Chapter 121: Unexpected Help

When Dante left, Flora felt a change in the forest. Nocturnal birds resumed their calls and the wind blew much of the mist that had covered the ground and the trees. Dante’s voice remained in Flora’s head and she shivered as she recalled his last words. “You will be offering your child and yourself to me.”

Flora also remembered what Dante said about another mother protecting her daughter and telling him the same thing. Could they be Emil’s wife and daughter? Flora tried to take the thought away from her head, but they continued to assail her. Somehow, she could see in her head the image of a woman crying and pleading as her daughter was wrested away from her hands by Dante. Flora could hear the screams of the little girl as she was taken from her mother.

As night deepened, Flora felt the exhaustion brought about her mental anguish. The moon had set in the horizon, leaving the forest darker than before. Flora, however, saw the sprinkling of