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 took two steps backwards before she staggered behind as her feet stepped on something and when her eyes moved to look down at what it was, she saw it was someone's skull. She didn't know what kind of creatures these were.
"Who are you?" asked Belle and the creatures cackled at her again.
"You come here and ask us who we are? Would you like your skin to be pulled, dipped in hot oil or to peel away?" asked one of the creatures. Why was it that every single creature of the dead wanted to feed on the other creatures and were always hungry! All they thought about was food!
Belle gave them an awkward smile, "I am already booked to be someone else's food. You need to find someone else," she said to the creatures when one of them stepped forward, Belle stepped back and she heard the crackling sound not too far behind her to let her know that there was another creature, blocking her way from escaping.