LORALAI'S POV:

I walked through the forest. I was supposed to be hunting, but my mind was elsewhere. I was lucky I had some leftover food from yesterday.

Instead of hunting, my mind was currently locked onto that girl. The blind girl. She had yet to tell me her name, so for now 'The Blind Girl' will have to suffice. I'll ask her what her name is once I get back.

How to get her to open up to me?

What questions can I ask her that will let me know about her, without making her uncomfortable?

Never in my life had I ever been so concerned with how to socialize. I had never cared. Never had anyone to talk with anyways.

I heard a twig snap behind me, and twisted around.

Before me stood a horrifying creature. Malicious, amber eyes, strangely neat long coal black hair.

It was a woman. She was slim, and looked better than well-off. Her face appeared young, but I saw past her lies.

This woman was the woman who I had seen leaving the house I found the Blind Girl in...

She laughed bitterly.

"Huh! So you're the one!"

"Listen, I'm sorry. I saw you leaving and--" I started, but she interrupted.

A sweet tone, from someone with eyes so cold and lifeless anyone with functioning eye would know it was fake, left her mouth, "No, no! Not that! You're the one who found... HER."

I knew what she meant now. The Blind Girl.

"Wh...What?" I knew very well what she meant, but not why it mattered to her.

"Her. My...hmm... stepdaughter," She said the word like poison she was spitting out.

I connected the dots. 

She was the one I saw walking out of the house...

I saw The Blind Girl injured, almost dead, inside the house...

I nearly jumped backwards, "You're the one who did that to her...!"

"Quite the clever one, aren't you?"

She started walking towards, me and I started frantically stepping back.

I pinned myself against a tree.

The murderer stepmother walked directly in front of me, holding my face up with one of her hands.

I whispered, just loud enough for her to hear, "Monster."

She scolded me like I was child who'd eaten his desert before dinner. "Now, now. You want to return home to my stepdaughter alive.... Don't you?"

I didn't respond.

Suddenly, another person stepped out of the trees. it was the young man I had saw walking out of the house with her.

His black hair was combed neatly still. His pale green eyes widened for a second when he saw me and her.

"Mot--"

"Now, now, Calik."

This, Calik or whatever, jumped a mile high once confronted. "Y-Yes! Y-Yes, Miss! I'll... just leave you be!"

He hurried off into the trees.

Missy turned back to me.

"Alright, where do you have her?"

"So you can kill her?"

"When you put it that way... I suppose yes."

"Why would I ever tell you that?"

"So I'll let you go. I can kill you and find her myself, or you can make it easier for me, and better for yourself. Tell me where she is, and I'll let you go."

I saw straight through her lies. She was not one to let someone 'go' as easy as that. She'd kill me as soon as I told her.

"No."

"Then we'll have to do this the hard way. I really didn't want to, but..." She paused for the longest time, leaving me in silence to wonder what she would do next. 

"You've really left me with no choice."

My own eyes widened in sudden alarm when she swiftly pulled out a sharp dagger, ready to strike.