12 Run away- Part 1 (2/2)

Heidi took a few steps forward but when she turned back she stopped instantly in her tracks. The woman's body had begun to convulse uncontrollably, her body shaking and the look on her face continued to distort. The clouds had only begun to move to let light on the land and that is when Heidi saw that the woman's blood wasn't red and instead it was a hue of black. She noticed that her skin had turned to broken scales like the dried fields during drought and realized she wasn't a human. She couldn't be a vampire either which would only mean one thing. She was in front of a witch.

The witch had gone to its original form, the wound still visible on the neck as the woman stood up to look at her. Heidi was too shocked to move even a finger and she stood still. Goosebumps formed all over the skin and this time it wasn't due to the cold. She could hear distant screams coming from where the bonfire was taking place. Soon she could see the townsfolk who had been camping near the river, running from there as two more witches swooped in mid-air while sitting on a broom. Suddenly the witch began running towards her and Heidi then began moving her legs running towards the center of the town.

She ran with all her might, putting all her strength to run away from the witch. Fortunately or unfortunately the witch who had been chasing her caught sight of two other women who had been running close by and caught up with them to pull back one of them. The woman tripped and fell down, her leg tightly held by the witch who was dragging her back before mounting on the broom and disappearing deeper into the forest. Heidi had halted her steps seeing the woman being dragged and she knew it wasn't time to think about others but it was someone she knew who had been taken by the witch. She didn't know what the witches intentions were but seeing many more brooms sweep past them in the air, she gave one last look in the direction where the witch had disappeared and she continued to run towards home.

Everyone who had been out in the town where running and screaming at the sudden visit of the witches in the town. On the way back she caught up with Nora whose face had turned ashen with shock. She had brought her sister home safe and once they were in safe, all the windows and doors were shut and locked. When their father heard about the intrusion of the witches, he had lost color on his face but to only replace it with anger which was directed to her sister, Nora.

”Do you understand the situation you had presented yourselves with?” their father scolded Nora who was standing in front of him along with Heidi next to her, ”Stop being an irresponsible child and start acting of your age. A little bit of worse luck and you women wouldn't be here now. What if something had happened to you or Heidi?!”

”We are alright and there were all the townsfolk,” Nora replied to him in a small voice.

”I only sent you because you wanted to go. Meddling and mingling with those lower class people. Is that what you want? To be married to a man with no status?”

”No father but I do not mind marrying the man who Lord Woville has chosen which has-”

”Enough!” Heidi flinched along with Nora with the loud voice of their father that reached the roof, ”From now, you shall help your sister with the work and you won't be associating yourself with Ms Carmine. Be an obedient child, Nora,” her father gave her the final verdict.

”But father...” their father raised his hand, giving her a sharp glare before returning to his room for the day.