Chapter (26): Feeble

Outside of the mansion snow was falling harshly and the storm had gone brutal, howling and bringing shiver to shoulders, making minds jolt in suspicion.

"It will break many trees."

Luna noted, dragging the blanket on herself. She always was afraid of thunder's cries. To her, it was as if a punishment that appeared from the gods to remark them the gods were able to ruin the world in a blink of an eye.

"Yes, but they will grow again."

"Did you talk to uncle about a gardener?"

Luna asked, ducking her head under the blanket as the sky roared again and again. Elizabeth was looking outside, drawing her hand on the steam that laid on the glass.

"Yes, I told him not to take hard on Jason when he is close to his marriage."

Luna smiled, putting the blanket off her head.

"That was so beautiful, I think tonight was one of the most!"

Luna said, forgetting the sky's rage that was plummeting down on earth.

"I am agreed with you, but I can't imagine myself in her shoes."

Elizabeth said, looking at Luna throughout the glass. She was playing with her fingers.

"Love is beautiful but painful."

She heard Luna's murmurs.

"I can't surrender to it," Elizabeth confessed to a big thing, she was afraid of loving someone so much.

"Why do you reject all your proposals, Elizabeth? It makes me sad if you are doing this because of me."

Elizabeth turned back, tilted her head, and glanced at her sister in sympathy, she flashed to her, her white thin nightgown danced in the air like a ghost.

She jumped on the mattress beside Luna and held her cold hand, assuming that Luna was seriously horrified by the storm.

"Luna, this is not the reason although I hate every reason that even gives a low possibility to our separation. I do not like any of those suitors. I am out of luck, a feeble that might never seek nor would gain love."

Luna moved her left hand up gently, her soft thin fingers rested on her sister's cheek.

"I am delighted that you don't consider me as a barrier on your path."

Her path? Elizabeth thought about it, what path she would step on? Why was everything so unclear to her? She had no plan for the future. Could her adventurous temperament accept to become a wife and raise kids?

"The path, it makes life harder for me, I couldn't get along with neither of the aspects in my route. What do I want Luna?"

The winter storm made her turn her head, squeezing her brain to contemplate it, she couldn't and it was the twentieth winter. The years were passing so fast and it was time for her to choose, to accept the responsibility that destiny had put on her way, or would drop soon.

"Why are you upsetting yourself? Just ask uncle to take you with him! Maybe being a merchant suits your personality!"

Elizabeth looked back at her sister, how could she leave Luna like this?

"I would not go anywhere until I find a cure for you."

She brought about.

Luna narrowed her eyebrows and took her hands off hers.

"So I was right! I am the reason that harmed your life."

Elizabeth surged forward and hugged her.

"Not at all, not even a single second you should have assumed it. I love you and I want you to live normally. I did something already."

Luna heaved out a breath. She realized her doing hidden moves recently but didn't dare to ask because she feared hearing something unpleasant. Just now, she confessed as Luna put her under pressure.

"What, Elizabeth?"

She dragged her sister back. She could sense her heartbeat that paced promptly.

"I found a broker to introduce me to a stray Fae."

Luna swallowed, her sister had gone too far this time. Contacting their enemies could sever her head. Not only her but also could put Uncle Miguel in hot water.

"No way! Forget about this idea! We will find another way to reach a cure."

Luna waved her hand and bounced out of the bed, chewing her nail she trudged along with free space near the bed.

"Luna, listen! Uncle is already dangled in a case that is tough to stand with. Ryan has a bloated head that every one of his moves might end up in trouble. Look, no one noticed that I am surveying for the cure."

Elizabeth blurted without taking a breath.

"We can meet another physician."

Elizabeth rolled her head down, biting her lips.

"I did many times, they all said that there is nothing wrong with your head. But the bird I met whispered about a curse. Luna that day, did you see any witch around? Didn't you talk to anyone?"

Luna felt a shudder on her knees and before dizziness could make her fall, Elizabeth jumped down and grasped her arms.

She pulled Luna to the edge of the bed, making assured that her gasping came to stable gust. Ell knelt on the rug and placed her hands on Luna's knees.

"Did I disturb you?"

Luna shook her head, tears were rushing down her cheeks. She sniffed and Ell cleaned her tears with her hands.

"No, because I thought about it many times, and either way I reached this conclusion."

Luna finally let the locked air out of her heart.

"Did you see any witch?"

Elizabeth asked once more.

"No sister, I just felt someone was around in the shadows, someone who was following me but I didn't see anyone until the rider hit me. Then, I am sure about the black wolf."

Her face was getting pale as she became disheveled.

"It was the full moon, I won't forget it! The sleet was smashing down all the men who came after you."

Elizabeth remarked.

"Uncle Miguel lashed Ryan the day after they found me! I cried with every sound of the lash."

Luna felt the pain in her heart.

"Let me do this, I will meet the Fae in the boundary if you allow me. That's an outlying village that no one crosses, no one would recognize me. Please, Luna, I beg you."