Eleven

Chapter 11

Hope

I dropped the book on the chair and stood up.

"Hello, is anyone there?" I called out, walking around the room. The chiming noises continued but I didn't hear any voices.

Was I imagining things?

"Hello?" I called out again, only to be met with silence this time. Maybe I was imagining things. There was no one around.

I went back to my chair, picked up the book, and resumed reading. I didn't hear the chiming noises again after that till I finished the entire book. By the end of the reading, I had learned a whole lot of things that I never imagined before. A whole lot of vulgar things but who would know?

Certainly not my mother who always chastised me about filling my head with romantic tales of nonsense. Here, there was no one to watch me and lock me in a room when I read such. Maybe staying in this palace wouldn't be such a bad thing after all.

I decided to leave the place. The sun was almost down and the sky was darkened. Funny enough, finding my way back to my room wa