A Deadly Warning

“No, Eodelle stop—”

I am too horrified to listen to anything that King Laurent was saying. I pushed the people that were also looking at the dead body hanging on the old tree in the middle of the palace garden. My favorite tree is where I spent most of my time reading books just to ignore the rest of the world.

And now someone used it, staining it with a horrible memory that will forever stay in my head.

With a pale face, I looked up to make sure I wasn’t just hallucinating when I recognized the dead body from the balcony of one of the towers of the palace. I prayed that I was wrong. I prayed that it wasn’t her… I pray so hard my whole body trembles, my mind feels so foggy as I push hard, squeezing my way through the curious people looking up the old wisteria tree.

But my prayers were not enough to spare me from the nightmare that was set up in front of me.

Penny’s hair, which used to be so long and shiny, was ghastly cut and her body was full of black bruises and lacerations all ov