✧ • eurydice • ✧

❝ here's your juice madam,❞
i smiled as one of the maids
gave me a drink. i smiled
and accepted it.

today is the third day and i
can still feel how uneasy
they are. like they don't like
being at here.

something's wrong here,
and i need to know it.

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❝ manang, saan po yung
cr dito? magbabanyo lang
sana ako hehe,❞ i told to one
of the maids here.

❝ ay sige madam,❞ she said
and told the directions, and
i looked at her intently as if
i was listening.

after she said to me the
directions, i politely excused
myself and act like i really need
to use the comfort room.

i secretly roamed my eyes
around the house, if my mother
was really killed, then the
evidence must still be here
since the police thought it was
suicide they won't spend time
investigating here.

but, why did they already
closed the case? why did my
sister didn't even let the police
investigate further?

while walking along the
hallway, the lights suddenly
turned on and off, and i heard
someone shouted.

❝ manang gina! 'di ba sabi
ko sa inyo ayusin niyo yung
ilaw?!❞ a grumpy voice said.

i turned at who shouted, he
looks like he was at his late
40s. his hair is jet-black, like
it was dyed, he also has some
piercing eyes, creased eyebrows
and a beard. he seems familiar.

he walks fast and when he
saw me he stopped. he looked
at me intently, like he was
trying to remember who i was.

❝ sino ka? ba't nakapasok ka
rito? 'di mo ba alam na
trespassing ka?❞ he asked.

❝ anak po ako ni elora, eurydice
po pangalan ko,❞ i explained
and his eyebrows creased again.
after a few moments, he smiled.

❝ ay ikaw pala iyan pamangks!
hindi kita nakilala. ako 'to, si
uncle asmod mo.❞

oh, so he is uncle asmodeus,
the husband of aunt hecate.

❝ sige, aalis na ako. kailangan
ko pa kasing ipaayos yung ilaw.❞
he said ang bid good bye.

i just looked at him as he
walked away, then a grin formed
in my face.

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