Married To The Mad Vampire Lord novel Chapter 361

Chapter 361: The other soul

Belle took a deep sigh of relief, but the pain under her feet tensed her up again. If such pain couldn’t wake her up, what else could? That cemetery she had just left behind, she realized, must not have been the same as the one she had once been in, because she couldn’t see the river of souls anywhere. Or it might have been, but she had lost her way...

"I can’t be stuck here... I need to go back to my family. Belle, think," she told herself as she bit back a cry while pulling out the stick. Her entire body shook from the pain. She wished Kuhn was here, at least he knew this place better than she did.

The fogs that had cleared away earlier began hovering in the air again, swallowing her in its mist.

Knowing that now, with her blood drifting through the air, the reapers and the Watcher would sense her faster than normal, Belle knew she couldn’t give in to fear and weakness. She got up again and continued to walk forward, trying not to step on her wound.

Belle walked around the woods for almost an hour without finding a way out of it, before the realization that she had been walking in circles dawned on her, when she noticed a small torn piece of her dress hanging on a twig sticking out from behind a tree where she had fallen down after hurting her leg. She had been going in circles since!

Belle almost cried out in frustration that was mounting into fear. A living person could not be here for more than a day, or their soul would naturally belong to this world. Kuhn had told her that once.

She was thinking about what to do and where to go when she heard a movement from behind her, a sound so sudden it made her heart thud in fright at the unexpected presence.

Mustering the courage to turn, she slowly looked over her shoulder, and her fear shifted into surprise at the sight before her. It wasn’t a person nor a reaper standing there, it was a soul.

A young woman stood there, her black hair glimmering under the moonlight. She was dressed in a long white gown, its hem dirty and torn. From how she looked fresh and unfounded by anything in this world, Belle could tell she was a new soul, someone who had probably died not long ago.

"You are alive," came the words of the soul who was watching her keenly and taking in her disheveled state and bleeding leg. "You shouldn’t be here," she started, her eyes coming to settle on Belle’s. Eyes that had begun to turn hallowed and dark, which made Belle rephrase her thought about her being a new soul. Unlike her dress and hair, her eyes and face seemed like someone who had stayed here for long.

Belle didn’t want to be at ease with anything from this world, nor did she want to trust enough to talk to a soul she didn’t know, but then she needed a way out of this woods, and she nodded her head.

"Yes... can you help me out of here? I mean, out of these woods," she said, hoping that the soul was at least different from the ones she had encountered so far during her visits here. On her first visit, Farrah had gathered the walking dead to attack her and eat her, and on her second visit, spirits had wanted to take over her body.

The soul looked at her for a moment longer before finally nodding her head. "Yes. If you are new here, getting out of these woods is impossible, that is why it’s called the Lost Woods of the Dead. But I will help you out of it. My name is Norah, by the way," she supplied with a smile that didn’t quite reach her hollowed eyes.

"Nice to meet you, Norah. I will really be glad if you show me the way out of the woods. I have been going in circles since I got here," she said, trying to be polite as she stood, favoring her injured foot. It was best not to be too familiar, and not to be rude at the same time. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

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