Chapter Three – Leaving the house.
Outside, Lydia and Evelyn were arguing on who would clean their Uncle’s workshop as they walked towards it. On hearing the scream, they tiptoe silently and placed their ears on the door.
“They can’t be nuns. Which one is a nun material? Huh. Evelyn? Lydia? Or Margaret? They’ll desecrate the holy place” Timothy kept on screaming.
Sylvester makes a chill chuckle, “So you know how disastrous they can be. Well, if a nunnery can’t handle them. How can I?”.
Lydia speeds off to inform Evelyn and Margaret follows after.
The older sister couldn’t believe her ears. Maybe Leah’s escape plan was going to happen! And was going to happen fast.
Before Evelyn could recover from the shock of the news, Margaret had already finished packing her things and was yelling to anyone who took her hair brush to bring it back. Lydia was almost done packing.
“What, girls calm down” Evelyn said to them.
Margaret glared at her, “Calm down? We’re going to be nuns. Like nuns. Locked in one big house and all. It would cage us. I can’t do anything but run away. We can’t do anything but run away”.
“Don’t start your sermons, preacher. This girlies has made up their mind” Lydia shouted, shutting her elder sister from further telling her to “calm down”.
Evelyn stared at them in confusion. Timothy barged into their room. “I have an announcement”.
Their Uncle barge in too, almost immediately. “Girls, we need to talk”.
Lydia and Margaret gazed at him with contempt. “We know your dirty plans, Uncle. Not happening!” Lydia said as a matter of fact.
He let out a sly smile. “It is happening. And you’re not going to do anything about it!”.
“That’s what you think! I don’t care whether you’re my Uncle or not. I’ll trample on anyone that tries to cage my sister’s and I. Your abuse is getting out of hand!” Evelyn yelled in the top of her lungs.
Lydia and Margaret looked at her surprise. Wasn’t she the one who have been saying “Calm down”?
Timothy patted Evelyn’s shoulder and faced his father, “Girls, quiet down. Let’s discuss this peacefully. Dad, their consent is needed before giving them to any nunnery. Also, aren’t they past the age for acceptance in a nunnery?”.
Sylvester narrows his eyes. “They have already been accepted. Their consent wasn’t needed. They’re mine to command” he walked past the door.
“Funny old man!” Margaret screamed after him.
“A really funny old man!” Lydia repeated.
Evelyn muttered something before walking out of the room. Timothy went after her to wage her from doing anything to his father but she went past the door away from the old man.
“Where are you going!” he asked but she just walked ahead.
Lydia and Margaret ran after her but went back after they decided to pack her clothes and things and finally leaving the house.
“Father, look what you’re doing!” Timothy eyed his father. The old man just bit his chewing sticks quietly sitting on an armchair.
Margaret finally stomps off with Lydia. “Be back before six” Sylvester says to them. Margaret sighs. He should be expecting by…never.
The two sisters searches everywhere for Evelyn. The barn. The church. The nursery. The farm house. Even the forest.
“She left without us?” Margaret asked rhetorically. Where would she have gone to?
“Being a nun is good” the youngest said as she sat on a rock, they were still at the forest. “But it’s not what I want. I want to be a warrior”. Margaret nodded in agreement.
A shrill howl from the village made them beginning running back to know what has happened. They were not very deep into the forest but when they got to where the sound came from, they were already panting profusely.
But of course, they’re the worst of runners.
A crowd of villagers had circles a young boy. He was holding a Bible. Lydia told her sister that he could be from the church down hill.
The person responsible for the shrill laughter was the adamant Madam Lara. She owned the biggest stall at the market.
She hated people talking anything about children and religion as she believed in none and had none. She was now throwing a tomato at the young boy.
“Hey, if you don’t want to listen, then keep your hands to yourself or stuff that tomato in your mouth!” someone yelled to her in the crowd.
Everyone was quiet. No one dared yell to Madam Lara. Her husband was a rich merchant. And had scary dogs.
Lydia smiled as she dragged Margaret to where the voice had voiced from. She knew it was Evelyn.
“If it isn’t the runaway bride!” Madam Lara stood full length.
She called Evelyn “runaway bride” after news spread on how Evelyn dashed out from her wedding.
“Where are your two little cats sisters?” the lady asked.
“Sharpening their claws to scratch you” Margaret said now joining Evelyn’s side. A crowd had been formed around them.
The little boy had disappeared from the crowd. (You won’t blame him).
“Oh, I’m scared. Margaret is going to scratch me” Madam Lara mocked.
“Well, you’re in for some soup as those claws are going to get blunt in just a matter of minutes” as she said that a soldier came behind her. He held a whip.
Evelyn smirked as she reached out for the two sticks supporting Madam Lara’s table of tomatoes.
The table tumbles down, the whole tomatoes turning to paste. The crowd gasps in surprise. The Madam is shocked.
“You’re sending someone with a weapon. I had to get mine” Evelyn cracked her necks before glaring at the soldier.
He threw her whip at her but Lydia caught it, it bruised her but she began pulling it to herself. It would be hard to match her thick physique and strong legs.
Evelyn ran to the soldier as she strikes him with her sticks like she was drumming.
Madam Lara charged to Evelyn but Margaret charged to stop her. But the Madam tripped on her tomatoes and fell face up in the ground instead.
Margaret walk over her while slightly kicking her with her back heels. The crowd began booing at the fallen woman.
Again those sisters became everyone’s hero.
Chapter Four – Tracking the shadow.The Madam’s body was numb from the fall. Her eyes shook with pain. The soldier kept pulling the whip with Margaret while enduring the beatings at his back. The sticks weren’t painful and Evelyn was enjoying the beat she was making. The soldier let go of the whip and same time pushes Evelyn away from him. She doesn’t expect it and falls to the ground, she begins wailing. “Sister down” Lydia yelled as she snatched the whip Margaret held and flung it on the soldiers back giving him a taste of his own medicine. Evelyn’s wails turned to laughter as the man danced to the pain the whip gave. Some boy in the crowd shouted “more” and Lydia decisively lashes the soldier again. Madam Lara was trying to crawl away now. It was like a town charade. Some children threw Madam Clara’s dirty tomatoes at the soldier for coming to embarrass his ranks. Horses neighing as they ran towards them made Margaret stop whipping the soldier and threw the whip int
Chapter Five – The Wolfman. “See how gentle he is with water. Imagine how much gentle he’ll be with a woman” she whispered. Evelyn sighed tiredly. Lydia slaps her mouth off her ears, “Did you hear that growl? That’s what we should be worried about?”. Margaret eyes shot wide with realization. A small killer wolf appears from the bushes. It held a small flower in its mouth. It kept it’s head low and dropped the flower on the wolfman's laps. The wolfman in turn kissed it’s head. “What’s happening?” Margaret glared at the wolf jealously.“What's happening? We have two predators now, that’s what” Evelyn answered. For the wolfman to be comfortable with a Killer Wolf, he could lord one and that wasn’t safe. The little wolf rests on the man's lap while the man places the flower on his head. Lydia recognizes that act but still stays quiet. “How'll we move without that wolf sensing us?” was Evelyn’s new question. “Dustin, do you wanna play?” the wolfman spoke suddenly. The girls
Chapter Six – No one to help.He proceeded in carrying the little wolf in his arms to leave.“Hey!!” Evelyn got back to her feet holding a stick. Margaret shook her head to tell her not to fight back but she knew her sister. Evelyn was stubbornness itself. “Wont you apologize for your pet wolf nearly killing us, huh?!”. The wolfman smirked. Margaret found it unbearable adorable. “But you nearly killed it” he replied, looking Evelyn dead straight in the eye. Lydia wanted Evelyn to stop since it was fair. She was regretting leaving her uncle’s home in the first place. “It attacked us first, we didn’t do anything” Evelyn retorted. “You came to its home to bother him, that’s what you did. Kindly go back home with your sisters” the wolfman said and left. Margaret helped Lydia up while Evelyn angrily broke the stick. “How does he know we are sisters?” Lydia wondered out loud. “We look it” Margaret responded. Three girls wearing the same boring style of dress. With brown
Chapter Seven – Lydia is Loco now. It wasn’t a cave. It was a fortress. Scott led the girls down to the very last wall. He punched a button and a stone rolled open. Another world was behind there. Everywhere green and flowery. There was a small stream that got it’s root from the forbidden river. It excited Margaret. They weren’t any houses in sight and just vast green space. Only small animals ran about, no bigger mammals. After surveying and finding only smaller caves inside the place, Evelyn confirmed that that was where she and her sisters would be staying. Lydia began making weird noises and acting stubborn. She climbed down from Margaret’s shoulder and began running to a tree. Margaret wanted to stop her but Scott held her back, “Let her play”. Evelyn found a less creepy cave amongst the many. It was also narrowed in and had a hole inside. Would be very useful at night. She was the one carrying their heavy bags so she dumped them on the floor and tried catchi
Chapter Eight – Bringing them back.Margaret face slammed. She was embarrassing and so not Lydia-like.Scott handed some of the ‘yummy fruits’ he had to Lydia, with a smile. Again, Margaret was not appreciating his nice treatment to Lydia. She jumped in between them. “I could stay with you while my sisters stay in that cave” she smiled cutely. Evelyn came forward with a frown, “He is staying in a cave as well, what makes his cave difference from ours?”. She knew exactly was Margaret was thinking. And the last thing she wanted was her sister smooching around with some wolfman in the middle of the night, when wolfmen are most dangerous. “Well, my cave has only one person in it” Scott answered Evelyn. She shifted her frown to him. So he wanted Margaret to stay with him? Suspicious. Margaret smiled brightly. “Well, if you don’t count my wolfs, May, June and July, though. I am alone” Scott added with a smirk. Margaret moved backwards. “You have puppies? Let me see” Lydia’s e
Chapter Nine – Law of forest. Two men shrieked as they saw a snake slid by. It was the third wildlife creature they were seeing that passed them without attacking. The forest and its river were called forbidden for a reason but Sylvester had still paid them to go into the forest to search for his nieces. They were so blinded by the huge amount he gave that they broke their own law of trespassing the forbidden forest. A squirrel ran through their legs while chasing after a nut and one of the men screamed his lungs out. The other looked horrified. “Why do these animals not act like animals? Snakes are supposed to attack. Squirrels would avoid humans as much as possible. What’s wrong with these forest animals?” they wondered to themselves. Well, the animals at that forest had an Alpha. An Alpha they believed wouldn’t let anyone hurt them. They were also bonded by a law not to hurt anyone from the village as well. It was the new law of the forest. “How can those girls be
Chapter Ten – A marriage for Lydia. The hunters were surprised to see the girls coming out from the forest like they owned the place. They looked healthy and strong except they had gloom faces. Before any hunter could speak Lydia dragged his net that had little squirrels. The fearful squirrels ran away for their life the moment they were free. “Isn’t this forest forbidden? Why are you catching animals from it?” Margaret pointed at the men. Lydia spared them no dialogue as she targeted their catch and dragged it away, setting the animals free. Some hunters tried fighting for their catch but one look at Lydia’s face made them realize she was meaning business. Evelyn just watched in silence. She was careful not to make an outburst as it would be rude to the hunters. They were just acting on their natural instincts, doing their jobs. It was rather their own fault for running to the forest. She now understood that the forest was forbidden for a reason. The girls stood in
Chapter Eleven – Can’t marry a classmate Her face looked like someone had splashed it with mud because before her was Mrs. Lara and her teenage son with a bouquet of flower. “Did you mistake here for an asylum? What are you doing here?” Margaret asked disgusted. “That’s no way to speak to an in-law or an elder” her uncle spears behind the visitors. “Wow. Margaret is getting married to that kid?” Lydia looked both amused and repelled. Sylvester invited Evelyn and Margaret to the dining room to talk on “important matters”. Margaret had given an evil smirk and followed them. Evelyn didn’t bother. She knew her sister would reject the boy. For his own sake. She collapsed on her bed and let the amazing scenery of Scott’s home fill her mind. She low-key wished she could go back. She was slowing drifting to sleep when Margaret barged into the room, laughing her head out. Evelyn glared at her with half closed eyes. “You won’t believe. That kid is actually getting married t