CHAPTER 15

The vibrations of the canopy which caused the drapes surrounding her bed to shake snapped Maleficent from her dreamless state. The clattering of her things and the roaring sounds outside her balcony muted the thunderclaps around the House of Lamentation. Her glowing green eyes, now fully awake, widened.

“What the heck is happening?” Maleficent asked herself as she stood up. Clad in her pajamas, she could see that it was raining quite heavily outside along with the constant zaps of lightning and thunderclaps surrounding the House of Lamentation, the Halflings dorm house under the Malevolent Dormitory’s forsaken land.

Her question was answered when a gigantic bird’s head crashed into the center of her room from the balcony. The walls were blown and the debris flew everywhere. The five meters distance be