POISON IN THE WINE?
"Why does Emily want to poison me?" I asked Ratatouille wonderingly as we went back to the party.
Emily was nowhere to be seen and I couldn't get her to confirm the poison.
"Strictly speaking, it is not poison that you drank. It is something vile and evil", Ratatouille told me.
"Dark magic?" I asked him.
"Something in that category but far worse than dark magic", he replied to me.
"I'll have to bring the wine back for Red Witch to analyze it", I replied to him.
"You are leaving the party so soon?" Ratatouille asked me.
"I better be out of this place if there is something wrong with the wine. We should all get out of here", I replied to him before I quickly took Geoffraie and Orol away from the party.
"What is the problem son?" Orol asked me.
"We got to go. The intent of the Diabolese is not pure", I replied to him as we left.
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"What is in the bottle of wine?" I asked Red Witch.
"It is not poison inside the wine. That I can confirm", she replied to me.
"Then what is inside the wine that made Ratatouille so worried?" I asked her.
"There is a strange kind of magic inside the wine that is more potent than the usual dark magic", Red told me.
"What should I do? I drank the wine", I asked her.
"Nothing I suppose. The magic doesn't seem to harm you, yet. Give me some time to find out more about the magic in the wine", she replied to me as she poured a drop of the wine into a toad's mouth.
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"Hey, do you know the Diabolese family got a new matriarch, and she introduced to everybody her new fiancé", Cassandra came to tell me suddenly.
"I'm not too interested with the gossip. You should tell them to Reageon to put it into the Socialite column of our newspaper", I replied to her as I worry about the poison that I ingested earlier.
"No, the guy may interest you. His name is Spiros from the Demetriodes family. Oriese.. the real Oriese was thrown into the Well when he was young by this Spiros. You said you wanted to take revenge for the Bully kid", Cassandra told me.
"Well, that is a coincidence", I said to her.
"And guess what, Duke Armanos invited you to his residence. They will hold the engagement of Spiros and the Matriarch of the Diabolese family there", Cassandra told me.
"Another invite?" I asked as I looked at the card that Cassandra gave to me.
"The Matriarch's name is Princess Ennea. That name sounds familiar", I said to her.
"Every pretty woman's name sounds familiar to you", she told me jealously and angrily.
"No, seriously. I've heard that name before and I've not seen her yet. How will I know whether she is beautiful or ugly", I replied to her.
"Ennea, that is the name of the number two in the Knight Templar ranking. She was killed by you in the mountains", Asterix reminded me after overhearing our conversation.
"Yes, that Ennea. The same Ennea that we failed to find her corpse", I replied to her.
"It must be a coincidence. The woman couldn't come back to life, right?" Cassandra asked me.
"Maybe you are right", I replied to her.
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[After Oriese left the party in the Diabolese mansion]
"What do you mean he already left the party?" the Matriarch asked the servant.
"Yes, he left quickly with his father and father-in-law. There was no time to start what we planned", The servant replied to the Matriarch.
"Did he drink the wine?" The Matriarch asked.
"Yes, he drank half of the bottle", the servant replied to her.
"So, he must have found out about the wine", the Matriarch asked.
"I don't know but I drank the wine too with him, so he probably won't be suspicious about the wine. It could be something else urgent that came up that he will need to leave the party early", the servant replied to the Matriarch.
"You may be right. It is not easy to discover what is in the wine since it is not poison", The Matriarch said to the girl.
"We will have another chance", the servant replied to her.
Then suddenly someone was walking to the room when the Matriach instantly frowned.
"It is that pompous bastard again", the Matriarch said to the servant.
"You will only need to bear with him for a short while longer", the servant replied to the Matriarch.
"Ahhhh… this damn Oriese. This should have been done and over with by now", the Matriarch complained as the man walked into the room.
"Oh dear, why are you not at the party?" The Matriarch asked the man, trying hard to force a smile.
"I have an urgent need to see my wife. I have an urgent need for love", the drunk man said and rushed to the Matriarch.
"You may have the servant girl", The Matriarch told the man.
"Why have you changed, my dear? You were always willing to have me before", the man asked the Matriarch as she walked out of the room in disgust leaving the servant with her fiance'.
"I will serve you well", the servant told the man as she dropped her clothes revealing her naked body.
"You better or else I'll sell you to the damn whore house", the man replied to the servant when she helped him take off his clothes.
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"Why are we all coming to this damn party? I don't like parties", Sara complained to us.
"There may be danger in this party. We should all be here to support husband", Rinna replied to her.
"What is this fake Ennea trying to do?" I wondered and asked.
"How do you know this new Matriarch is a fake?" Chash asked me.
"Because I already killed her in the mountains", I replied to him.
"Is she a face changer?" Meera asked us.
"She must be because she looks exactly like the Ennea in the mountain but her posture and attitude are not like the real Ennea. She's a fake", Sara told them as we watched the Matriarch of Diabolese drink with her fiancé, Spiros.
"This is just a normal engagement party, what can go wrong?" Cassandra asked me.
"I don't know although I have a bad feeling about this", I replied to her.