The men of the community, the elders which included the community leader or chief, were all guarding the vicinity of Specter's house as the sun rose to witness the tension in the community.
As a grand plan to capture Maiden Houdini, they were even awaiting breakfast there as well as the arrival of the authorities.
While they continued to linger there, the women of the community all stayed at their houses with the children preparing for school.
At Salim's, he was probably the only grown man who hadn't gone out with the men of the community. His teeth grinding against each other whenever that thought crossed his mind.
"Thanks to that accursed Maiden Houdini, I am left at home like a woman"
He beshrewed the culprit of his current state under his breathe while awaiting breakfast too.
Suddenly, Salim heard odd thud sounds as though people were falling, from the outside and even the noisy activities of the women as they did household chores died along with the odd thuds.
Everything went silent there and then as though it had become a graveyard. He felt the atmosphere turning eerie in the abnormality of the silence, thus he called his sister's name
"Liyana" However no response came, to his nightmare.
"Liyana" he used a louder tone than before and thankfully, he heard steps towards his bedroom. Salim let out a sigh of relief just after thinking that something had happened to the women of the household.
Since the moment he found out that Maiden Houdini was most likely the one who had attacked him that night, his senses were always on guard and horrorful thoughts of being hunted by Maiden Houdini crossed his mind time and again.
As the door of the bedroom was pushed open, Salim said
"What was that thud sounds I heard just now? Where-"
The person he saw entering rendered him dumb instantaneously. He broke into cold sweat all of a sudden and was unable to complete his sentence.
"The thud sounds you heard were sounds of your family members falling. Was it too loud?"
Silvery eyes that were stunning but emitting the coldness of a corpse. With that alone, Salim was able to recognize the person who came into the room instead of Liyana
"Maiden Houdini!!"
Salim's cool was completely shattered at once. He sat up from the previous reclined position, fear crept into his entire being. Every passing seconds felt worst because the armed Maiden Houdini kept approaching him menacingly and he swore that he saw nothing but killing intent in her very cold silvery eyes.
She was neatly dressed in fine cloths with a hijab veil resting on her head and shoulder. Her face was natural yet the natural was alluring as the moon. She had natural red lips like an apple however, people would most of the times call it bloody.
"W..h..what did..what did you do to my family! Why are you here!?"
He was consumed by fury as anyone who saw Maiden Houdini would. The fact that she was the one who had rendered him in that helpless state where he could do zilch but be bedridden day and night, also added fuel to fire.
But Maiden Houdini's ability to scare people shitless with just her presence overwhelmed his fury anon, such that even his hands were shaking like a leaf.
"I am yet to have my fill of what I did to you the other night. Maybe I will, but only after seeing your tongue rolling on the floor so that you will not be able to open your mouth and speak nonsense again. What was it that you said about my father?"
Crrrrr...
Rasha ran the silver dagger in her hand against the wall while she moved towards the person on the bed. The rasping sound it made caused goose-bumps to surface on Salim's skin as he cowered on the bed.
"I...I did n..no..not...HELP HELP, MAIDEN HOUDINI IS HERE!!!"
Salim found himself shouting for help, screaming like his life depended on it but only to receive a scornful laughter from Maiden Houdini, one that made him feel much vulnerable than ever.
"I hate noise, so don't taste my patience" Rasha arrived and stood right before the bed looking down at the cringing figure of Salim while suppressing the laughter that wanted to burst out.
Why was it that whenever she saw fear all over a person's face, the feeling of extreme satisfaction will wash over her like no other? And it would leave her desiring more of it just like now while she grasp Salim's panic-stricken face.