I woke up up to a bright morning. Birds are chirping, the air was heavy, the sea is loud as hell and it's a perfect day to think about life decetions I made.

  Ah!!! What the hell, a summon from the demon king, why? Is he going to touture me or something? Maybe he's inviting me for some tea. Yeah, realistic. I just need to calm down, ok.

  breath in

  breath out

  breath in

  breath out

  Ok, 1st, I have 3 days to get ready for the meeting. 2nd, is there a reason to meet me, I mean, I am the 2nd princess of the human kingdom but...., is there a reasone to meet me. Hmm

  ok, maybe I don't need to just keep on thinking this whole thing, I should get some fresh air and I could use her to my advantage, hehe.

  I got up and washed my face, went to eat breakfast and I went near her room and knocked on her door and went in. maypel was on a bed and she had some bandages on her hands. as I walked in she greeted me saying "Hello, miss charlot"

  she's actually impressive in a way. Like, smiling like nothing happened to her, she's covered in bruises and she's just smiling. I approched her saying

  "Good morning, maypel"

  "oh, is it morning already, I didn't notice it"

  wait, what?

  When do someone not notice it's morning, hmm. Probably when they're in not sleeping well or busy thinking or doing something all night.

  "You didn't sleep much did you? Your cheeks are swolen and, and tell me what's the matter, maypel"

  "It's nothing, nothing at all, miss"

  Fine then, I'll leave. She needs some time alone.

  "Well, maypel I'll leave for now. Just rest up"

  I closed the door behind me. Well, whatever happened, that was a flop. I could ask terise.

  hmm...

  she's not going to agree, for sure with what went on yesterday. It's a beautiful day too. No storm, just the sun is brighter than usual. Ok, let's go and ask terise

  "Ok"

  "wait, what?"

  "I said you can go and visit the village"

  "You're sure about this?"

  "Yes"

  "Ok, then I'm going down to the village"

  I stared at her face and said

  "Right, now"

  and her reply was

  "Sure"

  I skipped to the village. yes, skipped.

  my smile changed to a frown. I don't know, maybe into worry, when I saw the village. Sure, the storm done it's job. But, some of the houses were broken, I mean, in a someone did the breaking in, way, And I saw some dead bodies. Some of them were villgers, some looked like the once who attcked the mansion and 1 maid too. In a way this destruction told a story and I can't read the languge to understand this story, maybe I could find a translator, And luck would have it, I saw a women crying. She was looking at a dead body and she's crying her eyes out, like she lost everything, I mean looking at all this and someone who looked like her son was touching her shoulder. She was on her knees after all. I approched her and I saw the dead body. It was maypel's father.

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  He had a '\' line on his stomack. It was cut pretty deep, and looking at all this. It's no wonder seeing all this, humans and demons aren't really that diffrent. These demons did all of these for god knows what and I could only watch. Well, I didn't even know all this happened here, so maybe watch isn't the right word either.

  I was looking at the dead body and I didn't shed a single tear. I knew the guy for like an hour and maybe he was someone great or someone pretty funny or, or, or.... maybe even kind. But, I will never know.

  But, I had to ask what happened and I could only ask the one next to her. he looked a little like maypel, but older and looked like a male version of maypel, had a face of a man about in his 27s. with cut on his cheek. I know this isn't the best time but, I need to ask someone how all of this went down.

  "Excuse me" I called out to her brother and

  "yes" he said, with a little sadness.

  "I know this isn't really the best time to ask this but, can you tell me what went down here"

  "S-sure"

  so, he showed me to a little bench. Not the best sight to see from there today, but he starting telling me how everything happened.

  "The storm was fierce that day and all of us were in our homes to take shelter from it, then as the winds died down a little that day, we heard a knock. Everyone in my house was thinking someone from the village was knocking because of an emergency but, I opened the door and father pushed me and a sword was swung, I thought I missed the blade but, some blood driped out from my cheek.

  The father took out a sword, he was old, shacking, didn't have the strength. But, he clashed with the man and pushed him out side with his weak body and screemed 'RUN!!!' To us.

  All three of us ran out side in that heavy rain. Me, my sister and my mother.

  we ran outside and the only thing we could hear is the rain, not only that the rain didn't help either. We could bearly see futhur away. But, that was the only advantage we had, we knew this land, this village better than anyone else. we ran to warn the other houses and mother said to me and my sister to warn the lord. We both ran and saw a lots of soildiers aprroching"

  "Wait, how can you tell it wasn't bandits?"

  "The armour they wore was too good to be worn by bandits. So...., either they took them from soilers or-"

  "They were hired by someone"

  "Exactly."

  "Well, how could you say for certain about this"

  "Well, I'm a soilder. I got permission for a week of time for a family visit"

  "Wait, isn't a war going on?"

  "I actually work as a guard in a city not far from this place"

  So, away from the battlefield.

  "Anyway, getting back to topic, where were we again?"

  "I think it was you and your sister runing to warn the lord"

  "Ah! Right, well, we saw lots of soildiers approching, my sister was trembaling and kept asking me 'are we gonna die?'

  I only had one choice to do, I distracted them and said to my sister to warn the lord by herself. She was really brave, I mean the girl even haven't seen a animal dead yet and she ran twords the mansion, trembaling and, and."

  he was quite for sec.

  "you don-"

  he raised his hand signaling me not to interupt.

  "and I saw her running and the soildiers chased me, I don't know if she's safe or not"

  "Is your sister maypel?"

  "That is her name"

  "She's resting in the manor"

  "Oh, thank thanatos"

  That name isn't really a name I'm comfertable with. but, he resumed

  "I was chased by more soldiers than I can handel, I ran and ran. Sometimes, using something like a fence to jump over, sometimes using two walls to jump to a higher ground and finally, as I was running I was tackeled by one of them and was about to be stabed by a sword and I tried to strugel, to esacape. But, his knees was on my hands and he was smirking as he was trying to drive the sword through my heart. The only thing I had was fear and visions of a sword piercing my heart, yeah. And a purpel arrow hit the soildier's head and I stood up and My heart felt some hope. It was the maids of the manor. Most of them had pupel/blue bows and as they pulled the strings of the bow, arrows appeared and soildiers were picked off, one by one. The maid were out numbered, but they killed them all and the secound they realized they got no hope of defeating them. The soildiers just rushed at the maid, they kept shooting and shooting, the soilders kept taking hit after hit and didn't stop. One fell and the one behind them took his place, but, the maid won. But, one did make their way to the maids, and the maid was trying to release the arrow and he piereced the maids heart while, the maid his using her arrow.

  the villagers were saved. But, not all of them."

  I only kept listening. But, everything was playing in my head like I saw it with my own eyes.

  Sure, it was a victory. But, the enemy didn't even care about their own lives,

  why?

  what was their purpose?

  who ordered them to do this?

  This is getting weird, 1st a ambush in the forest, now a attack on the village. Is there purpose to this or was all of this just coinsidence?

  well, I can't just find about anything like this and I need to focus on the upcoming meeting.

  I got up saying my thanks to the man sitting on the bench and turned around to see a setting sun, crying villagers and just destruction. It's like a joke, the sky is in a beautiful orange colour but I could see some small portion on red. The only thing below that sky was death and destruction.

  The beauty and the beast. more like a beauty and a blight.

  I never really cared much about other people to be honest but, seeing someone suffer. Even, I do feel something for them. Maybe pity for the once who was wroged or hate for the one's who did this. Maybe both or neither. Could be something else entierly. But, 1 thing is for sure, I AM SAD