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 looked around them, standing in between the two lamps that carried the unlit lanterns. She didn't find any shadows lurking near them. Not knowing what Lucas had on his mind, she asked him,
"Where do you think Barron is right now?"
"The Hawverts have their own building. The tallest and the leanest in the land of the dead. The tower looks more deserted compared to here. This is only a part of it. A reflection after which comes the actual lands," replied Lucas, his scythe had disappeared from his hands, "We need to go to the tower if we are bringing Barron back."
Belle who was looking at the darknesses, tore her gaze away to look back at Lucas, "Isn't that like entering an enemy's territory?" she asked him. It was only Belle and Lucas here with no one else to help them.