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~
Belle wondered why she felt the pain when she was supposed to be dead, or was it not how it worked? She moved closer to the fire to be dragged behind by the creature who gave her a look of shock, "What you doing?" asked the creature to her.
"What am I doing? What are you doing?! Untie me this instant, or I will gouge your eyes!" threatened Belle. Both her hands and legs were tied in ropes which stopped her from moving.
"Me eats you," came the thoughtful answer from the creature, "Pot is almost ready, and I put vegetables," the creature brought a knife and carrot, cutting the vegetable into the pot.