Barron saw how the maids stared at him and he pulled both of his long ears in his hands, "This is not the time to be mum. Did you understand what I said?" he asked.

"YES!" came the collective agreement. Barron then started to count the number of people who were in the room, "One, two, three, four, five…" one was the coachman who was outside and in the shed, that would leave three more servants of the mansion, "Where are the other three?" he asked.

"Peyton went to clean the rooms as instructed by the butler. Cassie is out in the backyard," answered one of the maids.

"One more?"

"She told she was going to dry the clothes with Cassie but I didn't see her there," replied the maid to see the rabbit run away from the room. When Lucas stepped out of the dining room, he caught Barron running towards him.

"What in the fucking name of hell is going on?!" asked Barron, trying to stop his feet that slid further than he had expected because of his furry body against the smooth and clean floor, "Are her parents alive or are they dead?!"

Lucas stared at Barron, "They are supposed to be dead."

"But they magically came back to life?" Barron leaned his upper body forward.

Lucas' expression turned grave as this had never happened before. People who were dead never returned back to the land of the living again, not in this solid form at least.

"Someone must have left the gates open for the souls to come out," answered Lucas but he would need to check something else later. Even if Belle's parents had returned back to life, it would be extremely hard to make other people believe who were outside this mansion on how they had come back when clearly their death was plastered all over the newsletter while a burial ceremony had been held in the family cemetery.

"Did you get the maids assembled?" he asked Barron who had come running from the kitchen's direction.

"I asked them to stay put in the kitchen and not to roam around unless being asked to. There's one at the top, one in the backyard, one who I have no clue and the other is the coachman who obviously won't enter the mansion," Barron iterated what he heard from the maids.

"Find the other maid," ordered Lucas and Barron nodded his head before he took a couple of steps and then stopped.

"Why am I in charge of having to look for the maid?" Barron was not happy being ordered around.

"Unless you can speak to her parents and tell you were the talking rabbit since the beginning of time, then go find the maid. We don't know if it is her parents or if something else that has crawled its way back in here," said Lucas that had Barron slouch before he stood straight and left to look for the maid.

Belle was seated in the dining room and she wished she had time to talk to Lucas away from her parents but her parents kept her in the dining room. She could feel the horror of what one would feel if they saw not one but two people who had returned back from the dead. She had never heard about something like this which was why it gave her chills to think that they were here.

"Did you meet someone in the Isle Valley or on your way back here?" Belle asked her voice cautiously as she asked them. Her mother sat next to her and her father sat in the chair where the head of the family usually sat.

Her mother gave a thoughtful look and she shook her head to Belle's relief, "I think it was too early to be meeting anyone there. Mornings and early noon is barely a time where we see any of our folks."

Folks. Was it the night creatures she was referring to or was it something else…

"You look as if you have seen a ghost. Did you get into bed late, Belle?" asked her mother, her head tilting to the side in question.

"I agree with your mother. You have been spacing out a lot today," stated her father.

"I have been late-night studying. It must be the lack of sleep," Belle gave them an assured smile, bringing the smile up to her eyes that hid the worry that was brewing with every second she spent with them, "I was thinking about attending the next council exam."

Both her parents appeared to give her a worried look, "Belle, the council is not a good place and it might be difficult for a young woman. Did you hear what happened in the last second exam? Too many deaths," said her father.

"Your father is right," her mother agreed, "You can think about the council later once you get married. Did you meet the Edmonds?"

"I did. They seemed alright," answered Belle with a tight smile.

"Have you been meeting your uncles and aunts?" asked her mother.

About that, "Yes. They have been looking after me," lied Belle not wanting to bring the ugly things about their relatives on the table.

"We should probably go to visit them," proposed her mother and Belle looked alarmed.

"I heard that Aunt Irene and uncle have gone to Wovile," said Belle trying to divert them. Did her parents not remember that they had died? Belle was sure that when she got the memories of her death as Evelyn, she was able to feel the pain and the death.

"Oh. Maybe when they return back, we can pay them a visit," her mother said that had Belle lean back against the chair and Lucas stepped inside with food in his hand. Carrying four items which needed great balance but he placed them one after another on the table smoothly.

Belle did wish to spend her time with her parents again. A willful wish when she had been to the ghoul's world but she didn't know what kind of nightmare it could turn into.

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