Agony Proliferates

Maria was not feeling well. She had been suffering this bodily ailment since the day she was being chased by the hounds. Her ailment was accompanied by cold sweats, shivering and too much fright in her sight whenever she tried to remember what had happened with her.

A maid was constantly observing her situation, noticing the temperature, giving her medication properly on time but she was continuously dizzying and losing her consciousness again and again. Suddenly she started choking ,maid was standing in fear and she couldn't decide what should she be doing to collect her breath back. She couldn't be proved much of a help and started shrieking in panic.

In a moment or two, various maids and servants gathered in the room watching Maria going into the valley of death slowly. She was in utter pain and everybody watching her was in trance. At that moment ,a maid cried "somebody must call the doctor" but how doctor could possibly arrive there on such short notice as they were a castle far from city life in a jungle.

One of servant ran to collect Hinata, so that he could be informed of Maria's condition but nobody succeeded in finding him in the castle or anywhere. He must be somewhere down the valley practicing hunting. Hinata loved hunting whether it was of human beings or animals. He was always this ruthless not to discriminate a man from an animal or circumstances transformed him ,it was hard to tell. And nobody had ever asked him because of his grave and serious personality. He wasn't a person who sought Solace in words. He kept his private life confined to himself and never described a word to nobody. He could have various friends but he decided not to. Only Jeruma was able to be under his apprenticeship and he only knew a little about him.

Jeruma was student of Hinata since he was a boy. When his parents got killed in a feud, Hirata took him under his supervision and since then both of them remained together. Nobody ever jumped into other's circle and this was how they managed to came this far that they were always together in the moment of crisis, in the moment of any disaster. This tribe of Hinata was never an inhabitant of city life. They preferred taking the refuge in the woods. However, they traded with traders of city. Those merchants were attended open-heartedly when they accessed the castle of Hinata tribe. They were welcomed, people were hospitable but since the day of crisis, Hinata never allowed traders to cross his boundaries. He never allowed the traders to get into the castle after major conflict and suffering of his tribe. He fortified his castle and took good care of his people but he never allowed anybody to conspire against the castle again.

Maria's health didn't recover. Hinata's mother was informed of her situation, she ordered everyone to take her to hospital but Hinata opposed the decision. He hold an opinion that this girl would try to escape again from the hospital and his mother was astonished on his madness that how on earth, someone as sick as Maria would try to escape the security of the hospital but it was Maria's miracle the way she missed every guard in the castle to ran away. If Hinata was not informed of her departure, she would be long gone from their confinement.

Maria was not giving up her freedom, her liberty of living a free independent life in USA. She was born free, she was taught how to be on one's own self and to rely on one's own self but she had been continuously tested for keeping such kind of views for life.

In the night, whenever she was alone, she used to became the most fragile girl, ranting on her failures, bad lucks and harming twists of the life but in the day light she never showed sign of fragility. She kept on reading books which were gifted to her by Hinata's mother. She used to go along with His mother on leisurely strolls on the bridges and passes between mountains and she had a good impression on Hinata's mother.

But she never liked it here, she never belonged here. People said she'd been married to Hinata. But how on earth did she allow such thing to take place. How on earth she could have chosen a groom for herself except Jack.

Jack took control of her memories, her constitution, her even her stay at this strange castle was directly influenced by the loving memory of the Jack.

She pondered what he must be doing in his house. Whether he had eaten something or not. She reflected how Jack would be enduring her memory. Would he be crying on every flash of her memory. Would he had consulted someone about her sudden disappearing or not.. she sighed on her random thoughts.