The smell of lavender with a hint of rose, I wonder what this was, at first I got the smell of lavender but now when she is standing right in front of me, I could smell how wonderful she is. The smell stayed through my nostrils and making me drive towards her, the scent is making me long for her. I am feeling totally different for this stranger. Who is she to make me crazy for her, I questioned myself as I got to see her more closely, her brown straight hairs makings me want to brush my fingers through them and pat on her head, her expressions her serenity makes me want to love her. Her eyes were like dark pools of fear and anger, her perfectly curled eyelashes making me want to see them whole day, her pink lips were like strawberries attracting me towards them making me want to see her smile through them.
It felt like I was ready to fight with the whole world for this women in front of me. She completely changed my mindset that I had about her before entering this place in an instant and I knew this would only bring me trouble but still I didn't want to care at that point and wanted to fully embrace this moment forever.
"Fine, then you should die, I'll probably kill you, If you don't say the truth"
"Why don't you believe me, I'm telling the truth, Miss Lavender"
"Do not call me that, my name is Kaya"
Kaya what a beautiful name as Darius was thinking this but he was completely sure about the fact that this girl amazed him.
Kaya left Darius locked into the dungeons and went ahead to talk to Miss Madison
"Miss Madison do you think he's telling the truth"
"Miss, my heart say's he's telling the truth and my mind say's something else"
"Miss Madison please light me some incense sticks, I'll be going to the West side of the palace"
"Please be careful, Mayana is in terrible mood nowadays, she doesn't like someone visiting her"
"Yes Mayana, I totally forgot about her, hand me some chocolate cake too "
Kaya went up to the west side of the Palace. The west side is the place where the spirits live, thousands of spirits who have been unable to leave the human realm are stuck here, whenever their purposes are fulfilled they leave the world for the other side called the spiritual realm.
Kaya has been living with these spirits for 18 years and they love each other like a family, though the spirits are not friendly in nature but Kaya's warm heart has won all over them.
"Mayana, where are you"
Kaya opened the huge door and entered the room searching for Mayana, she is a 10 year old child killed unjustly in a war, since then she's been living in this palace for almost a decade now, her only wish was to watch a Lunar eclipse and after that she must leave for spiritual realm.
A Dark spirit with bloody face came and stopped in front of Kaya
"Mayana, you know I'm not scared of you"
"But why, I am a ghost and you should be scared of me" Mayana said in an adorable way while kaya was laughing at her
"My dear, you're too cute for being a ghost, anyway see I bought you a cake "
"Human food" Mayana sounded surprisingly happy but at the same time in despair.
"What's the use I can't even eat it "
" But you can smell the aroma, the aroma is more tasty than eating it , anyway's where is Mother Jane, I have something to talk about with her"
"Oh! she must be in the balcony probably crying in agony"
Mother Jane was the oldest and kindest spirit of all of them. Mother Jane was a kind lady during the 16h century, she was born into a royal family but unfortunately fell in love with a mere soldier. After the King knew about the Princess's affair he killed the mere soldier and married Jane off to a prince of a neighboring kingdom. She couldn't bear the fact that her love was no more in this world and unfortunately she took her own life on her wedding day. Thus her soul was not accepted by the heavens nor was she able to live in the ground so she got stuck into this palace as a punishment from the heavens for taking her own life.
"Mother Jane, what are you doing here all alone?"
"Nothing my child"
"You cried again"
"No, my dear, anyways why are you here"
"Mother Jane, there is a boy who trespassed in the palace without knowing anyone, where were the guarding spirits in the morning"
"They were probably guarding the palace, but why are you so worried"
"As we all know this place is not visible to humans unless I invite them in "
"I know but your mother also found us when she needed help, that's when you were born, what did he say"
Kaya went silent for a moment trying to resist the fact that she lost her mother right after her birth, she cleared her thoughts and tried to remember what Lucas said.
"Yes, he mentioned about being chased and he was trying to save his life from someone"
"Do not worry Kaya, that is why he saw this palace because he needed help too "
Kaya listened to Mother Jane and came down thinking about what she said while she headed directly to the dungeons. She opened the door to the dungeons where she locked Lucas in.
"You can go now, do not search for this place again"
Kaya bent towards him to unlock his iron shackles, while she saw the bruises on his wrist and asked him about it
"What happened to your hands"
"I am allergic to irons, I would probably have died if it would have been long "
"You can go now, get out of this place "
"Where will I go now , I have nowhere to go also I lost my everything , they'll kill me if they saw me again"
Kaya was astonish to listen to his nonsense and was continuously trying to hold her temper because of what Mother Jane said, while Kaya responded with a scary look
"You should be out of this house by tomorrow morning"
Lucas went mum looking at her
"Also do not wander around this palace unless you want to die"
Lucas swallowed a lump of fear through his throat
"Curiosity kills you in this palace" Kaya said with a serious expression on her face while she went out banging the door from behind when Lucas called her from back
"Kaya, where should I sleep tonight"
She was feeling totally disgusted at Lucas and asked him to follow her
"Stay here in the couch, its just the matter of tonight"
"But there are so many rooms but still you're giving me this couch to sleep , how heartless"
" You know what I don't trust you at all and sleep here or out'
kaya shove him down and went away to her room. She wasn't able to believe Lucas for some reason, she doesn't hangout with humans so she had a bit of trust issues with peoples.
"Kaya can I come in"
"Yes Miss Madison, you know you don't have to ask "
"I don't think Lucas is bad, he just needs help now and it doesn't feel right to send him tomorrow, and you shouldn't be so harsh on him, he's our guest"
"That's the thing Miss Madison, for some reason I don't want to believe him"
"Kaya think about what Mother Jane said and consider for him to stay here"
"No, miss Madison he can't be here and that's it "
Kaya rejected Miss Madison as she thought there was surely something suspicious about him.
"Good Morning Miss Madison "
"Good morning Miss, come and sit beside him "
Kaya went forward and saw Lucas sitting in the dining table, while she threw a a disgust expression at him to which Lucas replied with a smile .
"Thankyou for the breakfast Miss Madison" Lucas said
"You'll get a bus stop at 10 km from here in Monack" Kaya said
"Fine Fine I'll leave after I have my breakfast "
Lucas was upset with Kaya's behavior towards him, as he was head over heels for Kaya and wanted to desperately stay with her but he had no choice now but to go.
Lucas sat like a prince and held his knive in his right hand and fork in his left hand. He firmly cut his steak and balanced it on the back of the forks then smelled the aroma and finally was going to place it in his mouth
"What are you doing? Are you a prince or something " Kaya asked sarcastically.
Lucas ate his first bite and then second bite after which he started feeling dizzy and dropped his cutlery on the table and fell down unconsciously on the ground. He puked blood from which his clothes were all spilled by blood and suddenly everything became dimm around him, while he was lying there unconscious on the ground .
All he could hear was someone calling him by his name and everything became dark.