(From Blue's Perspective)
"Aghhhhh!!!"
"What? What was that?" I asked, looking around. "I think it has come from ahead. Let's go."
I pulled Perita's hand before she could protest and advanced towards the origin of the scream.
"Your Highness, please slow down. You're with a child..."
"Oh, right," I said but did not slow down much. But at that time, I had no idea what kind of horrifying sight I would see.
"What...," I mumbled as my hands shot up over my mouth in shock. A head rolled and stopped right in front of me while a headless body lay in front of us with blood gushing out from the neck making a pool of blood on the floor.
"What. Are. You. Doing. Here?" Dem asked, phrasing every single word separately as if he was suppressing his anger.
He had a blood-dipped sword in his left hand and there were a few drops of blood on his ice-cold face.
"I heard a noise..."
