had got pale and anxious, his eyes locked upon her face, waiting for any response from her."Sam. . .", Murphy said in a low weak voice, "what happened to me? Why had I fallen?".Her chest pain was getting worse, and her head throbbing hard.They finally sighed with relief watching her getting into consciousness. Hellion pulled back and grabbed a bottle of water from her backpack instantly and helped her drink it sip by sip."Are you okay Murphy? Come drink some more water", Sam's voice was worried as he kept on inquiring.Murphy could feel some energy in her body coming back, she tried to sit on her own on the floor, while Hellion and Sam sat beside her."What happened to me?", she asked in a
It was another fine morning waiting for them to join in the loneliness of it. The sun shone brightly alone in the yard, trying to peek into Murphy's room behind the curtains, waiting for her to rise.She opened her heavy eyes as if awakened from a tedious job.She remembered having slept too early yesterday's night, without even having dinner, she could remember that from the growling sound of her stomach, giving alarm of its hunger."Uh! What do you want again? Hungry all the time", she was talking to her tummy absent-mindedly, while she was in no mood to get out of bed and meet the worldly affairs again.All she wanted a peaceful time in her warm bed, not wishing to want or yearn for anything, nor any relation, carefree from economical crisis, no health burdens, just a day for her own, free of any confusion, no sign of any diversion hanging over her head.She sighed, looking at the clock, thinking about Nanny, who would have been up
"I would love to have that", Murphy exclaimed with joy.Sam was smiling at their little moments of happiness. Their happiness meant the world to him.Nanny was holding their hands too tightly, she didn't want to let them go away even for some timely moments.Her eyes began to water slowly, she was trying to hide away the pain that was causing the streams to pour out from the rocks.Sam sept nearer, putting his hand on her cheek lightly, making her feel like a child, who needs to be shown sympathy, like an ointment on a hurt.Her eyes watered out more and more, turning into complete sobbing and her breath was getting heavier upon the exertion upon her lungs at the face of emotional pain.She was getting breathless now, trying to speak against the resistance of her breath, her face was getting flushed at the effort of her body.Murphy leaned over her, trying to get her calm by patting her head and assuring her their presence forever, "Mother, c
‘Wake up Murphy’,a soft alarmed voice hit her consciousness, she was too familiar with this voice.‘Murphy, wake up’
Murphy's heart was racing, her eyes closed, knowing where is she gonna appear this time.Her eyes shut tightly, she didn't have the audacity to look around to find the furious princesses by her side and a spear held to her face."Murphy?Are you here?", it was a warm voice that hit her ears, a voice that she was longing to hear.She opened her eyes and found herself on a comfortable bed, and wrapped around in a blanket gently, where the room was lit by a fire lit on the floor, to the side there stood Sam, holding straws in his hands, which he was probably using to burn fire, to keep her warm.He suddenly dropped the straws watching Murphy make any movement, that he screamed, "Murphy!You are here!My Murphy!You have no idea how long I waited for you.I thought I have lost you!It's been many months that you were still!".His eyes were full of tears as he saw her open her eyes as he sat beside her.M
Murphy was standing in front of the backyard of a hut-like home, beautifully made with neatly carved wood.But the flowers of the yards were withering away, the trees around were taken over by parasitic Cuscuta upon them, the backyard was giving a picture of sorrow itself.Suddenly there was a sound of a glass breaking voice coming from the inside of the home, followed by a scream, then everything went quiet in a sudden for some seconds.Murphy ran towards the front door, where there was a small glass pane, from where the curtains were slided opened, where she could see inside.There stood an old man, with a long white and silvery beared, his skin was fairer just like Hugo had, his features were resembling Hugo as well, she instantly knew that was Alpha taking after his father.He was old but his body was still strong, and active.Showing no sign of aging, his muscles were taught enough and his face was fierce like a young lion.There w
. . .Murphy instantly backed off from the globe, pulling her hands back from it.The sight of her dad asking Alpha to kill her daughter dazzled up her mind, meanwhile Alpha wanted to protect her.She couldn't believe her eyes, it was then that she remembered his father fighting off the stallions of black and whites and in the end pleading the pearly white stallion in the battlefield."Was he begging him to kill him?", she gasped under her breath, though throughout she was thinking that he was begging him to spare him and asking him to let him go."Was it Alpha on the white stallion?Did he kill him in the end?Meanwhile, the black stallions tried to save him?Were the black stallions army of the king?", her eyes protruded at what had hit her mind, a whole contrary of the story that was there, where she stood believing the opposite of it.Suddenly her mind was hit by a similar memory when the white stallion w
Alpha wrote letters to Hugo regularly, though he knew that he not living nor dead anymore, but he still wanted him to know what he was going through, where Hugo would impatiently wait for it, for the only day that was given to him fortnightly, just to kill him again, to make him endure the pain, even more, he would wait for Alpha's response eagerly, where he was fine with the death that comes after it.Alpha found Edward soon, who had become a co-merchant in that time, and was working hard to earn a living.He befriended him soon, taking him into confidence in some years, where he lived with Edward Sargon like a shadow of his, staying by his side constantly, keeping him from any sort of mishaps.It was too soon that he bore a son John Edward, and to his dismay, his wife died during the parturition.This was a terrible phase of Edward's life, where he denied remarrying, hence putting an end to the lineage of his.He was slowly denying
'Dear son Alpha,I hope you could forgive me for what I have brought to the castle and eventually done to you.I snatched from you your basic desire to live and love.I am helpless and wrecked as much as you are.Here I will be sentenced to death in a few days when my purpose will be over, a death where I will beg for death itself.I'll not live nor die.For me, a punishment is there, which I deserve truly, with I'll come out for a day on the full moon, just to die in the same way, by the serpents fang piercing into my neck.My body will never decompose.My son,I am doomed forever,I can't protect anyone anymore.You take care of the generations of the Edward Sargon.You know what you have to do.Get it done as soon as it comes to you.I know it's gonna be too hard, but you know
. . ."Tell it to me, what is it?What is it that is unknown to me?", the king snarled at Hugo, standing outside the bars that encaged him, "Something is different.This is maddening me!When is the eye gonna come for me?Tell it to me!I am getting mad at the daily anticipation of the deadly future!All at your hands!".His face was occupied with terror as if he had been brought back from the den of death.Hugo had his head hung, not looking up at him, his tongue was locked quiet with a wave of silence."I AM ORDERING YOU TO SPEAK!', the king roared at him, with terror in his voice, gritting his teeth."I don't know", he tersely replied, while looking into his lap.The king scoffed at him, "The wise Hugo doesn't know?".He laughed loudly, his voice was full of the void, an emptiness shone through him.He looked like a mad man, who had lost everything for the s
It was pitch dark, the wind was carrying sand in it, a thin shower of sand falling slowly on the castle.The peace that the castle held was unbelievable.Hugo sat on the wooden plank in the dungeon lost in his thoughts, mumbling to himself."The seventh heart is lost.The chain is broken now.Why is it that castle is not destroyed yet?I wonder.Nor the fortune eye had come to consume the king?Whoever I read about in the wisdom collections, who had encountered the eye, doesn't get to live a second further.How is it that the clock is prolonging its duration?Why is it so?What's there that is still unknown?The queen is no more apt to produce a child again.Then what is it that nature is holding its hopes on?It's been a month, but nothing had happened yet".The chains of the door suddenly clattered, echoing through the wall of the dungeon, the voice of the lock opening was hitting the bare
The king had his brows down, a glare in his eyes, his lips narrowed as he spoke, "Where is the heart? I asked, where is the heart I asked for?".Sher was looking at his feet, while his legs were trembling with fear.The king moved closer to him and repeated his question."I asked where is the heart?Is it?Or. . ?, his eyes wide opened at the other possibility, that suddenly he yelled, "SPEAK OUT OR I'LL THROW YOUR TONGUE SLIT AWAY!".Sher trembled as he spoke, "We did our best sire, we did go there and did as you said.But we didn't know, when and from where did Alpha come there"."ALPHAA???THE SON OF THE TRAITOR!!!", he shot a glance at Hugo, who was sitting on the floor behind the bars, wearing shaggy torn clothes, his hair all grown on his face.Hugo flinched at his name, there was a wave of unrest in him as well, he became attentive at the name of his child, wishing to know how he was a