Lilliana2
Death is no excuse for disobedience
Storybrooke
Chapter 1
The missing children
Some children went missing in the woods the night before, a search party was sent out but they didn’t find anything. Rumors have started circulating that the children were lured away by a witch, or eaten by a werewolf, or taken by faeries. The whole village is on edge and there are plans for more search parties to be sent out throughout the day.
Chapter 1
The missing children
Some children went missing in the woods the night before, a search party was sent out but they didn’t find anything. Rumors have started circulating that the children were lured away by a witch, or eaten by a werewolf, or taken by faeries. The whole village is on edge and there are plans for more search parties to be sent out throughout the day.
Valorie Red
Valorie has spent her morning at her grandmothers she sat across the room from her grandmother as they drank tea and discussed the usual town whereabouts.
“Some children vanished last night, there was a search party last night but they didn’t find anything. They’re probably going to have another search party later.” Valorie sighed looking out the window the woods didn’t scare her but she’d grown up in them, most likely the kids were long gone or worse. Either way she already knew they’d most likely be looking for bodies. ”I don’t understand why they’re parents weren’t watching everyone knows the woods are dangerous. They probably got eaten by something...” Val took a sip of her tea as her granny giggled quietly to herself.
”Red you really should speak with more tact! You’re lucky it’s just me here.” Valerie groaned before finishing up her cup of tea.
”It’s true! They keep sending out search parties someone else is going to get lost trying to find these kids bodies. I think everyone’s just a bit scared.” she got up and took her and her Grandmas empty cups to the kitchen. She set them gently in the sink, Lily never let her wash them. She walked to the coat rack and put her red coat back on ”it was nice seeing you, but I have to get back into town, I need to go pick up some rabbit furs from the butchers I might see if Aurora or Ebony would be interested in buying them. They’d make a nice set of gloves.” She turned to face her grandmother as she got out of her chair and approached her. She smiled and wrapped her in a tight hug.
”I know you could’ve prepared those rabbits yourself, don’t try to tell me that he can skin a rabbit better than you!” Lily released her and gave her arms a slight squeeze ”we can get into that on your next visit, walk quickly the woods are dark and full of dangers.” With that Valorie started on her way home. It was early morning and the sun was still rising, it would be in the sky by the time she got home. The walk was only about a mile into the woods it only took about 15-20 minutes to get back as long as she stayed on the path. She was about half way home when she heard a loud highpitched scream. That scream is so high pitched it couldn’t have been a human, unless could that be the missing children? Valorie ran off the path following the sound until she stumbled upon a bush rustling with movement.
Valorie stares down at the tiny injured ball of fluff her heart sank upon the realization that it wasn’t the missing children. She leaned down to inspect its wounds. It looks like a predator got spooked and dropped it, I wonder if it was because of me or something else. Either way I can’t leave it here like this. She stared at it for a second longer there was no way it would survive and in a weird way it looked kind of appetizing. She planned on using her knife but she couldn’t help the urge to use just her body. No tools for this one. She removed her top layer shirt to keep it clean before she wrapped the small creature up in her arms and gave it a tight hug. She held it until it stopped moving before setting it back down in its resting place. Her heart was racing and she felt like she could run a mile. The fur was too damaged for her to take and since she didn’t want to anger whatever creature had attacked it before she left the creature there in the original place she found it.
The sun finally broke the surface of the earth chasing the darkness of the night away. After she put her top layer shirt back on Valorie ran the rest of the way back to the village as if trying to outrun the deed she had committed. Her top shirt easily covered her wet undershirt hiding the evidence. Once she made it into the town she stopped running and looked around to see who was out and about and what stores had opened their doors. The sun was up now finally starting the new day.
Lilliana Red
Lilliana knew of the children, they had escaped their holding last night. Their mother was a rat who fell in love with a human, so she had graciously turned her into a human with the promise that the woman would give her her first born child. As a rat the deal was easy for the woman to make, but once she gained a sense of humanity she decided to try and hide her twins from her. Sneaky stupid rats...I was going to turn them back into rodents to eat them for lunch and of course they managed to escape! And after I had to lure them into the woods myself since their mother wouldn’t give them up! If I don’t find those children she’s going to be my roasted rat instead! Lilliana was pulled from her thoughts at her granddaughters remarks giggling at the fact that the townsfolk really thought that they would find the children alive and well in the woods. She cleared her throat and easily lied to Red about the cause of her laughter “Red you really should speak with more tact! You’re lucky it’s just me here.” Valerie groaned before finishing up her cup of tea. Much to Lilliana’s amusement.
”It’s true! They keep sending out search parties someone else is going to get lost trying to find these kids bodies. I think everyone’s just a bit scared.” Valorie got up and took the empty cups to the kitchen. Why can’t you just stay in the woods with me? Leave all the pitiful people in the town. Let me teach you to become a powerful witch so you can embrace your darker side. She could always sense the bit of darkness in her adopted child. It was the reason she raised her instead of leaving her in the woods for the faeries. Val put on her red cloak to head back. ”it was nice seeing you, but I have to get back into town, I need to go pick up some rabbit furs from the butchers I might see if Aurora or Ebony would be interested in buying them. They’d make a nice set of gloves.” Lilliana rolled her eyes while red was turned away from her. How nice she’d raised a young woman who enjoyed hanging out with nobodies, hussies and entitled lazy aristocrats. Hopefully Val would see that her interest in the butcher was a waste of time. Maybe she’d eventually become more interested in the charming rich guy. Val turned to face her and she wrapped her in a warm embrace.
”I know you could’ve prepared those rabbits yourself, don’t try to tell me that he can skin a rabbit better than you!” Lilliana casually addressed her child’s stupid crush ”we can get into that on your next visit, walk quickly the woods are dark and full of dangers.” With that she sent the only human she cared about on her way. After she was out of sight Lilliana transformed back into her true appearance. She headed outside where she summoned a raven ”Find the children, if you come back empty handed I’ll eat you instead.” she whispered to it as she stroked it breast. Lilliana released the bird into the sky hoping it would be back with information soon. While I wait maybe I could speak to Aurora, I wish I could get this curse to work faster. Being friendly with her is so exhausting. Or I could speak to someone more useful who could help with locating the brats. For now I’ll wait to see if anyone pays the evil witch a visit. She sat in her living room watching out the window as she tried to decided what to do to start her day if nobody came by to visit. At least she could watch the sunrise in peace.