"....P-pa?" She soon arrived at the guild master's room and mumbled before even walking into the room.
"....M-ma?" She mumbled as she slowly arrived at the room's door. Glancing in, she saw her parents laying down on the ground with a peaceful expression on their faces, as if they were sleeping.
That was what the poison did; it would eat away everything on the inside, making them feel an excruciating amount of pain, but nothing would ever happen on the outside, as if it had some kind of preservative that didn't let the body rot.
"....." Katharine approached their bodies, and the first thing she did was check their breath. Even though she was informed that they had died, she had hoped that it would be a lie.
"Hah...." A hollow chuckle escaped her mouth as tears streamed down her face.