All Chapters of Mathilda: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

Everyone started leaving the holy hall.     And when the door creaked for the last time, my adrenaline ended serving, making both of my legs gave out on their own. I sprawled on the floor, and I felt that may hands were colder than it.      Earlier, I held out my breath as we waited for the father of the knights to dismissed the trial. Mother Renata could not, for it was not her place. And then the father stood from his seat, and walked out without saying a word. I breathed with ease as the upper knights followed him out.     I thought every knight did, but Gabriel apparently stayed. “You really gave them hell.” He said to me out loud.        He then walked to the front of the bench which was the opposite end of where he stood. As he reached me, instead of extending his arm to pull me up which I had expected, he only joined me on the flo

Philip stayed on the slanted cross for two consecutive days now.     And in every morning, there were new wounds overlapping the older ones that he was now soaked from his own blood. The knights did not even consider tending to it, or at least cleaning it to avoid contamination. They should have done it as a note that they are forgiving. But they were not.     I knew it was a punishment for his crime, but the knights were not saints. Fortunately, a few of them were aware of it. They gave Philip a humane hand, they feed him the second time the bell would rung, and they gave him water every time he would cough. There was even an older sister who covered him in blanket, but it was covertly took off.     Apparently, the many slashes on his body should be exposed to see by the eyes of the knights. It was a warning to them, and it was disturbing that they were making use of his pain to educate the

No one new that Tina had left.     No, no one new that she was forced to go. It was as if she did not exist in the convent. All of the sisters continued with their chore duties, and knights kept walking on the halls, even the people who had sentenced her were blind with her absence. But every time I would enter the library, it felt empty.     I wished I could tell everyone about her. I wanted to disrupt the daily homily, jumped in front of hall and forcedly inform them about Tina. That she was the girl in the library, and probably, the same girl who looked at them with disgust as they walked on the corridors. I could also do it during meals at the mess hall, or anywhere with sisters to enlighten, but I did not think that the council would allow me.     Guilt should pang them, but their skins were too thick to infringe on. They did not care about her for she was just one of the many pawns in the conve

“You have to come back the convent with us.” I said to Hana.     She reacted as if I recited an alien prose, “What? Are you insane?” She asked, “You know I am not allowed to go back there anymore, Tilly.”     “I know, but no one would even notice that you are back. They are all preoccupied with the preparation, even the knights are helping us sisters, so this is the perfect time to sneak you in.”     “I don’t think it is a good idea. It is too risky.” She announced, but I could feel that she longed to be back. And I was willing to do anything it would take to give her a few moments of it, even if it was more than risky.     “The girls miss you, Michael too, and I know that you feel the same, Hana. You would be doing it not only for you, but also for them

The night was calm.     And we were all tiptoeing our way into the forest. The moon was nowhere so our path was unlit, and we could not light up a lantern for we must be with the dark. Despite it, I knew my way for the forest was not unknown to me, it was my playground since I was younger, but not to the knights. They were foreigners in this land.     However, I knew that it was only a slight advantage to me because the knights were not exactly oblivious with unknown lands. It was their job to be at one, and for sure they had seen darker places than this silent Adan.     Gabriel and Felix were proving my assumption. They were my shadows as I strode myself around, stepping on the exact ground I had stepped on and avoiding the scattered branches on the ground. My pace was silent and theirs too. I expected worse with our unusual pack, but they were adept to set aside their differences, and maybe because