After Fifteen Years...
Adjusting to the light, Eva found it too difficult to feel her body. As if, her soul already vanished into the thin air.
There wasn't brightness, yet she senses she has gained her consciousness after so long. The body seemed numb and feeling her own breath was becoming difficult.
Slightly, she opened her eyes in one go with a frown curved on her forehead. Laying inside a transparent tin corned box, there was no space for her to move an inch.
'Where… am I?' The first question that arose in her mind after witnessing the uncemented wall of stones, over her through the box.
Finding herself in the small space, made her feel discomfort. This was a box, kept in some kind of large hall where she found herself alone.
There was the chirping of birds, as she can listen, and some snakes too. Moreover, the place looked too dull for anyone to live here.
Slowly and steadily, panic started to trace her mind as her heart hammered against her chest at an increasing pace.
'I...I.. can't stay here any longer.'
With each passing second, she found it hard to breathe for survival. The box was too packed for her to breathe.
At the same time, closing her eyes, she concentrated on her environment and started thinking of the wish in her mind.
Chanting the spell, the iron lock outside the box finally broke into two, felling on the ground with a loud thud!
In a similar manner, the entire box's side glasses broke into pieces, scattering all over the ground. All of them reflected the face of the lady, who was currently preparing the spell with her techniques and was successful.
The base tone sides of the box were left, leaving enough space for Eva to get out of this place.
At last, when she opened her eyes, moving her head towards the left, what came in view were the steps leading to the large wooden door.
'That… must be the way to leave..' With this thought, Eva got up from the small box which had captured her. Standing on her toes, she looked too radiant and lost in her wonderland.
Being barefoot and standing on the broken pieces of glass, didn't make much of a difference for her. The glasses entered her flesh, making the blood flowed yet her numb body wasn't sensing a single thing.
Wearing dark colors frock below the knee, it was all clean as if washed last night. With no sign of wrinkles and dirt.
Progressing towards the large door, Eva took baby steps. 'Why… Do I feel… As if I have forgotten many things?' Since walking also looked too hard for her.
As her legs slowly approached the stairs, her eyes never tore from the large door which was above the stairs. Her legs made their way on their own when she finally climbed the stairs with her bleeding foot.
Her foot's stamps were printed by blood in the back, but the girl was too lost to care about the same.
At last, she tried to push the door with the leftover power of hers in the hope of opening it.
'How am I supposed to open this now?' She was puzzled, yet her instinct told her to use the same chant, which helped her to free herself.
Chanting something in between her breath, she was successful in opening the metal lock, which broke into two, taking her by the surprise.
Without giving it much of her thoughts, Eva walked out of the large hall to find herself in the deep forest. The trees were too large but in the end, her bleeding leg stepped on the ground of mud.
"What is.. this place called? Heaven?" she wasn't sure yet it seems to surprise her a lot.
It was difficult to know whether she had died or was still living on the earth.
At this time, Eva decided to follow the heart and led her legs to move in the direction where her instincts led her to. She made her way through the deep dark forest with some unknown foreign feelings arising back in her heart.
"Who knows.. where have I landed myself.." it was strange since everything looks so similar. Why!? Why Is she there? Ah, are her husband and child here?
She was totally clueless, carrying a blank face and mind.
Walking for a few minutes, Eva's eyes discovered light from the far away, in the middle of the thick and dark forest. , "Maybe this brightness will help me to bring out myself.."
With this thought she walked ahead, thereby, to come and see that it was the end of the mountain. The peak was ending and all she could witness was the view of the Kingdom.
At a certain distance, was the market and town. Some small houses were made of wood and bricks while on the other mountain was situated a large big Palace of Royals.
'Does.. this means.. that the curse is broken? I have awakened now?' It is hard to accept but somehow she knew this is the truth.
Feeling her hand, her face, and her neck, it was too
hard to imagine things. "I..I.. haven't eve aged.."
How could she be aged when they locked her in the special casket, where her age was stoped, like others things... It wasn't easy yet.. seems like she slept for the last fifteen years already.
The thought stuck in her mind. Closing her eyes, the flashbacks of the past started entering her mind... The begging for mercy and what not did she ask?
The death of her husband.. and her child being burnt in front of her, only squeezed her heart with chains.
"Oh.. my… so.. they were successful in letting my curse be broken?" Somehow she wasn't entirely sure about who is helping but then her eyes swept across the place behind her.
The rock.. the same mountain peak where her entire life turned upside down years ago. A single night twisted her faith and she lost two major lifelines in her life.
Her lips parted but no words came out, but what she felt were tears rolling down her cheeks. "Alex… my baby… mum is.. awake.."
Unfortunately, she knew that they will not return. They weren't immortal, unlike her. Gulping the leftover saliva, she bit her lower lip to control her sentiments. Her hands clutched the side dress tightly.
"But.. this.. time... I will take revenge on everyone... Alex.. Chris.. your girl is now awake.. the Devil is awake.."
Turning around, she looked at the kingdom, which was formed with gold and silver platters. There was chaos in this town, in Royal Place ad she will definitely ruin everything.
"The same place.. where you both were burnt and killed.. Today, this new Eva makes a promise to both of you that I will… make each one of them.. beg and cry.. the same way they behaved with both of you." Her eyes turned bloodshot when the evil grin appeared on her face..
"This.. Kingdom snatched everything from me. Now… It's time for me to show my real face. Be alerted, the Devil is back.."