~Revanşă~

                                    

                                          
"I'm fine.... I'm fine." She repeated, staring into her own eyes. The suffering was recognizable in all her scars, the gloom was visible in her colorlessness and the pain was recognizable in her posture. She promised herself at that moment she was going to work on her own self esteem. She would face the setbacks she experienced and return to her former life with the man she loved. Miranda was going to pay, they only had to find the perfect plan together.
                          
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9 February 2021
                          
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"Please turn on the lamp, Buttercup. I can't see shit." The woman chuckled and tightened her hand to slowly form a fist. The lamp glowed weakly as she began, transitioning to a bright beam of light as her hand finally closed. The lamp was turned on. Heisenberg smiled and looked up at her proudly, happy she became way more confident in using her abilities than those years ago. "Anything happened back in the village?" Zuriñe was asked to get some new pieces of metal for his project at the Duke and because she already had to go, she had agreed with bringing that with her. Once she was at the Duke she had heard some pretty interesting information. 
                          
"You know, Heis, I heard someone new came across our village, roaming around the streets alone." Zuriñe shrugged as she let her hands glide over the two Soldats hanging in front of them and Heisenberg immediately got up, confusingly watching her. 
                          
"Why are you acting like that's something casual? That never happened before." He narrowed his eyes, lifting his chin to watch her without his hat being in the way. "Who's it?" 
                          
"Don't know, I think his name is Ethan Winters." She didn't know his appearance or what brought him here, she didn't know any of his intentions, but he hadn't done anyone any harm so far so she didn't care about investigating. She wasn't a fighter or a spy or anything close to that, she would await for the Duke to visit them and then she would ask him some more about Mr. Winters. The last time she was with him was last night and she was in a bit of a hurry.
                          
"Ethan Winters you say...." He slowly inclined his head in understanding, it looked almost devilishly, and she bit the insides of her cheek as she watched the man putting on his long tattered coat. It was almost as if he knew more than she did and her mind wandered to the yellow flask he had received from Mother Miranda. "I shall pay the man a visit then." 
                          
"Karl?" She tried to follow him, but he shook his head at her and pointed at the Soldats. 
                          
"You stay here, little ghost." He stated and slammed the door shut behind him so she couldn't catch up with him. She closed her eyes and sighed deeply. What was the Lord going to do with that poor man?
                          
Heisenberg walked out of his factory with firm and big strides to look for the unknown man. It wasn't long before he had walked past the altar and through the ruined village with many questions in his head and his Cuban Cigar in his mouth. What the hell happened this morning? Was Miranda doing the same thing she did when he lost Zuriñe? Plundering the whole village for a second time? Immediately he noticed the dead Lycans and he clenched his jaw. The man appeared to be strong, or else he couldn't have caused all this. Rolling his emotionless eyes, he walked to the gate with the demon and the maid on it. He didn't want to run into Alcina, but the man had apparently headed for her damned castle.
                          
The lord stepped inside, walking over the old bridge and through the wet and slippery cave-like hallway until he arrived at the storage room, spotting the unfamiliar man.