55. The poison of love

The hunter's machete slashed at a small tree, cutting it in two.

Perhaps the vandalism had soothed his mood a little and improved, and he glanced at the interested witcher and continued to recount the rest of the story.

"When I came back, Florian avoided me, and ignored me in public, but I was not discouraged, believing that we had time.

Soon after, however, I heard that the baron was preparing for the wedding of his son, the daughter of a nobleman of Virgin.

When I heard this, I panicked, but there was nothing I could do, and at that time, I felt like I was going crazy.

Fortunately, Florian strongly objected to the marriage that the lord had set for him, and even quarreled over it.

Their quarrel was so loud that I could hear it clearly as I stood outside the tower, and at that moment I was very happy and felt that he was still in love with me.

I told myself to have a good talk with him no matter what.

After arguing with the lord, he rode alone and left the manor angrily.

I thought my chance had come, so I immediately rode up to him.

He went to the white orchard, stopped in front of the herbalist's hut, and walked in.

I'm a little strange, where is he going, what is he doing?

When I crept along, I realized that he was hugging the new doctor.

Seeing their intimate actions, I immediately understood the identity of the woman. ”

The man's face was dejected, and his voice became unusually sad, which was the manifestation when hopes were shattered and illusions were shattered by reality.

"I don't know how I left, and when I returned to the manor, the more I thought about it, the more angry I became, and I hated that shameless woman for following me to the White Orchard."

The hunter was a little agitated, his hands clenching the longbow on his chest, and the bow of the purple shirt wood creaked under the pressure of his ten fingers.

Huck was a little worried if he would break the longbow on the spot.

"I can't make her so proud, and when I got to the manor tower, I suddenly thought of a good idea."

The man's voice was brisk, even with a hint of morbid excitement.

"I revealed this to the baron, and the lord who heard of it was furious, and immediately sent for the herbalist and her friend to be driven out of the white orchard.

A smile appeared on his face, as if he was smug about winning the game.

Florian quarreled with the lord again, the most intense of them all, and the baron smashed his favorite ceramic vase to pieces.

I know Florian, and he could never give in like this.

Sure enough, it wasn't long before he found the woman again and secretly dated the baron.

Moreover, for the sake of freedom and love, he is even ready to elope.

As soon as I found out about it, I reported it to the baron.

Enraged, the baron locked up Florian and led his soldiers out of the castle in a menacing manner. ”

At this point, the hunter suddenly stood still, and he turned his head to look at Huck, his eyes flashing with inexplicable emotion, a little apprehensive and a little excited.

"I was so proud and excited that this time the baron would put the woman named Claire in the dungeon.

But I didn't expect that things would turn out much more seriously than expected.

The baron did not bring anyone back, and the soldiers who went with him did not say anything about what they had done.

From that day on, Florien was kept in the castle and not allowed to be seen by anyone.

A few days later, I heard from the farmers that Hoover Heights was haunted, and that a banshee had appeared out of nowhere, and had killed everyone in the mill.

I was stunned to hear this, because the place where Florian and the woman agreed to meet was Hover Heights. ”

The man's voice had begun to tremble and his face was pale by the end, and it was clear that he had not expected things to come to this point.

"When I heard the news, I felt a little guilty of it, and I didn't know how I lived for the past few days, until one day the lord suddenly put me in charge of delivering food to Florian.

He said, "You have grown up together since childhood, and you are like brothers, persuade him!"

You can never imagine how excited and joyful I was when I received this assignment.

At that moment, I felt that I had done nothing wrong at all, and that the woman who was blocking our good deeds should die. ”

Listening to the man's sickly shrill voice, Geralt finally couldn't take it anymore, he walked quickly past the two of them, and walked to the front alone.

The hunter was in an unusually high state at this time, and he ignored the white wolf and continued to talk to himself.

"Florian was glad to see me and begged me to help him carry the letter.

I agreed, but all the letters were taken out of the room and handed over to the baron.

After that, the first thing he said to him every day was to ask me how I was doing, and I told him that the letter had been given to the woman, but she did not reply.

Florian did not give up and continued to write, every day.

I couldn't bear to let him continue to torture himself, and a week later, I told him that Claire had left the White Orchard and was missing.

Hearing the news, he didn't believe it at first.

It wasn't until I told him that the woman had thrown their token of commitment, the silver lily pendant, into the river that he had to accept the reality.

What he didn't know was that I hadn't met the woman at all, and I didn't know what their token of love was.

But he always held the lily pendant with only half a flower on his chest, and I deduced it. ”

Lily pendant?

Hearing this, Huck suddenly remembered the lily pendant with half of the flower hanging on the baron's chest.

"Later," Mislav's voice softened, and a tender look appeared on his face, "the heart-wrenched Florian slowly improved with my comfort, and we reconciled. ”

Seeing the flush on the man's face, Huck's heart tightened, and the cold hair stood on end.

"During that time, we were very happy, and it would be nice if there were no things in the aftermath" The man sighed heavily, his expression a little unpredictable.

After a moment of silence, he continued:

Seeing that Florian was getting better, and that he no longer wanted to live or die, the baron released him, and in order not to provoke him, the lord did not immediately renew the marriage contract.

Privately, we continued to date secretly until one time we were accidentally discovered by Dilter. ”

Hearing the name, Huck remembered the bitten corpse in the forest.

A bold conjecture flooded into his mind, giving him a little creepy.

"Deert told the baron what had happened, and the enraged lord banished me from the manor, and in the midst of an argument with Florian, he accidentally told the truth."

Tears welled up in the hunter's eyes, and he choked up as he spoke.

"Knowing that Claire was dead, Florian was completely devastated, and that night, the news came that he had hanged himself."

At this point, the rather beautiful Misslav was already in tears.

Dilte, who had killed him, did not end well either, and was kicked out of the manor the next day.

And just now, he also paid the price for his sins. ”

The hunter wiped away his tears, a chilling smile on his face.