Waking up from a nightmare several hours before dawn, Belle fetched a drink of water. She paused in front of her kitchen's window when she noticed a lit lantern in front of her mansion's garden. Her butler stood there, shovel in hand. This was no hour to be gardening. Curious, she made her way outside, but when she had gotten close enough to see a large and hollow pit next to her eternally-stoic and polite butler, she saw him pick up a rotten body. A DEAD BODY! Her eyes widened fearfully when she saw her handsome butler drop the rotting body into the fresh hole. She asked in horror, "What are you doing?!" Surprised to see his young miss awake at this hour, he stared at her with the same expression he had been keeping up for all these years. He had made sure she was asleep before coming here. "Gardening." "And the body?!" she looked at him in disbelief. "Fertilizer," he answered her before picking up the shovel that was on the ground. Belle was now certain something had possessed her butler. Who gardened dead bodies?! She then heard him ask her, "Want to help me in planting it, Miss Adams?" he gave her a sweet smile. Note: If you enjoy a book of comedy with light-hearted romance and a gothic background. This book is for you~
On the word of the creature that had decided to stick with her which somewhere she felt because she had killed the spirit that was beating it up. they continued to walk which felt like hours before Belle turned to it.
"Are you sure this is the way?" she asked the creature.
The creature named Hector gave a thought which she believed was something it did often to say, "This was the way a few months ago," it answered. Belle narrowed her eyes at it, "Why you look at me?" it asked like it didn't know what it had done.
Belle moved her head, her eyes searching for any possible way or path to the town as it felt like they were walking in a circle for quite some time, "How long have you been living here?"
"Me has been here for four decades," the creature answered and Belle raised her eyebrows.