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Chapter 25 - The swamp witch

The army reached a house in the middle of nowhere, a swamp. The army is around the house with their weapons drawn. Theodore, knocks on the door. A young white woman, with red hair, dressed with a long dress with an apron tied very well on her back opens the door. "Who must you be?" Theodore goes past her, "Where is Vangha?" The woman looks at Theodore, she is surprised by his actions she grabs him and tries to push him out. "You are not allowed to know where she is. Unless you're here to pay."

Theodore pushed her away. Theodore tries to find something about Vangha, a trace, a piece of clothing, something to lead him to the witch. He notices the noise underneath him change when he walks on the other side of the house. "Rinehart come with your mech inside. Through the roof." The woman looks at him and gets on her knees and touches Theodore's leg. "Please lord Theodore, please don't do it!"

Theodore raised an eyebrow, looking at the woman who didn't know him, now saying his name. "Should I do it?" Asked Rinehart, Theodore looks at the woman. "If Vangha doesn't show herself, I am tearing the house apart." she started crying. "She said take care of the house, if I die it's because I didn't take care of the house."

Rinehart was above them. "Drop!" Rinehart turned off his engines and fell through the roof into the room. He stayed looking at Theodore in confusion. "Why did we damage the house?" Theodore counted on his fingers '3… 2… 1…' the floor ripped apart and Rinehart fell down in a basement with many access ways in it.

Theodore kicked the woman away from his leg and walked over to the hole Rinehart made. "This… Now why are we not gonna talk about this many access ways in places Gods knows where?" The woman laughs and her face turns from a beautiful woman, to a kajini, a habitant of Teris, the creature has long nails, 6 fingers each hand and foot, her tail was 1 meter long, and her posture changed, her red hair still remained, but the creature is old. "FUCKIN BLOODHEARTHS! You know how much it will cost me to trick someone to fix everything. "You should've appeared when I called you Vangha…" Rinehart sees the kajini, his expression can't be seen, but he was terrified to the bones.

The witch gets up and looks at Theodore, he notices his missing arm. "You could've just said, you knew I was faking." Said the witch, she gives a hiss after. Theodore smiles. "When you write a assassination tips against me, you should know payback is in order." She widens her eyes. "You found it?" She goes to a cauldron and says an incantation. She sees Theodore searching in the former king's office in the water of the cauldron.. "The Goddess always puts you on the right track. What do you want?" Theodore throws a pouch of gold on a table in the vicinity. "Give me the names of these idiots, and I will not kill you."

She looks at the pouch and analyzes the threat, she nods and grabs pen and paper. She started writing a list of names. "These people are like the former Illuminati on earth, only on a smaller scale. If you kill them you will not have the fear of death ever again. They are all in one place. I've written the coordinates on the back. Leave none alive." Theodore recognizes all the people on the list, former friends of his father and their kids. He folds the paper and heads to the open door. "You have to give something other than gold and mercy, son." Theodore stops, he turns around and looks at her. "I need something you value the most. Your sigil is valuable right?"

Theodore gets his hand in the pocket where the sigil is, he touches it and closes his eyes. "No." Theodore pulls his hand out of the pocket. "This is you wanting something you'll never get. Mercy is enough. Let's go, Rinehart!" He turns away and leaves the house, Rinehart flying through the hole he made. Theodore walks up to the mobile operation vehicle. "Set these coordinates, we are going to end this fiasco." He gives the paper to one of his soldiers. He gets in and closes his eyes. Seraphine looks at him happy, she sees him sleep without worry.