witch

There was no such thick fog on the outskirts of Mister, and she had lost her natural barrier to the blood clan, so she couldn't easily go out during the day, so she lived a normal life that the blood clan would live, sleeping during the day and foraging for food at night.

"Sister, can you tell me a story?" As soon as the sun sets, Pell pesters her to tell her stories.

"Story, I don't have a story to tell you." Ever since the last time he told her the legend of the city of Ales, which Eliad told him when he was a child, Pell had been yelling at her to tell her stories,

"Then my sister is from Mister, can you tell me what Mister looks like?"

"Okay, then you obediently drink the medicine." Moro took the opportunity to bring the bowl of medicine to her.

Pell stared at the brown-black potion and frowned, pouted on his pink lips and obediently drank the medicine.

"The fog in Mister is always thick, so everything is foggy and you can't see clearly." She handed her the prepared sweets.

"There's fog in here, too." Pell had sugar in his mouth and made a muffled sound.

"It's even thicker than here."

"That must be amazing." A small face full of yearning.

"That's right. There is also a large trevi fountain in downtown Mister. She couldn't help but tease her cute little face, it felt really good.

"Trevi Fountain?"

"Just turn your back and toss a coin into the pool to make a wish, and God will grant your wish."

"Did that sister make a wish?"

"Hmm." Her heart moved slightly, and his appearance appeared in front of her eyes again.

"What a wish Sister Molly made?"

"I want to be with the person I like forever." She blurted out, but her heart throbbed uncontrollably.

"Like someone, like Barry?"

"Barry?"

"It's the person Sister Sida likes."

"You stop talking nonsense." Hilda came in at this time, still holding a large handful of white irises in her hand.

"Sister Sida is shy." Pell shrunk into Morrow's arms, then leaked out a small head and grimaced at Hilda.

"Irises? Are there iris here? Moro wondered.

"There's a big area by the river." Sida said angrily.

"It was given by Brother Barry!" Pell said suddenly.

"Not really." Hilda's face turned crimson.

"Obviously, Brother Arnold told me."

"Alright, Pell, it's rude to say that." Seeing Hilda's face flush, Moro quickly stopped Pell from continuing.

"Okay......"

"You...... Must have been bewitched by this witch! Hilda suddenly yelled angrily, and she felt that Pell seemed to be listening too much to Morro's words, and she felt a little unhappy in her heart.

"Sister Silda, Sister Molly is not a witch, witches are very ugly, she is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen." Pell said.

Hearing this, Hilda was even more angry, because everyone in the village knew that she was the most beautiful woman in the village, and the most beautiful woman was worthy of Barry. "That must have been her magic, I saw her sneak out in the middle of the night, and she had a red glow in her hands!"

"Sida!" The man came in with Arnold at this time, "Why are you so rude to Molly again." ”

"What I say is true! You've all been deceived by this witch. Sida suddenly shouted aggrievedly.

"She's not a witch!" Arnold suddenly ran over and stood in front of Moro and shouted at Hilda, "I've never seen her riding a broom!" ”

"You just haven't seen it yet!"

"Witches are bad people! They seduce men and suck blood! They all deserve to die! ”

"Sida! Get out, I'm angry, you can't always be so rude to Molly like this. The man's voice was slightly angry.

"Daddy! Why don't you believe me. ”

"You go out first."

"Daddy! You, too, are bewitched by her. ”

"Go out of Shida, I don't want to say a second time." Noah was really a little angry and took out his father's majesty.

Hilda ran out in a rage.

"I'm sorry, Hilda didn't mean to." The man said to Morrow.

"It's okay, I'll go see her."

"No, you don't."

"Why is Hilda so hostile to witches?"

"Actually, it's not just Hilda, it's the people in the village, and our family is often ...... because of these things. Alas......" The man didn't say any more, but his face was full of sadness. "It's very taboo in the village to have women from outside, so you'd better be careful when you go out."

"Okay, I'll take care of it."

The next morning, a large bouquet of white irises in front of the window was inserted in a somewhat cracked glass bottle, which looked particularly touching in the foggy early morning with the dewdrops.

"You like iris." The man woke up early in the morning and saw an iris on the windowsill.

"Yes. I love this flower. ”

"We all love this flower, especially the white and yellow ones."

"Oh? I like the blue ones, but unfortunately there aren't them here. ”

"Blue?" The man frowned, "No one here likes blue irises, they all like white and yellow, because white irises symbolize loyalty and innocence, so the bride will wear a white iris as a decoration at the wedding, yellow represents gold and wealth, we will plant it in the cemetery to pray for wealth in the afterlife." ”

"What about blue?"

"Represents broken passion, fragile beauty. I don't really understand the meaning, but it's not a good meaning after all. ”

Her heart trembled slightly, it turned out that it was fate to meet you, and so was to leave.

"Things that are too good are always fleeting." Morrow stroked the petals of those white irises and said thoughtfully: "Passion is also fragile, but it is fleeting splendor. ”

Noah's work in his hands continued, "For us, the iris is the first gift from God to the lord, and it is a holy thing." ”

"I see." She pursed her lips, "It's really beautiful." ”

"Come inside, it looks like the sun is coming out."

She pulled out a smile, nodded, and turned into the room.

The sleep was swift and she didn't even have the nightmares that accompanied her all the time.

When he woke up, Noah had already prepared dinner, and the dim light in the small courtyard was particularly warm, lingering in the fog, and Mo Luo felt a little at home in an instant.

"I went to the market today to change some fresh apples and made an apple pie, let's try it."

"Arnold, where has Hilda gone?"

"Why haven't you come back for dinner yet?"

"I don't know, I went out early in the morning." Arnold took a piece of apple pie and looked a little excited.

Morrow also took a piece of apple pie and cut a small piece and fed it to Pell, "Sister, don't always feed me, you don't eat anything yourself." ”

"Sister, why have you never eaten, what do you eat?"

"Well, I'll eat, so if you take a bite and I'll take a bite, okay?" Morrow laughed, she didn't want to deceive a human child.

Under the faint light, Noah seemed to see Anna come to life again.

Mo Luo symbolically took a bite of the apple pie, first, he didn't eat it, and second, it was not easy for Noah's family to eat a good meal, and it was too wasteful to eat it himself.

"It's delicious, Pell."

"Delicious sister, it's delicious, I've never eaten anything so delicious."

"Eat it."

"Sister eats." Pell took the apple pie and put it to Mo Luo's mouth, Mo Luo didn't pay attention to a piece of jam stuck to his mouth, "Hahahaha, sister, you ......"

"Here, it's stained." Noah reminded her.

"Huh?" She reached out and touched a little, "Hmm...... Hmmm......"

"Haha, my sister also has such times."

Moro glanced at Noah with a smile in his eyes.

"Sister uses this." Arnold timidly handed her a handkerchief, "Sister uses this." ”

"Thank you." Moolo bent his knees to take Arnold's handkerchief and wiped the jam from the corner of his mouth.

At this moment, there was a commotion outside the door, and there was even a fire, which seemed very abrupt outside this small and simple courtyard.

"Open the door, Noah! Open the door! ”

The man answered the door and opened the door, only to find that it was a group of villagers.

"Hilda said you had a foreign woman in your house!" Led by a woman, Noah recognizes that it is Barry's mother.

"That's right! What's going on! The villagers behind him came and went.

Mo Luo didn't want to dodge, he was already seen by the villagers who rushed in, "That's her!" ”

"Her eyes, how can they be so light in color!"

"She's a witch!"

"Oh my God! Her looks! ”

"Oh my God! Look at her skin! ”

"Witch! Burn the witch! ”

"And Pell! That's a little witch too! ”

"Kill her mother, catch them."

"No...... They are not, and you can't arrest her. Noah was almost stupid, he knew too well that once he was suspected of being a witch, there was almost no chance of coming back alive.

"Witches damn it!"

"Burn them!" People shouted with torches and farm tools.

"No...... They are not witches. Noah grabbed Barry's mother's sleeve indiscriminately, "Please, let them go, they're all innocent, they're not witches." ”

Morro's heart sank, and he suddenly remembered the inhumane torture of Mister, the screams of innocent women in the flames, and the painful expressions.

"What proof do you have that I'm a witch?" Mo Luo's expression was grim, and his face was not good.

"We can verify it!" Another shout in unison.

"No, no, I beg you, let them go, they're not witches."

"Take me away, they're not witches." Noah screamed in horror and took the child and her behind him.

"We'll find out if we verify it!"

"I'll go with you and spare Pell and Noah." She exclaimed.

"No, you can't." Noah stood in front of Morrow.

"Take both with you!" A woman at the head has already clamored.

Hearing that both of them were going to take away this kind of thing, Noah obviously panicked, "No...... You can't do that......"

"My sister is not a witch! It's all this woman who caused it, and she's the witch. At this moment, Sida in the crowd squeezed in.

Noah shuddered angrily, pointing at Sida and not knowing what to say.

Moro scratched the corner of Noah's clothes, "It's okay, I'll go with them." ”

"No, you don't understand, you can't come back if you go." Noah's tone was full of horror.

"It's okay Noah, I'll be back. You carry Pell into the house. ”

"Molly ......"

"Go, I'll go with them."

The courtyard was crowded with villagers with torches and farm implements, and Moro cried out, "I'll go with you, and you will verify that I am not a witch, and if I am willing to be put to death by you, please spare Peel, who is just a child." ”

Morro unbuttoned his cloak and held up his hands to show that he was not a threat.

Someone had prepared a rope and had tied her hands tightly in front of her.

The witch trial took place in the only church in the village, and the villagers pressed her to her knees facing the statue of the Virgin. Moro looked up, and the Virgin in the portrait seemed to be compassionate, closing her eyes tightly, unable to bear to look at everything in this world.

The woman at the head, who was also Barry's mother, walked up to Moro with a barbed whip, "Are you a witch or not?" ”

"It's not." Feeling sarcastic, Moro stopped looking at the statue of the Virgin in front of him, and bowed his head and said.

"Sida said you often go out in the middle of the night, did you go to a witch gathering?" The woman asked sharply.

"It's not." She stared at the ground with a calm face.

Suddenly, the barbed whip came down, and her back tightened in pain, she felt ironic, and she couldn't change the fate of being whipped anywhere, "Do you want to talk about it?" ”

"I'm not a witch." She said calmly.

"Xida has seen it, do you dare to be hard-mouthed?" As she spoke, the woman swung her whip and landed on Morrow's back, a tingling pain that made her grit her teeth so she could not scream.

"No, I'm not a witch." After gritting her teeth, she regained her composure and spoke slowly.

"You seduced Noah, tricked him into sleeping with you, and tried to suck his essence and blood for your use!"

"No, I didn't."

"Why are you so low? Did you make a deal with the devil? ”

"No, I was born that way."

"Sophistry!" The woman shouted.

"You're a witch, and you still don't admit your crimes? You're a natural witch! It must have been your mother who made a deal with the devil to give birth to a witch like you! ”

The woman suddenly pulled her hair and forced her to look up, and Morro's eyes lit up, and the incomparably cold pair of aqua blue eyes frightened the woman with a face-ruffled back.

As if stimulated by something, the woman picked up a fiery red iron and pressed it against the back of her hand.

Bursts of green smoke rose, and Mo Luo raised his head, closed his eyes, and bit his lip to blood. Seeing this scene, Sida, who was still very determined, was so frightened that she cowered in the corner.

"You are a witch, and you are fearless of punishment because you have been seduced by the devil! She didn't feel pain! She made a pact with the devil! The woman shouted.

"Tie her to the judgment chair." A few men in the village untied her rope again, and for a moment she wanted to just get rid of these people and run away, after all, she still had no problem solving a few humans, but in a blink of an eye, when she thought of Pell and Noah, she was almost at the mercy of them, she was still very able to bear the pain, and these punishments couldn't hurt herself, but looking at the spikes erected everywhere on the judgment chair, the blood stains on it had dried up and rusted, I don't know how much innocent girl's blood was contaminated, she was a little nervous, After all, she didn't feel pain at all, and she was also afraid of pain. What made her even more terrible was that she could clearly see the longing for the pain in the eyes of the people sitting in the church, and whether there was any compassion for men, women and children, she could not help shuddering, and she raised her eyes again to see the statue of the Virgin, which was still so sad and compassionate, and did not care about the world. She is a blood clan, she has long been cursed, she will be punished for all her life, she will not see the light of day and live on blood, she is not the so-called child of God, she is not, but all the girls before her, and those poor girls who were burned alive at the stake, they are the so-called children of God, why don't you open your eyes and see what your children are doing in this world?

"You don't have proof, you can't treat her like this." The two farmers who were holding her froze when they heard the voice.

Suddenly, a voice sounded, it was Noah, who came in a hurry.

"You've been fooled by him! What you say doesn't count! The woman almost screamed.

"Take him away."

Someone immediately grabbed Noah's arm and was about to drag him outside, but someone said, "Wouldn't you know if he was a witch if you tried it in the book?" ”

"Try it!"

"Try it!" The people were outraged, apparently wanting to see the cruel punishment of the witch show up and be burned at the stake again.

"Then throw her into the water, if she sinks, she is not a witch, if she floats, she is a witch and will be burned at the stake!"

It was still the two peasants who carried her all the way to the river.

She didn't struggle at all, even staring down at the dew on the blades of grass wetting her boots

"Tie her left thumb to her right toe, and her right thumb to her left toe!"

The two executioners rudely took off her shoes, then made her stand barefoot on the grass, pulled her fingers and tied her toes with thin threads, and she was tied in this strange position, and then threaded hemp rope around her waist, ready to be pushed into the river.

Noah had given up struggling and couldn't bear to look at her, but Arnold had rushed up to stop the two farmers who were about to push her into the water.

"She's not a witch, she's not a witch." Arnold repeated, but was stopped by two farmers with farming tools.

Moro lowered his head and shook his head at Arnold in a very difficult and strange posture, "It's okay. ”

"Whether she's a witch or not, the water will give us the answer!" I don't know who shouted among the villagers.

Barry's mother fell to her knees and said, "Holy Virgin Mary, you are full of grace, God is with you, you are blessed among women, you are blessed with Jesus, your son, please tell us the answer with holy water!" Amen! ”

"Amen!" The crowd shouted in unison.

As soon as he finished speaking, the two farmers pushed Moro into the water.