Bride To His Darkness-Chapter 342: Runaway Visitor

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Amidst the thick, ghostly, night mist, a lady in heavy cloak galloped through the moonlit forest, her horse’s hooves echoing in the stillness, followed by the distant hoot of an owl.

Guided solely by the moon’s silver glow, the cloaked lady pressed onwards for hours until finally, she emerged into a clearing dominated by an ancient wooden tree. She had spent days trying to locate this place again, going around in circles and hiding herself away from the enemy, but there was no need to run further as she was finally facing the ancient tree.

Its gnarled branches reached out like skeletal fingers, and out of all the trees within this deserted perimeter, this one stood tall with no leaves on its skeletal branches.

Dismounting from her horse, the cloaked lady stepped forth to observe the symbols engraved upon its trunk. It looked like a cryptic puzzle which she had to arrange in order to form an arcane symbol, but that didn’t sound like a problem. With a careful touch, she began aligning symbols in their rightful places, and as the last piece clicked into place, the massive wooden form suddenly groaned.

Its bark shifted, whilst splitting open to reveal a hidden passage leading underground. The moon’s light illuminated the winding staircase, making it appear as a clandestine serpent, but the lady in a cloak smirked at the sight.

Knowing in her mind that whatever down there was her last option to reclaim her title and honor back, she fearlessly descended, entering the secret sanctuary she hadn’t visited for a long time.

The subterranean chamber unveiled a secret coven the minute she reached the bottom of the staircase, and all cloaked figures gathered around a mystic cauldron. However, their enchanting spells came to an abrupt stop at the sight of their runaway visitor.

"You’re here?" Asked one of the cloak members. The person she was referring to tilted her head up, but there was not a single smile on her lips.

"I need your help." She requested, causing the remaining cloaked members to exchange suspicious glances.

"Go on?"

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"Viney! You’re alive again!" Samantha exclaimed joyously after witnessing her pet plant unfurl itself to life. Her pet plant barely had the time to restore its disoriented state when Samantha picked it up and twirled around in sheer joy.

"Heavens, I’ve been so worried, are you fine? Do you feel any pain? Does your coma always take this long before you come back to me? I was starting to think I had lost you for good. Are your vines alright now? Are they done regenerating?"

Samantha babbled on in concern and relief. She hardly gave her pet plant the chance to answer her endless question, whilst it remained silent as it listened to her talk and talk with no pause. Meanwhile, a certain vampire who rested on his sleeping bag, felt irritated due to how she kept on talking non-stop to a plant he was sure had grown confused and given up trying to interject her words.

In front of him was a parchment containing the process of the investigation, but he could hardly concentrate. His wife was happily having a non-verbal communication with a spirit plant, ignoring his entire existence all together, and now he wanted that plant to go back to sleep for another week, or maybe a month.

"Viney is fine," her beast plant assured her softly, "Viney sensed master’s distress and managed to slip out of the coma, but a witch casted a forever sleeping spell on me." Complained Viney, still holding a grudge to the witch’s indecency. "She acted quickly before Viney could attack. Viney was worried for master, but now that master is fine, so is Viney."

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Her Viney nodded affirmatively, "it’s a dangerous spell that takes you into a deep sleep, with zero chances of waking up. One can be considered dead once hit with a forever sleeping spell, but Viney is a plant, the spell is more effective on humans, so I was able to counter the spell’s ramification."

"That witch!" Samantha was unable to hide her disdain for that woman. She really had the intention of taking Viney away from her for good.

"Viney is back now, but the witch is a stupid one." Her beast plant added, stating it so blatantly like it was an obvious trait. It turned its head from side to side, and then returned its faceless visuals to Samantha.

"Uhm... where is this place?"

"Oh Viney! I have so much to tell you and you won’t believe the revelations I got!" Samantha babbled on yet again, explaining everything that had happened at Carmela’s fortress to her beast plant. The beast plant made several exclamations like;

"Oh no! That really happened?! Gasp! What happened next?! You’ve been through so much, master."

Ivan’s frown deepened as he watched the two of them. They looked no different from the gossipping best friends who can hardly keep a secret between one another, and he had to admit that the rate of their relationship was starting to irk him. Should he just boil the plant and dispose of it later on?

His wife would hate him if he did that to her cherished carnivorous pet.

"Marius was what now??" Asked Viney after they had gotten deep into the conversation. The plant could hardly believe it had been knocked out for that long to miss on the epic, especially when it concerned Marius, as he was the one who made its master cry and suffer in both lives. Viney wouldn’t disagree on the fact that it had always been hesitant to explain to her about her past life, another reason why it was left tongue-tied at the boat, unable to bring itself to make its master feel guilty over a devastation that wasn’t her fault.

"What about the witch?"

"No clue of her hideout yet." Samantha looked hopeful as she added, "but I’m taking Ivan to the elf community today. I feel it would be better to introduce him personally to them. They will see for themselves that he harbors no ill intention towards them, and aside that, it would give us more opportunity to seek further assistance concerning Carmela’s whereabouts."

"Ivan is here? Now that I think about it, the threatening aura in the air makes more sense. Save me, master!" Her pet plant jumped into her open palm, and Samantha turned to look at Ivan who was dutifully focused on the wide parchment in front of him.

She smiled and shook her head helplessly. Samantha always wondered if Ivan and her beast plant would ever get along, but from the look of things, she doesn’t think that day will come anytime soon.

"He’s only working, it has nothing to do with you." Samantha assured her pet plant with a warm smile, but her pet plant sighed and slapped its head with its regrown vine.

Viney knew its master wasn’t all that smart from the beginning, but she was also a naive fool atimes. Viney had no eyes, but he could feel the penetrating glare coming from the psychotic vampire, his aura intimidating him to the point its tendrils and leaves shivered.

"Master doesn’t understand."

"Don’t worry, I’ll keep you here in the tent till I return." She carefully placed her vine on the table, "wait here for me, and don’t show yourself to others, okay?"

"Of course, master."

Her pet plant angled its head to look at Ivan, but it immediately looked away when it sensed the Vampire’s predatory glare. Somehow, Viney felt it was going to be bullied if left alone with the vampire.

"Master, do you truly believe Carmela’s alive?" Asked Viney, and Samantha pressed her lips into a thin line, pondering on it before realizing her answer would be based on her hypothesis.

"I don’t know, that’s why I need to figure it out." She gave her honest response.

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