Chapter 584: Pitch Black Wings-I

Following Lady Caroline, Elise didn't miss a step behind the woman while she looked around. As for now, she couldn't see anything which hold an importance, such as objects that she thought she would see scattering around. Instead there was vases without flower that was strange for its own reason.

"Is this yet to be the underground?" Elise asked Lady Caroline who had pulled out her long smoking pipe.

"No entirely from where you stepped inside the door, that is the underground," Lady Caroline then waved her hand and Elise came to stand beside the woman as she was called too. "You must be wondering where are the objects stored at, don't you?"

"If you would allow me to see the place," answered Elise and the woman chuckled.

"You are good girl at making me to agree to you easily," Lady Caroline put the pipe on her mouth before blowing hazy smokes over the air. "I think I should allow you specially for today. Only this once however. No one have ever had this experience you should enjoy every seconds with it."

"I will," Elise responded that had Lady Caroline to nod at the girl's straightforward answer.

"But first we should sit down and discuss."

By the time they reached to the sitting room, the servants whose eyes were blank pushed open the double door for both Lady Caroline and her to enter. Elise's eyes followed the guards as she could felt something off about them. But she couldn't ring her finger around what was exactly strange. It could be their extremely pallid complexion and their blank eyes. Somewhere it made Elise to feel that the people had died.

"Those are my loyal servants," answered Lady Caroline who seem to know where Elise's attention laid at despite the woman walking before her. When they took a sit down, she crossed her leg and tapped the end of the pipe to the small plate placed on the table. Lady Caroline's eyes fell on the teapot and a hum left her lips as the chick she had caught disappeared from its place, "I guess I should expect this."

Elise raised both brows, "Expect what?"

"I happen to find a single chick coming and walking around my corridor not too long ago. The chick seems interesting which why I had took it but it had escaped," Lady Caroline clicked her tongue with utter disappointment in her eyes. "I was about to turn him into my underground's decoration but this can't be helped."

Elise who heard this clenched her hand and schooled her expression. Her fear had manifested into reality with Hallow being captured but without the mention of anyone with the chick and how Hallow was no longer in the room, Elise assured herself that they were now in a much more safety place.

"But I should have punished the chick by taking its wings or that beautiful green eyes that it had for breaking into my underground," sighed Lady Caroline and she looked back at Elise who unknowingly had stared for the woman for too long. "Am I frightening?"

Elise wondered if the question was a test, she answered, "For being protective to you underground?" She then shook her head, "If so you are not."

Lady Caroline's eyes were trained at her, the gaze she had was often stifling and more time pressuring which one reason why most demons feared her, "I thought you were a human, guess you are not as against to violent as others do?"

"Most people protect what they have and what they are passionate of. One cannot be blame from punishing those who tried to harm or take their belongings," and while this is true, Elise also thought that she would be ready for anything in exchange to bring Ian back. 

Never was Elise greedy for the objects stored inside the underground. She had heard that inside the underground there was almost everything one would ever want, the riches, the wealth, and the objects said to strengthen a person's power. She didn't want any of it. Though she didn't want to steal and that she didn't hold anything against Lady Caroline, the situation forced her to. Even if in the end she had to anger the woman who seemed to be her grandmother's close friend.

"I wonder if you still think so when I killed my husband too for entering the underground?" Lady Caroline questioned again, her hum on her lips were light and Elise was very certain the woman was once again testing her response. But Elise didn't know what kind of response does the woman want. Whether it was disgust or fear as what most demons look forward to or words of comfort.

Then Enoch's warning about Lady Caroline rang inside her head again. The man's warning where she have to be truthful. While thinking so she looked at Lady Caroline. "I am not the one to judge on everyone's sins or their problem."

Lady Caroline who was expecting answer seemed to be taken aback and a small laugh left from her lips, "Your grandmother was one kind of a person who could do anything for others. Many said she is gullible but in truth she was smart enough to differentiate between her enemies and people who she should be with. She was a very special angel who didn't mind to work alongside demons if it was to protect Hell. The angels who knew this as one would expect hated her and painted her as the ugly traitor of Heaven. It was a ruckus back in that time."

"She seems like a very strong woman," whispered Elise which was not the image she knew as from the painting, her grandmother, Ariel was a woman who seemed to be fragile.

"She was but weak as well. She trusted the people around her too much such as the one angel she had always be with as a friend. Their friendship didn't end on the good note as the angel betrayed her in the end, she was almost caught by all other angels who force her to repent and come back to Heaven..." Lady Caroline then placed her smoking pipe aside and crossed her hands, "I expected for you to answer the same reply as she did which I liked to hear. But it seems that while you bore some resemblance to her, in the end you are still you, a person of your own."

Lady Caroline's eyes narrowed down and Elise felt a crawling sensation on her skin that put her on edge from the woman's dangerous gaze.

"I don't know whether I like this difference or not," said the woman.